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Thank you so much. appreciate it. so firefighters across the united states are sending emergency gear and supplies to their fellow first responders here in ukraine. cnn's alexandra field has more in this week's "beyond the call of duty." >> everything that you see and hear in this trailer is when they hwill be shipped to ukrain. i need more. >> reporter: ten tons have already been boxed up here in clifton, new jersey. they're en route now to the war zone. the plan is to accepted it all to the polish fire service, which will pass it over to ukrainian firefighters. the collection, nothing shor...

>> it should probably be rebutting a little bit. i don't think that that's fair. i think he has decided that he's going to use the pardoning power in a little bit of a different way than past presidents. a lot of times, alex, past presidents waited until the end of the term to do the pardons. if you look at the number of pardons clinton did in the last couple of days of his term, they were monument al. >> but, anthony, doesn't that right there, the timing of this, doesn't that give an appearance of conflict of interest or at least a purpose and intent behind this timing? >> well, i understand ...

Northern virginia, pennsylvania is not big gun stock. >> the question framed is incrementally on or monument al? we have to deal with it as it is. congress controls the senate and the house. the universal background checks, 97% of americans support it. congress can be held hostage by 3% of the nra. let's try to see if we can make that gain. 67% support is still high. let's focus on what can get done. let's make measurable progress. >> that would not be in decremental. >> well, ron is right based on where we are. that's not where we are any more. you're hearing more about background checks. the...

This sort of adulation and praise. i think when the vice president and other members of his cabinet, we saw during the victory yesterday, you can't blame republicans for being excited and happy about what they achieved. it was monument al and historic. when they were laying the praise on the president thick, i think they understand what motivates them. this is the kind of thing they are hoping to use to get him to continue to play ball as they go forward next year with really tough issues they will have to deal with. one of the things so interesting about tax reform is unlike health care, for ...

Win three out of four elections and then not open debate. it will be a tie tanic amount of hypocrisy. >> you'd rather them open the debate and vote no than not -- >> yes. you cannot not debate this. but the hypocrisy would be monument al. >> it's interesting to me how many people believe that the decision about bringing the vote to the floor is the vote to watch. that why would -- let's say if cap i toe, portman, heller, murkowski, they all decide to put out a joint statement, none of them want to own, this bill isn't ready. >> right. >> this bill isn't ready. what is the impact of that? >> we...