agreement in sight as lawmakers remain deadlocked on how to handle qualified immunity. this is not going after good officers. this is about when officers have breached the civil rights of another american citizen. press secretary jen psaki says president biden remains optimistic. the president is still very much hope frl that he will be able to sign the george floyd justice and policing act into law. now, wolf, as the white house waits for progress on those talks happening between democrats and republicans right now, we do know that president biden will be meeting with george floyd s family tomorrow and that will be a private meeting with no cameras in the room. the president wanted it to be private and among those who were going to be there include george floyd s daughter, his two brothers and sister as well as other family members, wolf? kaitlan, thank you very much. kaitlan collins reporting from the white house. let s dig deeper and cnn political commentator van jones
taken. jim acosta reporting that he doesn t want impeachment. and kaitlan collins reporting, joe lockhart, yesterday the president called nancy pelosi to try to sort of diffuse this whole thing. the idea that the president has been itching for impeachment may not be the case. as someone who s been on the inside of a white house under impeachment, can you understand that? yeah, and i think that narrative was kind of silly, that trump was trying to goad the democrats into impeaching him. i think he was trying to stonewall and that was his strategy. impeachment takes all the political cards and throws them up in the air. and allows for a new dynamic to be set, as carl was saying. the problem, and i think trump instinctually gets this, is his orbit, and himself, is not prepared to fight this battle. you know, the single best thing that i think trump could do
east. that was kaitlan collins reporting. the governor of north carolina has also requested a federal disaster declaration, which will need president trump s approval. if granted, it will need federal assistance. we ll have more on dorian s path, next hour, with live reports from the florida coast. you re watching cnn. do stay with us. this is rick blomquist. his life is pretty comfortable. then, he laid on a serta and realized his life was only just sorta comfortable. i ve been living a lie. (laughs) the serta icomfort hybrid mattress. not just sorta comfortable, serta comfortable. my hands are everything to me. but i was diagnosed with dupuytren s contracture. and it got to the point where things i took
leadership. he could, but do you expect him to? do you trust him to? my colleague kaitlan collins reporting that the white house has been in contact with the nra. you can imagine what the nra s message is to a president who is facing re-election in 2020 and his base. i m asking him to hear the voices on the streets of dayton. let s be clear. it s one incident but 250th around an active shooter. in addition to dayton we ve got gun violence in our streets. we have guns in our homes, domestic violence issues that are often times deadly with guns. we have children who pick up guns and use them accidentally. we have suicides that are used with guns. the issue of violence with guns is one that we have to address. you know, people are impatient. that was the message sunday. people are impatient.
the white house counsel review and determined that there is not an illegal issue but rather a trust issue. reporter: the report coming amid headlines that andrew mccabe, who was fired last spring, briefed congressional leadership about the counterintelligence investigation he launched into president trump. the purpose was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we had been doing, opening a case of this nature. not something that an fbi director, not something an acting fbi director would do by yourself. reporter: that no one raised concerns. i told congress what we had done. did anyone october? no one objected. reporter: the president had private conversations about attacking the mueller campaign, something he has done over 1,000 times. kaitlan collins reporting