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Ron bakari. let's stick to where we are right now. interesting to hear the house speaker dance around what he will do. >> no, look, i think -- i don't think he danced around very much. he sent the signal as clearly as he could to underscore what we already know, which is that there will be no significant gun control measure that will ever move forward in this republican-controlled house. they simply do not believe that it is relevant to the problem. and it reflects a change, an important change since the '90s we talked about before. when the brady bill, creating the background checks system wa...

We need in the books. again, we passed overhaul of the entire mental health system. the question is, are we making sure that that overhaul is doing what it is supposed to be doing to making sure that people who are like this do not get those kinds of guns. that's where we should focus our problem to be solved, which is the people who shouldn't get guns without trying to take away a citizen's rights. thank you. >> house speaker paul ryan wrapping up, address the press on what the congress, the republican led congress is doing about guns in school safety. and what you heard there was no new legi...

Family's life. >> live for us in miami and on capitol hill, thank you both for joining us this hour. i want to bring in republican congressman ryan costello from pennsylvania. congressman, it's great to have you with us. i appreciate you taking the time to be with us. i know you and 18 other republican house members wrote a letter to paul ryan in which you wrote essentially you're calling for a vote on the fix nics act that would require a better job of reporting records to the national background checks system, a lot of controversy why so many of these shooters have had key pieces of informat...

Sends it back to the house, and we just take it up singularly. i wanted to make a comment on what the father, a half hour ago said on the andrea mitchell show about the cracks in the system. we can all agree that the nics system needs to work better, that we need to make sure all the data gets in there. we need to compel states to do that. we can prevent tragedies. texas is one example. what happened in florida perhaps another. it is extremely frustrating to the american people when they see that we have a background checks system and it's either not working the way that it should because we m...

They decide how or if they'll proceed with gun policy changes? >> they will not because the american public is not going to allow that to happen. you know what the president said at cpac, actually i agree with a lot of it. he said we need to strengthen up the background check system. me is right. today one in five gowns is sold without a background check at all. that needs to stop. we've made it too easy for those who are dangerous to get guns. and i don't think the american people are going to wait until the midterm elections to wait on these solutions that are supported by the vast majority ...