we're still waiting on ayesha moody mills, but david nakamura is here and robert costa is here as well have done? >> it's still a question to be decided. because as we know, the white house really pushing for these stricter gun background check laws, universal background checks, and it's something the white house sees as their best politically viable option, you know, with public support for very strong for these kind of programs. but they're running into road politics here, concerned about the pushback from the, nra. and the president's speech was, we're not talking to each other, the sides don't listen to each other. he tried to take a tone of, i'm not taking your guns away by doing this. he's trying to directly address the fears of a large portion of gun rights advocates. and he's trying to make that case. but i don't know that he -- he may have run out of time on this. >> robert, the case that the president's going to make now is the case he's been trying to be making ever since newtown, that the tv ads don't seem to be moving a lot of members of congress. the president's personal