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Have influenced at least in part that terrorist attack. I think we have toned it down. These are people that are looking for political gain. I dont think theyre getting it. And as much as possible, ive tried to stay out of that. I think my rhetoric is a very it brings people together. All right, the u. S. Attorneys for the Southern District of mississippi insisted that the timing of the operation and the president s visit were purely coincidental while the tragedies this weekend around the country are horrific, this operation had been planned way before that and we intended to carry it out. So...

Says this doesn't move forward from here? why not just do that? >> so, we actually already have. the background check bill was a bipartisan bill that actually passed the house very comfortably and is not controversial. this should be an easy bill for the senate to take up. it's just closing loopholes in an existing law that says if you're a felon, if you are a domestic violence misdemeanant or if you're deemed to be mentally defective by a court, you shouldn't be allowed to own a gun. >> i understand that on the background check, but why not now do that on the assault weapons ban, which some i...

Question, and, bob, why was he on -- why was he put on this committee in the first place? there's an interesting back story here maybe you could tell people a little bit about it where tom cain jr., the republican leader in the state senate in new jersey. and right after last november's election, chris christie and kevin o'toole basically teamed up to try to oust tom cain as the leader and they failed. and then tom cain appointed kevin o'toole to this committee. what am i missing here? how did this all happen? >> those are good questions. also you have the democratic -- i mean, the decision ha...

Member of the assembly just a few minutes ago, actually, and he said basically time is of the essence here. they're worried about a couple of things. one thing that members on the assembly side are worried about is that you have this parallel investigation that is going to be run by the state senate. the state senate is also going to be issuing subpoenas, also going to be asking for records. there is some concern here that this is going to be chaos, and that this is going to create an opportunity for the christie administration potentially to go to court and say hey, look, so and so is subpoen...

This is after he said he will cooperate fully with all the investigations. let's listen to this. >> if you were to get a subpoena for whatever reason, what would you do? >> i'm not going to speculate on that. matt? >> there's the governor saying if you give me a subpoena, i might comply, i might not. obviously he's going to be very legalistic about it, and he doesn't sound there like someone who's going to cooperate. >> well look, i think talking about sending a subpoena to the governor of the state of new jersey at this point, we're getting way ahead of ourselves. i think what we've done on t...