would have prevented newtown from happening. the guy did not fail a background check. >> let me turn you to immigration. we have word that big unions and big business have agreed on a visa plan for these low-skilled, as we call them, workers. the number that can come in, the industries they can come into, how much they can be paid. is that it? have you got a deal now? >> well, i think we've got a deal. we've got to write the legislation, but 2013, i hope, will be the year that we pass bipartisan immigration reform, signed into law with three goals, to do the bill in such a fashion to prevent a third wave of illegal immigration from happening in this country, to make sure that the guest worker program is available to employers who can't find an american worker, once you offer the job at a competitive wage, and turn our chain migration family-based immigration system into a merit-based immigration system with a family component. because we're declining demographic, we're going to need new workers come into this