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And i think with all the horrible shootings we have had, and the murders we have had, where the shooter fits the same profile, i think its incumbent upon people who want reforms to wage a very aggressive campaign to convince people at minimum to make it much much harder to get people under 21 to get guns. Tim, garrett, yamiche, thanks to all of you. Thats going to do it for us this hour. Our coverage continues with Katy Tur reports right now. Good to be with you, im Katy Tur. Vice president Kamala Harris is about to talk to voters in New Hampshire. She is scheduled to roll out new economic pro...

Hateful is wrong and-- >> i don't know how you negotiate when these go back and forth. you just can't, right? >> in the texas senate we changed the rule when i was lt. governor to give the total majority to pass bills by the republicans because we had a vote rule and everybody says you're going to run over the democrats. instead out of 1661 bills passed last session only 23 on party line. when you go go like that, i'm not voting for your bill, schumer doesn't have to sit down, but when you have to negotiate, you have to sit down. neil: you have to. no, i think the secret of texas is your-- >> ...

Constitutional guarantee of majority rule in congress. the court system has never before entered into the senate's internal role making, and quite frankly, it is unlikely to do so now. but they're trying. the other track is in the senate. majority leader harry reid keeps threatening to change the rules. he says it will happen at the very beginning of the next congress. the very first item on the agenda. the main idea under consideration, the main way to change the rules comes from oregon democrat jeff merkley. if you want to filibuster, you can't say 60 vote rule, too bad. can't vote on that. ...

A real one. it is in the courts and everything for house democrats and a good governance group called common cause are suing the senate. that court case began this weekend in washington. they argue the filibuster is illegal because it infringes on what they see as a constitutional guarantee of majority rule in congress. the court system has never before entered into the senate's internal role making, and quite frankly, it is unlikely to do so now. but they're trying. the other track is in the senate. majority leader harry reid keeps threatening to change the rules. he says it will happen at th...

70 seats in the senate, or in the 1960s when they could really run up the vote you are never going to have a truly governing majority in the congress. therefore nothing ever is going to get done under this 60 senate vote rule. gene? >> or you need a situation like you had in 1996 when president clinton wanted to rack up some wins and the congress, the republicans in congress had kind of given up on bob dole as a presidential candidate. there you saw several big pieces of legislation pass but it's like you have only these limited windows where it's in both parties' interests to actually get som...