here s what the president himself had to say about background checks today. we have very very strong background checks right now. but we have sort of missing areas and areas that don t complete the whole circle, and we re looking at different things and i have to tell you that it is a mental problem, and i ve said it a hundred times, it s not the gun that pulls the trigger, it s the person that pulls the trigger. and when he was asked if he would support the background bill the democratic house has passed this year, he brought up the fact this his supporters believe in the second amendment. we are in very meaningful discussions with the democrats and i think the republicans are very unified, we are very strong in the second amendment. the democrats are not strong at all in the second amendment. i would say they re weak on the second amendment and we have to be careful of that. the democrats would, i believe, i think they would give up the second amendment, and the people that a
this is what trump has been doing all along. there s this fog machine, and there s all these ideas that he has. everybody is out to get him. when something happens and it s happening in plain sight, he explains it away by saying the media out to get me or the deep state, the fbi, the justice department, he is always the victim when something rises up in reaction to his behavior. you know, he hires people who are doing things that need to be investigated and then he says look, i told you it s the deep state. he s lying and delivering false statements all the time. the media is in a fact checking poeg pose. there s the self-fulfilling prophesy, a lot of behaviors and actions are provokie responses. he paints everything with that brush. it s you, congresswoman. you re a congresswoman now because the voters elected you in the last election, that s a fact trump doesn t want to face.
the insight was that the old wi dispute, and chaos and bloodshed over religious struggles, and the great project of america, however poorly realized in the beginning, the great project of america was that if you assented to the idea of the country that we re all created equal, therefore you could be in america. it didn t matter where you came from, it didn t matter if you worshipped at all. you know, michael, trump did this to me one time. he takes your religious background and he shoves it at you. he says how can you be pro choice, a lot of catholics are pro choice. we have our own beliefs about life, we accept the teaching authority of our church, but when it comes to the constitution we accept it. life is complicated. trump says everybody does everything according to their identity, you re not allowed to have a opinion. that s largely how he sees the world. this is another play in it. all i can say from this comment
things. and she said in the last debate if you re going to run for president why are you going to tell me about all the things you can t do. she is a can-do candidate and i think she s going to over take bernie sanders. she s the progressive we need to be watching right now. thank you so much. coming up next, what about er ere eric garpder in that case in new york? garpder in that case in nw york
believers in the second amendment and i am also and we have to be very careful about that. you know, they call it the slippery slope and all of a sudden everything gets taken away. we re not going to let that happen. slippery slope is an often repeated nra talking point to explain why no gun control measures ever get accepted. the president spoke with nra chief executive wayne lapierre on the phone. and joined by fred gutenberg, father of jamie gutenberg killed in the parkland shooting, orange ribbons for jamie, father of a daughter. i can t imagine what you have been through. what do you think of this president and his move on notion that he has lost interest. it seems to be a pattern with him. i ll say the right things for a week, and fly back in the loving arms of the nra. when you listen to the totality of what he said today,