and i urged them to use their lives to give meaning to hadia's life.rged them to dream as big as she did, and work as hard has she did and live a life that honored every last bit of her god-given promise. so today i want to say the exact same thing to all of you. i want to urge you to come together and do something worthy of hadia pendleton's memory and worthy of our children's future. >> michael: so eloquent and so impactful from the first lady. we're joined now by juana summers, a reporter from political. thank you for coming back inside "the war room." how did this deal get done? >> obviously there has been a lot of impassioned heat behind the gun-control debate after the shootings at sandy hook elementary. for lawmakers the idea of voting for gun legislation is naxious. but have these senator at the helm, gives republicans a way to take it home and say this is a bipartisan deal. this is something that democrats and republicans are doing together at a volatile moment. so i think that had a lot to play here. >> michael: there was a little bit of a so

blessed life i could ever imagine, and hadia, oh, we know that story.s family did everything right, but she still didn't have a chance and that story, the story of hadia's life and death, we read that story day after day, month after month, year after year in this city and around this country. i'm not talk about something that is happening in a war zone halfway around the world. i'm talking about what is happening in the city that we call home. >> stephanie: arlene in alabama. hey, arlene. >> caller: hi good morning. >> stephanie: good morning. >> caller: i wanted to say about a [ inaudible ] we're getting here alabama is [ inaudible ] gun violence in the nation. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: evidently we have a bunch of senator who think that is not high enough. this says carrying a visible holstered pistol cannot be considered disorderly conduct, it allows people to keep guns in their cars it allows people to get lifetime permits to keep pistols in their vehicles. this is just a -- it will make every personnel decision a potential tragedy, and it can

that vote will come 114 days after the shooting at sandy hook elementary. 72 days after the death of hadiaendleton in chicago. justice delayed, but not denied. the nra and its allies have fought this tooth and nail. but this vote is real. this vote will happen. democrats are now confident they can break the filibuster, 14 political cowards in the gop who are trying to block the bill, who are trying to deny these gun victims from even getting a vote. today vice president biden called them out. >> but it appears that not only are some of the senators not willing to stand and be counted, they're prepared to stop anybody from being able to be counted. i mean, it's almost mind boggling. >> what are you going to say to those parents? look them in the eye. and tell them you concluded that there's nothing you can do? >> this morning some parents of newtown victims were on capitol hill meeting with lawmakers face to face. how can any elected representative look these parents in the eye and say that it's better to do nothing? that their children died in vain? they te serdeserve better. they deserve