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On gun violence that's plaguing our country and pleading with congress to finally do something about it, calling for a ban on assault weapons, failing that, raising the age to purchase them. also tougher back ground checks. i want to bring in democratic congressman from colorado. congressman, thank you for joining. i wish it was under better circumstances. we appreciate it. so president biden got specific tonight about what congress needs to do about guns. there's a lot of hope things will be different this time. are you talking to your republican colleagues about this? >> well, don, i always ...

Senator, a couple of things. we arranged as you know transit countries so any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening. the vetting and the back ground checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, biographic, other information that we have. then, as people were cleared and these transit points, they then come into the united states. but they're not being re-settled immediately. once they land at dulles o...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the ...

It is real problematic. but it is the president. you certainly have to welcome him. but you have hopes and expectations then that he would take that moment of moral leadership for our nation and be both a consoler, but also bring our country together on things like universal back ground checks. >> you had a speech today laying out gun control and you are a gun owner and lost a nephew to gun violence. what kind of legislation realistically do you think could be passed in the house and the senate and signed into law by the president that would affect guns, especially weapons of mass destruction ...

>> so senator santorum, i know you're a strong supporter of gun rights, take a look at poll numbers when it comes to public support for gun safety measures. these are all from a quinnipiac poll, a different poll. one of them universal back ground checks, 94% support. another one mandatory waiting period for gun purchases from 2018, 83% support. and a poll from in year may, 77% requiring individuals to obtain a license before being able to purchase a gun. that is a rather far reaching measure tough to get through the senate. but public sentiment is with further restrictions on gun ownership and...