people like mary landry and tim johnson in south dakota.a senator in a swing or maybe republican-leaning state, how do you greet them and react to them? i assume you want to be supportive of the president and know your politics. >> you have to realize that first of all it's an issue that has to be dealt with and news to be dealt with comprehensively. it's not just guns, but all kind of things. mental illness no doubt. we have areas in our state and three counties that for years went without mental health. those are critical issues and you have to realize that. the most important thing is that you come to the table with the willingness to come somewhere where you can start and move out from the consensus there. >> we talked to him and said we will find common ground. it appears it will largely be driven by electoral realities. is there common ground on gun control? it doesn't seem like it. am i missing something and do republicans need to move forward as a party heading into the mid-terms? >> rhetorically you can hear a lot of the same sente

i'm thinking about pryor, begich, landrieu, hagan, tim johnson. they all have to vote up or down.hat happens is the house, which is run by republicans, they don't have to take on issues like that because they've already been beaten. >> here is the difference. the republican party is running people like mourdock and todd akin and christine o'donnell -- >> if you're lucky again. >> they're eschewing everybody else. when dick lugar and mike castle aren't conservative enough, what does the republican party do? they throw them out. we embrace folks from louisiana and arkansas, and they're not going to vote with us all the time, and we have to accept that fact. but the fact -- >> maggie, let me ask you this. what happens when they don't have these lucky jokers in the deck like akin and mourdock? they were really gifts to these people. >> they were. >> what happens if they don't show up in 2014 because people like rove and others have culled the herd? >> i think there's no question that democrats got lucky last year. republicans had a pretty poor crop of candidates. you had some candidat

there should be background checks for private gun sales and in south dakota, democratic senator tim johnsonays the state should have their own local gun control laws. one size, he says, does not fit all. >> how may i help you? i definitely will see if i can get a response. >> i will share that with senator bennett. >> reporter: in michael benne bennett's office, the phone rings nonstop. some of the most dramatic changes in gun laws are being proposed in bennett's state of colorado, where two of the worst mass shootings took place, columbine and aurora. colorado democratic lawmakers want to hold manufacturers of assault weapons liable for deaths or injuries caused by those kinds of guns. matt, almost everyone has something to say about guns, obviously, in this country. in the gun-bearing states it does seem, at the moment at least, that those who own guns are the best organized and they have the most to say at the moment. and they're putting a lot of political pressure, especially on their democratic representatives, matt. >> tom, i want to remind people, they can see more of our network wid

you have tim johnson from south dakota. those are just a couple of examples of senators who sit in red states who are up for reelection. rockefeller is not running. it is hard to believe that democrats could nominate somebody who is going to go as far as what the president would like to see or congressional democrats would like to see on an assault weapons ban. even in north carolina -- that senator is going to be in a very interesting position. host: what about the dynamic in the house? this is a headline in "u.s. a. today," -- guest: i action went out to the democratic retreat in virginia this past week. there were many democrats who felt that exact way. now is the time to do it. it is not now, when -- if not now, when? we know we have the capacity to get something done. the dynamics are very different. i looked back in 1994, the last assault weapons ban. 46 republicans supported it. the idea that 46 republicans would support anything a democratic or republican -- a democratic president was proposing was amazing. there we

south dakota, tim johnson, mitt romney, 58% of the vote in 2012.hese democrats, looking closely and hesitantly at president obama's agenda, on the issues he laid out in the state of the union address. also, a story about senator johanns, republican of nebraska, he has decided that he is not going to run for reelection in 2014. that is the story many papers have this morning. possibly the governor of that state could consider are wrong. senator mike johanns, not running in 2014. john in florida, an independent scholar. -- caller. caller: if they make these guns illegal, we have tens of millions of people in this country that are here illegally, that we cannot seem to find, and we cannot keep tabs on them. how are we going to find these guns and keep these guns out? what about the illegal people that we cannot find that have illegal guns? host: let me throw this into what you said. "the washington post" frontpage has a piece about parts made for three -- for guns by 3-d printers -- what you think? -- do you tink -- think? caller: this mess is confusi

senator tim johnson of south dakota chairs the two-hour hearing. >> this committee is called to order before we begin, i'd like to extend a warm welcome to senator crepeo as ranking member and to senator manchant, senator warren, senator heitkemp, senator carlburn and senator heller who are joining this congress. i'd also like to welcome back my friend senator kirk. earlier this week i released my agenda for this congress and i look forward to this committee's continued productivity. i'm optimistic that we can work together on a bipartisan basis. to that end, ranking member crepo and i sent an order yesterday to the banking regulators on the importance of implementing basal 3 and i look forward to hearing from each of you in working with the ranking member on this issue. today this committee continues a top priority, oversight of wall street perform implementation. wall street reform was effected to make the financial system more resilient, minimize risk of another financial crisis, protect consumers from harmful purchases and ensure american taxpayers will never again be called upon

this is the same thing required by the democrats and the cases john doe tim steve johnson, the case of rob portman. it is the prerogative of the senate. it's not a filibuster. they nearly won a 60-vote margin. i commented earlier that we had a republican in the white house in a majority in the senate. i was here and never objected to that. then of course you had kathleen sebelius right now, cabinet position. secretary of commerce john brace and objected to him. so the only issue here is the 60-vote margin. it's not a filibuster on the last thing i say is i will read again to their last speaker and are very good friend is the chairman of the committee when he said the other day and i wholeheartedly agreed, every member should add his or her voice to the demand for production of relevant documents, which senators need to decide on confirmation. i agree with that. some people don't object to some of the things he's done. but we do object to is the process that we have members who would make request for information fully relevant to this appointment and are unable to receive that. i will s

tim scott. deb fisher. mike lee. johnson. toomey.re are instances in the case of toomey going back to 2004 or 2000 specter was chosen by the establishment over toomey. >> he was the incumbent and president bush did support him. look, here is the deal. i supported pat toomey when ran in 2010. i gave him money in september of 2009 because i wanted him to be the u.s. senator. i personally contributed my own money to marco rubio in october of 2009. you mentioned tim scott. he was in a tough primary with a lot of quote establishment republicans. i gave him money my own personal check in 2010. cross roads not involved in primaries but i personally backed him because i liked him a lot. you talk about deb fisher we were the biggest outside group spending in nebraska to make sure that deb fisher won. >> sean: this is important because look, i want to win, karl. and if -- and my fear is that if karl rove is fighting the tea party and conservatives are battling establishment candidates by the way which happened with charlie crist and marco. >>

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senator tim johnson of south dakota chairs the two-hour hearing.