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Prosecuted for misdemeanors. and they do things, foolish things, -- we aren't talking about felonies. we are talking about misdemeanors. it goes on the record, prohibits them from getting a job, going through the college. the thought behind that was if some youth was caught with a small amount of marijuana or some minor misdemeanor, it wouldn't be prosecuted. it would be handled through the school and through the school's officers. it was really to give the youth another chance. but that had nothing to do with this type of situation. when there is a gun or a weapon being used, that agreement a...

Prosecuted for misdemeanors. and they do things, foolish things, -- we aren't talking about felonies. we are talking about misdemeanors. it goes on the record, prohibits them from getting a job, going through the college. the thought behind that was if some youth was caught with a small amount of marijuana or some minor misdemeanor, it wouldn't be prosecuted. it would be handled through the school and through the school's officers. it was really to give the youth another chance. but that had nothing to do with this type of situation. when there is a gun or a weapon being used, that agreement a...

Devil is in the details. yes, compromise will be key. but 97%, maybe that will get the politicians's attention. >> i wouldn't say nothing got done after newtown. in terms of people feeling helpless, things did change. >> at the state level, yes. >> we don't know what path it will take. but things can be done. and connecticut has paved the way in that way. >> you can see it state by state. you're right, there is a blessing and a curse. we thought florida would follow suit. i don't know about that now. south carolina did. the problem is on the federal level you're seeing the big point from the r...

Colleagues. if we can break the glacier of complicity in congress, we can get measures done. >> you can't do it state by state. if you don't have one rule, you wind up having all kinds of, you know, all of this variability. you look at florida, laws are so different than they are in connecticut. but overall, you have 39 states in this country don't make it legally required to even say if someone is selling a weapon. what makes republicans want to deal with this? dave jolley talked about this last night. >> let's be brutally honest about what we do know. republicans will never do anything on gu...

Get a little less money. i mean, you know, that may happen, and trump may want to do that anyway. i mean, he's always talked about funding for the united nations and how we pay too much for this and for nato whereby et cetera, so maybe he'll end up, he'll end up reducing the amount of money in the united states we give to the u.n., but i don't see how they follow through on it state for state. >> i could see, phil, the u.s. under the trump administration, significantly cutting back funding for u.n. agencies, various united nations agencies, but you really think that the president who's got a g...