pryor, mark pryor, from your state, the razorback state, are you more afraid of mike bloomberg or the nra or is that too loaded a question? >> obviously, beware of both, but mark is a smart, intelligent person, he's a thoughtful legislator. >> he told mike bloomberg to bug out. >> yeah. the point here is, if we want to do something about guns, we have to find consensus and a starting place. and we know where people are, so let's find that place and start working from it. it's counterproductive -- >> i thought that's what they were doing with the compromise between pat toomey of pennsylvania and joe manchin of west virginia, let's widen the background checks so at least there's not a big loophole for gun shows. that didn't seem to be aggressive, but the nra says it crosses the line. that's compromising our second amendment rights. you guys are going to lose, and they did. >> well, i just think what they have to do is find that place and bring in people like mark pryor. yeah, there's a middle, there's got to be. this is an issue that has to be dealt with. >> i thought you were the middl

i would love to have mark pryor return to the senate.ant background checks more. >> that's your choice. i'm saying from harry reid's perspective. if i'm harry reid i want the democrats to remain the majority for taxes healthcare foreign policies and not for just one issue. if i'm michael bloomberg who is focused on a single issue i would say mr. mayor you keep doing what you want to do because you're pressing this issue and you're keeping it at the front of everyone's agenda. >> michael: what do you do if these are two people who can't be advised. i would imagine that nobody advises mike bloomberg and fewer advise harry reid. >> they would have to reconcile on this. >> michael: what is the reconcileization. >> there is no reconciliation. harry reid has a government agenda and michael bloomberg has a gun control agenda. i don't know how you reconcile the two. >> michael: harry reid, majority leader, wouldn't it be great to have his legacy while he was majority leader, the back background checks past. >> if in a a year from now they receiv

i'm mark pryor.nd i approved this message because no one from new york or washington tells me what to do. i listen to arkansas. >> well, listen, he listens to arkansas. >> that's so great. >> there it is, though. >> this is the nullification discourse, that's occurring, that has been occurring with increasing frequency during the obama years. both first and second term now. is this idea that we just are sort of loose confederation of states, and that the southern states -- >> states rights argument. >> those carpet-baggers -- >> the other time that, what was the topic that was about? >> what a useful thing. >> and as destructive to this conversation as anything else. the elites in washington, we're just trying to make the streets safer. >> the elites in washington are sending many millions of dollars to these southern states, when you look at kind of the map of federal dollars that go to support states that are often living in tremendous poverty. again the other thing that louisiana state legislature

comfort individualized >>> arkansas senator mark pryor is now the first democratic senator to hit thelection. pryor is defending himself against attack ads by new york city mayor michael bloomberg's gun control group. >> i'm committed to finding real solutions to gun violence while protecting our second amendment rights. i'm mark pryor and i approve this message, because no one from new york or washington tells me what to do. i listen to arkansas. >> let's bring in our friday gaggle, "the new york times'" jackie com, sarah faegen, and angela rye. thank you, all, guys, for joining me. i'll go to you right off the bat. this ad by mark pryor, trying to sort of tie himself that i'm the anti-new york city, anti-mike bloomberg. does this sort of help him in a red state like arkansas? how do you guys exploit that? >> it helps him in a red state, for sure. it helps both republicans and democrats in the middle part of the country when they attack either coast. it's a classic strategy that has been used by both parties for many years. having said that, i think it's more of an example of how som

the bloomberg group is running some very tough ads against mark pryor, against jeff flake, against kellyd there's some debate among the gun control proponents about if this is wise. and you see pryor come back with an ad like this, where he certainly seems like he needs to push back. whether that means he cannot be brought over to the bill remains to be seen. it might be possible that ads like this in way gives him cover to come over. but i find that ad significanting, the way he mentions his opposition to the bill, he doesn't mention what was in the bill, and he also says that the bill wouldn't have prevented newtown. well, i don't think that mark pryor was in favor of banning assault weapons or banning large magazine clips, which might have prevented newtown. >> well, without the clair of what's going on from the media, looking at policy or stalled policy in washington, d.c., do you think if immigration reform were to come to pass, and both sides looked at each other and they were like, hey, we can actually work together, maybe then gun reform would be something that could take a more

let's just say mark pryor in arkansas. he votes against you. can you bring him back in a state like arkansas? where do his interests lie? some of these people i think voted not knowing that the 9% that be as vocal as the 1% showed up at the nra in houston. the mosts one of beautiful people you ever met. the most congenial, and it can work with him. he is bipartisan. he is just a great guy. his father was a great senator before, so he comes from all lineage of that. he has to make a decision. a certain hard-core right is never going to vote for mark. a matter how reasonable or compromising might think i am, i just understand that is the way things are today. you have to carve out the middle. you will not have the far left and the far right. they cannot run the country. it's going to be run from the middle. so now mark has to evaluate, is there enough support out there , for an help me offset valid reason that he thinks the bill needs to be redefined. what i have said very clearly to all of my colleagues, i cannot go back and create another backg

if you're a mark pryor, one thing in arkansas, one thing you can say is the economy is improving andning you out. >> sow think the dems will keep the senate? >> yes, i do actually think. you now have seven red state democrats in tough states where they'll have a hard time winning. you saw mark pryor go out with an ad today i thought was very smart in which he talked about how he voted against the gun control bill and how he is not taking orders from michael bloomberg or barack obama. not great policy, but you can tell -- >> says you. >> what kind of message -- >> yeah, right. >> perry, what kind of messaging do you think we'll see in 2014 given the economy is looking up? what is going to change for dems? probably not that much. and how would it change for republicans? might they actually lie and say the economy is doing worse than we think? >> i don't think they will. you saw some -- >> not to lead you into a question, perry. >> not a leading question, right. >> new look -- the republicans will argue the economy is going better than it was before. so they have to run differently -- 2

that's why i was so disappointed when mark pryor voted against comprehensive background checks.kground checks because we're tired of being disappointed. >> murphy defended his role in the ads, tweeting this, note to traitors, howlers, i'm proud to support comprehensive background checks and the second amendment, just like the nra did in '99. >> mike murphy, obviously, has always been a guy that has supported candidates that win. and he has won some race and i suspect that it's going to be people like mike mur neigh are going to help us, as the republican party, get the middle of america back again. but still, he is going to be hounded for the rest of his political life by extreme members of the nra. not by the nra. most support background checks. but extreme members. >> mike murphy never been a strategist who worked for -- not somebody associated with far right candidates -- very far right candidates. he will probably wear this as a badge of honor, the kind of thing he has done a lot of this kind of middle of the road republicanism over the course of his career. >> i remember wh

it is planning to run ads against democratic senators in red states like senator mark pryor of arkansas baggage of alaska, max baucus of montana, they voted against expanding background checks just last month. and in doing that he is upsetting the democratic party. mayor bloomberg is ignored by democratic leaders. back off. don't do it because his campaign could help the senate fall into republican hands next year. he told reid and the others to stop the. he is going to spend his money and he is going after them. that is where we are. the politics behind gun-control to this moment. and we would like to share some back to the on gun violence and the politicians who are listening, listen good because the justice department released a special report on firearm violence. you are not going to hear a lot about this report from president obama. you're not going tyou're a lot about it from biden or anybody else, nor blumberg for that matter. get ready for this. handgun homicides are down 39% from 1993 to 2011. think about it. that is an extraordinary -- that sharp decline extends to our schools

>> well you know, andrea, i think for a lot of folks, the mark pryor's of the world, the mark begich'se world. in republican-leaning states, what they did in legislatively at least was sort of enough. they didn't want to -- my guess is they didn't want to sort of rub it in. by appearing in democratic base voters, who are deeply unhappy about how some of these folks voted. my guess is in future years you'll still see some democrats. you won't see a democratic presidential candidate. i think you will see some democrats appear, i was struck frankly, some of the celebratory tone of this event. the nra clearly views themselves as having won a major legislative victory here. the question is, can gun control groups rally, they claim they're planning to, joe biden says he's got a plan. can they rally from what was a defeat and perhaps sort of challenge the nra's dominance legislatively on the issue. >> amy, looking forward this week is going to be all about immigration. others are saying there will be votes. these are not killer amendments, here you've got jim demint versus marco rubio. marco

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mark pryor of arkansas. given the fact republicans need to pick up six states, they're targeting those very people. the african-american votes are going to decide where they stand or probably the senate shifts to the republicans. joining me, someone who knows about this stuff, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post" eugene robinson. the two best possible people to talk about this. first of all, the stunning fact. it's stunning because i grew up in philly where you had racial division up the kazoo for many years and still does. the black vote, because rizzo seen as the enemy of the black community drove off the vote. if he's mayor, i'm going to show up and vote to protect myself. >> exactly. >> and in a way, i think reince priebus and the boys with their multi, multi, dozen state efforts to keep the blacks from the voting booths aroused -- you tell me. >> no. i think the voter suppression efforts drove up the black vote. i think they ticked people off and they made people more determined to

♪ >>> arkansas democratic governor, actually senator, mark pryor has a tough re-election fight in 2014irst tv ad he's running against president obama and new york mayor michael bloomberg and expanded background checks for gun sales. let's watch. >> the mayor of new york city is running ads against me because i oppose president obama's gun control legislation. nothing in the obama plan would have prevented tragedies like newtown, aurora, tucson, or even jonesboro. i'm mark priony opryor. i approve this message because no one from new york tells me what to do. >> a ppp poll out this week finds a majority of arkansas voters actually support background checks and more voters say they'd be more likely to vote for senator pryor had he supported the manchin/toomey compromise. we'll see. i'm very suspicious of those polls. we'll be right back. come here, boy. ♪ there you go. come on, let's play! [ male announcer ] there's an easier way to protect your dog from dangerous parasites. good boy. fetch! trifexis is the monthly, beef-flavored tablet that prevents heartworm disease, kills fleas and pr

. >> mark pryor, i don't know. i'm just speculating.t seems they could have gotten a democrat or two who faces voters in a state where there are a lot of nra members. >> but michael, looking at this list, they don't even have any moderate republicans of. >> no. and i don't think they wanted any. and i think that's the point. i think they wanted to say, you know what. >> take it, i guess. let me bring you into the politics of all of this. we know it is a tricky situation. to michael's point, this is why there are no democrats or moderate republicans on the lineup. seeing what's happened to kelly ayotte in her town halls. and the number of polls coming out indicating that there may be some pushback. it is not a clear picture just yet. we're seeing some numbers coming in that are interesting regarding the senators who oppose the expanded background checks. >> reporter: being seeing polls in north carolina, louisiana, mary landrieu and kay hagan who voted for the bill and there is some polling that shows their ratings have improved over the

places that we're seeing some of this conversation going on, susan, is in arkansas with senator mark pryor who was one of four democrats who voted against background checks. mayors against illegal guns was running ads against him there. a conservative superpac is running ads against him and now he's running his own ads. if he's ousted in 2014, is it more likely that states get someone, say, even more conservative? will this have any influence at all? >> you know, i think it's interesting. clearly anne is right, this is an uphill fight and immigration is a bigger priority, but i don't think you can count the gun debate out quite yet. the handful of senators who prevented background checks from passing in the u.s. senate have taken some flak for it. kelly ayotte in new hampshire is a good example. you wonder when advocates like senator joe manchin vow to continue pursuing this maybe to get those additional few votes on board, i don't think it's impossible that this could go somewhere this year. and i wonder if the politics of gun control have shifted at least a bit. we know the nra and gun r

program and now we have red state democrats kay hagan in north carolina mark baggage and in alaska mark pryor in arkansas all not only coming out against the chained c.p.i. mark baggages even come out with an alternative that would say let's strengthen social security so if red state oppose this doesn't this show how popular support is to keep this going ok i'm curious your thoughts i mean i think what you're seeing with the democrats there are thirteen their constituency it's pretty clear that chained c.p.i. is going to hurt the poorest americans and as we've seen in red states tend to have a lot more poor americans and so what the democrats are doing is fighting against this change that could really hurt people in their state they're being smart about it i totally agree i think that this is a proposed grand bargain and that that's a lot like clinton welfare reforms frankly if it's borrowing a conservative idea that sounds good but that will actually end up hurting a lot of poor people and patrick what what is it you know the president seems to be saying that he's doing this so that republic

mark pryor is a nice man. he may even be a good senator.hat ad was a little bit disingenuous but probably pretty effective. >> mike allen with a look at the political playbook, have a great week. >> enyou too. >> things were chippy during last night's heat and pacers game. lebron took over and outscoring the indiana pacers by himself in the third quarter. show you how a close game turned into a blowout next in sports. people join angie's list for all kinds of reasons. i go to angie's list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. join today and find out why over 1 million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. there was this and this. she got a park

let's say this, you come to me, and you're mark pryor. say, hey, joe, i don't think it's very clear. i think it's left for interpretation. can i really sell or trade my gun to my cousin or my distant cousin or my brother on the internet? because he lives real far away, and that's the only way we communicate. i says, mark, i think we've taken care of that, but you know what? we can redefine that and say that any immediate family transactions will be exempt from background checks. that more than covers it automatic all. does that give mark enough? i don't know. you following me? >> but mark is never going to get the endorsement of the nra. >> he's not going to get it -- >> doesn't he wan the 86%? >> he does. is all 86% going to vote, or does he have the fight and spend all his time and energy fighting the wrath of the gun groups or the special interest gun groups which has leadership not in touch with their -- but they're making the rank and file believe that mark's out of touch. and he has to spend all his energy and time and money against

and so to have this bill pass -- and i knew it when -- when it happened, and mark pryor, i understand put something in the record at the time, but now we're on the water resources bill, a very important bill for coastal communities and it's an opportunity for us to fix this bill or to get a reprieve for a short period of time until we can find a better approach other than rendering thousands of properties along the coast, whether it's in texas or california or florida or new york or new jersey who were just, you know, battered badly by sandy, to put additional stress on these communities. and so while i don't have the specific answer as to how to fix it in the long term, my amendment would simply hold off these rate increases for a year. it doesn't repeal the bill. it -- it will just hold off these rate increases for a year, giving these members here in congress a time and an opportunity to fix what is terribly broken and to try to find a better, more affordable way to do so. there are 480,000 policyholders in louisiana who are already complaining about the flood insurance rates as th

the reauthorization of the brand travel promotion funding to mark pryor language did not make it clear that bill did not intend to redistribution -- redistribute funds that were meant for travel promotions. it clarifies the manner in will be family backlogs reduced. chargedfies a $500 fee to employers for hiring people in the visa program only applies to summer work travel programs. this fee is to encourage the hiring of american workers. it clarifies the fees are also liberal market research. with regard to the new visa program, it clarifies the secretary of homeland security of the agency which authorities had determined the prevailing wage. i think all these amendments we have discussed and i think they mean peoples -- >> i appreciate the hard work. you have gone over that with others, which i support. i don't know of anybody else wishes to speak to it. >> it is not so much on the issue of the amendment, there are about five or six parts of this bill that are in the jurisdiction of other committees and this is one of them. have you consulted with the committee of jurisdiction on thi

they're not going to go run against mark pryor in arkansas. him for his vote is not going to help them. but they could go run against some house members. they could run against some other groups in an attempt to show the rest of congress that they have the muscle flex if they don't vote the way they want. it might not be -- >> bill: yesterday the progressive change campaign committee launched an ad in montana pointing out that i think with 72% of montanans support universal background checks and calling on max baucus, senator from montana who voted against universal background checks to change his vote. they say they'll be -- they're likely that -- likelihood of success is higher now because baucus has announced he's not going to run for re-election. therefore, the pressure is off. do you buy that strategy? >> i think baucus isn't going to run for re-election when he cast that vote. there were a lot of questions after baucus made that announcement for senator reid about why he would vote that way knowing he was going to retire in a week. it is

the reauthorization of the brand travel promotion funding to mark pryor language did not make it clear that bill did not intend to redistribution -- redistribute funds that were meant for travel promotions. it clarifies the manner in which -- family backlogs will be reduced. it clarifies a $500 fee charged to employers for hiring people in the visa program only applies to summer work travel programs. this fee is to encourage the iring of american workers. it clarifies the fees are also used to fund liberal market research. with regard to the new visa program, it clarifies the secretary of homeland security of the agency which authorities had determined the prevailing age. i think all these amendments we have discussed and i think they mean peoples -- >> i appreciate the hard ork. i understand you have gone over that with others, which i support. i don't know of anybody else wishes to speak to it. >> it is not so much on the issue of the amendment, there are about five or six parts of this bill that are in the jurisdiction of other committees and this is one of them. have you consulted

servings >>> richard pryor was one of greatest comedians of all time and he paved the way for comics to follow in his footsteps. he started as a young stand up comedian in new york making his markcut routines but over the years his stand up became more daring. >> i went to pentientiary. i not me but i went to do a film. i talked to them and thank god we got pentientiaries. i asked a dude why did you kill everybody in the house? he said they was home. >> his over the top r rated acts made him one of the hottest comedians in the world. he was one of the first black comedians to transfer his popularity on stage to a blockbuster career in film. despite his success he was haunted by personal demons all his life. a decade long drug habit nearly killed him and for nearly 20 years he struggled with a debilitating case of multiple scleros sclerosis. a film documents his life. i sat down with two of the people. joins me is the director of the film and his widow. she's an executive producer. thank you both for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> why was it important for you to get this film made about richard? >> it's important because we have to let another whole generation know h