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Anre washington, adam starks, good luck. >> all right. you'll do well. and if you missed the president's commencement address, you can actually watch part of it on cnn.com. it is actually in the center page there. it's really very, very powerful speech. >> yep. right in the middle. all right, a week filled with problems and controversies apparently not taking a toll on president obama's approval ratings. a new cnn/orc poll shows it all holding steady. >> in fact, it is up slightly to 53%, but the increase is within the sampling error. the president's job approval rating was 51% in april, 47%...

This presidency, particularly the second term, but you wouldn't know it by his approval rating. jessica yellin has some brand new poll numbers. >> fred, it's good news for the president, according to our new cnn/orc poll. 53% of americans approve of the job president obama is doing. and that poll was taken after last week's tough week. it shows his support is basically unchanged from the 51% we found in our last poll in early april, and up from his low of 47% in mid-march. now, it should come as no surprise that there's a major partisan divide in these numbers with democrats showing overwhelmi...

Stricter background checks in purchasing guns, but there is this political divide here if you take a look at the new cnn/orc poll, says 29% of republicans say they favor stricter gun control laws compared to 82% of the democrats. so how key is this political divide here? and what gets done? >> it's very important. i mean, if you look at this sort of macro politics of it, suzanne, you see that kind of a number. you understand what's going on between republicans and democrats. you see that nine out of ten americans support something. if you're looking at the republican party as a brand, you'd sa...

Seen. you saw those two senators, democrat and republican, both pro-gun senators trying to come up with some sort of a compromise. and they've got problems on both sides of the aisle. you've got about a handful of democratic senators up in pro-gun states who are very, very nervous about voting for any kind of gun control that could be construed as interfering with the second amendment in any way, shape or form. and on the republican side you have the same problem, i mean most of the republicans except for one up for re-election come from states that mitt romney won, red states. so they've got ...

Laws has actually slowed. but a new cnn/orc poll shows overwhelming support for expanding background checks. 86%, almost nine out of ten, favor tougher background checks. senators who came up with the compromise say this is a good place to start. >> the bottom line for me is this, if expanding background checks to include gun shows and internet sales can reduce the likelihood of criminals and mentally ill people from getting guns, and we can do it in a fashion that does not infringe on the second amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, then we should do it. and in this amendment i think we d...