sending products to destroy our economy let s find a path way to see what s wrong. senator thank for being with us. thank you. nbc s kacie hunt is over an capitol hill. you were sitting in that paul ryan press conference there when he was talking about tariffs, he s given a lot of questions. he and the president are budding heads on this. what to you know? this is kind of a classic paul ryan way of approaching this, which is to say hi office has been pretty critical behind the president. behind the scenes they ve been blasting out stories of parking lot dropping to this tariff announcement. speaker did not come to the podium and necessarily directly take on the president. he had praise for the president
there have been studies down on this right, it s not clear that if more people have guns that law enforcement is if i safer or if kids speaker ryan answered that question as a pattern, he said if it was my kid in the classroom i d be okay with that. kacie followed it up and asked more questions. what did you take away. halle, this is as you can tell a very emotional issue for the speaker. he doesn t necessarily broadcast it all the time, he has three kids and that reforms a lot of what he does. i think you saw some of that underlying emotion there, he kind of pulled back the lens and talked broadly about the culture. the reality is this is a tough question for him to answer. these parkland kids are asking for more than what the congress is talking about doing right now. we talked a lot about whether or not the images and powerful voices these kids have been using is going to change the
on the books? we passed overall of the mental health system. we need to make sure that overhaul is going what it s supposed to be doing to make sure people like this don t get these kind of guns. that s where we should focus our attention. thank you. you have been listening to house speak r paul ryan at his weekly news conference answer i think almost every single question on what congress, what the house should do next when it comes to the gun debate after the parkland school shooting. we ll get to kacie hunt who was in that roam who questioned the house speaker. but before we do, michael steel, james peters is here with us. he talked about feeling very troubled by what he saw. i think this is very interesting, the house has passed this bill to strengthen
answers. we begin today in washington, where there has been little sign, are you hearing me, little sign that lawmakers are willing to break the decades long pattern of doing nothing when it comes to gun control. even the least controversial ideas might not be able to get through congress including at least one that has the support of the public, the president and the nra. if that were true, well, then, you would think it would get through, which makes me think it s not. i have a great team. starting with nbc s kacie hunt, on the hill. let s start with a bill that seems to have the best chance of going somewhere, the one that s supposed to fix nics. can this bill pass? it has overwhelming support, bipartisan co-sponsors, mitch mcconnell, chris murphy, all on this bill. and it was something that had been kind of sitting on the
but didn t close the door to it. that s going to kick everything over to the senate. chuck schumer says this doesn t go far enough. paul ryan has trouble saying one way or another. kacie hunt thank you for that reporting. i want to bring in stephanie murphy of florida. you have a bill that you introduced on something called the dickey amendment. this is something that s been put in place a couple of years ago. it does not allow the cdc to use federal funding for advocacy research when it comes to gunsism you are calling for the repeal of this dickey amendment this rule. i want to talk to you about that, we are coming off this paul ryan press conference when i know you didn t have a chance