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Tough. >> so s. e., on -- what is your read on the reality of the background checks? theres no question, that as a matter of fact and time line, when the nra gets into his ear, he changes his position. im not saying its the money. im saying its a matter of fact he changes. today he says he has an appetite for it. kaylee, i got to tell you, i respect kaylee, i dont feel her on this. she said we want meaningful background checks. and when i said, do you think all commercial transactions should be ...

Violence into the nics system. in the virginia tech system in virginia, our mental health system didnt identify that person as someone who should have been blocked from the purchase of guns. we fixed it, but that was really an issue of making the system already in place work. and lets remember one thing. you mentioned washington, d.c. washington, d.c. is one of the most anti-gun jurisdictions in the country, and it has one of the worst murder rates with firearms in the country. so anns right abo...

Stocks, if we can take guns from people who have either mental illness, or theyre in a mental turmoil that could cause danger to themselves or somebody else, if we can fix the nics system, if we the k do those things, thats great gains for us. now, are there other things to do, absolutely there are other things to do. i dont know if congress will do any of that. im hoping we can get this through the legislature. and if we dont, guess what? theyll hear from me about this. >> we saw what happened ...

The problem is it wasnt effective. im trying to bring both sides together. that gives me the best chance of passing something. and i can tell you all the things id like to do. >> but let me make the argument on the other side. >> sure. >> which is the then diagram of pass something that can get support, which is extremely narrow, its in here, right? is a function of the political power of a very specific lobbying group that has a very specific conception of the second amendment and are very powe...

Something thats more comprehensive and supported by democrats and republicans? >> well, look, if we actually do what the president said that he believes in yesterday, which is mandatory background checks plus making sure that the nics system has the data that its supposed to, plus something like these gun violence restraining orders, banning bump stocks, increasing the age to buy a gun to 21, these are the kinds of steps that would be really significant. look, when the president of the united st...

Need to be looking at the tools that they have, and looking at the young adults, individuals who have crossed that 18-year-old threshold and who within their family or their care-giver has access to those mental health records and how lawmaker has the ability to get that information from children services, so many of these have records through their teenage years. theyve been on a schedule. >> and we are working on that. that is part of what were doing. >> and we need tofr -- to have that visibi...

System-wide failure from two different sheriffs departments to the fbi to child welfare, the school resource officer, the school itself, our legislators. its a clean sweep across the board. i hear a bunch of half-measures being discussed as a solution. what we really need is a consolidated solution, incorporating a bunch of different things, from fixing the nics system, which is broken, to conducting effective school threat assessments, being able to get restraining orders just like you would ge...

Thank you for joining me this evening. chris, rosa flores reported about another example of a warning that went unheeded. what needs to change in our systems and how responsible for this breakdown, ultimately? >> don, it was just a tragic system-wide failure from two different sheriffs departments to the fbi to child welfare, the school resource officer, the school itself, our legislators. its a clean sweep across the board. i hear a bunch of half-measures being discussed as a solution. what we ...

Sends it back to the house, and we just take it up singularly. i wanted to make a comment on what the father, a half hour ago said on the andrea mitchell show about the cracks in the system. we can all agree that the nics system needs to work better, that we need to make sure all the data gets in there. we need to compel states to do that. we can prevent tragedies. texas is one example. what happened in florida perhaps another. it is extremely frustrating to the american people when they see tha...

That the bad guys arent getting the guns? >> ryan, i guess the main focus is to enforce the existing laws and what many are talking about in the conversation is to create incentives and incentivize people. to make sure and put the proper information, first of all, in the nics system. and more importantly, making sure that that information is shared and accessible by all. and it is important. we look at all aspects of background checks. and congress will be discussing this. the president has been...