giffords grit and determination also comes from her mother, gloria, a force of nature. an artist whose home is in the middle of the desert, miles from civilization. you have to go off road to get there. so many desert rocks that on the way home kelly got a flat tire. took this cell phone video of giffords, daughter of a tire store owner. gloria giffords sat by her daughter s hospital bed for countless hours and played a central role in giffords recovery. and maybe a sliver of hope for giffords to have a child of her own. when she was shot she was in the middle of fertility treatment. you were in the middle of ivf.
maybe it s bad irony. i don t know. you know, it s something that stinks. it stinks. it stinks. giffords and kelly say they re heartened by a new bipartisan compromise deal to expand background checks, but, no, that is just the first step. they plan to be in washington next week. back to you. dana bash, thank you. from guns to immigration. congress may be close to reaching a deal, but the so-called path to citizenship should come with an expiration date. to the way they clean, once you try an oral-b deep sweep power brush, you ll never want to go back. its dynamic power bristles reach between teeth to remove up to 76% more plaque than sonic in hard to reach areas. oral-b deep sweep 5000 power brush. in hard to reach areas. oh, hi thehey!ill. are you in town for another meeting? yup, i brought my a-team. business trips add up to family time. this is my family. this is joe. hi joe! hi there! earn a ton of extra hhonors points
we re talking about universal background check. reporter: the sandy hook shooting spurred them to take a stand. sandy brook brain damage from giffords own gunshot wounds make it difficult to find words. sandy brook. sandy brook. sandy hook. sandy hook elementary. something we just can t you know, 20 first graders. just died. in their classrooms. awful. the couple originally called for a ban on assault weapons and limits to high-capacity magazines. giffords made a dramatic plea to senators. be bold. be courageous. americans are counting on you. but they now admit there are limits on what is politically realistic. if you were to name the number one thing that congress could do to prevent the kind of
violence that you were the victim of, what would it be? background checks. yeah, certainly. without a doubt. giffords has learned to navigate an ipad for e-mail with her left hand, because her right hand is paralyzed. but most of her communicating with former colleagues pressing them for new gun laws goes through kelly, mostly on the phone. though she doesn t have to say much to make her point, especially in person. when gabby sits in their office and tells them how important universal background check bill is, they hear that. you know, she s a former colleague, she was doing her job, like they do every single day when she was nearly killed. giffords represented this red arizona district on the mexican border filled with voters who expected her to defend their gun rights. she pushed to overturn a gun ban in the district of columbia and voted to allow guns in national