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Protect our second amendment. you know, wayne and chris are here from the nra and they didn't have that on the list, it's lucky i thought about it. but we will indeed. and they're great people. and by the way, they love our country. they love our country. the nra has been a great supporter. they love our country. >> that was president trump praising the nra, promising to defend the second amendment. that was his speech to cpac, the conservative political action conference last year. tomorrow he returns to speak at cpac in the middle of a fierce debate about new gun control measures after 17 so...

Down a little bit. he was a little tight with the early jokes and loosened up and played with the gavel, as a joke hit with the audience, he became more animated and from there the train was -- he destroyed it to the end. he did a half hour in front of the clock, the first five minutes a little spotty, maybe the nra joke was the one that turned it around with wayne lapier lapierre. >> it seemed we were getting the rapid fire presentation. >> that's part of it. you want to have as many punch lines as you can. before you know it, it builds to laughter and that's what he got. the media one after ...

Require a background check before they transfer a gun is -- i mean, for us, i can't think of something that would make our country safer than doing just that. >> thank you. >> and mr. lapierre, in 1999 you testified by the house judiciary committee and you testified quote, nobody is more committed than we are to keeping guns out of criminals hands. >> you're listening to more of the testimony of captain mark kelly referencing jared loughner, who fired the shots in tucson, arizona, that injured his wife and killed many others and talking about how easy it was for loughner to walk into a sportin...

President is unleashing his organization for america basically the campaign artillery, to try to get people informed about this issue, do you think that can overtake where the nra is coming from in its position and what it feels about the second amendment? >> absolutely. let's remember that public opinion is already there. 90% support universal background checks and yet wayne lapierre won't support it. so the american population is there. we've got to change the political cal cue husband and look at mayor bloomberg's super pac. jesse jackson jr.'s seat, two leading candidates who have an a or ...

Campaign and chief congressional responsibility for "the washington examiner." we have a lot to talk about as we've been watching powerful and informative testimony from the hill. i want to start off with reminding everybody what we've heard so far, the two biggest names to testify at least that have been in the news the most, captain mark kelly and wayne lapierre. >> after 20 kids and 6 of their teachers were gunned down in their classrooms at sandy hook elementary, we said, this time must be different. something needs to be done. >> law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts o...