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Second amendment rights and so does the president. he knows we need to do some common sense changes as far as background checks. when people go to gun shows, they need to have a background check. a commercial transaction on the internet. he supports that. with his support, both of us protecting the second amendment rights, we can move forward. that's what we intend to do. >> neil: do you think -- when you say tend to do it, this could be done in short order. the president said keep it simply a lot of add-ons. even steve scalise -- >> he knew the controversial things that have a heavy lift. you...

In the past we've acquiesced failure and have not done things we know within our power to accomplish like the fix nix bill. i'd like to recommend to you and to colleagues that we get that done and build on it. don't stop there. build on it. because 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 good things in it. it would be nice if we can add everything on to it. maybe change the title. the u.s. background check bill or whatever. your bill is really good and really...

Anything else is that nothing has been done for all of these years. because i really see a lot of common ground where there's democrat, republican. i'm so surprised. i'm sitting here and i'm saying, you know, a lot of commonality here. a lot of people agreeing with what you're writing and you guys are writing. i don't understand why it hasn't happened for the last 20 years. nothing has happened. so we're going to get it done. >> we can add anything to fix nix that has 60 votes. the argument is that background checks can be add to it if it has your support. i would just add -- i hope we follow ...

This idea of arming teachers is going nowhere. there's no appetite among republicans for arming teachers, so we can move on to another topic. it would be somewhere in a really strong background check and president trump keeps talking about comprehensive background checks, and the republicans on capitol hill have no idea what he's talking about. >> he also talks about comprehensive immigration reform, which is a term that -- >> he has not spelled out for them what that means. they will not get out on a political limb in primary season for this president who doesn't stay on positions very long. ...

To figuring out what they're going to do, but there's a lot of momentum outside of congress. so all the polls, the kids have not given up obviously in parkland. they're still out there everyday talking about what they want to see. the florida state legislature is doing things and moving forward. what do you think will happen this week in congress? >> this week everyone will try to assess where the president is. that's really important to republicans who are facing primary elections and strong resistance from their second amendment supporters and strong opposition from the right. this will be a...