Closest to him outside of family for the past three years, all during the campaign and then during the last 14 months here at the white house. Im told by people in the know that its not any one thing that happened here that is prompting her to leave. She had been telling people for the past couple of months that she was thinking about an exit strategy. That she personally felt it was just time to go. Im told that it wasnt what she said in testimony yesterday to the House Intelligence Committee, which included saying that once in a while she has told white lies on behalf of the president. That he was not upset about that. Its just a sense that she maybe had enough time here at the white house. Enough time in washington. The daily barrage that was coming over her transsome every day that she had to respond to and it was time to pursue other opportunities. Kellyanne conway said earlier this morning that hope hicks made important contributions to the administration. Listen here. She shepherded a lot of resources and surrogates and indeed the president s voice himself when it came to passing major issues like tax reform, working on infrastructure now. Holding some of these round tables yesterday on school safety. Last week, listening session with those affected by School Shootings was hopes original idea. On the issue of School Shootings, the president has got another meeting on that today. We are expecting that the white house possibly as early today, will announce a series of policy proposals regarding gun safety and how to try to end School Shootings im told the president is not going to propose any specific legislation to congress. He will ask them to go ahead and come up with the best ways. The president is going to voice support for the stop School Violence acts which is currently in congress as well as the Cornyn Murphy bill on improving background checks. Administratively, the president says, well, actually one more legislative piece, raising the minimum age purchasing a long rifle from 18 to 21. Administratively, the president may announce that he plans to expand a dhs test program on school safety, fix the fbi tipster program. Encourage states to enadopt gun violence protection orders so that weapons can be taken away from people who threaten to harm themselves or others. And encourage Arming School faculty and staff by perhaps announcing a Program Providing federal grants or federal training to people who want to carry weapons. Attorney general Jeff Sessions, by the way, is going to be here later on today for an opioid abuse session. The president not scheduled to drop by that but he always could stop. In the president not happy that the attorney general has turned the investigation fisa abuses over to the doj Inspector GeneralMichael Horowitz instead of launching a criminal investigation into what happened during the campaign a lot of people are wondering how much more Jeff Sessions can take, the president is not likely to get rid of him because of the following scenario, if the president were to fire Jeff Sessions or Jeff Sessions were to resign, Rod Rosenstein becomes the acting attorney general. What do you think the chances are that the democrats in the senate will allow a nominee of the president s to go forward for confirmation to be the next attorney general while Rod Rosenstein is running the doj. Thats what a lot of people are asking here. One other piece of business, we were expecting that the white house was going to make a big announcement regarding tariffs on steel and aluminum being dumped into this country. We now her hear that announcement will not be today it could be delayed until as late as next week. Meantime wilbur ross the secretary of commerce has called a number of representatives from the steel and aluminum industry into a listening session thats probably getting underway just how to determine what to called the 232 cases regarding steel aluminum dumping and tariffs. Another just ho hum day at the white house. Julie how do you fit it all n two minutes. No. Did i it in five. Julie how many times did you get to wrap there . Jon . Jon Kellyanne Conway racketing to the news on fox friends this morning. Its going to be very difficult to replace hope hicks in the hope role which was very dimensional rule over those three years. Its very important to talk about three years. We have been here 13 months. Hope is one of those unbroken threads between the early days of the primary campaign, all through the campaign, on the plane practically everyday, including on weekends with candidate trump during transition with him and with us and certainly with us day one of the administration. Jon bob cusack editor and chief for the hill. I remember when she took this job, bob, and i announced it on air that hope hicks at the ripe old age of 28 was taking on one of the toughest jobs in the white house, maybe in washington. She is, i guess, 29 now. But why is she going . Thats a good question. Its very difficult job. I dont think it has anything to do with her testimony to the intel panel. Its an intense job. She has been in it for more well than a year. Obviously there are a lot of investigations going on that can be extremely stressful. Real loss for the white house. Never read any stories negative about hope hicks because she is genuine, professional fiercely loyal to the white house, unlike other white house people who have served in this administration. So its going to be, i think, very difficult to replace her. And especially when you have got tension between the chief of staff, general kelly and jared kushner. She was always calm in the middle of the storm. Tough boss and she was able to obviously work for him for quite a long time. It is said that one of the tasks she took on was trying to tone down some of the president s tweets does seem he has been a little less fiery on twitter i think hope hicks was one who could say take it easy on twitter and he would listen. Has been told that by other people. Mitch mcconnell says he doesnt like the president s tweet. The president can continue to tweet. Its all in how you do it thats where he could get honest advice. Jon sit around and read the tvs in washington says her departure is a win for john kelly is, it . Loss for keeping the common in the turbulent white house. Everybody is going to be replaced. And i think that mercedes schlapp, who is already over in the White House Communications shop would be a leading contender. She is professional. She knows washington inside and out arent i think that she could fill those shoes but they are going to be big shoes to fill. Jon obviously earning the president s trust is a big part of the job and hope hicks obviously had that. Bob cusack, thanks. Thanks, jon. Julie new information on just why First Responders didnt rush toward the shooter during the Florida School massacre Commanding Officer telling them to stay outside according to Law Enforcement officer at the scene. Trained to rush toward an active shooter, instead, they were allegedly told to set up a perimeter outside the building meanwhile walmart is becoming more restrictive on gun sales. The company says it will no longer sell firearms or ammo to anyone younger than the age of 21 Dicks Sporting Goods deciding to stop selling high capacity magazines this after immense pressure following this latest shooting in florida. Jon minutes ago u. S. Officials reacting to bold statements made by rushs president Vladimir Putin he is touting new Nuclear Weapons that he says cannot be stopped in his state of the nation speech today. Putin says russia has tested weapons like a Nuclear PoweredCruise Missile and underwater drone and intercontinental ballistic missile. The Nuclear Weapons is he bragging about are not operational yet the nuke powered cruz missile crashed in testing multiple times body of billy graham heads to home state of North Carolina ahead of tomorrows funeral. The body leaving the Capitol Rotunda after lying in honor there. 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These two have been basically going at it since he was appointed the president blasting his attorney general for not ordering his own investigation into the russia investigation amid allegations of surveillance abuse. Now, in a tweet, the president said this why is a. G. , Jeff Sessions, asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive fisa abuse . Will take forever. Has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on comey, et cetera. Isnt the ig an obama guy . Why not use Justice Department lawyers . Disgraceful. But the attorney general fired back with a statement, which reads this as long as i am the attorney general, i will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and constitution. Joining me now for more on this who s. Ohio congressman jim jordan, a member of the House Freedom caucus. Thank you so much. You bet. Julie for talking to us. First of all, how does this conflict appear in washington to have basically your attorney general, who is appointed by the president , be blasted by the president on how he does his job, the job that he was appointed to do . Heres the frustration. The fbi cant investigate themselves. Thats why seven months ago a number of us called for a Second Special counselor. I dont like special counsels, but i see no other remedy. Mueller is inherently compromised because of his background with the fbi. Mr. Sessions doesnt know where his recusal begins and ends. The only answer is the fbi cant investigate themselves. You have to have a special counsel to make this happen. Julie yeah. Thats where we need to be. Thats why we called for it. We called for it again yesterday. Julie my question to you is does it pose a conflict of interest . Have you doj ig Michael Horowitz appointed by president obama in 2012. Now is he investigating allegations of fisa abuse to obtain evidence to spy on a Trump Campaign advisor. One might look at this and say lets see, is there a conflict of interest . What do you think . The Inspector General, mr. Horowitz has done good work. But for his investigation right now into the clinton matter, the clinton email investigation, we wouldnt know about page and strzok and all these text mention. So he was done work but the president is exactly right. He cant prosecute anyone Just Like Congress cant. We need to do our investigation to get information to you and the press and more importantly to the American People but we cant prosecute anyone either. So, there was serious wrongdoing done at the fisa court. At least all indications are that took place. When they didnt present the whole truth to the court, when they didnt tell them who paid for this dossier, when they led with the dossier, when they didnt tell them that Christopher Steele has his relationship had been terminated in the fbi, and they subsequently go to the court to get those renewals and they dont tell the court that information, you are supposed to give the court the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I dont think they gave them the whole truth. So, this needs investigating. The only remedy is a Second Special counsel. Julie thats exactly the point. Somebody lied. There is no question somebody lied. I mean, in light of memos released on capitol hill about both the fbi and the department of cruive, and its efforts to obtain fisa warrants to spy on a former Trump Campaign advisor, i mean, first of all, remember when President Trump came out and basically accused former Obama Campaign affiliates of spying and wiretapping. Remember that, and everybody thought where is he getting this information . This is exactly what he was talking about. And you would want someone with prosecutorial power to investigate these alleged abuses would you not . These are criminal offenses. Exactly right it all comes back to this dossier. Remember, congressman schiff said this past week when his memo came out he said well, Christopher Steele, they were investigating Christopher Steele before the dossier. Well, if thats the case. Why did you wait for the dossier before you got the warrant . Why did you lead with the dossier . Why didnt you tell the court who actually paid for the dossier in a clear fashion . So there were all kinds of problems with what was taken to the court. Thats why you need the investigation. The only one that can do it is a Second Special counsel. Comey is gone. Mccabe has left the fbi. Rybicki has left the fbi, former chief of staff. Jim baker former counsel at the fbi demoted and reassigned. Lisa page, peter strzok has been demoted and reassigned. But were supposed to believe those top people at the fbi can investigate themselves . It cant work. So, appoint the Second Special counsel mr. Attorney general and lets get on with this and get answers to the American People. Julie the American People would like answers but they also want them to be truthful. We have to wait and see on that. Great to cece you as always. Thank you for talking to us. Great to see you, julie. Take care. Jon battle continues will libby schaaf face federal charges after she issued federal warnings about the ice raids in the bay area . Plus, more on hope hicks resignation. What could the White House Communications director reveal after her departure . She we would add great deal of her power very quietly. She has the luxury of not having to come on tv. The ibm cloud. The cloud thats designed for your data. Ai ready. Secure to the core. The ibm cloud is the cloud for smarter business. 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And i think the president spoke for all of us who have had the privilege and pleasure of working closely with hope and getting to know her as a friend that she is fantastic and she has done a tremendous job for him. That is counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway this morning on fox friends. Now, she was just speaking about the resignation of White House Communications director hope hicks. The top aid keeping a low profile during her days in the trump administration, never making a single Television Appearance despite her significant role as being one of the president s closest confidantes. Joining me now is Fox News Media analyst howard kurtz. Howard, thank you so much for talking to us. Also the author of media madness. In case you havent read it, you better. Donald trumps the press and the war over the truth is that okay a plug. I like that. Hope hicks is in the book by the way. Julie great. Let me ask you first of all because the media is fascinated by this woman. The Washington Post says that silence made hope hicks intriguing recent article inside hicks romances between rob porter and corey lewandowski. Why do you think the Mainstream Media is so fascinated with this woman . I first dealt with hope hicks the first week of the campaign when the campaign was her and corey lewandowski. She is very quiet behind the scenes but very effective. Channels donald trump. Knows how to read his mood. She delivers the bad news. Because she is not out there on television. She doesnt have a twitter account. There is this sort of air of mystery thats developed around her i think what it says is that she doesnt care at all about her own image and devoted to the president. The fact that she is quitting now shows you how thoroughly drained she is particularly during her time as communications director. Launch of president s campaign in june of 2015 up to her resignation from the white house on wednesday, why do you think it is that she has yet to make a Television Appearance . This is obviously a decision she made long ago but im wondering why. Believe me, i have asked her. She is not somebody who necessarily feels comfortable in front of the cameras although she was a fashion model. Julie thats why i dont understand. She was a fashion model. She wasnt comfortable in front of the camera . Remember, she had no political experience before. This she is really very dedicated to President Trump and the trump brand. An example of how she doesnt try to enhance her own image is the impression is left because she had just testified before the House Intel Committee the day before and leak to the New York Times she admitted telling lies on the president s behalf she was leaving. Talking about leaving for weeks. This might have been the final straw. The never told any lies about the a russian investigation. Somebody said white lies which mean he cant see you today because he has meeting all day. That kind of thing. She didnt make any effort to stage, this to separate it from her appearance on the hill or to try to salvage her reputation. She really have extremely fiercely dedicated to her boss. Julie very well ared by all her colleagues and being honest. You cant criticize her for that can i be honest in all seriousness, this is going to come across as sexist. It sort of is. She is a beautiful woman. And i believe anybody who looks at the white house and sees a gorgeous woman, who is behind the scenes they want to wonder and come up with conspiracy theories in all actual reality she was devoted to her job and at the end of this, maybe she will come forward and tell us more. But should would he be reading more into this . I dont think so. Only thing read more into white house is in chaos. President fighting with attorney general as you just covered. Jared kushner security clearance downgraded hope hicks leaving. It is true most of the original people who surrounded donald trump got to the white house hopes hope ws one of the last ones was has left. Julie kellyanne is hanging in. There she is tough and a survivor. That may make the president less comfortable and more lonely. At the same time, one of the down sides of this theme that he assembled. All leaking on each other. Petty feuds going on. Most of those people have left. Possible they could settle down and focus on governing. He is going to miss the services of hope hicks. Julie she was definitely his right hand woman. So, anyway, but, thank you very much. Howie, thank you. Great to see you. Jon an intense standoff with police is captured on their body cameras. What led the officers firing dozens of rounds at this suspect . Plus, President Trump taking on the gun control issue but will his Party Support his proposals . Heres nra spokeswoman dana loesch on the prospect of stricter gun laws. We talk about the age restrictions or increasing ages. You know, you are not punishing the gang banger in chicago. Youre punishing people like i was when i was 20 years old living on my own. You are punishing the 19yearold deer hunter who just is looking forward to deer season. Whoooo. When it comes to travel, i sweat the details. Late checkout. Downalternative pillows. And of course, price. Tripadvisor helps you book a. Hotel without breaking a sweat. Because we now instantly. Search over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Dont sweat your booking. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. With smart, revolutionary hhearing Aid Technology available right now, why does it take most of us 7 years when we know we have hearing loss to actually do something about it . 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Police officers fired 65 bullets at an rv where the suspect inside adam housley live in los angeles with all the details. Wow, adam video from last month in february being released. Seven different body cam videos from Police Officers who were on scene. Imagine this. Danger they face on a daily basis suspect they believe murder suspect. Come out with dogs but after a few minutes the suspect opened fire on them. Put together an edit of the actual interaction and then the gunfire. Hes in there. Hold that dog and hold it tight. Hold that dog and hold it tight. Who else is mr. Armstrong, come out with your hands up. [gunfire] get back. Get more ammo. Again that on the streets of san francisco. The suspect is Joel Armstrong accused of shooting fatally. Now accused of carjacking and also with the attempted murder of seven Police Officers. So he opened up two rounds at the officer. 65 rounds were in return from sfpd. Amazingly nobody was hit. Just to show you how dangerous it is and took him into custody after he barricaded himself in the rv for some time. Finally got him in. Murder suspect. Carjacking suspect who opened fire on Police Officers and somehow they all survived and thankfully they all did. He is going to be in jail and most likely for some time. Considering now is he accused of shooting at seven officers as well, julie. Julie incredible work to get him into custody without killing him. That is not easy. He got lucky. Julie he definitely did. Thank you. We have to do something about it. We have to act. We cant wait and play games and nothing gets done. Jon thats President Trump pushing for new restrictions on guns at yesterdays bipartisan televised meeting. In some cases disagreeing with the nra and also sparring with republican lawmakers, saying one senator in particular is afraid of the nra. Joining us capri cafaro, former Ohio State Senate minority leader Washington Examiner contributor and American University of School Public affairs executive. Also with us carrie shelved Senior Writer of opportunity lives and founder of bold global media. Welcome to both of you. Absolutely. Good morning. The fact that this meeting was televised, the president can be a bit of a shoman at times. Do you think . Jon did that play a part in what came out of it. I think the president knows that he key is to speak to the American People. The reason he won in 2016 he was bought and sold by no one. Is he his own man. Thats here, what he is doing is common sense language. I will say that the nra spokeswoman dana loesch has said something very reasonable and true, which is that even if we put more restrictions guns obtained illegally. Federal study shows 11 of gun crimes are illegally purchased. Vast majority of gun crimes come from illegal source. What we really need to do is punish people who are letting their arms get into the hands of people illegally. Thats the real clincher here. Jon capri, it sounds like you agree. I think it certainly is an issue. Again, i come at this from kind of a unique perspective because i am a democrat supported by the nra and entire in the state legislature and tragically had a School Shooting in my district in 2012. I come at this from a unique perspective. President trump and his approach here. I has the luxury for lack of a better term to take on the nra to speak his mind. He is a sitting first term president and, you know, its really the legislature, the members of congress that, number one, have to answer to the electorate this year in 2018. Number two has to care more about whether or not members of the nra are going to show up at the polls. And i will tell you this. Its not about the nras money. It is about the fact that nra members are loyal and they show up much more frequently than anybody in a Public Opinion poll. That said President Trump is listening to the American People saying what people want to hear but only so much can be done from the white house take congressional action and President Trump is a bit isolated because its not his actual job to get done. Jon the president does not write the laws. Interesting dynamics at play here though. Because the nra endorsed this president. Very early. Jon endorsement ever in a president ial campaign yet he was taking on senator pat toomey republican from pennsylvania yesterday saying he is afraid of the nra. Listen to this. Can you buy the gun, the weapon used in this horrible shooting at 18. You are going to decide people in this room pretty much are going to decide. I would give very serious thought to it. Can i say that the nra is opposed to it. We didnt address it, mr. President because you know why . You are afraid of the nra. Five years ago. Its a big issue right now. A lot of people are talking about it a lot of people are afraid of that issue. Jon pat toomey says i have never taken any money from the nra and not particularly afraid of them. I think what the president made was a very important distinction. Specifically talking about hand guns versus semiautomatic weapons which were used in this crime. So i think that thats a very important distinction that woul we have to think about from a common sense perspective. Thats what i find so refreshing about the president. I know myself and some other conservatives we dont know what we are going to get when he won the nomination. We thought maybe he wouldnt be conservative enough. But there is a difference between, you know, understanding the Second Amendment is inherent and it is embedded directly into our heritage as a country that was able to throw o off the evil British Empire because we were armed. This is something that we cannot take away. The bigger problem here again is the issue around who is getting access to the guns illegally. Same thing with the university of chicago only 3 of gun crimes committed in chicago are from guns that were obtained legally. That means 97 of gun crimes in chicago are from guns obtained illegally. This is a big problem. Jon it wasnt an nra member who pulled the trigger. Legally obtained gun as well. Right now the dialogue for better or worse is focusing on this immediate issue of parkland, florida and the tragedy that occurred there and the facts sur rounding that case. Now, do we have to have a larger discussion about everything from conceal carry reciprocity to, you know, what it means to have what is the definition of a semiautomatic weapon . Is it an ar15 . Is it extended magazine clip . We need to have a much larger conversation about everything again prosecute Mental Health to background checks by at the same time trying to preserve individuals trite bear arms and right to privacy as well. Scarring people by labeling them in a certain matter. Often sometimes individuals in government when a tragedy happens or when a certain event occurs, we look to react. We need to be proactive and not reactive not just about this issue but every issue because when you react you are not looking at the big picture. Jon capri cafaro and kerry shelved, than sheffield. Thank you. Julie the shooters widow is now going on trial. How the case could play out. Parodontax, the toothpaste that helps prevent bleeding gums. If you spit blood when you brush or floss you may have gum problems and could be on the journey to much worse. Help stop the journey of gum disease. Try parodontax toothpaste. Julie we are going to take you to the senate floor where senator rubio is debating the gun control issue. Issues they have with existing law and inability to address people that ultimately turn out to it be individuals who should not own any gun of any kind. And so based on these meetings. Based on all of this input. Based on first thing i wanting to say. I actually believe this attack could have and should have been prevented if current law it been fully enforced. This killer was a wellknown danger to the School District. He was a well known danger to the Broward Sheriffs Office. He was a well known danger to his neighborhood. He was also the subject of two separate and specific warnings to Law Enforcement agencies called to the Broward Sheriffs Office last november. Call to fbi hotline in january. In essence, we are always telling people if you see something, say something. People saw something. And people said something. And other people saw it as well over a course of time. And, yet, somehow, this deranged and violent individual was able to pass a background check and purchase not one but 10 separate firearms and this deranged and violent individual was ultimately able to walk right into the school a few minutes before dismissal take the lives of 17 innocent floridians. This tragedy is the result of a massive multistem mick failure. A failure involving federal agencies, state agencies, local authorities who all failed to identify the threat that he posed and coordinate a response to stop him before he took action it is you this failure that i hope we will focus on by addressing the shortcomings and vulnerabilities in our current laws and in our current policies. We may still have a debate on the broader issues of overregulating gun sales. But irrespective of that debate, we still must and should do this today i wanted to come here for a few minutes and announce a comprehensive plan. Not a simple bill you vote on and move on but a series of measures that i believe could prevent these attacks before they happen and help schools protect their students and their teachers and i believe these ideas should all enjoy bipartisan support and if passed should and could help prevent the next mass shooting. These are ideas i outline not because they work but because i believe we can get the votes to pass them. 60 votes in the house, the senate and signature of the president. Thats what i think. These ideas i outline i believe work and enjoy support. Our schools are woefulfully unprepared to prevent an attack before it occurs. Furthermore, during my visit to the site of the attack and my followup meeting with teachers at the school i learned of various changes to School Facilities and practices which could have stopped the attack or improved the response. Therefore i will be joining today later today with orrin hatch to stop School Violence act. If passed this law would provide federal grants to do some important things that would have really been helpful in this case. Strengthen school security. Infrastructure of the school provide School Training for everyone, administrators, teachers, even students to be able to identify threats and to report them. Something that really would be helpful is the creation of a School Threat assessment and Crisis Intervention Team intl is a Successful Program in los angeles that does this. That is a team that is a coordination between Law Enforcement, other state agencies, School Districts and the like where they are all talking to each other about students and former students that may pose violence and intervene before they act. A second issue we identified is even if Law EnforcementSchool Administrators or family members believe that an individual poses a risk of committing an act of violence, they have very few options to prevent them from purchasing any guns or taking the guns away that they already have. Therefore, i intend to present a new law perhaps in coordination with others that are working ton now that will lead to the creation of gun violence restraining orders, something that will give Law Enforcement and close family members the option of obtaining a court order to prevent gun sales or remove guns from individuals who pose a stlet. And to be clear, the due process in such a situation would be on the front end, not on the back end. The third issue we uncovered is that federal law appears to discourage School Systems from reporting dangerous students to Law Enforcement i dont support criminalizing all school conduct or school misconduct. But a student who has threatened violence. Or exhibited violent behavior needs to be reported to Law Enforcement. A student thats committed a crime by issuing a threat of death using social media that is a crime under florida law, that needs to be reported. Under Broward CountySchool Policies pursuant to something called the promise program, reporting a student, a dangerous one to Law Enforcement is the sixth step, step six in their plan. Therefore, i intend to propose changes to the federal youth promise program. So that a School District plan under this program does not delay and does not discourage Law Enforcement from being alerted to dangerous and violent or hazardous behavior. Fourth, we need to strengthen background checks. And thats why i have joined with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle pushing for the immediate passage of fix nics. Something that will require all federal agencies and incentivize every step to fully report relevant information to the National Background check database. Because a background check is only as good as the information that is on it. And it deranged killer was able to buy guns on 10 separate occasions because he would have passed every any background check because none of this stuff that was known about him was reported to that system fifth, we must begin to prosecute the purchase of guns by people prohibited from doing so. Next week, i hope to be joining a Bipartisan Group led by senators toomey and coons and filing the lie and try bill. Notify states when someone who is not allowed to buy a gun tries to buy a gun and fails the background check so they can be investigated so they can be prosecuted in addition, well be present ago new law to provide more prosecutors to go after straw purchases, which is where someone goes and buys a gun on behalf of someone else because that someone else could not pass the background check. Now, there are some additional reforms that im open to. The possibility of looking at the age limits on semiautomatic rifles. The notion of looking at what could be done with high capacity magazines. Well continue to explore and look at those. These reforms do not enjoy the sort of widespread support in congress that the other measures i have announced do. And in order to successfully pass these ideas will have to be crafted in a way that actually contribute to Greater Public safety but also do not unnecessarily or unfairly infringe on the Second Amendment right of all raw abiding adults to hunt and participate in recreational shooting. But, ultimately, there are things that we can do that have widespread bipartisan support that we can act on and get passed that will actually make a difference. These are impactful things. I just urge the senate and house, all of my colleagues here do not hold hostage a piece of legislation that would work and that we all support because it doesnt have everything you want. There are things we can act on and do and there are things we can continue to argue over debate and perhaps do in the future. But on the things that we agree on and they have to be things that could have prevented this attack and will prevent future attacks. Lets get those done. I have outlined those here today. There may be others. We owe it not just to the victims and families of parkland, but to all americans everywhere, for this attack may have happened in southern florida, but there is no reason why it cant happen somewhere else and i say it will happen somewhere else if we do not fix the deficiencies and the flaws in our policies, in our laws and in the way that theyre enforced. We have learned from this incident what is wrong with our system, let us fix it. And we have an opportunity to do so while we continue to debate and work on the issues that we do not agree on. And that is what i hope we will do. And that is what i commit to doing everything can i to achieve. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Julie senator marco rubio having very tough words for the current laws in place basically blaming the laws. If the proper laws had been put in place this shooting could have been prevented. He is going to be presenting a new law that will basically lead to the creation of gun violence, he says. Restraining orders to bring and obtain a court order in order to prevent the gun sales to those who either pose a threat or some v. Some sort of issue or history of mental illness. We will continue to watch what washington does to react. But we will hand it over to jon now. Jon as marco rubio and the Senate Struggle to deal with the aftermath of the parkland florida shooting, another florida massacre is about to go on trial. Talking about the pulse nightclub and the widow of the gunman in that massacre faces charges, jury selection is underway today. Bring in panel mercedes colwin, defense attorney and fox news analyst bob ask a criminal defense attorney former head county prosecutor as well. Mercedes and moore salmon charged with what his husband was about to do that night can they convict her. There are key points there. One, the Authorities Say she actually cased some of these areas. She went to pulse with her husband. She was there when he purchased the ammunition. She made inconsistent statements to the investigators. She said well, when he walked out that night, and he had his backfilled with ammunition, and the rifle, i thought oh, he is up to something and he is not going to do something good. And then lastly, which is probably the most incriminating is that she texted her husband and said hey, if your mom calls, say you are out with nemo and just say that i want to stay home. I love you. So those those four key facts that the investigators, the prosecutors are going to set fort in front of that jury are going to be very condemning. Jon its also true, bob, that the government has to prove that she was essentially trying to support the islamic state, isis . She has to aid and abet. On the obstruction charge she done she admitted to lying to the government. I think thats an easy case. As far as material aiding and abetting him, i think as a prosecutor, im concerned about a couple things. Especially, mercedes, that text that happened while he was in the course of a shooting saying do you see whats going on . And she says no. What . And he says i love you, babe. And they also, the defense, gotten some experts that are also going to show that some of the times when he went to get the ammunition where she confessed that it was a false confession g. P. S. Status shows she wasnt there. I think they have a little bit of a factual despite. As a prosecutor myself, this would be my biggest concern to be able to get around some of those inconsistencies. But her husband was in there and say look im doing this for isis. Thats a real problem out. Jon jury selection is underway this morning. We will keep our eyes on that case. Julie . Julie coming up on outnumbered, did the mayor of oakland break federal laws, any of them, when she warned her constituents about ice raids on twitter. The doj now looking into whether it was obstruction of justice. Today, the new new york is sparking innovation. You see it in the Southern Tier with companies that are developing powerful batteries that make everything from cell phones to rail cars more efficient. Which helps improve every aspect of advanced rail technology. All with support from a highlyeducated workforce and vocational job training. Across new york state, were building the new new york. To grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd. Ny. Gov. Jon thank you for joining us on this thursday. Julie and outnumbered starts right now. Harris some changes coming to the white house. Hope hicks announcing she will be leaving her post as White House Communications director in a number of weeks. The move costing President Trump one of his longest serving aids and strongest defenders. This is outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today is sandra smith, cohost of after the bell on fox business melissa francis. Hello. Harris fox news analyst marie harf is in the house. And that laugh is. [laughter] fox news senior judicial analyst judge Andrew Napolitano is outnumbered on a friday eve. Judge and happy to be here. Harris get to it. We have a lot of news. Yes we do. Harris the white house said hope hicks decision to resign unrelated to interview this week before the House Intelligence Committee and she was considering the move before the Domestic Violence controversy broke out over former white house staff secretary rob porter whom hicks had been dating. A former Trump Campaign official told politico her departure will leave the president