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Out of adjectives and things to say, but you had someone earlier that divide quite a description for the president. There was a bus full of members of congress that were ready to go. I thought it was a caravan. And going to visit troops in a war zone something the president could do more regularly. You have a photo op, and it also does a lot for moral, it does a lot to inform policy, these trips, whatever you think of what you see of the person on the ground, they are very important. I have been on delegations, but it is how you learn by being on the ground and talking to people on the ground....

That says if they asked madame speaker to stay in the country and not go overseas does that mean they're interested in a conversation, and hogan gitley says she has an open invitation at any time. i think we just want a little context here because there are some who would say that this feels sophomoreic to have sent the letter with the people on the bus. some of these things are not publicized for valid security reasons, but then maybe this was not the way to handle it now we all know that the congressional delegation was on their way to information and e squipt. put this in perspective for me...

They have a great 2010 life law. first-time offenders if you have a gun, it's 10 to 20 life. ten years. showing the gun is 20 years and using the gun in a crime it's life automatically. you start to up the crimes -- assume, up the punishment for those crimes and put it federally, that's a drastic drop in gun crimes in this country and quite frankly i think we have seen that over the last few years. gun crimes have gone down but we need legislation to affect real change and protects people. we just don't need to pass a bunch of laws just for the sake of passing them. >> hogan, thank you. tim, w...

>> the nra once supported background checks. >> we think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. no loopholes anywhere for anyone. >> let me bring in our political panel. radio talk show host and ms nns contributor michael smerkonish, mar gi o may ra and republican strategist hogan gitley. i should point out the president already arrived in minneapolis. he is at the police department special ops and there's a panel roundtable taking place. those there, attorney general holder, the governor of minnesota as well as the mayor. we h...

In response to that? i know you're not an insider behind the scenes, hogan, but how do you come back on tape saying one thing a few years ago and then stumbling through an answer now when it arguably is most needed? >> right. well, michael was right. that might be the only thing that could pass in this. there's democrats, obviously, pro-gun democrats like kay hagan in north carolina and mark pryor in arkansas probably a path of resistance for the president on some of these issues but the background check goes in to exactly what i was talking about. the background check albeit cumbersome for th...