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During NBC’s live breaking news coverage of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, correspondent Ron Allen reported from the White House on President Obama’s push for gun control: “We well know that the President is very concerned about this issue of gun violence in the United States....And we have heard from him and his staff that they are still trying to find ways that the President can use his executive authority to try and make changes to the gun control legislation in this country.”
Talking to NBC Nighty News anchor Lester Holt, Allen lamented: “You know that he has tried to do things and met a lot of opposition in Congress over the years that he has been here at the White House.”