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Gun. the seller could face criminal charges if they are aware of the shooter's mental health issues. senate minority leader chuck schumer released a statement yesterday blaming the shooting on republicans and the senate for stalling on a house passed bill that would require background checks for nearly all private sales. senator schumer writes quote, if the house passed background checks bill would have been signed into law, this tragedy would have been avoided. leader mcconnell, you have no excuse. the senate must vote on the house bill next week. not a diluted bill, not a bill on other matte...

Then more recently, he's talked about how we already have background checks, and this is all about mental illness. he's really retreated to the lines that the nra likes. even if the president ultimately lands on something that has to do with background checks, his language has shifted so much that it's unlikely he'll back anything significant, anything major, or anything bipartisan. democrats control one house of congress. they've already passed a major background checks bill. they're not necessarily looking for very small incremental changes. they want to be able to show their voters and peop...

You're hearing now and what you heard from the president then? >> i'm not sure what is different. his latest set of comments on this issue were, you know, confusing to say the least. i did talk to him about a week ago. in that conversation he expressed support for working together with republicans and democrats to come up with a background checks bill that would extend the protections that right now apply mostly to guns that are sold in bricks and mortar stores but don't apply to online sales and to guns sold at gun shows around the country. i'm sure the nra and its allies are putting a lot of...

The protests in hong kong as an internal matter but fell -- republicans are arguing the president must do more to stand up for hong kong as predecessors have done in the past. presidents have been doing it for a long time, wolf. >> thank you for that report. tonight discussions are underway among staffers from the white house and some senators about the possibility of expanding background checks for gun purchases. let's go to cnn's phil mattingly here in "the situation room" with us. in addition to being called these informational discussions, we know that the president's senior adviser his ...

On an issue that is as contentious as gun control, if the president were to build the case before the american public and really make a significant push on capitol hill, then maybe there would be the prospect of some movement, but that's just something he hasn't been willing to do so far. >> but if it couldn't happen in 2013 after the sandy hook massacre of little children and you now have a senate with 53 republicans -- you know, remember, back then when the legislation was put forth under the obama administration, you had four republicans vote for it in the senate and four democrats vote aga...