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Support. of course, we saw public support for stiffer gun control laws mount in the wake of the newtown tragedies. so the president, the vice president really trying to harness that support. of course, this past week, you heard from vice president biden, who spoke with mayor bloomberg and talked about need for some of this legislation to be passed. by the way, if you talk to political analysts, they believe that the piece of legislation that has the best chance of making its way through congress, universal background checks. so you can expect the president and the vice president to really focu...

Representatives vote against that, common sense says they are going to have a price to pay for that. >> lapierre, in turn, responded that bloomberg's rhetoric was, quote, insane and would not work to deter the gun lobby. with more on all of this, nbc's kristen welker live from the white house. kristen, what's the political reality of how much sway either of these lobbies has? >> reporter: well, craig, look, politically, gun control laws are really tough to get through congress. and if you look at the polls, it shows that a majority of americans supports stiffer gun control laws. but congress i...

Nra's millions of members and small donors? >> i think psychologists would call what lapierre doing there is -- the nra had a hemmer lock on washington so long because of its lobbying power. lapierre, most gun rights advocates would admit, stumbled at the end of last year and the first part of this year by being so boisterous because that's worked for him. they haven't had a major loss in -- more than a decade. since 1993, there hasn't ban real gun control bill of any kind passed, and since -- even in 2007, virginia tech happened. the nra was able to shape the legislation of the past. so i don...

Show them the money. how much the presidential candidates are bringing in and how much they need. new york ci new york sit in protests. why the rage over corporate greed is being felt around the world? and, plus, how the money from tucan sam got shelved. how much money did they pull in over the last three months? in all, over $100 million got pulled into presidential campaigns. >> alex, money cannot by and it's a very important gauge of