it was a party line vote other than charles grassley.l make it out of committee and see a vote on the senate floor, but it is definitely making a statement when someone as important as him crosses the lines and votes for it. >> bill: what was the execute that the other republicans gave for not voting for it? to me this is a no-brainer right? straw purchasers how could you support that? >> well, a few of the senators ted cruz and john coren said they would like to support the bill when it goes to vote at the senate, but there are a few things they would like to see cleaned up. it was too sweeping. they were bringing outside in some cases a prison sentence on breaking this law is going to be 25 years, and that said that that's -- it could hurt some people that aren't really illegally trafficking, that are just engaged in some private sales and that kind of thing, so there are still going to be amemberments that are going to get add on and that might be pulled back a little bit but that was the main issue that some of these republican senat

. >> o'brien: senator charles grassley says it's tough for the government to encourage providers on the one hand and protect patients on the other. >> we had whistleblowers that came to us and gave us information of what they thought was not only bad dentistry delivery and bad health care, but also a waste of taxpayers' dollars. >> o'brien: are profits and patient care always at odds, you think? >> well, to some extent, yes. there ought to be complete, good relationships between the patient and their dentist. they ought to know that the only person that that dentist is concerned about is the patient. and that's not what i'm finding in this investigation. i'm finding in this investigation that there's people that know nothing about dentistry who are saying you got to see so many people, you got to do so much work for each one, and in a sense, gaming the system. >> o'brien: do you think a private equity firm and the people who own that private equity firm and its shareholders care about quality of the dentistry? >> i genuinely believe they care about the quality of dentistry. you know, if

. >> sign of the climate on capitol hill, we have a scoop up this morning that senator charles grassleyis working on an alternative bill and might be a way out of that fillibuster is likely to come because of senator cruz and senator rand paul and mike lee of utah. a way out of that. a much narrower bill and focusing on keeping guns away from schools and that would be a real watering down of what anybody expected, let alone what is being talked about. >> maggie, you mentioned voters thinking one thing and their elected representatives doing another. speaking of voters. it's pathetic we are already talking about a potential presidential race coming up. >> it's fantastic! >> you know what the name of our company is? >> in the next block, we are doing 2020. >> hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton. that's all we talk about these days. no, look. we were talking earlier before that i have done a complete reversal on this. i did not think she was running. i think she is running now. i think all signs point to her running. it's hard to see why she wouldn't. look. you could argue she didn't clear

there are a number of republicans, including charles grassley of iowa, who supports that. yesterday when the president was in the east room of the white house, he wasn't talking about assault weapon ban because he knows that harry reid doesn't like that. and in fact harry reid took that provision, which was instituted by dianne feinstein, out of the senate bill. so whatever goes forward doesn't have that in it. and mr. grassley himself says apparently he's going to go ahead and come up with his own version of gun control. and what the president essentially did was, he had like essentially a 13-minute guilt trip telling people don't forget the kids. shame on us he said repeatedly. what's interesting, shame on us for what? that a crazy person got a gun and killed people? we feel terrible about that. there are plenty of laws out there today that simply are not being enforced. >> that's the point of this. you're right, gretchen, the three points. most of them are there already. illegal gun trafficking, you're not supposed to do that. there is funding for certain types of of, f

the ranking republican, charles grassley of iowa there on your screen. a number of other senators as well. today they are going to work on four bills dealing with gun control issues and safety. they include an assault weapons ban. tougher penalties for illegal gun trafficking. and expanded background check system. they will also consider a ban -- bill on school safety as well as several judicial nominees. that will be the beginning of the session today. we expect that to be anyway. senator chuck schumer of new york and tom coburn of oklahoma have been working on a bipartisan compromise on the background checks bill. live coverage here on c-span as we wait for the rest of the committee to gather in. >> the chairman of the judiciary committee, senator patrick leahy, coming in. again a markup session for gun control legislation. >> good morning. we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine senators. i think, senator grassley, we can get going. first off i want to thank senator paul for having a filibuster which kept everybody still in town s