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Getting in the hands of people like that. obviously here is a case of a guy who shot his mother in the face and got the guns from her. but the more common case would be someone like that trying to get a gun. here was the people of this country in a reasonable response to this crime saying, why dont we make it harder for people with mental and emotional problems to get guns, better backgroun backgroun ground checks? >> i think the senator is wrong in one sense, she said this debate was just spurr...

The water, right? >> right. the presidents going through the motions there. i think he understands that that is not going to happen. he felt like he had to make the argument in his speech but it was noteworthy in his speech he include those items of sort of a laundry list he gave when he talks about the kind of measures he favors. he didnt spend much time on them. he spent his time instead on this background check and talking about the need for background checks and good he thinks would come of ...

>>chris: on guns, just newtown the president said he would use, told the families of newtown, the victims, he would use all of the powers of his presidency to push for new gun control to try to prevent more massacres. as the senate takes up the bill, maybe this week, the ban on assault weapons is dead, a plan to limit the size of the high-capacity magazines is in great trouble, and even the idea, although it has broad public support, of expanding ground checks is in trouble. question: why has th...

Cruise of texas says he has deep concerns with proposed path to citizenship. and another texas republican, congress lamar smith says by granting amnesty the senate proposal actually compounds the problem by encouraging more illegal immigration. our latest fox news poll shows 66% of americans say they do, indeed, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. but only if they take steps like paying back taxes, learning english and passing bad ground checks. cac is -- carl cameron is is ...

Republicans and democrats to talk about at least around at least the edges of gun control and extended magazines and tightening up the records around mental illness and book ground checks? >> of course when it comes to extended magazines im an nra member but i dont think that anyone really needs to be walking around with a semi assault rifle on the street which in my state is legal. i am familiar with guns and not as familiar as me brother is. we need to re-analyze the gun laws in this country. ...