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Called the promise program, reporting a student, a dangerous one, to law enforcement is the sixth step, step 6 in their plan. therefore, i intend to propose changes to the federal youth promise program so that a school district plan under this program does not delay and does not discourage law enforcement from being alerted to dangerous, violent or hazardous behavior. fourth, we need to strengthen background checks. and that's why i've joined with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, pushing for the immediate passage of fix nix, something that will require all federal agencies and invecen...

That's his side. your side is will the democrats do, fix nix without universal checks. will they do changes that don't include an assault weapons ban? >> chris, with all due respect, you're falling back into the usual discussion that we have after these things. people are talking about fix nix because it's a bill that even the nra supports. that's why everyone looks at that. the president of the united states yesterday talked about doing something comprehensive, something big. he talked about universal background checks. he can provide cover to people uncomfortable doing it. even in that room ...

That's going to solve this problem. this fix nix bill -- >> i only have time for a yes or no for you, but your colleague wrote in the times he's ready to ban ar-15 weapons. the are you willing to go as far if you had to? >> you know what, we have to make sure we care more about doing the right thing than holding on to power. i agree with mine masbrian mast. i actually congratulated him on the floor sitting in front of me. we have to work together. >> appreciate your response, and i'm sorry for the time constraints. the satellite may cut us off so i'm going to do it first just in case. apprecia...

They're not going to have bullets coming at them from the other direction, you're never going to solve the 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 nix. let's see how it is and we'll go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you. >> for getting us together and expressing your sincere concern about this and trying to get us to a solution. and going home empty handed is unacceptable. it's hard to get people together on a bipartisan basis.

Things only we could do, this background check system. people have other ideas, they ought to offer those ideas. i'm not sure all of them will pass but in the past we've acquiesced to failure and have not done things that we know were within our power to accomplish, like the fix nix bill. i would like to recommend to you and to my colleagues that we get that done and build on it. we don't stop there. we build on t none of us want to look these families in the face in the wake of another mass shooting and say we failed to do everything within our power to stop it. >> and, john, fix nix has some...