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Wants. there are things to take heart in and inspiration from. several months ago, there would have been a filibuster on this. but these guys knew when the newtown families visited, when americans started calling their congress people, they knew that they were being watched and they knew they at least had to have the conversation. there was a bipartisan agreement with two a-rated nra senators. six voted in favor of this. the original brady bill pertaining to 60% of gun sales, it took five or six times, five or six efforts to get that through the legislature. let's not it quell our outrage. >> ...

Around any one tragedy is going to change this issue. what's going to change the issue is when the voice of the overwhelming majority of americans whose safety hangs in the balance, who support these measures makes its voice heard. senator manchin, gosh, he deserves a ton of credit. you know, let's remember, i mean, he was an a-rated nra senator, so was senator toomey and senator landrieu, six a-rated senators came forward to support this legislation. you know, we need to demonstrate to them that it was not a courageous thing to do, that it was the right thing to do and that the american publi...

Room on the right for wiggle room. to begin to move in the direction that pat toomey is leading them. and i think you hit it right on the head. he's gone outside of the standard norm that would be expected of a conservative on something like this. >> an a-rated nra senator. >> an nra member. i think that that is a again, you're beginning to see the kind of shifts, and it goes back to something i said on your show a few weeks ago. >> i love it when you quote yourself. >> i don't get to do it too often. but, no, we were going back and forth. and i said you know, let's let this thing unfold becau...

I'm of the mind, perhaps i'm naive or actually right, that it will be hard to take a stand on this as an issue that matters and matters enough to be discussed on the floor of the u.s. senate and then to vote down the actual legislation. think it's a good bellweather that it passed with strong bipartisan support. >> absolutely. senators mansion and toomey are heroes here. they are people who are a-rated nra members, they've consistently stood with the nra and they saw what happened in newtown and they came to the conclusion that we had to have a different set of policies and they bucked their t...

School security. but their fate now lies in the hands of senate majority leader, harry reid, given the obstructionism and bitter partisanship in congress, the future for comprehensive gun safety is uncertain at best. kerry, experts on all things washington. not that our whole panel isn't. but you know, the senate democrats are going to be the ones to look to as far as all of this. we know that there are several nra a-rated democrats a few of whom are up for re-election. max baucus, kay hagen, tim warner. haas your read on any kind of comprehensive reform laws getting through congress. >> i thi...