president obama just finished taking questions from reporters. dan pfeiffer, jim quickly president obama really pushing back on this narrative that putin is ascendant. >> that's right. he's basically russia getting itself into a quagmire in syria, frankly the weakness but fighting the broader narrative saying look at where our economy is opposed to the russian economy et cetera. there is truth to that, no question. but the fact is russian military options -- operations in syria limit u.s. operations there. and we're seeing a similar pattern we saw with ukraine. what does the u.s. do? does he have an answer? he didn't answer that question. >> dan pfeiffer, on the subject of guns president obama very passionately speaking about that. what do you make of the fact he hasn't talked about any specific legislative remedy? he's just talking about going against the gun lobby in general. >> i think you're going to hear that. remember after newtown he asked the vice president to come up with a task force and a series of proposals including legislative of background checks, dealing with high