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>> is there anything in the confluence of things of some of your republican colleagues, perhaps hearing from their own constituents that they have had enough of this, that something has to be done, combined with an awareness on the senate floor that the nra was not what it was in 2014 after newton, it is a more diminished organization. >> the nra has been exposed for what they are. i couldn't believe, claire and i were in the senate at the time, after the shooting in newton, i couldn't imagine a worse fact pattern than that. on the senate floor, the amendment that got the most votes, the pro g...

It and can we secure social security? the question is lack of leadership to get it done. i'm willing to do what i have to do regardless of party or principle to solve the problem. my hope is, and i believe it to be true, that the president really wants to solve this and i look forward to working with him on it. >> walter isaacson is here with a question not about your bead. walter? >> we are talking historically why is it hard to get things done these days. there seems to me a time between a gun amendment or water rights bill or not getting a grand bargain out of the finance committee and it's...

The vote that you witnessed was for a watered down background check bill. just to be clear. chief flynn, texas senator ted cruz decided to call you out during a news conference yesterday on an alternative -- well, sort of watered down gun amendment as well as on the senate floor. he didn't do it by name, but it was pretty clear who he was referring to. so i want to play that clip for you. >> in one hearing, a police chief yelled at a senator on the judiciary committee and said, he didn't have time to prosecute paperwork crimes. well, in my opinion, if a convicted felon or fugitive ae tempts to...