expected to press washington to take action after the rash of deadly mass shootings. we ll bring you his speech when it happens this hour live, let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin bur e, burnett, biden about to discuss gun violence in the united states, looking at pictures from the white house in a moment where biden will be speaking in about 30 minutes. his prime time speech follows what, of course, in the past few weeks has been mass shooting after mass shooting that have taken the lives of children, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, in so many different settings. hospital, grocery stores, schools, just some of the faces of those who have lost their lives, in buffalo, uvalde, and now tulsa. police say two doctors, receptionist and a patient were killed in a rampage at a medical building. the gunman, according to police, purchased the ar-15 style rifle three hours before he went and murdered all those people, went to the hospital with th
behind what a small group of members are currently discussing and they are not discussing what joe biden just calmed for. they are not discussing a ban on assault weapons. that is not part of the discus discussions here. not talking to go as far on background checks as joe biden wants, in fact, talking about in gun show sales, not fwretd sales and certainly not private transfers. joe biden wants universal background checks. that is not part of the discussion, erin, so there are really uncertain, ultimately, where republicans will come down, ultimately when this deal comes together, if in fact it does come together, but at the moment, erin, the question here is when they come back into town next week, can they get behind something? can republicans ultimately get the 10 republican votes to go get behind a deal here? but joe biden may ultimately get nothing despite his call for a laundry list of asks he just made there. and despite that there are
having him speak to the nation after what we ve seen happen in the united states after the last several weeks because yes, there is gun violence in the united states everyday but the white house, obviously, having to brief president biden over three shootings in just the last three weeks alone, the one of course in buffalo, uvalde and then last night in tulsa, a third briefing for the president to talk about this . one thing i think to look for tonight, the white house has not really previewed yet is whether or not he is going to call for congress to enact specific legislation. they want congress to take action here, they want common sense gun laws, they say, but haven t said exactly what it is the president is looking for in this round of negotiations. a lot of that is by design because the white house says he wants to give congress space to give these talks that are happening now between democrats and republicans and say the president has not been directly involved in those yet, but
said but the way he said it it was time to use it. exactly right, air erin, from t specifics of raising the age to buy a weapon to red flag laws to other topics that are very much in play, not just in congress, erin, but in states, maybe not fully in play in texas, but they have happened in other red states, and florida right now is a red state and after parkland, they made some of the very changes that the president was talking about. and commissioner, you made that point, the president did take the time to go through some of the inconsistencies, you know, maybe in recent days people heard well you can buy an assault weapon in texas years before you re able to rent a car. he points it outside today, you can buy an ar-15 in texas at 18 but can t buy a pistol until age 21, basic inconsistencies, commissioner, i m sure the president was hoping would and would seem should appeal to anybody with an open mind.
biden will approach that podium and address the american people about gun violence and just the most recent mass shootings, the ones in buffalo, uvalde, and tulsa. biden expected to use this rare prime time address to the nation to urge congress to pass common sense gun control legislation. obviously, that has been a complete nonstarter after every single mass shooting in recent memory. right to chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins, as we get ready for president biden, this is a significant moment, they have chosen to do this in prime time, obviously going to begin in a couple of moments and as you ve been reporting, he was the one pushing to give this speech in this forum. reporter: yeah, erin, and he had been thinking about doing so before four people were killed in tulsa last night. didn t make the final decision to give this speech today and it s not often you see president biden give an evening address, typically in the morning or afternoon, i think this really highli