Cast Bloomberg News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Out for gay marriage. that issue seems to be decided for most of the american public. immigration also will pass, not because of mark zuckerberg, but a lot feel they have to appeal to latinos. on the republican issue, the money could make a difference. what mayor bloomberg wants to do is influence a few democrats, mark prior of arkansas, mary landri landrieu, they might support background checks. these ads may make a difference in one of those states. >> let me play one of the ads so people know what we are talking about. >> for me, guns are for hunting and protecting my family. i believe in t...

Hopefully this will activate people in those states to reach out to members of congress and urge them to vote for this common sense gun legislation. >> you were a mayor in providence, you know about this. the argument you make is what we heard from michael bloomberg yesterday. let me play a little clip from him. >> 90% of the public wants something and their representatives vote against that, common sense says they're going to have a price to pay for that. >> will they though? we have seen that votes don't always come directly out of public opinion polls. >> i think this time is different. we ...

Supreme court has the responsibility to catch up to that. >> congressman, good to see you. thank you so much. anna, since we are talking money and politics, in your reporting you found republicans may be able to raise more money if they support same sex marriage, right? >> absolutely. we have talked to several gop fund-raisers. there's been a turnoff by the big donors in some of the socially liberal areas like new york, california, florida who feel like this last election was lost because there was too much focus on social issues. so there's a real drive in terms of trying to get some of this ...

System. at the same time, we should be working hard to ban the presence of weapons of war, assault weapons, high capacity ammunition in the neighborhoods and cities and towns. there's no reason for that. we need to be pushing all of these. i haven't given up on the assault weapons ban, i recognize it will be hard to do, but we should put before congress and get vote on all these, we will in the senate looks like. i think people expect that. we can enact common sense gun safety measures that will keep communities safe, that respect the right of people to own and possess a firearm, and that's wh...

Latest updates on this topic from reliable sources.