. >> mike viqueria joins us from washington. mike, the president seems, appears ready to take on this fight. >> well he does and josh earnest went on to say that whatever the president proposes they feel they are on solid legal ground. it was a year ago when president obama what infamously said he was going ouse his pen to block congress on some of the issues that frustrated him and none more so than his own reckoning, than president obama's own accounting of his inability to block safety laws. since then there's been the roseburg, oregon shooting, at the community college, where you saw that visceral reaction from president obama, and to try to revive the effort really within the administration to find a way around congress to use executive orders to put forward some new regulations. josh earnest says three are under no illusions that whatever they do is going to be able to solve all the problems. the white house looking at expanded background checks to private sales. a significant portion of sales are private. the sellers do no