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Join them. they joined with republicans and support for the second amendment and for gun rights has been strong on both sides of the aisle including with senate majority leader harry reid, the top democrat in the senate. so, you know, again the key is going to be given some of the events over the last year and this push from the white house, will the president be able to convince senators like reid, like mark pryor from arkansas, like mary landrieu from louisiana, et cetera, to go along with the...

When it sensed there was an be a nor mali or something wrong in the system, in this case it sound like it was a power surge, it then activates the communication to trip what they call circuit breakers which are really great big switches. so think of the light switch that you turn on and off in a room to put the lights on or off. a circuit breaker is basically that same thing but within a facility like the super dome or on a utilitys distribution network it is a much larger switch and has a lot o...

They were able it do that in that timeline? what does it tell us about the problem that it took that length of time? >> it tells us it was a serious fault or occurrence whatever occurred. it wasnt something that was simple enough to just, what we call, reclose on. in other words there was a fault that wasnt that significant and were able to quickly get everything back into service. something obviously failed to the point where it had to take the system out of service. normally you dont trip a ci...

You? are you one of the guys that carry a flashlight on your key chain? when you saw that happen last night you think that is probably a good idea. gregory, do you do that? >> i have flashlights in my car and throughout the house. i dont have one on the key chain. jenna: one of those things if they dont get the lights back on, a lot of people will have a tough time getting out of the stadium. greg, thank you. >> my pleasure. thank you. jenna: i bet you have a flashlight on the key chain. you hav...