gun violence in america. that's a national emergency. why don't you declare that emergency, mr. president? i wish you would. >> you've talked about how there have been 40 national emergencies that have been declared but they're much more controversial. >> national emergencies have been declared because of the situation in sudan, iran's pursuit of ballistic missile programs. those are the typical things you see come across. of course, there are disaster declarations, that kind of power, too. i think it's closer to 50 or 60 that have been invoked but this is a sweeping executive power. it's good to have this conversation to say does congress really want to allocate this much of its own power to the executive branch? again it's great that senator kennedy can say that. we don't know what's going to be invoked, what's going to be involved. money has constituencies in government. what we doesn't know is where the president, if he does this,