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Are their other areas you think realistically can get done and what are those? >> i firmly believe fix nics will find its way through. that's an important step towards really stronger and more comprehensive background checks system. that's something we've been fighting for since 2012, since 2013. i do believe that's coming down the line. i also believe the white house is getting behind extreme risk protection orders or gun violence restraining orders and looking how we can encourage states to mandate that and also other forms of prevention programs within schools. we are going to see some thin...

>> can i respectfully wreckment that steve scalise, the vote counter in the house will be a key role in this. he's had a personal near tragic experience with one of thinks mass shootings himself. >> good. >> i appreciate mr. president you convening everybody. thank you, senator cornyn. my whip counterpart. the house did pass a bill dealing with fixing problems with our background checks system. we also combined with it a bill that advanced concealed carry reciproci reciprocity. people having conceal carry in one state and having to same ability in another state with conceal carry laws that are...

I tried not to do that one time and i got sued and lost the case. i had to give the guns back and we got fined. so the state of florida has this bill that was mentioned earlier that the senate just passed. it has these risk protection orders built in. there's some states that already have that, i believe. i think those are going to be critical for law enforcement to help take the guns out of the hands of these individuals that we know should not be carrying. then we need to make sure those individuals get placed into the national background checks system. >> mr. president, the vice president, ...

Republicans to the table. right now the gun lobby would stop it in its tracks. >> i like that responsibility. it's time that a president stepped up and we haven't had him. i'm talking democrat and republican presidents. they have not stepped up. i'd like to have mat tomorrow my and joe manchin. can you talk about your bill? i haven't heard a lot about it, actually. >> absolutely, mr. president. i do think our bill is the best chance of moving forward. we have 54 votes in 2013. the most that any bill in this space got. it has several components. the first title is a title that is very similar t...

System that need to be plugged. we passed a bill to do that and we think that should get done clearly. let me just say this, we shouldn't be banning guns for law abiding citizens, we should be focusing on making sure citizens who should not get guns in the first place don't get those guns. that's why we see a big breakdown in the system here. this particular case, there are a lot of breakdowns. from local law enforcement to the fbi getting tips they didn't follow up on to, you know, school resource officers who are trained to protect kids in these schools and who didn't do that. and that, to m...