far two often far too often. we have to do something to stop gun violence ripping apart our communities. ripping apart. [ applause ] good morning and welcome to morning joe. that s president biden joe biden delivering a speech. another deadly shooting. we re going to have more on the victims and the expected gunman just ahead. and the white house talks about three unidentified objects that were shot down over the last week with a new explanation of what they could be. and we re going to have new reporting from the justice department that could overcome claims of attorney-client privilege from one of donald trump s lawyers ominous news for mr. trump. mike pence continues to stonewall any efforts to get him to testify about january 6th. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i was thinking we could talk about the new york times story do we have the times here? new york times on italy s prime minister surprising europe or i m going to take you know whe
looking at background checks, making sure the folks don t get through. we think that the shooter here probably should have never had a weapon. he had a weapons violation. how did he acquire that weapon? there are loopholes when it comes to buying weapons. we have to close the loopholes. and 85 to 90% of the american people think that is what we should do and so we need to put it ton floor in the senate. i think we want to keep being aggressive in getting it on the floor, getting folks to vote and hope voters hold those folks accountable who are not taking the kind of actions to save lives. we know these bills will save lives. president biden has talked about doing something over and over again. we saw that bill last year. he has signed executive action, but gun safety groups have said to him, we want more. do you want to see more from president biden on executive orders, other actions that he can do from the oval office? it doesn t seem like things are going to move forward in congre