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>> shepard: thank you. ruben martinez. 11 years old. sixth grader coming up. the hashtag is #elpasochallenge. check it out if you like it. it's not a bad thing. we have an exceptional development in the story of the cat lady sentenced to jail. here for that? we reported on this last week. a judge in the suburb of cleveland sentenced a woman to ten days in jail for the horrendous crime of feeding the neighborhood cat. the judge defended his decision saying she could have avoided the sentence if she stopped feeding the stray cat. but she didn't. she said they brought her some comfort since her h...

Hard. that's obvious. but a lot of it is because i have high expectations for myself. i have high expectations for the people that work with me. >> as recently as just a few years ago, you were not in favor of universal background checks, and i can understand some of the other policy distinctions even among democrats on guns issues, but the background check issue to me feels very black and white. how as recently as a few years ago could you have believed you shouldn't have to get a background check to get a gun? >> a couple of things. i've signed bills, i've vetoed a lot of bills relating to g...

Sometimes and i can push too hard. that's obvious. a lot of it is because i have high expectations for myself. i have high expectations for the people that work with me. >> as recently as a few years ago you were not in favor of universal background checks and i can understand some of the other policy distinctions even among democrats on guns issues but the background check issue to me feels very black and white. how as recently as a few years ago could you have believed you shouldn't have to get a background check to get a gun? >> i've signed bills. i've vetoed a lot of bills relating to guns...

Lot of gun related bills. a public health issue would say how can we actually make sure that everybody can stay safe? and gun owners and nongun owners want people to be able to stay safe. universal background checks. >> you've changed on that, correct? >> i have changed on that. >> and why? >> you know, it happens when -- you know, four of the times i've been asked to lower the flags is due to mass shootings. when i dropped off my sixth grader, my youngest, his first week in a new school they learned where you need to go if an active shooting occurs. no sixth grader should have to look at that...

Checks. but the background check issue to me feels very black and white. how as recently as a few years ago could you have believed you shouldn't have to get a background check to get a gun. >> i've signed bills and vetoed a lot of bills relating to guns. i've been asked to lower the flags by both presidents trump and obama 53 times in total. over a quarter of those were for mass shootings. when i drop off my sixth grader this year he started school, he learned his first week where to go if an active shooter comes. no sixth grader should have to deal with there. i looked at it as a public heal...