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Do, get rid of the felony conviction. >> take it off their record. >> get it off their record. because they're doomed to failure if you don't. >> put yourself in the position of a member of congress who is facing reelection, though. how does that person go out and not get painted as soft on crime by wanting to do away with some of these things? >> you know what, i say they have to grow. they have to get the courage -- >> you can say what you want to say. >> they just have to get the courage to do their job. that's what they have to do. don't be afraid of looking soft on crime. their answer to ...

Controversial. >> and chris stirewalt our digital editor and host of power play. the president is out there again pushing for this gun control legislation, but as i said in the introduction, i mean, his main problem here is members of his own party who led harry reid to conclude accurately, according to most pundits, he doesn't have the votes in the senate. he's not oeven putting this in the main bill. >> and he made no secret of it. ten votes short, maybe 20 votes short on this. it wasn't even close, so for the president to go out today on what a group led by new york mayor michael bloomberg ...

Republican president, a republican senate and a republican house and there are, you know, seriously curtailed minority voting rights in the senate and shut out. >> all that matters to the obama democrats is the next 18 months, the strategy is break the back of the republican majority in the house and divide and conquer the republicans so they can't block things and president can get his larger initiatives through, so he can have more tax increases, that he can do more stimulus spending, that he can do gun control, a larger amnesty program for illegal immigrants, gay marriage, who knows? but he...

Make it into orbit. another headline this morning. facing reelection next year, new jersey governor chris christie is speaking out against his state's public education system stressing the need for reform even if it costs him his job. take a look. >> i will not -- i love it. i have a great time every day. but i'm not your cup of tea, vote for somebody ems. i'm never going to pretend to be anything other than what i am. i'm going to fight for those kids in those failing schools because i could have been one of them. i was born in newark and i lived there until i was five years old. my parents...

Here's a republican facing reelection, chastising people in his own party in the house. what's going on here? >> well, basically the house of representatives is without a leader. mr. boehner is not the leader. he's a puppet run by the tea party. and he's like a weathervane. whoever he talks to, he agrees with them. then he talks to the second person and he agrees with them. he's spinning in so many directions, nobody knows where they're doing over there. and pulling the strings is mr. cantor with the tea party votes to really destroy the speaker. >> congressman, are you saying here tonight on ...