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off what you enjoy doing? amy klobuchar calling i enjoy bicycling in the summer. we once bicycled from minneapolis to jackson hole wyoming. i like going to movies with my husband. i like taking walks. and let's check in with my daughter. to take that time to be outside. even in the winter. who has a bigger sense of humor you or your colleague? amy klobuchar: the president said after my gridiron speech that al franken was only the second funniest senator from minnesota. al franken is incredibly humorous. also works very hard at his
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job she don't really see the humor. got a great sense of humor. it is amazing to have to go at an-one with al franken state fair in minnesota. sometimes we have to do that. my favorite moment was he called me and said he liked my jokes. and i said i like your jokes. he said i prepared and you just had to put that together. ad i said you were professional comedian and i was a prosecutor. i do think having some people with a little sense of humor in this town can go a long way. steve: senator amy klobuchar, thank you. amy klobuchar: thank you.
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>> the u.s. house will return to work after his july 4 way. you wrote that speaker ryan plans a houseboat on gun provisions. while of the main details on that note? billy: the speaker's office just released to details. is wrapped up in the lingo of counterterrorism. that is the spin they are putting on that apparently. it includes a provision to
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prevent terrorists from buying guns. the bill in the senate from senator cornyn. the democrats in the house and the senate. >> as you said it is pretty close to what senator cornyn offered but the republicans blocked that. if you were a house democrat on the conference call you were saying that it was you're letting the national rifle association right your legislation for you. and they want to limit whatever gun aspects for that bill is much as possible. whether that's true or not, who knows. house republicans are feeling pressure to do something with
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guns in it. perhaps not to do so much that it might upset the nra. house minority leader nancy pelosi released a statement. saying they will continue to for a meaningful gun bills that will save lives and protect us from terrorism. with expanded background checks and meaningful no-fly by legislation. billy: the same things that democrats were asking for last week. checks forkground gun sales and a ban on gun sales to people on no-fly list.
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on thebeen stepped up heels of the orlando shooting were 49 people were killed. one of the ringleaders organizers. john lewis of georgia. the member from connecticut says he and luis had written the speaker and plan to have a meeting with him. if there amendments can be put andhis republican bill other dilatory tactics may be considered. i'm not so certain that they will do another set in. what kind of march that might be whether in jericho like circling of the capital or something else, that is what they're
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talking about. everything seems to hinge more on this meeting they hope to have with the speaker and what comes out of that. to get intohappens that republican bill. >> house speaker paul ryan called it a stunt. republican leadership was looking at all their options, talking to the parliamentarian. weresort of rules exactly broken by the democrats during the sitting? the rules about you can't take photos or videos. all that stuff that happened in the sudan didn't really occur until late in the morning.
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happened when the house wasn't technically in session. the speaker said he is looking into what can't be done. i'm not quite sure what can be done other than forcing him off the floor. arresting them perhaps. arresting a civil rights icon like john lewis on tv in front of millions of americans is something they really don't want to have ingrained in people's memory going into the november elections. republicans have advised him whatever we do let's not handcuff these people. house is congressional correspondent for bloomberg news. you can follow him on twitter
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and read his reporting at bloomberg.com. thank you.
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q&a part one of a two-part interview with former public interest lawyer and politician mark green. he discusses his book bright infinite future. lamb: you say in your book when you were running for mayor of new yorkit

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