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Have. these are the ones that kind of flirted with it. we will start with senator chambliss from georgia. he's going to be retiring in 2014. then we move on to -- i had to get my list here. tom coburn from oklahoma. next up is -- this dean heller. republican from nevada. lamar alexander, republican from tennessee. bob corker, also a republican from tennessee. and john hoevin. johnny isakson. roger wicker from mississippi. there are a couple of reasons why we have these guys on this list. all of them voted yes. there was an initial filibuster attempt to stop the debate on background checks. the...

In spending. not just in terms of direct giving to candidates but in the ground game. and in the -- lot of money being spent to talk to individual voters. real grassroots operation, if you can call it that you can replace the donation but it is harder to replace a vote. we have seen a lot more activity on the ground game. >> what was your experience lobbying some of the names? >> frankly, just towing the party line. you know, same old rhetoric and lies. i had one staffer, you know, suggest to me a background check was going to cost $125. that's ludicrous. dealers don't charge that and the comp...

>> and there are others here that -- saxby chamblin is interesting. this a guy that's was in the house before he was in the senate and you had a back ground check vote that came up in 1999 in the wake of columbine and against that. in one way he is being consistent. saxby chambliss said he is not running for re-election in 2014. the last year two he began to break with sort of conservative orthodox and maybe because he freed himself from the pressure of running for re-election and he is one of the guys that's out there repudiating grover norquist saying i don't have to vote with norquist on ev...

Another six years. so theoretically there is time to cast a vote that may be difficult and have voters forget about tonight the future. he still voted no. the sort of amazing this about jeff flake is what happened yesterday, yesterday "the new york daily news" broke a story. they were given a letter, handwritten letter, that jeff lake had written to the mother after victim of the shooting last summer and had written his office with a personal me for him -- for a meeting with him and to get him to support background checks. she got a form letter in response. and then flake's office found out wh...

Thanks. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'. would more no votes. these are from the two most prominent members of the senate. party leaders. they technically both voted no. one of them comes with a gigantic asterisk. we have mitch mcconnell, harry reid. and we have mitch mcconnell. he's the republican leader from kentucky. the giant asterisk i want to get out of the sway harry reid was for back ground checks. he had to change his vote because of procedural issues that will allow him technically potentially to bring up background checks, bring up the bill later if they are ev...