0 north's every move. you know there are ships, destroyers, just off the coast of korea tracking that, but the tension today, at least, doesn't feel like it's mounting. the u.s. is trying to dial it down. the f-22 super fighters, the bombers, we don't see them now. they have been put on hold. there is even talk again, craig, of diplomacy, cousouth koreans looking to spend a special envoy to reengage with the north, secretary of state john kerry is expected to be looking for newer approaches as well in north korea when he arrives here in the region next week. craig, feels today, like a breather, everybody wants to step back and create room. who knows how long that will last? >> jim maceda from seoul, south already won this round. why is that? how did they do it? >> the nra and other groups on their side have been pressuring key republicans and some red state democrats who were interested in some compromise on background checks, never assault weapons ban or limiting high-capacity magazines so they biff votd their assault to if you can excuse the word, their pressure campaign to background checks seen, now senator chuck grassley introducing a bill that has some other school safety stuff and some straw purchasing provision bus nothing on background checks, sort of a fall back piece of legislation should you see republican filibuster mounted against any democratic bill that would include background checks and it is true that there is a very strong monster majority in this country, over 90% in favor of background checks, among nra members themselves and gun owners themselves but the side, backing new restriction, isn't breaking through. the members who are elected, the democrats running for re-election in states were mitt romney really crushed president obama, they can't do this without republican cover. republicans are now saying, no, we can't move on background checks. and so despite the national polling, which is -- which group is winning, the nra and its aligned groups are winning. >> evan, perhaps a more pressing issue for the house is a deal on immigration reform. what kind of negotiations have been going on behind the scenes during the break? >> a loft to discussion on immigration, all over tv, in public, behind the scenes, every where. i feel like at this point, the guns, which we just discussed, at this point, most observers feel like immigration has got a bill a better chance of proceeding than gun does now. there's still a lot to do on guns, obama's going to do a big push next week in connecticut. >> you have covered lobbyists for a long time now, who is the immigration lobby? >> what's interesting is now you're seeing business groups and unions coming together to push for immigration reform so it's really not the usual suspects who have now become allies and friends in many ways, business leaders wanting to see immigration reform. really, immigration reform is an issue that there's a big political incentive for republicans to want to compromise on. after the 2012 elections and president obama winning over 70% of the hispanic vote, that was a real wakeup call to national republicans that it's until their best interest to come up with a plan to try and move on immigration reform. >> gun control immigration, the other big topic this week that we are looking at, of course, the white house budget set to be released on wednesday. evan, you write part of the white house's strategy seems to be deliberately stoking deliberate outrage. why? >> put this in context first. when obama came in to the second term, after the democratic defeat in 2010, progressives were feeling pretty down, thought obama was willing to compromise too much with the new republicans that came in after 2010 and once he got relike the and reelected on a platform that progressives pretty much liked, talked about raising taxes on the rich, came in and with him came in all the new progressive senators, like elizabeth warren in massachusetts, a sense from some on the left that they were hoping that the new budget, we just sort of have a game reset on this, obama won the election, reset his whole budget tactics and negotiating tactics and when this budget came out, which includes cuts to entitlement program and chances in how they work, i felt like there was, you know, my e-mail blew up with a lot of really upset and sort of frustrated progressives, i felt like, okay, hey, we won, how much more do we have to do to get the president to back off some of this stuff? and so that's sort of where we are at right now. i'm not certain -- the white house says that what they are doing is a budget that's can actually pass, a budget that's can actually sell to republicans and, you know, he has to have put some compromise in it everybody has to take hits. but the left is not really willing to hear that on this stuff. >> here is the thing with all three budgets, senator murray's budget, whether they are looking at a house budget, the white house budget, none of these budgets on their face, ab, appears to be passable, so, what's going to give sneer what kind of budget are we going to be looking at? is it going to be a budget that's more closely align you had with the white hou-- aligne house budget or closely aligned with the other two aforementioned budgets? >> the fact the white house leased a budget like this, a break with the past is a really good sign that president obama wants to move more to the center and embrace entitlement reform, he's given lip service for seven years. trying to find savings in social security there, he knows that is a starting point. he is saying it is his ending point, democrats say that better be the ending point. that's you why see republicans like the house majority leader eric cantor say we will wait and see. house speaker john boehner tried to say this isn't enough. truly if they get to the table and begin negotiating around an increase in the debt ceiling, the president plans to give more and at this point, he need he is to for a legacy and any kind of proves spoechblts meaningful other reforms in the area of education or energy and getting immigration across the finishing line, president obama needs to get out of the fiscal hole that we are n we can't keep the promises that we made. he knows that. he said it before. next, who and what could be behind the murders of a texas d.a. and his wife? 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