you that i put to senator toomey by some of the ideas that a republican president, donald trump, who s taken a good deal, $30 million or so, of money from the nra over the course of his campaign, some of the proposals he put out that sounded to an awful lot of people like a gun control agenda? you know, i was heartened by what the president said and some of the commitments that he made to see this through to the end. i represent a district in central florida that was deeply affected by pulse and i will tell you that my constituents in florida want to see us take action and this might be a nixon goes to china moment for trump. he might be the only president who can help us advance some common sense gun safety measures because as senator toomey said, nobody believes he s trying to take away anybody s guns. congresswoman heidi przybyla has a question for you. you say you re heartened by what you saw yesterday but 2013 was not that long ago and what we saw was this congress resistant
this is the number of incidents before and of incidents and deaths. this is when the ten year assault weapon ban was in, how incidents and deaths dropped. when it ended you see it going up. dianne, if you could add what you have also and i think you can into the bill can you do that? joe, can you do that? pat, can you add some of the things? if you help. i ll help. heidi, i know you have new reporting. i want to read a tweet the president put out, perhaps watching coverage. he writes many ideas, some good, some not sood so goode merged from our bipartisan meeting on school safety meeting at the white house. background checks a big part of conversation, gun-free zones are proven targets of killers. after many years, a bill should emerge. respect second amendment. no follow up on his claim that
guts of aruba republicans and that seems like a stronger calculus. heidi przybyla thank you very much go ahead, joe. i wanted to say the only problem is if you re just talking about background checks, talking about something nine out of ten americans repo s support seems that base that donald trump has been playing to hasn t been able to save him in any of the state races, statehouse races in the past so i know it s going to be a tough order for him but he s got to do something that is going to stop the bleeding from independents and also from republicans college educated republicans. heidi, thanks a lot, we ll be reading your new reporting on the nra on nbcnews.com. coming up, we ll talk to another democrat in yesterday s meeting with the president, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota will be our guest in the next hour. and up next, nbc s katy tur
director and seeing mueller hone in on his attempts to fire sessions, it s just your average day in trumpland. welcome back to morning joe, it s thursday, march 1. we ve made it to march. with us we have former aide to george w. bush s white house and state departments, elise jordan. pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. also joining the conversation we have chief national correspondent for the new york times magazine mark leibovich, and nbc news national political reporter heidi przybyla. mika is out today on assignment and, jon meacham, i want to go to you. i look back, i was five in 1968 and i don t remember too much of it but is there any historical parallel not only the the events, news events, that we had coming down yesterday but what s