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These are important things to democrats. if we don't have the levers of power, there's not going to be anything we can do other than complain about it. i think we need to make a strategic decision to go in another direction, very respectful of nancy pelosi and all of her accomplishments, but i think it's time to go in a new direction. >> why do you think democrats have lost their way, specifically what have you all done wrong? >> well, we don't have a robust economic mess an. we don't have to give up our r progressive values on progressive issues. those, of course, are a major part of what we ...

300 amendments hurled at the new immigration bill being marked up as we speak. historic vote. new numbers confirm african-americans turned out in record force at the polls in 2012 and debt overload. the new senator wants to take breaks given to big banks and give them to college kids. those are big topics flagged for us today by our panel covering progressive issues. panel, it is great to have you here. heather, i want to start with you. i want to play with everybody where we are on the markup for the bill right now because we have senator ted cruz who made statements about it just in the last...

Battles that we have after some of these shootings where access the type of weapon and ammo. this is something that you are not a law away from changing. however, there are going to be issues here about who this man was, why he was able to maintain weapons and what was known about his particular state of mind. particular attention of detail is going to come up. there were devices used here. now, there was bad reporting that it was ieds. they're not ieds. they were smoke grenades. he used them on entry to conceal himself and create some confusion. he then went around identifying targets. okay? ...

But that seems to be the stem of the animus here. what was used? shotgun. now, what does that tell us? that we are not going to have the kind of protracted gun battles that we have after some of these shootings where access the type of weapon and ammo. this is something that you are not a law away from changing. however, there are going to be issues here about who this man was, why he was able to maintain weapons and what was known about his particular state of mind. particular attention of detail is going to come up. there were devices used here. now, there was bad reporting that it was ieds....