senate reaches a milestone on the debate over gun control and our nbc bay area analyst larry gerston means as they move forward on both sides of the issue. look at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. >>> about 250 firearms were taken off the streets at a bun buyback event in san francisco this weekend. the event was part of local efforts to curb gun violence and paid out $23,000. congresswoman spears sponsored the event and no one gets a gun who shouldn't have a gun. >> what i'm interested in doing is making sure that we don't have assault weapons that are not used for recreational purposes in this country. whether or not we're suc

political analyst larry gerston tackles the issue next. >>> welcome back to the broadcast. 7:43 is the're looking at the skies over fremont this morning as the sun comes up this sunday morning. now think it's easy being governor of california? not if you're jerry brown this past week, anyway. for more we turn to nbc political analyst larry gueerst. i thought things were great for him. the budget was trending in the right way. he got the super majority. it's golden. the democratic governor and california. >> what's the problem? >> it was broad sided. brown was broad sided this week when 22 legislators, 22 democratic legislators wrote to him opposing what's been called now the peripheral tunnel project. now these complaints that happened before garvin, but never in such large numbers. a little background. a little background here. the peripheral tunnel project and two 30-mile long tunnels and that's the peripheral canal which was 35, 36 years ago. how did that work out for you? >> not so well. it's still on the books and both of these, the ideas for both of these to move water from north

we bring in larry gerston to talk about it more. there was so much talk about action, and none was taken. so how can you talk about the disconnect of what the public wants and the senators do. >> well, any time there is a tragedy there is a movement, and the movement dissipates. you have to look at how the people are elected. if you look at the states with t the resistance, they are red states, and not just gun-owning states, but libertarian states and they don't want the government involved in their life. that is the base of the largely republican senators who have said, we just can't go there, and you couple that, sam w a couple of other things, with the immigration issue to consider this year, and a couple of other thorny issues they have to go through, and how many times can the people go out on the limb to vote on something that they know their constituents are going to like? it may not make sense to us here, but it makes sense to them the there. >> and there is only so much political capital to expend, and they have to pick an

larry gerston joins us next to tell us why governor brown's own party is speaking out.at them kids. [ sigh ] they have no idea what it was like before u-verse high speed internet. yeah, you couldn't just stream movies to a device like that. one time, i had to wait half a day to watch a movie. you watched movies?! i was lucky if i could watch a show. show?! man, i was happy to see a sneezing panda clip! trevor, have you eaten today? you sound a little grumpy. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. >> california governor jerry brown is facing rebellion from his own party to reform k through 12 public education spending. for more on this unexpected development let's talk with nbc bay area political analyst larry gueston. what's your issue here? normally you go forward when you have the pubpublic's support. >> the issue is money and lots of it. the question is where are we going to go with this money because we're not talking about $49 billion, kris. $49 billion that goes for k through 12 ed