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Man: the charcoal went out already? . forget it. vo: there s more barbeque time in every bag of kingsford original charcoal. kingsford. slow down and grill. time for the news nation political post script. it was an emotional week with the families from newtown making their voices heard. meeting face to face with every senator. ultimately securing what they hope would be the first victory of many. a vote to bring gun control legislation to the senate floor. the president also traveled to connecticut on monday and made a public appeal for an up or down vote. here s a look at the week that was. if you believe that the families of newtown and aurora and tucson and virginia tech and the thousands of americans who have been gunned down in the last four months deserve a vote, we all have to stand up. i think it is also a tactical mistake. i think mccain is right. allow a vote. ....
To have a disproportionate impact on lower income americans. reporter: still with critical programs like the columbus head start already feeling the sting, these parents are hoping washington will do something. write congress, senators, any representative you can. these are our children. these are the people that are going to carry us into our future. these are the people that needed indication. we re supposed to nurture them when they re younger and make them, have them grow. reporter: now, tamron, education officials say it is hard to figure out exactly how many kids have been kick off head start programs so far because each program has absorbed these cuts in a different way. the president and lawmakers could sit down and figure out a way out of these cuts by achieving a similar type of deficit reduction in a different way. in fact, the president has a plan in his budget. but my sources say it is very unlikely that that will happen ....
well, i think that is what the president has been saying to both members to both parties, and you know, the reality in the senate today is that the overwhelming majority of democrats support background checks, and all we need is a small minority of republicans in the united states senate to join with the 90% of americans to support doing this. you know, it s not we don t have that high of a bar to reach. we need 60 votes to get something done in the senate. we don t think there s any reason why we should not be able to get that done. i mean, the problem is that if this watered-down version of background checks that cnn has learned is likely to be the one that gets through is the only success here, what it means is that after all this, somebody can privately sell an ar-15 assault rifle with no background check and a 30 bullet magazine to somebody who may not be of sound mind but may not have had any record of mental illness and that person can go to a school and do exactly what ....
That, you know, assault weapons ban we know is going to be really tough. we think there should be a vote on it anyway because we think that should be the law. we think background checks has a very good chance. we think with such a big majority of americans supporting it, and we do see we ve had some discussions on both sides of the aisle with people over the last couple of weeks, of senators back in our home states, and we think we feel there s just not any reason in the world why we shouldn t be able to be able to do this. unless people want to let politics stand in the way. but everyone knows there are a number of democratic senators who are intending to vote against probably their own conscience but to go for political expediency to save their sorry little backsides at the next election. isn t it time the president fulfilled his real promise to those families and said to these democratic senators, his senators, right, it is time that you stop worrying about the nra, stop worryin ....
In america. plus, president obama s emotional plea. will this be the moment that changes the gun debate? this is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence and all the families going forward so we can prevent this from happening again. good evening. this is piers morgan live. when word came today that margaret thatcher had died, there was one person i knew i had to talk to tonight. that was tony blair. we ll get to my exclusive with him in just a few minutes. but we begin tonight with something we talked about a lot on this show. a subject that has managed to cause as much sadness, anger and outrage as guns. president obama agrees and tonight is in connecticut just a few miles from newtown. he said just that. if you believe that the families of newtown and aurora and tucson and virginia tech and the thousands of americans who ....