guts of aruba republicans and that seems like a stronger calculus. heidi przybyla thank you very much go ahead, joe. i wanted to say the only problem is if you re just talking about background checks, talking about something nine out of ten americans repo s support seems that base that donald trump has been playing to hasn t been able to save him in any of the state races, statehouse races in the past so i know it s going to be a tough order for him but he s got to do something that is going to stop the bleeding from independents and also from republicans college educated republicans. heidi, thanks a lot, we ll be reading your new reporting on the nra on nbcnews.com. coming up, we ll talk to another democrat in yesterday s meeting with the president, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota will be our guest in the next hour. and up next, nbc s katy tur