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>>brian: opportunist for republicans. you track chuck schumer down there and a couple of democrats and say lets take a look and there is a woman scaling the fence. chuck schumer said you can read, study and talk about this. until you see things it doesnt become reality. i will explain this to my colleagues. many say why do we need to do anything more on the border? >>gretchen: i also read quotes from him that said he wasnt sure how he was going to handle this and it was probably drug-related and...

Not. those are two. border security is another one. and what do you do with guest workers? how do you make sure for instance our agricultural community has the workers needed. >> you ticked off some of the reasons that there has been disagreement. we know today four senators from the gang of eight will tour the border, mccain, schumer, flake, bennett. and at a town hall meeting on monday, mccain basically said to the crowd i cant guarantee anything. let me play that. >> i dont know if we can ach...

It comes on the same day john mccain will tour the mexican border in arizona. they tried to craft immigration legislation. lets bring in our wednesday hump day gaggle to talk about this. executive director for the conservative principals and chief of the u.s. office of citizenship for president bush. democratic folster and deputy editor of the report and contributing writer for roll call, nathan gonzalez. thank you all. over here first. im always fascinated when they try to reinforce the securit...

>> the naturalization ceremony and debate as we think of new immigrants come to the country becoming citizens of the united states, you look at the path to citizenship, there are several speed bumps that have gotten in the way. what we thought after the election was going to be at least from the outside looking in an easy piece of legislation moving forward, whats really in the way or is this just window dressing and theyre going to get it done right after the break? >> first of all, no piece of...

Then, of course, the presidents going to have to get involved and push the house to do something. jon: also worth noting in newtown where the shooting took place the application for gun permits jumped significantly in the weeks and months after the shooting. so it sounds like the senate is just maybe far left or somewhat to the left of the population op this thing theyre trying -- on this thing theyre trying to get passed. >> the key is going to be the background checks. if schumer can get a rep...

The devil is in the details on this one. this has been the problem between schumer and coburn, what to do with a sale record. i think gun control advocates have a legitimate point, you have a toothless federal trafficking statute if you dont have a record of sale. how do you go about prosecuting a straw seller if you cant prove that a sale was even made? thats been a sticking point. you would have to be in the room. at the same time coburn and others argue why would you need a sale for a family-...

Theyre looking at. mark kirk who does not have a good nra rating, is a coresponsibilitiesor or was a co-sponsor for schumer. hes looking for other people to get. coburn is the one they wanted to get, because he thought he could bring 15 or more republicans with him, but there are different areas to getting this through the senate. joe biden said today he wasnt giving up on a ban. he joined mayor bloomberg and families of the newtown connecticut shooting victims that called for the ban despite ...

Weapons that could bring down an aircraft. but schumer says a knife does pose that risk and keeping them off planes only makes sense. >> does anyone think this, what youre not allowed to bring on a plane, bottle of shampoo, is more dangerous than this, a sharp and deadly knife? >> reporter: all right. well, you know that knife that you just saw there senator schumer holding up, ashleigh, the tsa says that style of knife would actually not be allowed on board a plane. meantime, schumer is saying ...

L.z. >> paul is an interesting character to me because here is a person who if you look back at the 2012 election didnt win the district that he was voting in, which means he didnt secure his neighborhood for the romney ticket. and i think part of the reason why is this reaction ationale. how do you build any level of credibility if you keep proposing these ideas? is obamacare a perfect law? absolutely not. and they should continue to tweak it. but no sense in repealing. >> next question. the ts...

Could be catastrophic failure to an aircraft. >> reporter: the chairman of the house homeland security committee says tsas highest priorities must be securing commercial aviation from the type of threats and weapons that could bring down an aircraft. but schumer says a knife does pose this that risk and given everything already banned, keeping them off planes only makes sense. >> does anyone think this which youre not allowed to bring on a plane, a bottle of shampoo, is more dangerous than this,...