the mamt was mapayment was made a personal and false allegation in order to pro peserve and prot the president's family. it was certainly an amplification. but to the key question of when this payment was made, if the president knew about it, and whether or not it was deemed a campaign finance violation, well of course this statement doesn't clarify any of that. you pointed out that president trump is set to speak. you see vice president mike p s pence here behind me. we don't expect the president to roll out any new gun proposals today, instead he will try to emphasize some things he talked about in the past in the immediate aftermath of the parkland school shootings, beefing up security, arming teachers, that sort of thing. mr. trump has spoken to this gathering before. this will be his fourth time, but this time he has a bit of a heavier lift. one lady on the way in here said president trump's got to get right with the gun crowd. what she was alluding to, steve, was the fact that, as you