in florida. president biden needed more latino community supporting his campaign. my wife and myself were opening this event for him. before that we had this was the second time that we were had the chance to talk for a few minutes and this is when he told me that he is willing to solve this problem, which i believe, i still believe, and the fact that he already did a lot getting together republicans and democrats to work for better solutions in terms of gun violence. you know, we look at congress, and congress has essentially thrown its hands up in the air. they re just deadlocked on this issue. the white house sent you a statement trying to highlight some of the things that president biden has done on ghost guns, on stabilizing braces, on encouraging states to drop adopt red flag laws like the one that florida passed in the wake of parkland that has been employed thousands of times
yesterday in 10 days. part of why that all happened was to convince the justices that there s really nothing to see here, that this is actually a pretty outlandish claim by the former president and his lawyers. that where you have congress and the sitting president agreeing as to what kind of materials can and cannot be handed over, it would be a remarkable precedent to allow someone who is no longer in the oval office to come in and prevent that from going forward. i think there are one or two justices, maybe even three justices who would be interested in this. but, brianna, in the posture the case is in, former president trump is going to need five of them to agree to keep the document turnover on hold and to rule pretty quickly. that s why i think we will have a decision one way or the other by pretty early in january. . we ll be watching. steve, thank you for that. former new jersey governor chris christie is responding to the revelation that the former
at this point. what do you say to that? well, i say that announcing and encouraging that s something i can do. right. i m not the president of the united states. we just heard the sheriff in florida thanking god, for the grace of god, we were able to stop a mass shooting. that s not right. we cannot rely on the grace of god and not have our politicians moving on. i need to be okay with everything this administration has done. that means that some bills are on hold in congress, and now we need to wait for senate. i had a meeting with chris murphy yesterday, and i asked him the same question what are you going to do? what is going to happen? so, no, that s it. we re working on them and at some point and that will never happen. those bills don t save lives. put it that way. laws might save lives. but as long as you have a bill that is not passing, not going anywhere, we re not moving forward. in the meantime, people are
smiles in that piece. thanks so much. new day continues right now. hello. i m brianna keilar with john berman. on this new day , overknight a florida college student is in custody after allegedly plotting to shoot up his campus. we ll have the disturbing new details. former president trump souring on one of his closest international allies, telling one reporter f him. what s behind the fallout. and begging congress for help as crime hits record levels across several cities. chris christie said it s undeniable that trump gave him covid and mark meadows silence was inexcusable. welcome to our viewers in the
a wave of brazen store robberies as ceos pleading with congress for help. san francisco, los angeles, and chicago are among the cities that have seen the smash and grab mob attacks targeting retailers. and that s why the ceos of target, best buy, home depot and cvs are among more than 20 retail leaders who sent a there effort to congress yesterday urging lawmakers inform, integrity, notification and fairness in online retail market places. this would make it easier for consumers to identify who they re buying from and harder for criminals to sell stolen merchandise onlean. if they can t sell it, they re not going to steal it. three weeks to go left in 2021. 12 major u.s. cities are hitting an all time high in murder rates. one of those cities is roc