tom coburn got elected saying i'm not doing anything for oklahoma. >> that was oklahoma. >> why do we have a balanced budget amendment? >> this isn't about the voter, it's about lobbyists. >> you just said the voters wanted it. >> brenda: okay. >> the voters want to get rid of it. they don't want this pork barrel spending. they'd rather have a balanced budget. they would, they've said it over and over. >> don't blame them, it's not their fault. the fault is here in washington where i am. >> brenda: okay. john, why do i care about this? like i said we've seen pork and tender loins and pork chops, and you name it in washington. >> you're making me hungry, brenda. come on. >> for years and years and years. what does it mean to our economy? >> what it means to our economy, the lawmakers, what gaur gary b is correct. voters are not against this, voters are against this. and like trying to find the bravest frenchman, it's tough to find an honest one out there. >> and this is by the way-- >> and this is the entire french vote and i don't care how. >> they don't want this. >> and here is the

and i guess you're saying that if every congressman or senator was like tom coburn, they get elected. i'd like to see the congressman that ran in iowa, now what? no ethanol subsidies, forge it, no aid to you corn farmers here, now, elect me please. i don't see that happening. >> brenda: steve. >> you know, tom coburn said he would vote against ethanol subsidies or the equivalent, in oklahoma. i'm not going to bring you this. i think you could get elected in iowa if you said i'm getting rid of all the pork and i don't care about ethanol either. i believe you could. and finally, this isn't about the voter, it's about campaign contributions. that's the motivation for this stuff. not votes. >> brenda: all right. raising pigs, that's one thing they do well. all right. okay, thanks, guys. well, these guys want-- >> but the pork is getting leaner. >> brenda: okay. these guys want to keep the spending going. government unions out in force this week, blasting budget cuts in d.c. and in michigan, they're fighting a law many say will put people back to work. so, is big labor putting its interest

do have the senators coming out last night and basically giving that dinner two thumb's up and tom coburn saying he wishes that president obama reached out to rank and file lawmakers four years ago and maybe gotten the talks started earlier. but what i can tell you is that the white house believes that last night was good not only because of the timing and it was a neutral environment. it was at a restaurant, it was away from the white house so they believe that was a good first step but, again, it is a first step. they do have a long way to go. these are difficult issues, tam reason. >> mark, i talked to different people that i know personally and you have this question, though, is this all again a little baloney? because in real life terms, you don't go to a dinner and voila we're willing to talk. >> i think it's for show for now and confronting for a white house and congressional republicans is you have divided government. it is very hard to get things done and most of the time when things get done there's either some huge deadline or some type of national crisis to bring the parties t

tom coburn, senator coburn, thank you very much.bernstein, jimmy peth cukis and robert cost at that now one of the rising stars of politics. ted cruz is about to join me to talk about the budget battle and his promise to pull out all the stops in the fight against funding obamacare. >>> and later on, please don't forget my exclusive interview with congressman paul ryan as he unveils his grand budget plan today to balance the budget inside ten years. and can you believe it? mr. ryan even happily espoused the kudlow credo. >> i think the president and his party looks at tax reform as a revenue-generating exercise. broader tax base with higher rates. which is just nothing more than a tax increase to fuel spending. we see tax reform differently. i subscribe to the larry kudlow school, which is lower rates, broaden the base, create the economy. economic growth. >> that was completely unrehearsed, that duet we did. but we may do it again and we may find a record producer. the rest of that interview, by the way, is coming up. and please do

tom coburn will not be signing on to the universal background check measure that is set to be introduced in the senate tomorrow. the one that 87% of his constituents support. he is going to give the one-finger salute to 87% of his constituents in order to do what the nra wants him to do instead. "the washington post" reporting tonight that negotiations for a broad, bipartisan background check bill, including tom coburn, have stalled. now it will be left to democrats chuck schumer and joe manchin and lone republican mark kirk of illinois to try to find republican support elsewhere. and yes, senator mark kirk is himself a republican, but his "f" rating from the nra may not make him the best pitchman for recruiting more republican support to this bill. and they will need that if they're going to pass this bill over an all but certain republican filibuster. is it really possible that the congress is so far to the right of the people of oklahoma that this kind of thing is impossible now? this one straight forward fix, background checks, is something that people in super gun-friendly states an

>> you heard from tom coburn, he believes the president is sincere in this effort.heard from the house minority whip ken mccarthy saying it's not clear, it remains to be seen. there's scabs and sores. it's going to take awhile to heal. the charm offensive or schmooze is what's going to be in full effect. there's going to be three days, tuesday, wednesday on two separate occasions on thursday the president makes the rare trip up to the hill to meet with both senate and house republicans and democrats this week. here was tom coburn a short time ago on "meet the press" acknowledging the big problems that exist here in washington. >> washington is dysfunctional. it's dysfunctional in a dysfunctional way. members of congress and the administration agree on spending money we don't have. we agree on not oversighting the programs that should be oversighted. we agree on spending money on programs that don't work. basically, we agree on too much. we need to move back and start agreeing about what's the long term plan and how do we oversight the government to get real value of

6 >> today on c-span, "newsmakers" with republican senator tom coburn. followed by president obama's remarks from his trip abroad in israel. and later, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. >> this week on "newsmakers," i want to welcome back senator tom coburn, a clin, from oklahoma, joining us from capitol hill today. and in studio, jeremy peters, congressional reporter and kneel, roll call congressional reporter. let me begin with the first question. the house has passed the continuing resolution that the senate passed this week to keep the government running for this budget year, avoiding a government shutdown. what do you think that says about the process going forward for negotiations on some sort of grand bargain? >> well, the first thing it shows is we actually passed an appropriation bill even though -- called a continuing resolution, the vast majority of what was passed were appropriation bills. so it was kind of an omnibus ppropriation bill. it had very limited amendment opportunity. but i think it's a great thing. the house pass passed it ri

he's known tom coburn for a very long time. he's starting to talk to tom again. i think that's very important. but it matters. i always go back to the 1990s and talk about the fact -- i remember the first time i met erskine bowles. i said, man, i can't stand your boss, chief of staff for bill dlin. he said that's all right, congressman, he hates you too. look what we did together. we didn't care for the president, the president didn't care for us. we didn't understand each other. yet we balanced the budget for the first time in a generation, four years in a row for the first time since the '20s, welfare reform, tax reform. i mean you've got to do that. and i remember talking to bill clinton this past year, because david axelrod -- this always made david axelrod angry when we'd talk about how bill clinton and congress got along. he said you impeached him! and bill clinton said, yeah, but even on that day i was talking to newt gingrich on the phone about iraq and protecting the american people. that's what we have to do today, even if the president doesn't like con

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ofsenator tom coburn am a oklahoma. -- coburn, oklahoma. >> thank you. >> let me turn to you, a lot of hot button issues. what did you hear about the budget? , everybodyaying knows that outlines, grand bargain it would work. that is the first nugget. that which hent thought the appropriations bill might function and the importance of getting that back to functioning. -- itnted out something was pointed out by members of the appropriations committee that running the government on these stopgap resolutions is not denied -- an ideal way of running. they should not be running anymore because you do not have a way of getting rid of them. >> gun control, universal background checks come to the floor when they return from their easter break. when did you hear from the senator? >> i heard that he thought a broad measure will not has. -- past. ,e pointed out another hurdle the house of representatives than -- that is more conservative. he believed anything that goes through will be limited in scope. >> does he get to offer amendments to change it to how he wants it done? to be the going process

tom coburn has been at this for a long time. even though his conservative credentials are unquestioned, he does want to come to some kind of compromise, some kind of deal that's going to help the american people. i think ryan in his heart wants to, also, but he's new at the game and still sounds like he's running for vice president. and that is the kind of attitude you find around the house right now in the house of representatives. but at the same time they know that their approval ratings are sinking lower than the media right now, for heaven's sake. they need to know that they need to do something, too, but with ryan you don't see that shift in rhetoric towards something positive. >> or maybe ryan is also looking at 2016 and thinks that he's got to do certain things. i don't know. clarence page, ryan grim, thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >>> ahead, they are outraged over canceled white house tours. but those budget cuts go way deeper. i'm bringing them on to what's really going on in america.

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>> listen senator coburn is our ranking member on homeland security. senator tom carpenter is supportive of this and senator clare mccaskill in the subcommittee. the homeland security has an awful lot of oversight capability and that's what we're dedicated to doing the next couple of years, that's a bipartisan effort. these are a bunch of senators who want to take a look at government and make sure it's as efficient and effective and unabusive as possible so i'm looking forward the next couple of years, we're certainly soliciting more americans to tell their stories so we can basically show the anecdotal piece of evidence and start correcting these problems. >> if you're out there watching us and you think you've been in regulation hell with the government, red tape hell, whatever you want to call it, where do they go on your website? what do they do so they can at least pitch their problem to you? >> well, they can certainly go to my senate website, ronjohnson .senate.gov and conduct our oversight committees and financial and of the homeland security committee an

senator, i'm going to ask you about what tom coburn said.on't mean to be a cynic, but do you believe every senator believes what he believes, that they'd be willing to lose their seat for a big deal? not every senator seems to act that way these days. >> it's always a tension between your political interests and the interests of the country. and i hope that there are a lot of senators and a lot of congressmen and the president of the united states who are willing to put the interest of the country ahead of their own political. >> translator:. >> last night was construct uv, and we got away from the politics of it, and i think we need to do more of that. if we're going to solve this problem, it's going to take both sides to participate and literally put the interests of the country ahead of our respective political interests. >> leadership wasn't there at all, elected leadership, not to say that you guys have your own entities, but the elected top leadership wasn't there. is it easier to speak freely when elected leadership isn't there? is th

tom coburn says every american is going to have to experience pain. what does he mean?call that everyone is talking about? and no one can believe. a 911 operator begging a nurse to do cpr on a dpieg retirement home patient. >> it's a human being, is there anybody there that is willing to help this lady and not let her die? >> not at this time. hey. they're coming. yeah. british. later. sorry. ok...four words... scarecrow in the wind... a baboon... monkey? hot stew saturday!? ronny: hey jimmy, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? jimmy: happier than paul revere with a cell phone. ronny: why not? anncr: get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. but thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip. because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. so we hit boston in the spring-- even caught a game. and with the money we saved, we took a trip to san francisco. you see, hotwire checks the competitions' rates every day so they can guarantee their low prices. so, wher

. >> reporter: oklahoma senator tom coburn was just one on an a list of republicans invited this past week to break bread with the president. it's an effort to break the partisan logjam on capitol hill. >> we exchange very different frank, candid views of one another that were very different but at least we had this conversation. >> reporter: this.coming week, the president's heading to capitol hill on tuesday, wednesday and twice on thursday to press members of both parties to get a deal on spending and spending cuts for the coming fiscal year. >> i believe we can come together on both sides of the aisle. >> reporter: some are asking how far the president has to bend to get something done. >> we haven't had progress before because the republicans were committed to blocking initiatives of president barack obama. >> reporter: from the white house to the capitol, an effort to thaw the political cold war and get washington working again. though the president is being welcomed here to capitol hill, there's skepticism on both said by what kind of deals he can make. brian mooar, nbc news, w

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they had to go with the schumer bill because tom coburn pulled out at the last minute. yes, there's no republican support for an assault weapons ban though i think it's fair to say an assault weapons ban would be constitutional or would be for ten years without legal challenges. i don't know where ted cruz gets the idea that the second amendment and first amendment is absolutist. you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. he has this idea of the constitution he wants to impose on every one of his colleagues and does come off condescending in the process of doing so. >> cynthia, it looks to me like the gun legislation fight even despite it's only three months since the horror of new town has not moved left, if you will, toward gun safety. i'll use that term loosely. it's moved right. these people have circled the wagons like an old western and insisted most important thing in the world is to have guns. they're not afraid of a coup or military government. they're afraid of a popular government. it's that or they want to take on vigilante justice because they can't protec

you saw in the house and in the senate last week, tom coburn dropped out of the background discussionssions about background checks. so right now if you handicap, assault weapons ban seems very difficult to pass. high-capacity magazine ban, very hard to pass. almost no republicans support that. you have a still republicans still open additional background checks, but even there, and you even have some conservative democrats that are not really behind background checks. so i think you'll have to see the president and joe biden will sort of reengage this issue to sort of move it along. because right now it's a bit stalled in congress. >> perry bacon and susan page, always good to see both of you. thanks so much. >> thanks, chris. >>> a big blow to new york city mayor michael bloomberg's ban on those giant sugary drinks. it was supposed to go into effect today, but a judge struck it down, saying the 16-ounce limit arbitrarily applied to only some drinks in certain places. the mayor is vowing to fight. >> we believe that the judge's decision was clearly in error and that we will prevail on

tom coburn has an "a" rating from the nra. but now those talks have fallen apart. elected politicians are finding it so hard to do something that nine out of ten americans want? >> no, not really. but that's because -- >> is it a dereliction of duty on their part? >> well, i don't want to go that far because, frankly, i think they're going to get there. i think it's hard for congress to ignore not just 90% of the public but 75% to 85% of nra members who also think they take background checks, they know it takes a couple minutes out of your life and it saves a lot of lives. so i think ultimately we're going to get there. >> there has been some progress, as i say. we want to recognize and hail, for example, the president and vice president attended the signing of the violence against women act today. let's take a listen now to the vice president because it's pertinent to this issue. >> i want to point something out to you. from 2009 to 2012 40% of the mass shootings in america other than the celebrated ones you have seen, 40% where four or more people have been shot,

. >> white is expected to get the okay for that sec job especially after republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma announced he would aggressively support her nomination. >>> there's not a lot of support for h & r block today after a software snag has delayed the returns for a lot of americans who have already filed their 2012 taxes. sharon epperson joins us now with more. what went wrong here, sharon? >> a lot of folks are disappointed that they're not going get refunds as quickly as anticipated. what h & r block is telling us that between february 14th and february 22nd that a number of filers who were applying for education tax credits were unable to do so because of the way they answered certain yes and no questions on the form. these are folks that were claiming the american opportunity lifetime learning credits and 10% of the total returns claiming these credits were impacted according to the irs. h & r block tells us that any problems that occurred with the form, the form 8863 had been fixed and their clients had no immediate action to take and if they wanted to find out when th

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. >> oklahoma senator tom coburn was one of 12 republican senators to dine with president obama last week. he said working with the gop could result in a budget agreement. >> it's time to start leading, and the way you do that is quit poking your finger in people's eyes and start building relationships, and i think he's got a great chance to accomplish a big deal. >> but it appears any big deal will have to address spending on social security, medicare, and medicaid. >> at the end of the day, we're going to have to find a balanced solution and it will involve all elements. it will involve talking about revenues talking about expenses talking about entitlements. we have to do that. >> republican congressman paul ryan also had some face time with president obama last week. he cautioned it remains to be seen whether the president's outreach to the gop is sincere. will he resume what is long believed to be a plan to win the 2014 elections, or will he sincerely change in trying to find common ground. >> and congressman ryan will unveil his new budget plan tomorrow. it will call for a repe

tom coburn is key on any senate deal on expanding background checks but remains skeptical of requiring private sellers to keep records. coburn's blessing could carry with it widespread republican support in the senate, without it some democrats may defect as well. there's a new 60 minutes "vanity fair" poll that reveals 80% of people think gun violence in video games, movies and pop culture have some or a lot of impact on society. >>> the obama administration fighting back against charges that access to the president is being sold to high bidders by new advocacy organizations. the "new york times" reported that people who donate at least $500,000s to the nonapproval organization organizing for action, a direct off spring of president obama's campaign team, would be granted quarterly meetings with the president. yesterday jay carney disputed the allegations. >> any notion there's a set price for a meeting with the president of the united states is wrong. organizing for action was set up to promote the president's policy agenda, so as anyone would expect the president would meet with rep

after weeks of bipartisan negotiations between senators chuck schumer and tom coburn failed to advancet, now appears john mccain emerged as a critical player in talks to expand background checks for private firearms sales. the hill reports republican senators susan collins and dean heller could sign off after democrats included several modifications aimed at attracting support from the right. a recent quinnipiac poll finds 09% of the public is in favor of universal background checks. they've had a tougher time getting a ban on assault weapons but michael bloomberg was optimistic congress would vote on the measure. >> we are going to have a vote for sure on assault weapons and we're going to have a vote on background checks and if we were to get background checks only, it wouldn't be as good as if we got both but we demanded a plan and demanded a vote. we've got the plan, we're going to get the vote. >> bloomberg announced a new $12 million television ad campaign that challenges senators in 13 states from arizona to pennsylvania to back gun control legislation. >> for me, guns are for h

right now, the fate of the universal background check legislation may hinge on senator tom coburn of oklahoma who was working with senator charles schumer of new york to hopefully forge some kind of bipartisan compromise. however, those talks have hit a snag as coburn has expressed concern that background checks, specifically a paper record for them may lead to a national gun registry. either that or he's more concerned about losing his a rating from the nra because as congressman mike thompson, head of the house gun violence protection task force pointing out -- >> if you disagree with background checks, the logical jump is that you believe it's okay for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to buy guns. >> john: joining us now is mike thompson, democrat from the state of california who is mentioned as the gun task force. thank you for your time. >> great to be with you. >> john: great to you have, sir. let's get started. if universal background check legislation is going to struggle to make it out of the senate, i gotta ask, does it stand any chance in the house? >> well, i th

. >> tom coburn declared that they jumped the sequester. >> i do think it's political but i also thinkt's transparent in the sense that the public is looking for more from their leaders than ending tours at the white house. >> homeland security secretary again claimed airports are facing major wait times. >> i think that with the current way it's done, we could see a lot of missed connections. >> she said yesterday she was not sure of the details and would have to check. >> shouldn't she know before she says something like that exactly which parents are going to have longer lines. >> as secretary of triples, ray lahood as he spoke from the podium, there will be negative effects on our air traffic because of the reductions in faa man-hours. >> reporter: republicans are raising questions about the president's news conference on friday when he suggested up to 70,000 kids could get kicked off head start. >> now suddenly head start status is gone and they are trying to figure out how am i going to keep my job because i can't afford child care for my kid. >> they note that only two years ago

alex we are looking for signs and i noticed that tom coburn shaved his beard.s that a breakthrough? >> that is what that means, the big game is now. i think it is a good sign, he has been more moveable than other folks on the key issues. the fact that he is saying that lindsey graham has suggested the same thing. paul ryan is sitting at home trying to figure out a way to balance the budget in ten years. >> i think it is a good thing in taking that revenue and putting it and not using it to combat the deficit. >> it soupd sounds like they ar saying let's use some of it for deficit reduction. >> that is tiny. >> i guess it is. to me, it seems like the line has been in the last month. it was the line before the revenues got passed. we can't talk about any tax some every time that is invoked in the context of nef virevenue, i only discuss it in the context of opening up the tax code of being litigated and legislated in which case nothing is going to done. >> if they can figure out a way around it, the bush tax cuts were a lowering taxes because they doubled them on

there is $68 billion that tom coburn outlined yesterday. >> andrea: can i jump in on the senate pointnate tried to do something in the 11th hour. the issue was harry reid couldn't get his own caucus the agreen something. when they finally tied to passion something yesterday it would have added $7.2 billion to the deficit. only democrats would pass a bill to add to a deficit in the middle of the debate about downsizing government. this is not asking the government go on a diet, it's saying don't gain any more weight. it's weight maintenance. jenny craig for a big fat got. >> bob: take a billion there and billion there. and the consultants you want. this gets back to a fundamental issue. entitlement reform. the reason we spend a little more money this year after sequest tration last year is nothing to do with the the domestic programs or defense budget and everything to do with entitlement spending going up. >> eric: ready? >> bob: i'm ready. >> eric: counterparts on the hill don't agree with you. that would be great. >> dana: i think they do in the backroom but they are afraid to take

reporter: an aide to senator tom coburn has said that they have jumped the sequester while other said the president is trying to -in up the impact. >> i think it's political, but i also think it is transparent. the public is looking more from leaders in ending tours at the white house. >> airports are facing major way kinds. i think with the current weight is gone, we could see a lot of missed connections. reporter: the secretary herself said she was not sure of the details and would have to check. >> the secretary of transportation made it clear when he spoke from the podium that there will be negative effects on air traffic because of the reductions and the faa man-hours. reporter: questions are also cropping up about 70,000 kids getting kicked out of head start that he brought up. >> they are trying to figure out how can i keep my job because they can't afford childcare for their kids. reporter: congressional republicans know that it was only two years ago that head start out roughly a 5% increase in funding. so how does a cut now lead to massive problems? >> i don't have it in fro

senator tom coburn's waste book documents shocking ways your taxpayer dollars are put to use. things that could have been cut and were not. take a look. amazingly, the national institute of gave $176,000 to the university of kentucky to determine if japanese quail are more likely to have sex when high on cocaine. believe it or not that is true. perdue university received a portion of a federal government of golf study to see how their minds work in the game . a new york city theater. 697,000 to produce a musical on climate change. coburn's waste book 19 billion wasted dollars. it is it snap shot of a larger problem and you can see the entire report on the saintor's website. >> a majority of at home are weary over the politics and drama of sequester battle. a brand new fox poll 45 percent of you feel sequestration will center a negative affect on the country and 27 percent said it will have a affect. the other 22 percent feel like it will make a difference at all. join happening us to sort through the fact anding fiction. radio talk show host monica crowley. >> hi, uma. >> we t

i asked tom coburn if he thought the two sides could work together. >> there won't be a budget that will coalesce. i am just thankful that they put a budget out. they want to grow the government-- the government's grown 89% in the last 10 years and the median income of american families has declined 5%. the average american family is earning in real dollar what is they earned in 1989. we have grown since 1989, the federal government has tripled. their whole plan is to continue that and to make it even worse. but i am happy there is a budget because we are going to offer ideas and hold them accountable to say, we reject those ideas. theirs is a bigger -- big government is the answer to everything. more tax, more spending. ours is, let's save medicare, let's save social security, let's downsize the federal government to a size that is manageable and affordable. >> shannon: there are all kinds of fiscal issues with the budget, with sequester and the debt ceiling, not far off. have you offered a number of ways that you think the federal government could be cutting back. your office is good a

. >> tom coburn declared that they jumped the sequester. >> i do think it's political but i also thinkt's transparent in the sense that the public is looking for more from their leaders than ending tours at the white house. >> homeland security secretary again claimed airports are facing major wait times. >> i think that with the current way it's done, we could see a lot of missed connections. >> she said yesterday she was not sure of the details and would have to check. >> shouldn't she know before she says something like that exactly which parents are going to have longer lines. >> as secretary of triples, ray lahood as he spoke from the podium, there will be negative effects on our air traffic because of the reductions in faa man-hours. >> reporter: republicans are raising questions about the president's news conference on friday when he suggested up to 70,000 kids could get kicked off head start. >> now suddenly head start status is gone and they are trying to figure out how am i going to keep my job because i can't afford child care for my kid. >> they note that only two years ago

tom coburn and forgive me if i get the quote wrong but it was something close to the more i learn about more i like you. he promised to aggressively support her nomination. >> michael: he was fawning over everyone on cap pal hill. before we let you go patrick i want to talk about elizabeth warren. how much of an impact is senator ratherwarren having just two months in her tenure. >> so far she has had success bringing attention to issues that she cares about. she went off on banking regulators and demanded answers. she went to the ted cruz style of questioning where she drilled again and again. it became a youtube sensation and people have been locked in on that. in terms of legislative success it's too early to tell. we're just two months into the senate that may be enough time to hang up your coat and clear your throat. >> michael: warren and cruz, where will the similarities end. patrick reis, thank you so much for coming into "the war room." let's turn to another lobby backing republicans. the gun industry. the gun safety measures that congress is debating has the overwhelming suppo

corbett -- tom coburn is a good friend. anything he is working on, i will look at. i would be open to looking at their work product. i would say this. as my colleagues have said, we have a background check system that does not create any determined. so what if you fail the background check? it is against the law to fill these forms out and if you break the law and nothing ever happens to you, my concern is expanding the amount of paper we do nothing with is not the deterrent we are looking for. >> if i can add one other part to that. we are finding another piece of the plaza where we can get a strong bipartisan support on. -- piece of the puzzle where we can get stung by person support. we went after the issue of guns -- where we can get a strong bipartisan support. it is unbelievable. as a former mayor, what we had to deal with was felons who had guns. we did a simple thing. we hired two city prosecutors and assign them to the u.s. attorney's post office with one focus, guns, gangs, and drugs. once you sentence someone on