with those families and dealing with their heartache. and so this is a president that feels, that is able to feel what people are going through. he knows what loss means to families. so yeah, you know, he wants to continue to fight, he wants to continue to speak out against this. you ve seen his statements over the last several days sadly and what we have seen with gun violence across the country. and so you ll continue to see that and he will continue to speak about this in a way that lifts up the families who are dealing with this loss, very devastating loss and continue to call on congress to take action. one more shot on the pence documents. is there any sense the white house, it shifts the political or public perception dynamics of what the president has been facing over the course of the last several weeks? i m just not going to comment from here. joey. [laughter] i thought you were there yesterday, joey, it was michael.
career. so we are going to have to continue to have those conversations with congress, continue to call on congress to take action. separate topic, u.s. officials have determined that chinese companies have been sending nonlethal resistance to russia for ukraine. what is the united states saying to the chinese government about this? we are closely monitoring the situation as we have been since the war started. we will continue to communicate to china the implications of providing material support to russia s war against ukraine. we have talked about this many times that we will, you know, about he very clear what it means to support russia s aggression against ukraine. and as i ve said many times, as my colleagues have said, we will continue to support ukraine and the ukrainian people as long as needed. what are those implications? i m not going to get into diplomatic or private conversations from here. i m just going to let you know we have been monitoring the situation and ve
couple of follow-ups on the pence issue. does the white house believe there should be a special counsel? that s for the department of justice to decide. we are seeing the two most recent vice presidents discovered classified documents in their private homes, does this suggest there is a larger problem in the government where classified documents are not where they are supposed to be. do a lot of people have documents outside of where they are properly supposed to be stored? i m not going to comment from here on that. refer you to the white house counsel and anything related to classified documents from here. thanks, karine. on the issue of gun control, you spoke about president s commitment to assault weapons ban and his view there is more that can be done. how do, i should say, the limitations in congress, ie, with the votes you have or don t have in congress, impact that
ban that feinstein introduced, i mean, you are talking of course about a republican-led house now and so how, i mean, you know, what can the white house do to actually overcome those numbers? and one thing i want to go back to on california, the president has been in touch with local and state leaders and his team continues to offer support to the local government and clearly governor newsom s team in any way we can to be helpful with what they are dealing with today, this week i should say. look, it is, you know, it is a priority for the president, it really is. that s why he s taking executive actions. that s why his team has worked with congress on this bipartisan legislation that was passed several months ago. and he ll continue to do that, and you know, i think if you all remember, and many of you reported this, that how difficult it was going to be for the president to get any bipartisanship the first two years of his administration and he was able to get historic pieces of leg