indicated. so, i think that what i was comparing to the immigration meeting in that the president behaved the same way in both. he surprised republicans. he surprised democrats. he seemed open to considering new ideas. and then after that, so everywhere of that feeling went away. and evaporated when he went back to sort of his original. harris: it wasn t around like i said, these young people who just survived. maria: how do we know the urgency is not going to evaporate now. sandra: you a are right. in that case with immigration he put forward his three or four pillars that had to be in there and not everyone ended up agreeing on that. in this case is he saying what s your idea? what s your idea? what s your idea? harris: i want to answer maria s question now. do you know why the urgency went away? march 5th is no longer the deadline. sandra: we have been awaiting the aannounce the from the president on steel aluminum imports. the president shear talking about it let s listen
i think. i m old enough to remember when we watched an immigration meeting that was rather similar, lasted about an hour, the president and lawmakers and the potential for a bipartisan compromise at the end of the day, that never materialized. why is this going to be any different? we don t know if it will be any different . and remember trust but verify. and i think in this case don t trust and verify. you know, either we ll take action or not. we won t take action in the house and senate unless the president leans in. and if he doesn t lean in, it will be clear that those were just a bunch of words and this will be decided in congress or ballot box. and you will heard chris murphy where he said he thinks the conversation is fundamentally changed. or is functionaldamentally chan. do you agree? i do. i really do. and i think that is in part what you heard from the president. and he is in a quandary. he loves his base. but i think he understands the american people are moving an
toomey/manchin bill, starting with the background check bill. that gun violence restraining order is one piece but we have to make sure as your intro showed that everyone who buys a gun has a background check, whether you buy it at a gun store, a gun show, online. that s what the legislation would do. the president supported that. we need to now make sure that he sticks with it and pushes to make sure that s where we go. that s what everybody is wondering, right, because after the immigration meeting that seemed so productive, all of a sudden that derailed and we didn t get an immigration bill. but that was strange. yesterday s meeting was strange, with the president pushing back on some republicans seeming to embrace some of the concepts that democrats are putting forward and speaking about a larger, more comprehensive bill than the toomey/manchin bill. what do you think happens, representative? you think something can actually come out of that that s positive, the toomey/manchin bi
you have to watch some of the video where he talks about his support for grabbing guns without due process. if barack obama had said some of the things trump said, everybody in that room would have had their hair on fire. my advice would be give it a couple days. this reminded me a lot of that immigration meeting where he s sitting around the table talking about an act of love. i will sign whatever you bring up because one of the things that was clear is he wants to do something but he is profoundly ignorant of the policy. i think he s going to find out how deeply engrained the power and the authority of the nra are. so it continues to be. but some of the things that he said there mark a dramatic break with the nra and puts his fellow republicans at a very awkward position which makes me think that again, give it a little time to see whether or not when he goes back in and his staffers say you can t do this and wayne la pierre is on the phone
live immigration meeting in the cabinet room it ended in a similar way, the president was in favor of a bipartisan deal and would back whatever deal the people in the room came up with and you remember what happened next. the white house that killed the bipartisan deal cooked up in the senate. and earlier i spoke with senator bill nelson and asked him for his takeaway from what he saw happen at this meeting. look at the body language of the republicans in the room. i think it is going to be a very hard for them to support anything that the nra does not bless. you saw president trump say don t be afraid of the nra. well, that is his words. but what have we seen? what have we always seen? what is happening right now and in your and my state capitol on this state of florida in the last week of the state