very excited about the president and are not terribly focused on whatever divisions there might be. >> nbc's kacie hunt and kelly o'donnell, thanks so much for helping us understand all of those fast-moving developments, really appreciate it. i want to listen now for a moment to how the president opened this meeting we've been talked about, take a listen. >> i will tell you, background checks. i've called many senators last night. many congressmen and jeff and pam and everybody in this room, i can tell you, curtis, they're into doing background checks that they wouldn't be thinking about maybe two weeks ago. we're going to do a strong background check. we're going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18. we're getting rid of the bump stocks and we're going to be focusing very strongly on mental health. >> for analysis, let's bring in chris brown, co-president for the brady center for gun violence. she rallied with parkland students at the florida statehouse yesterday.