passed which is a bipartisan background check bill and that s the first gun violence prevention bill passed from house judiciary in decades. today governor desantos announced there is a grand jury in the investigating school board in broward county which i know was stuchuch a great victo for the parents. so while ago, we re coming up oun the one year anniversary of such a horrible horrific thing that took 17 of our best people, we re seeing a lot of reason to look to the future and see hope. you re a senior now. what is it like at the school? i know that a lot of the families of the victims, despite having gone through such a horrible thing, i see these people so often. they re so grateful for all the help they get. they re so supportive. i mean patrick petty is a student at douglas right now who lost his sister. every time i talk to him, i say how are you doing? i try to check in.
all of their time focusing on budget questions, so i don t think that s a fair criticism. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell spoke just moments ago. let s listen. i ve just had an opportunity to speak with president trump, and he would, i would say to all my colleagues, has indicated that he s ready to sign the bill. he will also be issuing a national emergency declaration at the same time. and i ve indicated to him that i m going to prepare i m going to support the national emergency declaration. so for all of my colleagues, the president will sign the bill. we ll be voting on it shortly. and with that, i ask the chair to lay before the senate the conference report to accompany house joint resolution 31. okay, the news is changing in realtime here. you just heard from mitch mcconnell. he says the president is going to sign the bill, but he s going to declare a national emergency and mitch mcconnell says he
commentary, i suppose. but if we get this bill passed and the president signs it, i guess that s a step in the right direction. but it s not a very good way to run a government. congressman dan kildee, thank you very much for being with us. thank you. dana bash is here with me. your reaction to this reporting that was remarkable. i think we witnessed and we were maybe even a part of realtime reporting, as you said to the congressman, news is changing extremely fast. first, you know, we heard from kaitlan collins that they re hearing that the president is not so sure. manu talking to republican senators saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, i m not going to put my name on this, i m not going to give you my aye vote unless i know it s actually going somewhere, unless i know the president s going to sign it, and then mitch mcconnell maybe he just picked up the phone and called the president and said, i need you to say yes so i can go out and i can announce it to calm everybody down, to
one of them right now. yes, sir? on the news of the past couple of months, that the president told the senate majority leader he would sign the bill, you must be pleased with that. but on the national emergency, does that change the vote calculus at all? obviously, if you have the president saying he s going to sign a piece of legislation, he would say, okay, i would vote for that, but also that caveat, that could potentially be a few votes away. does that have any impact? let s just have the vote. that s very interesting, but let s just have the vote? does that change support one way or another? it is interesting to see how the vote, the president has said to the republican leadership in the senate, senator shelby, a senior opera senior, a respected leader in the united states snad senaenat
supports that. ya your reaction? well, i hope the senate acts fast before the president changes his mind again. he seems to change his mind on an hourly basis. i m glad that they re moving forward. i do think it s an abdication of leader mcconnell s responsibility that he has to wait for permission from the president of the united states for him to do the job that he was elected to do. that s disappointing. obviously, we want to see this bill passed and we want the president to sign it. but frankly, we won t need the president s signature if the senate delivers a vote that s based on the true support for this legislation. we won t need the president s signature if the house were to deliver a vote based on what i know to be the true support for this bill. and the fact that the president s going to make an emergency declaration, many of us have serious questions about whether or not he has that authority. it may be that leader mcconnell felt that it s something that he had to give the