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The popular gun measure once it landed on his desk. a few hours ago he made his decision. he vetoed it. background checks bill, but the governor said no. now, two time zones east of nevada, in the great state of new jersey, republican governor chris christie faces the same kind of decision there. the nationally ambitious governor christie said that he would be interested in doing something about gun violence. so the new jersey lecture elec sent him half a dozen bills to sign. they passed the most popular stuff. stuff like expanded reporting to help with background checks. stuff like banning pe...

The legislature passed the background checks bill, but the governor said no. now, two time zones east of nevada, in the great state of new jersey, republican governor chris christie faces the same kind of decision there. the nationally ambitious governor christie said that he would be interested in doing something about gun violence. so the new jersey legislator sent him half a dozen bills to sign. they passed the most popular stuff. stuff like expanded reporting to help with background checks. stuff like banning people on the federal terrorist watch list from buying guns. people on the terror...

That bill is a gun bill. it calls for a background check for anybody seeking to buy a gun in nevada. and no matter how popular the idea of gun reform might be among the voters, even among conservative voters, actually doing it, actual reform of actual policies has been kind of a nonstarter in big swaths of republican politics. republican politics is where nevada's governor, brian sandoval would love to have a future. he has real ambitions in his party. he wants to be talked about as maybe even a vice presidential prospect the next time around. sandoval waited a week to decide what he was going...

The movement for gun reform in this country has a lot going on. families of the kids and teachers killed at sandy hook are back on capitol hill this week meeting with democratic senator joe manchin who sponsored the background checks bill. they met with speaker john boehner and with eric cantor yesterday. today the families read the names of the newtown victims. this morning as it started to rain in washington. they read the names again this afternoon indoors at the capitol with nancy pelosi and harry reid. senator reid promised that background checks will pass in the senate. he said it is onl...

Investigation by the fbi and that they have the lead in both investigating and providing information on that investigation to the public. >> okay. let me ask you something you definitely know about. the gun control votes on capitol hill today certainly looks like it's going down in defeat. what does this say? what happens next? is the president going to continue his fight on this? >> the president believes very strongly that the senate should pass the background checks bill. you have heard him speak nationally about this issue. the families of newtown victims have been in washington speaking t...