美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-04-11

 Did you actively¹ affect President Obama's big push on gun control legislation? Bipartisan talks tonight on back ground checks. If you look at the polls extending background checks to cover all gun buyers. It's popular, very popular among democrats², republicans, gun owners,even some members of the national rifle association. Yet our Dana Bash reporting tonight the congress which came back today from a two week-recess shows little sign of doing what as many as 90% of Americans say they want in that regard.

 

So tonight after speaking the Hartford, Connecticut.President Obama brought a number of New town families back to Washing ton on the Air Force One to spend next few days speaking with lawmakers, telling their stories, trying to make it personal. This is just minutes ago, you seethe³ families are arriving. Nicole Hockley lost her son Dylan at Sandy Hook elementary. She introduced the President this afternoon called on people to make this moment when we will change begins.Whether you agree or disagree with legislation he's pushing for President Obama today made fiery⁴ speech in the defense⁵ of it. Watch.

 

Some Washington press suggest that what happens 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 right thing 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 prevent this 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 on the 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 said the Sandy Hook shooting was the hardest day of his presidency⁶. But I have talked aides who have known him dating back even before his White House days. And they tell me that they have never seen him as raw as he was on that day. So, it's not a big leap to deduce that part of his sense of deep emotional connection to this issue is his own sense of responsibility. Look gun safety, a gun safety agenda was missing from his first term despite repeated mass shootings and so now you see him working for it pretty aggressively. 

 

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

 

Well, look he is calling for assault weapons and magazine clip limits because he will be called out if he didn't press for the full package of measures he supported right after the shooting. And you over, you should for more and get a little less, but you are right. The votes absolutely are not there for neither of these measures. What they are working toward is deal that expands background checks beyond what it exits today, but will full sure of universal background checks for gun purchases. Privately⁷, the White House is making a very clear that compromise is perfectly⁸ acceptable to them. They are in fact urging Democrats not to be too rigid⁹ in cutting a deal,not to in essence let the perfectly be the enemy of the good, Anderson.

 

And their strategy for getting that deal done is what?

 

Well, you mentioned that they are getting as many gun violence victims to speak out as possible. For example, bringing those 12 New town families, not just urging them to come here D.C. but bringing them here on Air Force One. That's enormously unusual. And you will also see Vice¹⁰ President Biden and Attorney General Holder¹¹ speaking out here at an event at the White House tomorrow and then Mrs. Obama will be holding an event in Chicago on Wednesday an emotional event her hometown, that city ravaged¹² by gun violence. And I think you will see more from the president. So a steady drumbeat of pressure from the White House officials.

1 actively   

adv.积极地，勤奋地

参考例句：

• During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
• We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。

2 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 seethe   

vi.拥挤，云集；发怒，激动，骚动

参考例句：

• Many Indians continue to seethe and some are calling for military action against their riotous neighbour.很多印度人都处于热血沸腾的状态，很多都呼吁针对印度这个恶邻采取军事行动。
• She seethed with indignation.她由于愤怒而不能平静。

4 fiery   

adj.燃烧着的，火红的；暴躁的；激烈的

参考例句：

• She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
• His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。

5 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

6 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

7 privately   

adv.以私人的身份，悄悄地，私下地

参考例句：

• Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
• The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。

8 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

9 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

10 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

11 holder   

n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物

参考例句：

• The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。
• That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

12 ravaged   

毁坏( ravage的过去式和过去分词 )； 蹂躏； 劫掠； 抢劫

参考例句：

• a country ravaged by civil war 遭受内战重创的国家
• The whole area was ravaged by forest fires. 森林火灾使整个地区荒废了。