failed to act. tucker: i take you seriously. that s why i wanted to talk to you. give me a specific step they could have taken to prevent the parkland shooting, for example? well, let s look at a couple of things. why hasn t the president acted on pump stocks. i thought he was hot to trot. tucker: what does that have to do with parkland? here s the problem, tucker, your answer, well, it would not stop this specific act. tucker: i am asking an honest question. [overlapping talking]. we have a gun violence culture. tucker: are blaming the state house in tallahassee for our culture? i am. [overlapping talking]. tucker: when armed guards neglect their duty to protect
seconds. i think i also heard that from a trump adviser. he s had trouble in the past and has plenty of deposition experience and he s had to admit to himself he s lied under oath previously. it would be dangerous here and it s the same issue they have with the bob mueller situation with the russia investigation where the lawyers there are also very much counselling him not to sit down for an interview even though the president himself says he wants to. white house told nbc news the reason the president hasn t responded to stormy daniels despite responding to everybody else is that this does not rise to the level of needing a presidential response. is that what s going on? does it rise to the level of needing a presidential response? there was a board up with the 400 odd things the president has attacked, including super bowl li, that particularly game,
whereas there is a lot of accountability at the va? it s a different type of injury they re treating. ptsd, you see a lot of that in hospitals around the country and it s not that the private hospitals could not get up to speed eventually, no one is making that argument. it s what happens in the interim and what happens with oversight. will fisher, thank you very much for being here. iraq war veteran and purple heart recipient with vote vets.org. a live look at sacramento, california, where mourners are gathering for the funeral of stephon clark who was shot and killed by police last week. next, why hasn t the president even mentioned clark s name, and is this as the white house called it, a local matter? their hearts may not be hardened by bitterness. more than a thousand workers are starting their day
already one republican congressman in the swing district is bowing out in part because of the scandal, headlines today reporting to a giant 2018 headache for republicans for that same reason. because a referendum on trump s conduct could cost them suburban voters. to quote the new york times today, the midterm campaign appears destined to turn more on the behavior of the man in the white house than any other in decades that we have seen. let s start at the white house with our correspondent jeff bennett. one reason trump can t get out in front of this is because he won t say anything about stormy daniels. why is he doing this? that s right, look, the president s tweets spare almost no one, but he s been uncharacteristically silent on this issue involving daniels. our colleague kristen welker spoke with a senior administration official and put this question to this official, saying why hasn t the president said anything, and the response was that the president has sought counsel amo
as well as including the so-called fix nics in the omnibus bill which the president supported. i would take exception that many states and cities have extensive gun control. we are sitting in washington, d.c., one of the hardest places to purchase and own legally own a gun and one of the most violent cities, racked by gun violence. has been for a long time. chicago is another, baltimore is another. and these cities and others like them share one thing in common. they have succeeded in getting gun control policies passed. and they re governed by democrats that s why they can do it. but, you know, the consequences have been negative, not positive. but getting back to real quick the initial question, i mean, why hasn t the president put his stamp on what we re seeing today? i mean, what they re calling for is an end to gun violence.