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Saying, i wont vote for him. i think theres an error gap there. if you are talking about people in the business, look, the american people elect a president. if he wants to call kim jong-un little rocket man, if he wants to say, i like vladimir putin, your job is there to say -- i served five presidents and say, the american people elected him, unless someone wants to take him out in terms of an impeachment process, which i think is highly unlikely, or vote him out in two years, you say, im here...

There were calls in florida to change laws in light of the that. how did she keep things from happening after that? >> democrats wanted so that the legislature was out of session. but the democrats tried to force a session in order to examine two potential policy options, one of which was more controversial than the other in the gun rights world. one was just closing the terror gap, which would be if youre on the terror watch list, if you accountant fly, you should not be able to purchase a gun....

Against this bill. it was defeated by a filibuster. this was a bipartisan effort. a month after sandy hook, democratic senator from california, dianne feinstein, introduced an assault weapons ban of 2013 as a new version of the 1994 ban that expired in 2004. this would have been banned semi-automatic weapons. the national rifle association fired up a campaign to stop it and this bill also never got out of the senate. a few years later, 49 people were killed in the pulse nightclub shooting in orl...

This is the state of 9/11 to allow believe who you believe have terrorist connections to buy guns is so irresponsible that people must be living in this state of denial. >> that was new york governor andrew yesterday joining senator chuck to the understand that the federal government close the terror gap and keep terrorist from being able to purchase guns in new york state. sounds simple, doesnt it. joining us now, andrew. good to have you on board, governor. >> so governor, whats the possibilit...

Foreign affairs, s s et cetera? >> for the time being its going to be, particularly top republican side. 11 months to go until the general election, we know how the agenda can change pretty rapidly. for the time being and for the initial caucuses and primaries on the republican side, i think youre going to see a lot more discussion about national security and foreign policy than you will about domestic policy. >> larry sabato, thank you so much, from charlottesville, virginia. straight ahead, ...

And bill voted on just the other day, 82% of gun owners, not americans, 82% of gun owners support closing the terror gap. >> and yet, you know, even after sandy hook, the horror of sandy hook and now this is the worst incident of mass shooting since sandy hook, nothing changed. >> well, you know, as an organization, americans for responsible solutions, were having and getting positive change in a lot of different states. we help pass expanded background checks in a number of different states. we...

>> you obviously as we said met with president obama as did congresswoman giffords at the white house today. what, if anything, do you think can come out of that? did the president say about the chances of actually getting something passed and signed into law? >> we talked about what happened in the senate in the last couple days. to have the opportunity for the united states senate to vote to close this terror gap, i mean, we have a large number of people on the terrorist watch list. they curre...

Issue. >> it does seem that for those -- you know, there are many people who want some form of greater background checks but is this an issue people vote on and until it is, will there be real change? >> well, there is certainly a group of people that are enthusiastic gun rights supporters that take this on as their only issue so they only vote on this issue and that is certainly a problem. you know, weve signed up and mobilized 1 million people and were trying to make them single issue voters, ...

To track down where this stuff came from. there is at least one report in the los angeles times that the numbers, the serial numbers were taken off. so its hard to say exactly where it will go but is it hard to see how it duoesnt foster some debate here? >> this touches almost every big issue going on in washington now from gun control to immigration. i think you will see a lot of debate about it. whether it becomes action in congress certainly remains to be seen. one thing that might get new at...

Carrying openly. lets listen to senator feinstein on the very point sam raised. >> you use the word, prohibit. it exempts 2,271 weapons. isnt that enough for the people in the united states? do they need a bazooka? do they need other high-powered weapons that military people use to kill in close combat? i dont think so. >> cynthia, a bazooka. what is the limit for this crowd? what you can carry? >> the gun lobby would say, yes, chris. and if sam sees that there are some republicans who are willi...