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That was just introduced. because of the late nature of this, every senator has leverage to delay the final vote because they need to have what's called unanimous consent. all 100 senators need to agree to have a vote by friday, by the deadline, before midnight tomorrow, otherwise there will be a shutdown. if one senator objects, that would force the majority leader chuck schumer to go through the process which takes days to find the vote and that could move it into next week which would result in a government shutdown. they want a vote set at a simple majority threshold that would help it pas...

Don't really have a vote, it's just unless any senator objects, it passes the law to pass the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could have 60 votes at the federal level to change the age from 18 to 21 on the purchase of any rifles. i believe -- and i know you're a co-sponsor of the safe school act. prevent, you know, it's the safe school act that's been filed by a member of congress from florida that is going to be filed on monday -- it's going to be filed on monday by senator hatch of utah, that i believe we can also pass in the senate. so there a...

Armed for battle and -- i don't know a better analogy to use. maybe more sinically, a desire to show the families, the victims, that they don't want to politicize this issue. it may get politicized later, seems like it always does. in the initial days, the very powerful visuals and remarks from these children and their parents has caused many democrats to say we want to work with the president, not against him, and has caused the white house and some republicans like rubio to say, what can we do, basically how do we keep the base and appeal to these people as well. >> phil, senator rubio made ...

Washington, d.c., we're going to try to do this thing called unanimous consent where you don't really have a vote, it's just unless any senator objects, it passes the law to pass the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could have 60 votes at the federal level to change the age from 18 to 21 on the purchase of any rifles. i believe -- and i know you're a co-sponsor of the safe school act. prevent, you know, it's the safe school act that's been filed by a member of congress from florida that is going to be filed on monday -- it's going to be filed on m...

For republicans maybe to respond to this other than just a hard line no. >> now, he actually said that last night. he used a procedural mechanism. he said monday we could try anonymous consent. listen to this for a second. >> on monday, when we return to washington, d.c., we will try to do this thing called unanimous consent. unless any senator objects, it passes a law to fix the background check. i believe there are 60 votes to ban bump stocks. i believe we could potentially have 60 votes at the federal level to change from 18 to 21 on the purchase of any rifles. >> all right. so unanimous co...