that because now we have to be very nice. let s see what happens. no joke. at his pittsburgh rally, the president was also back to his old ways, hurling insults at democrat members of congress and the media. he s using these vulgarities in the context of a campaign rally. obviously, there were a lot of funny moments to that ray lp. yeah, they were hilarious. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington where president trump appears to be bending to the national rifle association one month after the tragedy at stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, backing off his push to raise the age for buying weapons. all this after promising stronger accident to gun violence survivors at the white house. we re going to pick out the strongest ideas, the most
tariffs are good. raising the age for buying weapons. that s good. these both came from president trump. they fight conservative orthodoxy and then you have this political concern of the chaos in the white house. what are conservatives to do? let s ask one. matt schlapp the chairman of the conservative union. good to see you. you too. what chaos? make the case for why there s no chaos in the white house and while matt does that i want you to run our list we have of all the zany stuff that has been going on in just the last week. you tell me, why is there no chaos? there s a lot of activity and energy and announcements coming from the white house. i think the news media seems to be focused very much on some kind of chaos amongst the personnel at the white house and of course there are stories there too. i find my interactions to be pretty level in that they have a
at school or anywhere many america. what are you calling for? what do you want to see changed? a few things, i want infrastructure an security to be improved, using things we ve had for ages, bulletproof windows, live footage security cameras to bso. on top of that, more security presence in schools, whether that be more security officers, as well as i would like the age limit on buying weapons to be raised to 21. i d like gun control to be tightened up in the sense that we reenforce the background check more effectively and make sure protocol is being sought out. followed. followed, absolutely. you want assault weapons ban? absolutely. so after you go on this speaking tour and you march,
ways that we can put pressure. this president, as i told you last week, has been much tougher on russia than his predecessor. reporter: russia was on the president s mind as he tweeted about this being a witch hunt. a new poll shows the majority of americans don t support. if you want to blame somebody on past problems, you need to look at the past administration. the white house is also on its heels on gun control insisting the president does support the idea of raising the age little for buying weapons. the president still supports raising the age limit. reporter: that came after sources said the president was backing away from the proposal. he didn t even mention it when he met with the nation s governors. we have the support of the nra having to do with background
and even democrats in red states listening to right now? these sorts of polls with public opinion, or are they listening to the nra and their vonted voter list of voters who are single-issue voters who vote on guns and guns alone? you know i think a lot of us got this wrong at the outset, and me specifically, i actually do think that i talked to a number of equivalent members of the house in the last 12 to 24 hours who have said we recognize we have to do something. it s not going to be an assault weapons ban. it s not going to be some sort of age change for buying weapons. but you could see some sort of narrow legislative measure that would strengthen background checks. we reported this morning it would give the government the ability to take away weapons for 21 days from people who are either charged with domestic abuse or violent.