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>> what kind of background screenings are there for people who work at airports and directly with the aircraft? does this make you believe those screenings, if they do exist, should be more intense? >> yes, ryan, it goes back to you and i talked about this before, about the mental health issue. any time we deal with, you know, a mass shooting or things like that, we always look at it and we go, how did we miss those signals or how did we miss those signs? here's a 29-year-old individual. how's it possible they were screened and yet possibly got through somehow through the screening process and...

Weapons, and we saw that last night with senator marco rubio and others. what is your hope of how to get some kind of movement on assault weapons? >> my hope to get some kind of movement on assault weapons is to get better background screenings because if these people are not going to move on assault weapons we have to work with them to come to some sort of compromise where we ensure that nobody who is mentally unstable, has a history of domestic violence, or a criminal record is able to get these weapons. we have to deal with that as it is now, because the republicans, supported by the nra ar...

You've done a lot of this and it is a burden and this is late at night and i appreciate you taking the time and continuing this discussion with us. so there you have it. you've already achieved things in a week, david, that we have never seen in the aftermath of shootings like this. you have the president moving on background checks, moving toward additional strengthening of background checks. you have other republicans doing that and possibly some other things. but no one backed by the nra has moved on an inch on the assault weapons, and we saw that last night with senator marco rubio and oth...

Do you want to ban assault weapons in the state of florida? >> i think that's something that we certainly can look at. i think, for instance, in florida, to buy a pistol, you have to be 21. to buy an ar-15, you have to be 18. i think something like that should be changed immediately, to raise that age to 21. there needs to be more background screenings, more background checks. i think once somebody starts to lose their mental capacity or they make violent threats, you know, their weapons need to be taken from them. >> so when will the debate begin on banning assault weapons, on stricter gun co...