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American people favor tougher new background checks. 14% oppose it. so you never get the american people to agree. >> yeah, there was a poll that had 98%. all these polls are very consistent. >> that's right. and i think what you see in this compromise from these two men, both of whom are rated well by the nra is a response to this kind of public opinion saying, yes, we can do something. i mean, curbing sales at gun shows and the internet is far short of universal background checks, but it's more than congress has done in over a decade. let's take a look at something else our poll shows. we as...

Deals. not only on deficits and taxes, the budget but on immigration reform, gun control, there's a lot of issues here in washington right now, forget about the national security issues including north korea right now. there's obviously a lot going on. christine, don't go too far away. we're going to continue our special coverage here in the "cnn newsroom." we're making the turn, though, to guns, a bipartisan deal. at least two senators, a democrat and a republican with major pro nra gun records. joe manchin, pat toomey, they've just drafted a news conference with their own proposal on how to ...

That's legal in all 50 states, woe narrow that down in the case of gun control. if you were quote an imminent danger if you will. not only is he restricting the gene pool of quote crazy people from buying guns. he's taking it too a much, much more stricter level for the courts to have to prove. secondly, once they get out, they under his bill, under his legislation, as currently proposed, they could go buy guns once they're out of the looney bin per se. i'm not sure that's a smart thing. so while we have these neat things happening on expanded background checks, human trafficking, et cetera, e...

Filibuster any legislation that imposes additional gun restrictions. democrats would need 60 votes to overcome the likely filibuster. senator chuck schumer is still optimistic. there can be compromise when it comes to universal background checks. >> i'm working very hard with both democrats and republicans, pro nra and anti-nra people to come up with a background check bill that will be acceptable to 60 senators and be very strong and get the job done. it's very hard. we're working hard and i'm very hopeful that we can get this passed. >> dana milbank writes in "the washington post". obama on ...

Something together and it will not include as we have seen from harry reid the assault weapons ban. harry reid has moved quite a bit on this. let's face it, he sees the handwriting on the wall, he sees the numbers. the nra opposed him in 2010 which was a big disappointment to him. "the new york times" lays that out today. so harry reid is moving on what he thinks they can do. it is disappointing to the a advoca advocacy, no question about it. perhaps when you see these law enforcement officials, the sheriff and his wife and the incidence in texas and the colorado correction official, when you ...