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Campuses, wouldn't you want armed individuals who are well trained and could respond more quickly than, say, a swat team. >> juliet: i understand the argument from both sides, i really do. but like you said, when you're trained to use a gun and you're a professional, you are trained hours and hours and hours, and how to react and how to not -- >> kelly: the key is well trained, well trained. you have to really be at it basically on a daily level. >> clayton: let us know what you think about that. guns in schools. coming up on the show, whether it's now or back in 1990, it seems like lawmakers ...

Work because you may have stuff on there that you don't know. >> juliet: that's a huge thing. >> kelly: i got to get my credit score, come on. but i really want to date you. >> juliet: we told you a little earlier about states wanting to arm teachers. we're talking about utah. >> kelly: and arizona. >> juliet: taking their teach force class to carry guns. we want to know what you have to think about this. we have an e-mail from greg. >> clayton: whether it's an airplane or school, we have the responsibility to protect innocent people. we arm sky marshals and armed our pilots. we should arm our...

Chamber to be used for anything else other than business. there was a big to do when they cleared the chamber to use it for a memorial service to the late robert bird. it was 50 years since they used it for something else. this will be in the congressional auditorium which is underground. we heard harry reid is seeking a waiver to allow food in the auditorium. particularly unbuttered popcorn and bottled water and snacks like junior mints or twizzlers or something like that. this is the same room where director of national intelligence briefed house members on libya yesterday. this is a real mu...

>> i think it would have some effect. there are all kinds of possibilities in terms of reforms. some have gone to suggest that the filibuster should be removed all together and it should be a majority rule institution the way it used to be. the kind of changes that democrats have in mind would make a difference. i just don't know how much. we also don't have all the details yet. we don't know to what extent he wants to make changes. it looks like we'd see an incremental step in the right direction. >> it's interesting to view the republicans on this. mitch mcconnell quoted robert bird today sa...

Us and we can only imagine what he'd be saying. when senator bird was elected to the senate in 1959; in that congress there was one filibuster for the entire congress. in the last congress, there was 137. so while robert was an institutionalist and wanted to protect the senate, he couldn't have imagined a situation that we find ourselves in now. which is one where republicans are filibustering every bill of any consequence. neither could the founding fathers. the senate wasn't designed to work this way. >> senator bird would not want these rule changes, would be going against what the democrat...