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Toomey of pennsylvania and joe menon, a democrat from west. it expands background checks to gun shows and preserving personal deals. >> the nra will try to throw all kinds of amendments at us, and we're going to have to work really hard to prevent them from being added to the bill. so we have to do two things. move the ball forward, and and get some good things done, particularly on background checks. >> now to be clear, some republicans who voted yes today said they were voting yes in order to debate this very important issue. they weren't necessarily voting yes to do more gun control, shep. ...

Obama term what he said very clearly was that israel's settlement activity had to stop. he made it home demolitions had to stop and what he is now saying is that it is not so much that home demolitions have to stop, and he didn't even call for a settlement freeze. instead he said that there should be no conditions placed before negotiations, and in other words what he is saying is that israel is allowed to continue to eat up palestinian land and the palestinians have to sit down and deal with it and this is not going to be a recipe for moving ahead. in fact, what he did is rather than move the...

That are helping the ball push the ball forward, you have jim demint at the heritage foundation. he is not exactly going to be a voice for sort of moderate reform within the party, right, carrie? >> no. he is taking that over. you know, to further the work he was doing in the senate, which was, you know, among some of the most conservative ideas and efforts around, so, yeah, the heritage foundation, which came off of the individual mandate for health care. you know, good two decades ago. ing that became the foundation of health care. that was the heritage foundation. i don't think we would see...

Without even an i.d. polls show a strong majority of americans favor closing the gun show loophole. but in newtown, that wasn't the problem. at virginia tech, that wasn't the problem. the killers used legally purchased weapons. >> there's not one policy that's going to save us all. but, you know, a background check is something that will make it more difficult for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun. >> reporter: colin goddard is not a victim, but a survivor. and a citizen activist with a youthful conviction that, yes, we can be better than this. >> i can't do this alone. i need peopl...

>> reporter: here, at a gun show in ohio, he and his friends were able to buy an assault rifle without each of them having an i.d. polls show a strong majority of americans favor closing the gun show loophole. but in newtown, that wasn't the problem. at virginia tech, that wasn't the problem. the killers used legally purchased weapons. >> there's not one policy that's going to save us all. but background check is something that will make it more difficult for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun. >> reporter: colin is not a victim, but a survivor and a citizen activist with a youthful ...