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This is a safety net that we are all keeping up with fewer and fewer strings and prods and props and help. this is a society that we're talking about, a societal problem. i personally don't think this will help. >> social problems. >> so katon, you're coming back tomorrow because we're going to talk about elections. that will give us all night to talk about the answer. >> i don't have it for you. >> thanks for being here today. we'll see you again tomorrow. but up next, the growing push to legalize pot and why it's about much more than your right to light it up. avo: the volkswagen "sign then ...

Happened in those minutes together. we don't know what's in george zimmerm zimmerman's heart. i have spoken to his brother, i have spoken to others and i think we should recognize that there are layers in there tragedy. i also see a political component in that, with the rallies this weekend, it is possible that this bolsters the base which supports the president, that he is standing up for them. he has been under a lot of pressure from the black community, he's been under a lot of pressure from jesse jackson, al sharpton, and others to pick a side. and i think he could have gone just a little ...

Jon: there is a growing push, you've seen it, in states across the country, to legalize pot for so-called medical purposes. now advocates are trying to open the first southern state to medical marijuana. our phil keating is live in miami. so, have there been previous efforts like this and how have they done, phil? >> reporter: yeah, there have been in florida but florida remains a swing state, pretty evenly split. every single one. previous efforts failed. this time around pot proponents feel the landscape politically and socially is on an unstopable role. 18 states plus washington, d.c. allow...

That's the absurdity, that we need to root out of the conversation. >> i wish we had more time. >> me, too. my rebuttal? >> something tell me we won't solve this today. >> up next, a very different hot topic on the hill. the growing push to get employers to provide sick leave. mom always got good nutrition to taste great.

Growing push for tighter gun control across the country. former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly returning to the place where she was shot in the head two years ago and urging the senators to support background check legislation. >> well, gabby has a message for not only senator flake and senator mccain but all members of congress. i'm going to turn the podium over to my wonderful wife, gabby giffords. >> be bold, be courageous, please support background checks. thank you very much. >> senator joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia is here in the situation"...