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Is stepping down from the social giant. what more can you say about his departure? you do not need to comment on his beard. >> i'll leave that to you and viewers to comment on. jack dorsey said he thinks the company is ready to move on from its founder, so effective immediately, the chief financial officer paraag ag wall will be taking over. we appreciate as always. still ahead t biden administration bets on boosters to beat the omicron variant. as we go to break, this date in history. president bill clinton signed the brady bill which required a background check on potential buyers. >> af...

They all rejected the idea. do you believe the president would disagree publicly and take on the nra on the issue of raising the minimum age for being able to buy rifles? >> it's a pretty small issue. yes. he's probably the only person could do this. the day after the shooting he said i'm the only one that can fix it. it's usually not the case. it is with him. ronald reagan supported the brady bill which was a really big gun safety law. it out lawed banned high capacity magazines and required this background check that the nra hated it. republicans still worship rojnad reagan. they named airpl...

One is brown and you go hunting with it. let me show you a poll. this is an abc news poll for this week, support for banning so-called assault weapons, 53% of americans oppose that ban. 45% would support it. can the president do anything on that front? >> that almost certainly not. that would require an act of congress and congress is not -- is certainly not inclined to expand control of assault weapons. one of the most amazing things in american politics, in the early '90s when president clinton passed the brady bill which did limit assault weapons, 80% of the country supported banning or res...

This has been talked about and debated for a long time. talk about hillary clinton. they don't seem to be that ambitious in the grand scheme of things. >> it's been an incremental policy. under bill clinton they passed the brady bill which required a background check. they passed the assault rifle ban. george bush ran on supporting it but did not really lift a finger when house republicans let it die. congressional republicans in his early presidency. it's closely divided on public opinion and has a symbolic cultural resonance that goes way beyond the medicine praimmediat impact. it's seen as ...

This issue, read the bill and you tell me what you don't like. >> that was senator joe manchin, co-author of the recently defeated background checks bill but now sounding awfully optimistic. for his prediction to come true, five no votes would have to become yes votes. that only gets the bill through the senate. yet senator manchin does indeed have reason to be optimistic. joining us, julian epstein, a democratic strategist. juli julian, i'm reminded of the brady bill which took seven year, three presidents before it was passed. it was introduced on february the 4th 1987, where it failed numer...