but in a quinnipiac survey, overwhelming majority, 89%, say they support requiring background checks for all gun buyers. jim? a lot in the question. chris frates, thanks very much. nearly every weekend there is a gun show in the country where americans can see and buy all sorts of handguns, shotguns, rifles and ammunition. cnn went to a gun show in virginia, not far from here, in washington, and asked people there to weigh in on the president s plan to take executive action on gun control. we ve known all along he wants to do whatever they can to stop law-abiding scitizens from getting guns from american citizens from getting guns. i think he ll do whatever he can do to slow down and stop gun ownership. i believe a lot of the gun control efforts are well intended. i believe there s a lot of people out there truly concerned with what they perceive,
and we do need to expand the instant background check. i don t think that s an onerous burden on anybody. reporter: so measuring americans attitudes on guns seems to depend on how you ask the question. in a recent cnn poll, a majority said they don t support stricter gun control laws or the president s handling of guns but in a quinnipiac survey an overwhelming majority, 9%, said they support requiring background checks for all gun buyer, fred. all right. chris frates, thank you so much. this has been one of the most critical issues in the obama presidency. he has made at least 12 public speeches in the aftermath of mass shootings oftentimes calling on congress to take action. we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. and there are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve the
president s handling of guns but in a quinnipiac survey an overwhelming majority, 89%, said they support requiring background checks for all gun buyers. fred? all right. chris frates, thank you so much. don t miss the live exclusive town hall about guns in america this thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. president barack obama joining anderson cooper. among other things he will discuss the executive action on guns that he is expected to announce at any point this month. and the president will also be taking questions from a live studio audience. when we come back, we ll talk to one gun advocate who says background checks won t fix everything.
going to be so tough there s an element of republican party that is attracted to that strong man image. now, whether or not it s enough to win the nomination is really up in the air. i d be careful about reading too much into any one poll. this particular poll is an outlier in terms of the strength. if you look at the average he s seen in the high 20s. 27, 28, 29. but he s been shown an inability there s been an episodic poll that has shown him lower and higher than that. but the resistance inside the republican party look, he has the highest unfavorables excuse me, lowest favorables and highest negatives of any of the major candidates. then you take him into the general election campaign, and his image gets even worse. but nevertheless, in the same survey i think it was in the quinnipiac survey that came out this week, 52% say they believe
to 12 inches of rain. want to tell you quickly, some of this moisture is going to make its way in toward eastern texas. we have been seeing halt of flooding there this week from a different system. we ll watch this moisture get pulled up across eastern texas where could be seeing flooding. get ready for that. man. interesting storm. really is. hope they re all out of there. thank you, rick. let s get to 2016 now. donald trump has taken a hit in the polls. two surveys put him in second place now in iowa, and it s really not it s not a stackal dead heat. he is in second place. a new des moines register poll is out today showing ben carson there with 28%, donald trump at 19%. and no other candidates coming close. nearly identical in a quinnipiac survey which has carson leading, 28 to 20%. so leading nye nine in one poll,