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Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Wor...

Semiautomatic rifles that you were just talking about a minute ago. but i think ultimately in order to move this thing forward, rev, you really need to get gun owners involved in this more, not the gun advocacy groups like the nra and gun manufacturers, but gun owners who themselves say, look, there's a problem here that should be addressed. if you can get those individuals energized behind some type of collaborative bipartisan effort, then you'll see pressure transferred to members in the senate. >> all right. i'm out of time, but i agree with you. you need to get gun owners involved. i certa...

The easier yes votes, are they now in a more difficult position? >> i think everybody at this point is in a more difficult position. if you have the republicans on the one hand pushing this thing forward, and that's a dangerous proposition, and if they open it back up and have her testify, and we will figure out if she wants to testify at some point, that's also a difficult proposition, and then you did have highcamp -- >> you on do you not give her her day if she wants to testify? in the cnn poll before this happened given the shadow of donald trump, republicans were trailing among women, and...

To break the partnerships, to keep us from working with one another and he can't keep our communities safe. god bless donald trump for pushing this thing forward, 150%. >> bipartisan effort for most years, securing the border, making sure we know who is coming into the country, do you think the president did a disservice with all the rhetoric around mexico and the things he said? did he make it harder to get the job done and push the democrats and left even further left on this issue trying to get away from his message? >> no i don't. i think what is happening is a transformation going on in t...

Are unimportant, but this is a president ho had big apple big after a very tough year, do you conceive that he looks at washington and says, maybe i have to be a little less ambitious about what we can actually achieve here? >> no, i don't. i concede that the president doesn't spend a lot of time looking at washington. he spends a lot of time looking at what families across the country want. they want clear discernible concrete actions that he can take so that he can move this thing forward, not wait for congress which you've said many times on this show and during the course of this week as y...