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He called it an unpleasant experience for his staff. bret? >> bret: yeah. chad, where do we stand on the agreement on gun reform legislation? >> well, the main negotiators, democrat chris murphy and g.o.p. member john cornyn they say they have an agreement. murphy called it a breakthrough. the bill would beef up background checks for those under 21. g.o.p. sources say there are no new restrictions or waiting periods and red flag provisions will only impact violent criminals and those who are mentally ill. but we still don't have bill text. they said maybe tonight. then again they said the same...

Word that john cornyn used talking to our team. and sources we were speaking to last week said democrats came to the table on what republicans were asking for, specifically the so-called boyfriend loophole, they wanted narrower language defining what a boyfriend is. democrats wanted that legislative text to be broader. they seemed to, over the weekend, have come to a more positive place. one source familiar with the negotiations told me over the weekend, they are basically 98% done and people we're talking to inside the negotiations now this morning have a much more optimistic tone. that's not...

Do you think this internal dialogue with the gop will kill the whole thing? >> no, in getting answers to my questions. i have yet to see bill text. i have yet to have any of my questions dealing with the details of what the provisions would do answered. it's one thing if they can identify with reasonable particularity what the provisions can do, but they haven't been able to do that. the gang of 20 emerged saying we have a deal. there til is no deal. we have been asked, are you supporting the bill just as a number of senators are rushing to sign object and say they support the bill when it doe...

Define what a boyfriend is effectively. how to define the nontraditional partnerships that aren't just a marriage. that's where negotiations were last week. people still trying to figure out the details as they craft the bill text. we're told by sources over the weekend those conversations happened. those issues were, in the words of one source familiar with these negotiations to me, resolved. and now we expect we could get bill text from this senate group as early as today. the reason that's important, jose, they've set their own time line on this saying they want to be able to pass this legi...

Utah, a conservative, he said on sunday morning that he would like to see the text before he decides which way he stands on this legislation. take a listen to what he said. >> i personally refuse to indicate whether or how i will vote on a bill until i have seen the text. there are a lot of things that can go wrong in legislation. i kept asking to see text and it became apparent they didn't have a bill, they don't have a deal at all. what they had was agreement on a series of very broad promises. now i know there's some bill text that's probably been written but on the most contentious, contro...