VIDEO: NYC Mayor Bloomberg Talks Gun Control on MEET THE PRESS

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Today's "Meet the Press with David Gregory" featured an exclusive interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in which he covered many hot-topic issues, including gun control and President Obama's recent trip to The Middle East. In the clip below, here what Bloomberg had to say on the current push for an assault rifle ban.

Also appearing on this morning's broadcast was National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre, and lawyer David Boies, part of the legal team challenging CA's Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court; a discussion on the president's Middle East trip with NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel; and a roundtable conversation with Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition Ralph Reed, Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, and the New York Times' David Brooks.

Excerpt:

MAYOR Michael Bloomberg: I don't think there's ever been an issue where the public has spoken so clearly, where Congress hasn't eventually understood and done the right thing.

David Gregory: But you don't think the assault weapons ban is going to pass?

MAYOR Michael Bloomberg: Well, look. We've been fighting since 2007 to get a vote. We are going to have a vote for sure on assault weapons and we're going to have a vote on background checks. And if we were to get background checks only, it wouldn't be as good as if we got both, but -- we demanded a plan and then we demanded a vote. We've got the plan, we're going to get the vote. And now it's incumbent on us to make our voices heard.

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