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Have a different outcome, you have to look at the nra. we have a mega lobby that people still think represents gun owners. the majority of gun owners actually support an assault weapons ban. they support the background check. this lobby now represents gun manufacturers. and they have tremendous power. and they have gotten a lot of democrats scared. i think democrats are making a mistake. this is the year to stand up to the nra, not to cower. i think you're making a big mistake by cowering. >> let me ask you about the issue with newtown. everyone said at the least we can get an assault weapons ...

Reform. >> not tax increase. >> tax reform. the big problem for republicans heading into this debt limit fight are the house conservatives. they feel like they've given a rot on the fiscal cliff. are they really going to battle boehner. >> i want to fit this in. because joe biden, i thought was el kwents and interesting. this was with mayor bloomberg. let's play that clip. >> for all those who say that we shouldn't and can't ban assault weapons. for all those who say the politics is too hard, how can they say that? for all those who say we shouldn't or couldn't ban high capacity magazines, i j...

30-round magazine after another. one after another. an estimated 150 bullets were fired by this young man. and the police responded in 2 responded in two and one-half minutes. as my friends behind me did, i met with those state police officers. i met with them. i met with them privately. all you had to do was look in their eyes and see the vacant stare of how fundamentally impacted they were. they were impacted. some of them needing some help. and tell me that you can't take off the street these weapons of war? for all those who say we shouldn't or couldn't ban high capacity magazines, i just ...

Assault weapons related. but when it happens, it's horrif horrific. what else can we do? but you're not able to get the democrat votes. how come? >> i think rather than looking at the white house and imagining that joe biden had given, you know, two more speeches we would have a different outcome, you have to look at the nra. we have a mega lobby that people still think represents gun owners. the majority of gun owners actually support an assault weapons ban. they support the background check. this lobby now represents gun manufacturers. and they have tremendous power. and they have gotten a l...

Proposal to keep republicans from blocking it. >> i'm not going to try to put something on the floor that won't succeed. i want something that will succeed. i think the worst of all would be to bring something to the floor and it dies there. >> of course the nra is fighting against tougher gun control. and contributions to the group's political action committee are surging now. the nra raised almost $1.6 million in february. and in january it raked in $1.1 million. vice president biden teamed up with new york mayor michael bloomberg today to push for new gun control laws. biden made an emotion...