immediate aftermatt president will come out and say we're look -- he gets a call from the nra, he backs away from it this was during the august rece recess, so it was sort of evaporated to some extent. you get back to washington and mitch mcconnell says we don't do anything that the president doesn't tell us to do. >> congress takes its instructions from the white house, according to mitch mcconnell on this. to mcconnell's point, donald trump is the most popular person in the republican party. many of the members feel like if he can get behind something he will give them covern election that is genuinely important that the president comes out and backs something to give the republicans cover. of course, yes, the nra has conditioned their members and this pro-second amendment crowd that any gun regulation is bad it's a slippery slope that's going to lead to all sorts of, you know, eventually gun confiscation things at the white house are