you can see him take executive action to declare a national emergency. but all of these things are, potentially even ban automatic weapons and find ways around, with the executive action, to ban semi-automatic weapons, and the automatics are already banned. they can do all of those things. but the supreme court has shown recently that it is expanding gun rights, not closing down on them, so the likelihood that he could do something that was really lasting by himself is very small. that s true on the supreme court. jackie, what you are watching? a lot of activists are asking if biden could do some more incremental change here, in the bipartisan gun control bill that was passed earlier this year. there are some sort of tweaks that they say that biden can make here, for example, there s some word thrag could be clarified in the gun safety law that requires individuals, quote, in the business of selling firearms, to conduct background purchases, but they would like to see an executive
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for background purchases of his criminal history. unfortunately this has happened in the past by a number of agencies. nothing is perfect. reporter: another point of frustration here tonight, an fbi special agent here says they have the shooter s cell phone but they can t crack it. they can t yet access the content because of encryption and other technology, but one official here emphatically said, quote, we will get into that phone. wolf? all right. brian, thanks very much. brian todd reporting. join us now, democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut. he s an outspoken critic of the gun lobby. senator, thanks so much for joining us. thanks for having me. i want you to listen to a warning from the fbi special agent in charge who has handled this sutherland springs shooting. listen to this. i ve done a lot on active shooters throughout the years. you look at the numbers, the numbers are on the rise. i think everybody no matter where you are needs to think about this. if
time. congress is on break this week but when lawmakers get back to washington, they ll get right to work on the extremely divisive issue of gun control. sure is. it is sure to be a bruising debate with supporters and well financed on both sides. they re going to be going at it. abc s tahman bradley is in washington with more. good morning, tahman. reporter: good morning. the fight over gun control will intensify as congress debates president obama s new gun measures. both sides understand the stakes and are gearing up for a battle. more than 100 days since newtown tragedy, congress is set to take up new gun control measures. opponents and supporters are gearing up for a fight. this is what the survivors want. this is what the public wants. it slows down the law-abiding and does nothing to anybody else. reporter: the senate will soon begin debating a bill to expand background purchases, crack down on gun trafficking and provide additional funding for school safety. but what t