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Not to wait. the good news is that we are starting to see a ken census abouts action congress needs to take. the vast majority of americans, including a majority of gun owners support requiring criminal background checks for anyone trying to buy a gun. [cheers and applause] so right now democrats and republicans in the senate are working on a bill that would ban anyone from selling a gun to somebody legally prohibited from owning one. that's common sense. there is no reason why we can't get that done. that is not a liberal idea or a conservative idea. it's not a democratic or republican idea. ...

Union told us he had no idea how many walmart workers were actually going the join the picket line today. walmart, of course, has projected the kind of confidence you'd expect from a company that logged nearly half a trillion in net sale last fiscal year. they've said they have 1.4 million u.s. employees, more than a million of them they expect to stay on the job for this heavy shopping season. why don't we see if we can get closer to the protesters and maybe talk to one or two of them. you can see flying right there the banner of our walmart, and as i say, this is a diverse crowd. they just h...

>> yeah. i mean, i think she does. look, this was -- the administration will tell you that this was something of a tryout for susan rice as a potential secretary of state nominee. and if that's the case, she failed in the tryout. she has an obligation to go and make sure that the information she's presenting to the american public is as true as can be. and we also have to go back and look at how these talking points that she relied on came to be. i mean, why was it that james clapper, to choose just one person, had testified under oath in front of congress that he had no idea how the words al-...

As liberals have been happy to point out were originally a key idea -- a conservative idea, but that idea is quite different from the one expressed by obamacare. the original idea was to save consumers money through choice and competition, obamacare does the opposite, creating a tangle of mandates and taxes. what say you? >> certainly better competition for health insurance is a good idea. that was the original vision of exchanges. unfortunately, in massachusetts and now with the federal law they've become instruments for social regulation with a very hey-handed set -- heavy-handed set of mand...

Months ago. we have basically the same makeup in government. obama controls the white house, we control the house, democrats controls the senate. but guess what? the american people don't expect a status quo in governance. gregg: there's a recent rasmussen poll and, juan, i want you to take a look as well, 57% agree that raising taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year is a good idea. can you put that up on the screen, if you would, the poll? 35% disagree, so almost 60% now think the president's probably on the right track. juan, i mean, given his re-election circumstances have changed,...