the congressman and suburban philadelphia. i am not sure i want to cast a vote against assault rifles against high capacity magazines against the background checks. i think the question is, how much of this is the president going to be able to get to the floor? if you could get minimum wage to the floor, it passes. my guess is it won't get to the floor. he is framing the issue very, very well. of course the big test remains what's going to happen to the debt. i am interested to see what the president is proposing on the health care entitlements and it will be interesting. it can reduce spending as much as simpson bowles. i'm interested to see what the details are. >> the 102-year-old woman who waited hours to vote in florida, a lot of people did. you think that a bipartisan commission that wants to improve the voting experience in america would be a no brainer. studies show that these problems with votings hurt democrats more than they hurt republican voters. we are probably not going to see voting reform before 2016. even tho

in the far right districts, but is it true for patrick meehan and fitzpatrick and dent in suburban philadelphiai'm not so sure. i think they're risking losing the house. if john boehner had his druthers, he and the president back in august of 2011 would have entered into a grand bargain which would have had plenty of entitlement cuts, raised revenue, $5 trillion of debt reduction, and we wouldn't be facing these problems. but boehner took it back to the caucus, and the caucus said no. >> is that fair, michael, what he just said? >> i think some of that is fair, yeah. i'm not going to play the whole partisan card here and jump up and down screaming because i'm on your show. no, i think some of that is fair. >> you don't have to do that. you never do that. >> i never do that, but i think some of it -- just to bring it back into the real, i mean, i get the whole partisan game of wanting to put the blame on one side, but you know at the end of the day, that poll notwithstanding, the president also risked coming out of this thing on the 2nd of march a little bit more bloodied than he is today as do

you represent a suburban county of philadelphia. you have been a prosecutor. have a lot of, i could say, street cred in fighting crime and protecting police officers. where are you on gun safety? would you support an assault weapons ban? would you support a ban on these 30-round magazines? how far will you go in a very pro-gun state like pennsylvania? >> well, let me start with the legislation that we're dealing with, chris. i think it is something that can make a significant difference and we're working on a bipartisan fashion to put forward legislation that will go after the straw purchasers. and that is the way we're watching guns get into the hands of criminals who are then going and acting out both in violent scenes in inner city neighborhoods and oftentimes in other kinds of cases like domestic violence. getting into the hands of people that should not have that gun. so i'm hopeful that we can make some progress on something like that. now, what it does is that's a thing that has been proven to have an impact and can make a difference. and i think that's

congress person from wyoming is probably not going to vote for any of this, but there are suburban new york, philadelphia, chicago, and other great metropolitan area, congress people on the republican side, who really want to vote for something. >> they have elections coming up. they have elections in 2014, which i think the nra certainly is gunning for, but other groups are also mobilizing for. nofa, which we were talking about. >> i do want to say on the sort of cultural argument, i think proponents of gun safety laws have gotten a little bit better, which is to say more in touch with people who are hunters, people who are gun owners. i point to the example of bill clinton who said, listen, you can't alienate these people. they are americans just like us. we have to understand that this is part of tropical depression. i want to play a little bit of sound from joe biden yesterday. >> i was just thinking about him. >> teeed up just for you. let's lisp to what the vice president had to say. >> guess what, a shotgun will keep you a lot safer. a double barrel shotgun. you want to keep people away in an eart

i am from suburban philadelphia and i got my start in politics when i was 3-years old when my dad was running for a local republican office and i found out quickly when i was handed out brochures that i cried when the democrats would not take a brochure, they would then take it and my dad never fails to remind me now that i made big democrat. i went to the other university in washington, d.c., american, so i have been here since about 1997. i have been involved in campaigns. i worked at emily's list. and then i worked for congresswoman betty sutton in ohio and congresswoman betsy markie in ohio. it has been a real education and in the last two years, i've gotten a chance to work on senate races around the country. i did the east and there were two of us and i did wisconsin east so i have a full half of the country for the 2012 cycle. it was a fascinating two years to be in politics. i would echo what marlon said that campaigns matter. i would love to talk about that even with a gigantic influx of money, the basic fundamental elements of campaigns still very much matter. i actually thi

look at suburban democrats outside of philadelphia for example. they are willing to talk about background checks. >> is it enough if you say you are going to make background checks more real. is that enough when people are staring at semiautomatic rifles and saying they have to go. we need the assault weapon ban? here's a couple of things. first of all it is not a side issue when you are living in south central los angeles or in chicago. don't say it is a side issue. it is not a side issue for too many community. it is up-front issue. too many of our young people are dying. that said, where too many republicans are is understandable. i think she will agree, you can not be against all of the common sense gun laws. it is near universal acceptance of the idea that we need background checks. it is strong support and cnn's own polling about the need for us to limit these clips. the to do nothing around the issue of guns is a nonstarter. it is not politically sustainable for any party to say we are not going to do anything around guns right now. >> i ag