yays is the number needed for passage. >> five, four, three, two, one. >> on this vote the yays are 219. the motion to concur on the senate amendment is adopted. 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[ applause ] >> and as we celebrate my family's last holiday season in the white house, looking back i am proud to say that we did our very best to make americans of all backgrounds and walks of life feel comfortable and welcomed. we truly wanted to make the white house the people's house, particularly during the holiday season, and this has been one of our favorite white house traditions. it reminds us of what matters, our military families. i want to honor you for your service and your sacrifice and your love of this nation. it is a love that my family and i share along with you. i want to wish everyone a happy, healthy holiday season. all right. and with that, we get to have some fun. okay? we will take your children from you for a moment. 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[ sirens ] >>> breeks for you. a shocking attack this morning at a stucson, arizona grocery store. >> as speech writers you're thinking about state of the union addresses and commencements, and you don't think tell 'have to go out and address tragedy as often as he ended up doing. >> coys on and panic following a shooting at aurora. >> i have talked about this. >> how this has become routine. >> a shooting in orlando, florida. >> once again, innocent people were killed because someone wanted to inflict harm, had no trouble getting their hands-on a gun. our inalien right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from first graders in newtown. >> the president said it before so i'm not saying anything new, that the worst day of his presidency, and we all felt it that day, was sandy hook. >> every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. >> it was breathtaking, and i remember being incapable of processing the number 20. and i made the person repeat it several times, and i said, "20 children?" and the question was, "how old." and we found out six and seven year olds. >> we had had mass shootings before but this one was almost unimaginable in its cruelty. we worked up a quick statement for the president to deliver on camera that day. he read through it and said, you know, i think this is the right stuff to say, but he crossed out a paragraph in the middle. he said, i won't be able to get through that, it is too raw. >> the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. they had their entire lives ahead of them, birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. >> if ever congress would be willing to disregard the interests of the nra and the special interests groups and focus on the families and what would be good for the american people, this was the time. >> if there's even one step we can take to keep somebody from murdering dozens of innocents in the span of minutes, shouldn't we be taking that step? >> some of the speeches i'm proudest of were that spring when he was travelng the country and seeking out police officers and gun owners and going into more rural parts of america and talking about it. >> if you believe that families of newtown and aurora and tucson deserve a vote, we all have to stand up! >> on this vote the yayst that it got 54 votes in the senate but still failed somehow, that was a tough thing for us to swallow and i think for america to understand. you know, he's told me that's probably the day i felt most cynical about washington, was the day that congress did nothing. >> by now it is well-known that 90% of the american people support universal background checks that make it harder for a dangerous person to buy a gun, but it is not going to happen because 90% of republicans in the senate just voted against that idea. the american people are trying to figure out how can something have 90% support and yet not happen. >> it was just a devastating day. the families had been up on the hill lobbying, several of them came down to the white house. i remember thinking, how could i go in and face them when we failed at this, and they gave it everything. i remember saying to one of them, i said, "please don't give up," and the mom said to me, "how could i? i'll never give up." 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