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Perspective, the various reasoning behind it and the people from their heart would want to do something connect but you rescued from a political perspective. to think there's enough support right now out there in places where republicans do need to pick up support? like in suburbs, where there's enough political cover for republicans to go out and support some of these measures? >> you are the president just earlier today say that he doesn't care about the politics. he wants dangerous people who should not be allowed to have firearms have firearms. that's his goal. he thinks background checks ...

Mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, is on board. could be a potentially tough sell. democrats will say background checks aren't enough and some republicans say any additional gun control is a slippery slope. but at least right now the president says he will give those republicans political cover. >> i think my base relies very much on common sense, and they rely on me in terms of telling them what's happening. i think meaningful background checks, but i have a great relationship with the republican senators. i really think they are looking for me to give a signal. i think we will ha...

Republicans' fault." we have a duty, responsibility, and an obligation to go back to washington, d.c., and take up assault weapons. that's what people are crying for. >> melissa: what's your response to that? >> from the very beginning of the president's term in office, the democrats have blamed him for every ailment america faces. these mass shootings in dayton and el paso are horrible and tragic, and those communities are shaken and will likely never be the same again. the democrats' first response is to blame it entirely on president trump. they are essentially calling him, personally, a ma...

At 2:00. >> melissa: an armed officer is being called a hero after detaining a man wearing body armor and carrying a loaded weapon at a walmart in missouri. it comes less than a week after a gunman killed 22 people in a walmart in el paso. matt finn joins us now with the latest. that is terrifying, matt. >> it is, and missouri police praising this former firefighter for stopping this heavily armed men who is recording himself as he walks around this missouri walmart. police say 20-year-old had on body armor, military fatigues, and tactical weapons. police say the man recorded himself with a ce...