doctors. now, political action is the one way a lot of stoneman douglas high school students have been dealing with this. they all took buses caravaning to pressure lawmakers who were still in session to come up with gun control measures to deal with the ar-15 assault rifle used by this 19-year-old who had more than 20 incidents with police responding to his house. the republican version does not call for an assault weapons ban. the democratic versions do. however, the republicans control the house, senate and governor s mansion in tallahassee. today the parents here in parkland, florida are on buses heading up about 500 plus miles to tallahassee lobbying lawmakers to do something. over the weekend, the last of the 17 funerals happened. it was for one of the students
advertise history. parents and students are lobbying lawmakers for gun control and bills up in the house and senate. the democratic version calls for an assault rifle ban like the ar-15 used in the school shooting. the republican version does not include such a ban. also one of the last things over the weekend stoneman douglas student was laid to rest, the 17th and final funeral. sandra: thank you. bill: let s dig into all this right now. byron york political correspondent and fox news contributor. lawmakers come back. president talking about this today with the governors. what is expected to move? i would look for congress, if they do anything remember, after the sandy hook shooting they did not do anything. if they do something i would look for them to do the easy stuff. i would look for them to do something on making background
the protest hasn t officially started yet. it is supposed to start within the next half hour or 45 minutes and more students coming. in the building behind here this is where the florida legislature meets and where many of the stoneman douglas high school students are lobbying lawmakers right now. they arrived three bus loads of them last evening here to tallahassee. and met with a number of local students and parents and teachers, discussed their legislative strategy. spoke to a few of them earlier today and they say they ll get results. we know change is nt going to happen today but show them what it was like to be trapped in a school not knowing if we were going to walk out. there are a number of different legislative initiatives ongoing. they voted down a measure that would have brought up a debate about an assault rifle ban. that was defeated. the president s office here says they re working on a
precedent here. but kept with precedent when it came with donald trump. i want to switch gears and talk about something that was the biggest story of the day. i wonder what the kimmel effect will be of what is happening in washington now. they re lobbying lawmakers for a third time to sign on to repeal and replace obamacare, panel. jimmy kimmel jumped into the conversation. he opened up about this newborn son s surgery. and he made this emotional plea. before 2014, if you were born with heart disease, like my son was, there was a good chance you would never get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition. yu were born with a pre-existing condition. if your parents didn t have medical insurance, you wouldn t live long enough to get denied. if your baby is going to die and doesn t have to, it shouldn t matter how much money you make. that s something that whether you re a republican or a democrat or something else, we
about 6 80,000 times only a day after its release. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. i m joined now by msnbc reporter jane tim. good to be here. a lot of talk already on netanyahu s speech but it seems like all this controversy surrounding the visit might overshadow what he has the say. the whole thing is about politics. it s the gop versus the white house. the gop invited netanyahu without letting the white house know. there s nothing about this visit that isn t politics here. do you think it s going to lead to instead of lobbying lawmakers to support his position on iraq that s what he s coming here to talk about, instead it seems a lot of lobbying is trying to get lawmakers to attend the speech. it s put people in a pickle. dpop gop is saying we want him to come and the white house has said this is not, it s against