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Everyone has a story to tell. the 50-year-old has been called americas nastiest neighbor. her antics attracting news crews from as far away as, wait for it, australia. pamela brown is here to tell us the saga continues. this is not ordinary neighbor stuff going on. >> certainly not. i talked to her at length last night and basically shes unapologetic. if she had to do it over again, she would have moved out of the neighborhood earlier. having two restraining orders issued against you would be en...

And mr. scheck. there are differences, but side by side in the same jurisdiction, what do you see? >> the thing i find most striking about this is she brought charges. she brought these charges against miss alexander voluntarily. she didnt have to. they were forced, essentially, by political pressures, and ongoing mass demonstrations to bring the charges against mr. zimmerman. so what it says to me is that she found this case more palatable. despite the fact that thereses exculpatory evidence he...

And here in the state where aurora happened, the horror of all of that. has the impulse faded or do you think that there still can be something done on background checks? >> i think there could still be something on background checks. people havent gotten the facts out. right? we went back and looked at 2012. just in one year, just in colorado -- we got to maybe a little more than half the gun purchases, we had 38 people that were accused or convicted of homicide. 133 people convicted of -- or a...

To 20% on top of the 5% sequester. >> in very real terms, what does this mean for a woman who is trying to get help? >> it means very simply that a woman is going to look for help, shes going to look for shelter, for safety and theres going to be in shelter there and she is going to end up choosing between homelessness for herself and her kids or going back into an abusive home where she may or may not survive. >> lets look at the breakdown that senator tom harkens office put out. 70,000 of that...

Over the past 20 years, background checks have kept more than 2 million dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun. now, a group of police officers in colorado told me last week that thanks to background checks, theyve been able to stop convicted murderers, folks under restraining orders or committing violent domestic abuse from buying a gun. in some cases, theyve actually arrested the person as they were coming to purchase the gun. so, we know that background checks can work, but the pr...

Because they could vote against all kinds of these things and the one thing they cant vote against, if it comes to a vote, is a background check. theres no way a sane person, once it comes to that question, do you want to make sure nuts and criminals and people under restraining orders dont get a gun? how can they say, yes, lets make sure they get a gun? you cant make that case. so you filibuster and make sure that question never goes to the floor. by the way, if mcconnell is able to do that and...

Thats just common sense. you know, during our round title discussion, the governor was in the midst of this passionate debate about the legislation in colorado and some people said, well, background checks are fot going to stop everybody. yeah, they wont stop everybody but a lot of folks have been stopped. law enforcement has been able to stop people who have been convicted of murder from getting a gun. people who were under restraining orders for having committed violent domestic abuse from get...

To colorado. the president will speak in the next hour, not far from the aurora shooting site. since then they have passed a number of universal gun laws and restrictions on magazine sizes. the president would love to see bills like that sitting on his own desk, along with a ban on some time of semiautomatic rifles. when the senate begins its debate later this month, it looks like expanded background checks may be the only legislation that hits his desk. the one priority everybody seems to agree...

Would fail, carol. >> jessica yellin, well get more from you later today. gun control opponents like the nra say there is no need for new laws. we just need to enforce the laws that are already on the book. is that true? anchor of "the lead" jake tapper, did a story on bad guys funding the nra. is that right? >> its interesting. everybody agrees that we should enforce the laws on the books. this is what the agents are doing in california. they work in the attorney generals office. theres a lis...

Says he will sign legislation passed yesterday that limits ammunition magazines to 15 bullets. that is half the size of this 30-round magazine on your screen. right now all across the country there are as many as 200,000 americans who have lost their right to have a handgun or even access to a handgun. most of them are convicted felons. but some of them have been deemed mentally ill. and others have restraining orders against them. heres the problem. many of these people obtained the guns legall...