the microphones and brief reporters in the next few minutes where we potentially will hear a path forward and the house speaker's office and recent days have made it clear that as of now, he is going to wait to see what the senate does to take the next steps. so certainly that's likely something that we'll hear him repeat today when he's pressed by reporters and leaders today, we'll hear from the senate leadership, certainly lawmakers are facing considerable pressure and adding into the mix the fact that you have this stoneman douglas students up here on capitol hill, they huddled with house democrats this morning, will meet with individual lawmakers, it adds to the considerable pressure, john, that they're facing. >> sunlen serfaty on capitol hill, we'll watch very closely, expecting to hear again from the house speaker any minute. in the meantime, joining me, ron brownstein, senior cnn political analyst and cnn commentators bakari sellers and alice stewart. alice, interesting, someone reporting that paul ryan says he's going to wait to see what the senate does on guns. the senate saying, hey, wait a