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To background checks legislation, bear in mind in the house we passed that legislation exactly six months ago. >> i understand, hr-8 and 11, 12. i hear you, but should you be there -- >> the first thing -- >> go ahead. >> the first thing is for mitch mcconnell to call back the senate and move your background checks bill, which i believe does have a chance of passing the senate. maybe not the 60 votes, but certainly clearing the 51 vote threshold. thats been the main focus. i would be willing to ...

Often required to give up their life savings solicited from their country of origin in order to come here for opportunity, and yet were critical of them as theyre working under these oppressive conditions and this constant threat. it doesnt serve their best interest, nor does it serve the best interest of everyone who is arguing for honest living wages to begin with. >> thank you so much for being here. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> coppiming up for us, a man heavily armed and wearing b...

Background checks. senator says its all about the nras stranglehold which is weakening. >> the nra is weaker today, not because theyre having this infighting at the board level but because theyre hemorrhaging members. they dont have as many deuce paying members as they used to. corporations wont sponsor them and the board is in trouble because they dont have the cash to sort of grease the executive wheels like they used to. >> the nra may want you to think this is all hopeless and that talking g...

Do something. >> i hear that loud and clear. and understandably so. listen, commissioner fairchild, appreciate the work youre doing here. thanks for taking the time this morning. >> thank you. >> next, the president says that mental illness causes mass shootings, that that pulls the trigger, not the gun. experts say its not that simple. head of the american psychiatric association is going to tell us what is true and what is not when it comes to mental health and guns. thats right after this bre...

I mean, there was this feeling of am i ever going to feel safe in a subway again? am i ever going to feel safe in rockefeller center and public places? are there going to be planes flying every day and trying to kill us. understandably. part of why people were able to get back most of us to a normal life and not feel that way every day is because of the governments response. we saw the government change and take charge and take control of the situation. law enforcement did the things that clint ...

First of all just in how people felt about their own security. i mean, there was this feeling of am i ever going to feel safe in a subway again? am i ever going to feel safe in rockefeller center and public places? are there going to be planes flying every day and trying to kill us. understandably. part of why people were able to get back most of us to a normal life and not feel that way every day is because of the governments response. we saw the government change and take charge and take contr...

Rockefeller center and public places? are there going to be planes flying every day and trying to kill us. understandably. part of why people were able to get back most of us to a normal life and not feel that way every day is because of the governments response. we saw the government change and take charge and take control of the situation. law enforcement did the things that clint is talking about with respect to international terrorism. we need both for security reasons and frankly for psycho...

At that point he was still moving slightly. so they want to make sure that nothing else was going to happen. >> so you see the doorman understandably is upset. you knowing how to handle -- you grabbed the gun. safely with someone else. what did you do? >> the other employee took the gun downstairs and put it in a safe spot. while another one after the situation -- after he quickly realized that it was under control, he stays with the door guy. calm him down, waum him around. keep him as under co...

There was only one weapon used in the attack, he never had to reload because there was so much capacity in that drum-type magazine. he had two weapons, but only one weapon was used. we learned that one of the victims was the sister, the 22-year-old sister of the gunman, her name was megan best. she was not the first -- betts. the family home in fellbrook, ohio, about 21 minutes away, has been searched by the fbi. the parents are there. theyre said to be distraught, understandably. not only did t...

To our police officers here, this shooter had a gun that he got legally with magazines he got legally. i really dont understand why a gun of that magnitude is really needed on the streets of fifth street. you know, a gun that can kill nine people and injury 26 more in the course of 24 seconds while our officers have handguns and shotgun rifles to go back at it, i just dont think -- i think it begs the question what are we doing. >> its a question a lot of folks are asking this morning. youre tal...