


that is the barack obama that i love to southeasterly he has been consistent and clear from back in his organizing days in chicago to when he first ran for president on a minimum wage hike, to when he just it it in one of his most important addresses. > does any of the breakthrough that we've seen in connecticut as friends of mine who are on the fence about these issues constantly point out, nancy lanza put a gun safe in her troubled kid's bedroom. once we get through these, we have to look at mental health issues in this country. i think what we're having here is finally a conversation where people will look at the common sense solutions. on the other side, they said we have to ban this, that and the other thing. on the right they came out immediately saying now we have to have more gun rights distributed around the country. people have rushed to the gun issue on both sides, frankly. > there was part of a connecticut bill for sure. i'm wondering if any specific steps toward that end have been taken that you're aware of. we have to make sure people have access to proper mental health care. as dave wheerl said last night, they'll to have look in the mirror and realize and say to themselves, this can't happen in their town. they'll talk to them a bit, i imagine they all have grandchildren and children of their own. i think they'll try to appeal to that element of thinking in the senate, the senators. but all of those, there's no legislation right now coursing through hill that we need to take action on. there are other elements which are school safety, mental health, and parenting, frankly. as i've been on the show and talked to you about, we have a wholistic approach. we reached a moment where something happened, where we have to think about the safety of our children. everybody here respects the second amendment.

Might be on the fence and saying, look, this isn't about partisan politics. because the most important part is going to the senators who what might they try to say to turn them around? > let's start with that part of it first. i want you to talk a little about what they were going to ask the president for in terms of policy and what, when they go to meet with the senators who might not be on our side or your side just yet. > families were going to speak to the president. and also on an amendment on high capacity magazines. they're going to use compassion, common sense to talk to senators on the hill who may be wavering in their views about background checks in particular which is the big one. they're going down there and they're going to talk. the folks going down there, my friends, my neighbors, they're now my heroes. this is, the fact that they were able to do this on a bipartisan basis should be a model for the rest of the nation but it isn't going to be easy. Where i am right now was where they made the colt.
