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Did you actively affect President Obama'sbig push on gun control legislation? Bipartisan talks tonight on backgroundchecks. If you look at the polls extending background checks to cover all gunbuyers. It's popular, very popular among democrats, republicans, gun owners,even some members of the national rifle association. Yet our Dana Bashreporting tonight the congress which came back today from a two week-recessshows little sign of doing what as many as 90% of Americans say they want inthat regard.

So tonight after speaking the Hartford, Connecticut.President Obama brought a number of Newtownfamilies back to Washingtonon the Air Force One to spend next few days speaking with lawmakers, tellingtheir stories, trying to make it personal. This is just minutes ago, you seethe families are arriving. Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan at Sandy Hook elementary. She introduced the President thisafternoon called on people to make this moment when we will change begins.Whether you agree or disagree with legislation he's pushing for President Obamatoday made fiery speech in the defense of it. Watch.

Some Washington press suggest that whathappens to gun violence legislation on Congress this week, will either be apolitical victory or defeat for me. Connecticut,this is not about me. This is not about politics. This is about doing the rightthing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gunviolent. It's about them and all the families going forward. So we can preventthis from happening again. That's what it's about.

But getting anything from congress will beheavy lift. Now, in a moment, as I mentioned, Dana Bash has breaking news onthe outline. The outline is potential bipartisan deal and background checks.But first, a check with our chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin.Jessica, the President seems more emotional talking about gun at this pointthan any other issue, the really that we have seen him address.

Absolutely, Anderson. The president has repeatedly saidthe Sandy Hook shooting was the hardest day ofhis presidency. But I have talked aides who have known him dating back evenbefore his White House days. And they tell me that they have never seen him asraw as he was on that day. So, it's not a big leap to deduce that part of hissense of deep emotional connection to this issue is his own sense ofresponsibility. Look gun safety, a gun safety agenda was missing from his firstterm despite repeated mass shootings and so now you see him working for itpretty aggressively.

And I mean, you know, we know the presidentwas pushing for a support of assault weapons ban, limit on the size of gunmagazines. Neither is expected to actually get through congress. So I mean onedoes have to look at the politics of this. What does the White House isexpected to get from pushing from congress, if anything.

Well, look he is calling for assault weaponsand magazine clip limits because he will be called out if he didn't press forthe full package of measures he supported right after the shooting. And youover, you should for more and get a little less, but you are right. The votesabsolutely are not there for neither of these measures. What they are workingtoward is deal that expands background checks beyond what it exits today, butwill full sure of universal background checks for gun purchases. Privately, theWhite House is making a very clear that compromise is perfectly acceptable tothem. They are in fact urging Democrats not to be too rigid in cutting a deal,not to in essence let the perfectly be the enemy of the good, Anderson.

And their strategy for getting that dealdone is what?

Well, you mentioned that they are gettingas many gun violence victims to speak out as possible. For example, bringingthose 12 Newtownfamilies, not just urging them to come here D.C. but bringing them here on AirForce One. That's enormously unusual. And you will also see Vice PresidentBiden and Attorney General Holder speaking out here at an event at the WhiteHouse tomorrow and then Mrs. Obama will be holding an event in Chicago on Wednesday an emotional event herhometown, that city ravaged by gun violence. And I think you will see more fromthe president. So a steady drumbeat of pressure from the White House officials.