matt rivers live in beijing. thank you. pat roberts is the chairman of the senate culture committee. he says this is counter productive. the nra claim it is has the president on its side after huddling at the white house with the president and vice president. the head of the nra s lobbying arm chris cox tweeting a blunt message afterwards and insisting both men oppose gun control. asked if the white house agrees with the an assessment? stating the white house believes in the second amendment. two big meetings in less than a week? the meeting with the nra follows the freewheeling meeting with the president and bipartisan lawmakers to discuss gun control reform. among the meeting is congress member brian mast. he still believes the president will take action on gun violence. he said clearly if we get him a bill that addresses bump
so it will be interesting to see how their lack of credibility plays out going forward. yeah. it s a very good comparison between what happened with edward snowden and what is happening now. let s switch gears for the a moment and go back to what has erupted in the wake of the parkland school shooting. we continue to see these young survivors take to the air waves calling out elected officials over gun control reform. have they taken lawmakers by surprise? and do you anticipate that we re actually going to hear prosecute them as we head into the midterm elections? could this be an issue in the midterm elections that no one was particularly prepared for? i don t know. i agree, though, that it does seem remarkable how many well spoken students they have who are great on television and very effective at social media. communicating their points the of view regarding gun control. we re certainly going to be hearing about this for another month when at the end of march there are large pr
sheriff scott israel, heading up the investigation into the parkland shooting called out nra spokesperson dana loesch last night with this unambiguous demand. we do needed to have some gun control reform. 18-year-olds should never have a rifle. an 18-year-old kid should not have a rifle. they re not adults yet. they re in high school. these kids should not have a rifle. bump stocks should be illegal. they should be outlawed forever. automatic rifles should be outlawed forever. anybody who says different, i don t know about other people but we re calling bs on that. but perhaps recognizing the power of the nra and the politics sheriff israel offer this had advice. columbine, sandy hook this, stoneman douglas and a host of other tragedies, doing it the same way isn t working. and i could tell you, you re not going to change with all due respect and i think you re an amazing woman, you re not going to change her mind. there s only one way to make america safely. what you have to do,
of thing 1 tonight, florida sheriff scott israel, heading up the investigation into the parkland shooting called out nra spokesperson dana loesch last night with this unambiguous demand. we do needed to have some gun control reform. 18-year-olds should never have a rifle. an 18-year-old kid should not have a rifle. they re not adults yet. they re in high school. these kids should not have a rifle. bump stocks should be illegal. they should be outlawed forever. automatic rifles should be outlawed forever. anybody who says different, i don t know about other people but we re calling bs on that. but perhaps recognizing the power of the nra and the politics sheriff israel offer this had advice. columbine, sandy hook this, stoneman douglas and a host of other tragedies, doing it the same way isn t working. and i could tell you, you re not
they re harder to penetrate. number two. we need to be empowering police officers and deputy sheriffs throughout the nation to be able to take people who are an immediate threat to themselves or an immediate threat to someone else to be examined. . and we need to take guns away from them, forever. they should never get them back. they should have to go through a psychological evaluation. and if we have a doctor or a clinician have to sign their john hancock and say, that person should be given back their second amendment right, we re not going to see doctors do that. but, lastly, we do need to have some gun control reform. 18-year-olds should never have a rifle! an 18-year-old kid should not have a rifle. 18-year-old kid they re not adults yet. they re in high school. these kids should not have a rifle. bump stocks should be illegal. they should be outlawed forever. automatic rifles should be outlawed forever. and anybody who says different, i don t know about other people, but emma