wolf, you know, the terrorist attack in orlando was a terrorist attack. we added 46 more counterterrorism experts to try to work on that issue. as i talked to families, i told them i m going to get people from all over the state. i m going to get, you know, individuals to sit down, to figure out how to get this done. i ve already talked to my speaker of the house, my senate president. i said, we have got to get something done, and they are they said they re going to be very supportive of working with me to get something done in this state. legislative it s not that complicated. you just got to pass some new laws to make it more difficult for 18-year-olds to buy assault weapons, right? wolf, we are not going we re going to figure out exactly what we can do, and i m going to work through, you know, all the leaders in this state, local and state, and we re going to figure this out. i do not want this to happen again. because florida is such an important state right now, and
from the conversation right. let s remember this, first off, pulse was a terrorist attack. and after pulse, we put i asked for money and legislature supported adding more counterterrorism experts through the florida department of law enforcement. we did that. we added 46 additional counterterrorism experts and we did that. in this case, what we have to think about is all of our schools have to be safe. it is as simple as that. how do we do that? it is going to be funding. it is going to be is there both for security, for mental illness, for counselors, things like that. on top of that, we got to say to ourselves if we have somebody is mentally ill, they can t have access to a gun. so look, i m open to having a conversation about things because i don t want my children, your children, my grandchildren, your grandchildren, ever, anything to have to go through this.
the conversations you re planning to have, how would they be different? right. let s remember this, first off, pulse was a terrorist attack. after pulse, we put i asked for money, legislature supported, adding more counterterrorism experts through our core department law enforcement. we added 46 additional counterterrorism experts. we did that. in this case, we have to think about all of our schools have to be safe. as simple as that. how do we do that? it is going to be funding. it s going to be for mental illness, counselors, security. on top of that, we have to say to ourselves, if we have somebody mentally ill, they can t have access to a gun. look, i m open to having a conversation about things because i don t want my children, your children, my grandchildren, your grandchildren, ever go through this. i don t want a parent to say, i have to teach you now when you
successfully penetrated. this report comes as secretary of state rex tillerson warns the u.s. may not be able to prevent future russian interference in such things. yesterday he warned that if russia attempts to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections, there s very little the u.s. will be able to do to stop it. i think it s important we just continue to say to russia, look, if you think we don t see what you re doing, we do see it and you need to stop. if you don t, you re going to just continue to invite consequences for yourself. is the u.s. better prepared this time around, than 2016? i don t know that i would say we re better prepared, because the russians will adapt as well. if the point is, if it s their intention to interfere, they re going to find ways to do that. and we can take steps we can take. but this is something that once they decide they re going to do it, it s very difficult to preempt it. we have counterterrorism experts standing by tonight with a look at wh
this report comes as secretary of state rex tillerson warns the u.s. may not be able to prevent future russian interference in such things. yesterday he warned that if russia attempts to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections, there s very little the u.s. will be able to do to stop it. i think it s important we just continue to say to russia, look, if you think we don t see what you re doing, we do see it and you need to stop. if you don t, you re going to just continue to invite consequences for yourself. is the u.s. better prepared this time around, than 2016? i don t know that i would say we re better prepared, because the russians will adapt as well. if the point is, if it s their intention to interfere, they re going to find ways to do that. and we can take steps we can take. but this is something that once they decide they re going to do it, it s very difficult to preempt it. we have counterterrorism experts standing by tonight with a look at what this means for our cou