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Called the promise program, reporting a student, a dangerous one, to law enforcement is the sixth step, step 6 in their plan. therefore, i intend to propose changes to the federal youth promise program so that a school district plan under this program does not delay and does not discourage law enforcement from being alerted to dangerous, violent or hazardous behavior. fourth, we need to strengthen background checks. and thats why ive joined with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, pushing ...

Thats his side. your side is will the democrats do, fix nix without universal checks. will they do changes that dont include an assault weapons ban? >> chris, with all due respect, youre falling back into the usual discussion that we have after these things. people are talking about fix nix because its a bill that even the nra supports. thats why everyone looks at that. the president of the united states yesterday talked about doing something comprehensive, something big. he talked about univers...

Thats going to solve this problem. this fix nix bill -- >> i only have time for a yes or no for you, but your colleague wrote in the times hes ready to ban ar-15 weapons. the are you willing to go as far if you had to? >> you know what, we have to make sure we care more about doing the right thing than holding on to power. i agree with mine masbrian mast. i actually congratulated him on the floor sitting in front of me. we have to work together. >> appreciate your response, and im sorry for the ...

Theyre not going to have bullets coming at them from the other direction, youre never going to solve the problem. i feel that. i feel that. but im certainly open to suggestions. so, john, why dont you start? youve put in your fix nix. lets see how it is and well go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you. >> for getting us together and expressing your sincere concern about this and trying to get us to a solution. and going home empty handed is unacceptable. its hard to get people togeth...

Things only we could do, this background check system. people have other ideas, they ought to offer those ideas. im not sure all of them will pass but in the past weve acquiesced to failure and have not done things that we know were within our power to accomplish, like the fix nix bill. i would like to recommend to you and to my colleagues that we get that done and build on it. we dont stop there. we build on t none of us want to look these families in the face in the wake of another mass shooti...

Second amendment rights and so does the president. he knows we need to do some common sense changes as far as background checks. when people go to gun shows, they need to have a background check. a commercial transaction on the internet. he supports that. with his support, both of us protecting the second amendment rights, we can move forward. thats what we intend to do. >> neil: do you think -- when you say tend to do it, this could be done in short order. the president said keep it simply a lo...

In the past weve acquiesced failure and have not done things we know within our power to accomplish like the fix nix bill. id like to recommend to you and to colleagues that we get that done and build on it. dont stop there. build on it. because none of us want to look these families in the face in the wake of another mass shooting and say we failed to do everything within our power to stop it. >> and john, fix nix has good things in it. it would be nice if we can add everything on to it. maybe ...

Anything else is that nothing has been done for all of these years. because i really see a lot of common ground where theres democrat, republican. im so surprised. im sitting here and im saying, you know, a lot of commonality here. a lot of people agreeing with what youre writing and you guys are writing. i dont understand why it hasnt happened for the last 20 years. nothing has happened. so were going to get it done. >> we can add anything to fix nix that has 60 votes. the argument is that back...

This idea of arming teachers is going nowhere. theres no appetite among republicans for arming teachers, so we can move on to another topic. it would be somewhere in a really strong background check and president trump keeps talking about comprehensive background checks, and the republicans on capitol hill have no idea what hes talking about. >> he also talks about comprehensive immigration reform, which is a term that -- >> he has not spelled out for them what that means. they will not get out ...

To figuring out what theyre going to do, but theres a lot of momentum outside of congress. so all the polls, the kids have not given up obviously in parkland. theyre still out there everyday talking about what they want to see. the florida state legislature is doing things and moving forward. what do you think will happen this week in congress? >> this week everyone will try to assess where the president is. thats really important to republicans who are facing primary elections and strong resist...