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Elections this fall in 2014 to the primary process and when the republican party picks somebody, is that person going to come out and change their mind. looking at the overwhelming numbers of support for gay marriage among young voters. >> i think we are probably another at least one more election cycle away from a republican candidate, competitive republican candidate to go into a presidential election, supporting gay marriage, and the reason is iowa. it's the first state, is very, very solidly socially conservative republican electorates. >> south carolina right after that. >> that's a more ...

A contractor at the facility. that system did not utilize the background checks system that the federal -- or department of defense required. i'm sorry. i'm getting a tremendous amount of background noise. >> i apologize. hopefully we can fix that. we'll do the best we can and muddle through and hopefully you'll stay with me. could convi congressman, i want to take you back to the beginning of the shooter's career and ask you how he got into the navy reserves in the first place when he had an incidence of violence involving a gun in his background. >> that's the type of questions congress will...

At walmart, you're on a bad checklist. blake should have been on a list. >> well, he should have never passed the background check. >> yeah. >> seven times in the mental hospital. that's -- they should not be able to buy a weapon. >> things need to be changed. >> the point is, isn't it, if you look at the loopholes in the background checks system in america. he could have gone to a gun show. from all the investigations i've seen, he could have walked into a gun show, no questions asked, and bought the same kind of assault rifle there. when you see washington reacting in the way they did recent...

Since senate republicans defeated a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks on gun purchases. the 54-46 vote. while the terror attack drew attention away from the vote, senators are starting to feel the heat including passionate voices from the debate for whom the debate was very personal. >> reporter: sandy hook elementary principal dawn hochsprung was shot and killed in newtown. this week her daughter drove from connecticut to new hampshire to confront kelly ayotte who voted against the gun control bill. >> i'm just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the eleme...

Improvements to our background checks system, as you and i both know, the issue wasn't the background check system, the issue is sandy hook. >> the senator says she thinks the problem lies in the mental health system. she joins thus morning. you said to the senator, look, i don't think the burden for gun sellers, why is that the foblg us and not the burden on me losing my mother? explain what you said and the point to the senator? >> i had actually spoken with her the day after the vote, in her office in d.c. and she said that there was too much of a burden that was going to be imposed on peop...