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From the filibuster. i think he had a lot of political success striking out ahead of everyone else, so he struck out ahead here. pat toomey, republican from pennsylvania, we have word now that joe mansion of west virginia have called a press conference for tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. mark, you guys ran an ad, which i want to show, pressuring pat toomey to come to the table on this. take a look. >> on gun safety, pennsylvania has a strong background system, but guns don't respect state borders. now, the u.s. senate can pass comprehensive background legislation that will stop the mentally ill...

Gun purchases are purchases without a background check. i don't think we should extend it to them. but i think the system makes sense. how can that be? how can that be? how can it make sense to have the background system we have today knowing that 40% of the people who purchase a gun don't go through a background check? there's no constitutional argument. there is not even an inconvenience argument of there are 58,000 federally licensed gun dealers in the united states of america. 58,000. and they can easily as it exists now access to see who should be prohibited from owning a gun. they have a...

City mayor michael bloomberg. late monday bloomberg's gun safety group released a new ad pressuring pennsylvania's republican senator pat toomey. potentially a key player in these negotiations, to support background checks. now the u.s. senate can pass comprehensive background check legislation that will stop criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from kwlusing loopholes to get guns. senator toomey understands how important that change is. >> i'm in favor of making changes to a background system. >> in pennsylvania almost 90% of us support comprehensive background checks. call senator to...

Stunt. why do that when it's unlikely these things that you don't want passed are going to pass, anyway. >> mike bloomberg's group, the mayors against guns had this new advertisement. which is targeting pat toomey of pennsylvania. watch -- >> on gun safety, pennsylvania has a strong background check system. but guns don't respect state borders. now the u.s. senate can pass comprehensive background check legislation that will stop criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from using loopholes to get guns. senator toomey understands how important that change is. >> i'm in favor of making change...

It's really about providing armed officers first and then secondly if that is not available to have an armed school staff that is trained and selected. >> reporter: but the white house is standing its ground and accusing republicans of blocking meaningful reform. >> when the president gave a state of the union, all applauded when there was an up and town vote. when the newtown families are not there, politics is the only reason this stuff won't get done. >> reporter: gabrielle giffords wrote about the gun show loophole today. we know how to fix it by blirg a universal background system but som...