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Might be on the fence and saying, look, this isn't about partisan politics. this isn't about anti-guns. everybody here respects the second amendment. many of us are gun owners. this is about saying, hold on. we reached a moment where something happened, where we have to think about the safety of our children. our communities. and guns is one piece of it. not the whole piece. as i've been on the show and talked to you about, we have a wholistic approach. there are other elements which are school safety, mental health, and parenting, frankly. but all of those, there's no legislation right now co...

Legislators want to take action on. >> do you have any sense whether people that are affected by this have been writing their legislators? honestly, your story, your reporting and all the ancillary things that have come as a result of that, is this the first lawmakers are getting a firsthand introduction as to what's happening? >> some lawmakers heard about it a little bit earlier. there was one clinic in connecticut that sent its medicare patients a letter in mid march saying we can't see you if the sequester cuts go through because for medicare they were starting april 1st. i think they are ...

Concerns at the highest levels about cyber attacks with senior chinese officials within the military and we will continue to do so. this is an important challenge. this is one the president has been working on and urging congress to take action on. >> reporter: we have stressed many times that hacking attacks are transnational and anonymous the chinese ministry said today. determining their origins are difficult and we don't know how the evidence can be ten amp and even though citizens have lost $300 billion in trade secrets last year, the chinese foreign minimum sti insisted that they are the...

Pushing forward a nomination of todd jones to be head of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. there's not been a director in six years. he also outlined, not a huge surprise, we've been talking about a lot of these measures in recent days, several new things he'd like congress to take action on, including universal background checks, the assault weapons ban he is going forward with, and a ban on high-capacity magazine clips, and a crackdown on gun trafficking, which has less to do, perhaps, with newtown, and more to do with the increased gun violence that we saw in intercities across ...

Krystal, before they left for their little holiday, house republicans tried to make it sound as though the president isn't really serious about passing laws to curb gun violence. in the words of representative devon nunez, i think all this is the president -- get this -- trying to do this for the far left. it's a political exercise for them. well, maybe he'd like to explain this from the president. take a listen. >> if there's even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that can be saved. then we've got an only to try. >> i don't think there is any question in an...