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Obstacles. in the house, republican leaders have attached it to a controversial concealed carry reciprocity bill that has no chance of getting 60 votes senate. those are the sorts of games that are being played. when that happens, it's hard to see -- it is not difficult to see why even very popular issues, very popular causes fail to pass. as i mentioned, the mentality that today you do fix nics or background checks. ban bump stocks. then tomorrow a slippery slope to repealing the second amendment. that has driven every gun debate so far. >> jake, you agree with that? you talked to cornyn. he ...

Problem. i feel that. i feel that. but i'm certainly open to suggestions. so john, why don't you start. you've put in your fix nics and let's see how it is. and go ahead. >> well thank you, mr. president for getting us together and for expressing your sincere concern about this and trying to get us to a solution. i agree with you that leaving this town and going home empty handed is not acceptable. the public demands that we act. we know how hard it is to get people together on a bipartisan basis. but believe it or not, at least in one case senator murphy and i and -- we have a 46 co-sponsors ...

We will get more into this bill now on the cornyn/murphy bill as the white house talks about supporting this legislation to strengthen background checks. let's take a look at what exactly this legislation is. the bipartisan bill is called fix nics, the bill was introduced late last year after the mass shootings in las vegas and sutherland springs, texas. in total, 84 people were killed in those two shootings. now, the bill is designed to improve the national instant criminal background check system. it was launched by the fbi in 1998. this is a national system that checks available records on ...

Whether the president's public humiliation of his attorney general might have been part of a pattern to obstruct justice. we'll have that "washington post" report. and nuclear saber rattling from vladimir putin. putin saying listen to us now as he threatens the u.s. with a new line of nuclear weapons that he says the u.s. could not defend. you know it's a busy morning when russia's claim of an invincible nuclear threat is the third thing we mentioned. but let's start with the gun debate. my colleagues are on the white house and capitol hill. casey hunt is down in the hallways talking with lawm...

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