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That morning, patry mckinley who represents the district. i called around and called mitch mcconnell and we got together and decided this is something we should do. we turn that decision around. the president called me as well that morning. between mitch, the president, myself and patrick we made that decision quickly. >> you rule out the house considering it -- you rule out expanded background checks -- do you support program funding arming teachers? and is there any way which you support going beyond the half dozen or so -- >> that's six questions in one. first of all, i'm not going to micro...

Texas. he had been convicted of domestic violence while serving in the air force. he was kicked out of the military with a bad conduct discharge. the history was never driver side. dylann rooff should have been rejected because of his mental history. if it takes longer than three day, the default is you get the gun. you don't get denied. another possible is the gun show loophole. the nics process only applies to federally licensed gun dealers. not private dealers who you'll find at gun shows nation wide. if you wish to sell your gun privately, you can do that directly and they don't have to ch...

Some people. >> let's talk about the pressure, not just people in florida are facing now, but the pressure happening here in washington. it has been building with these shooter survivors and the parents coming out calling for action. this building here today fills up capitol hill. lawmakers are expected to come back to d.c. and do something by these parents. what do you think will happen this week over on capitol hill if anything? >> i think they're going to have to have a discussion around these issues. i agree, given how compress it had calendar is it's difficult to see much getting done. th...

Hears the people making requests of him. but the facts, as that he bear out, i think really demonstrate that this is not an issue where we go after guns. the assault weapons ban was passed in 1994. 2% of all gun crimes committed with those so-called assault weapons. this has always been a solution in search of a problem going after these guns this way and instead not looking at the root causes which include mental health and systemic failures of government. >> and some of the things that folks are talking about, they say we need to investigate the fbi to find out exactly how these kinds of ver...

>> i will support -- i will support the banning of bump stocks. i know the president has ordered the attorney general to do it and if he doesn't, we should do it by law. i will support changing our background system so that it includes more information than it includes now. and that all states across the country are required or incentivized to report all the information into it. and let me tell what you i've done already. last year, when we came up with our budget in the senate, i pushed for and got approved $50 million a year through the sandy hook initiative to provide a threat assessment fu...