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Done but the intended outcome, organized crime. we never escape the specific gravity of this amendment to prohibition except for our suspicion of someone who comes to us if you just do this amendment, everything will be all right. everybody thought that if you got rid of alcohol, said hell will forever be for rent. as soon as they pass that thing, there was standing room only. >> the absolutists once again caused much problems. >> i want to look at a clip. here's a clip from prohibition. >> there was a beginning of time when boys and girls slept together. there was quite a lot of that going on...

we're just getting the information in. that means that the players vote will happen later today in more of a formal setting. training camp could start as early as wednesday now, we've been told. david mattingly has been following this for us. he has been live out of atlanta every day, at least he was last week when those negotiations were taking place. david, did you just get word that something came forward just moments ago? >> reporter: reading and finding out now is that the nfl players and the owners did come to an agreement in the wee hours of the morning. and, bottom line, they...

jeanne, first question, is it time to simply say, let's go for the possible in washington? everybody has grand ideas about what they want to do. nobody, nobody can get the support to get one of those through. do we have to look for just the possible? >> i think the mission of everyone in congress is to absolutely raise the debt ceiling. they cannot get away without doing that. the s&p has been the strongest credit rating agency. they said, we're going to downgrade you if you don't come up with a plan. but they say f you raise the ceiling but give us indication that you're on the road...

Amendment. >> what is the counterargument to we don't think there's any real use for hunting or self-defense for 33 bullets in a magazine? what is the nra's response? i don't see a counterargument. there's no logical argument. >> they're absolutists on the second amendment. >> we're absolutists. >> if someone wants to buy a bazooka, some of the extreme people say, that's your constitutional right. again, no amendment has no limits. every amendment has limits. there are reasonable limits on this that don't interfere with the law-abiding citizens' right to bear arms and can protect us. they have...

That long-held consensus. the common wisdom in washington is that there can be no new policies concerning guns whatsoever. no restrictions on gun access are politically possible no matter how great the need. no matter how big the problem that america has to confront about gun issues. no matter how great the national trauma. no matter how rational the restriction. i don't know that is the common wisdom. the fact it's common doesn't mean it's not radical. that's a radical assertion. that common wisdom we cannot do anything about guns, that has never been true of gun politics in modern times. say...