again, some trained teachers to actually carry concealed weapons. that is a point on which he agrees with the nra. now, he also is breaking with the nra it appears on certain points as well. one of those points would be increasing the age limit for those allowed to carry ar-15 weapons. that s the type of weapon that was used in the shooting and other massacres. strengthening back ground checks. again, raising the age to buy guns. banning bump stocks. he said he was going to put new regulations on bump stocks. that could get challenged in the courts though. reopening. getting more federal funding to mental health institutions as well as violence ratings for movie and video games and then again that last one arming some teachers. incredibly controversial. now, president trump was pressed yesterday, stef, when he was meeting with state and local law enforcement officials about this idea of breaking with the nra. take a listen to what he had to
say. they want to do things. you know, they re good people. they re patriots. they love this country but the nra is ready to do things. so we ll have to see if the president actually is on the same page with the nra. they ve been pretty clear they oppose increasing the age to purchase ar-15 weapons. now, president trump is going to speak a little bit later on this morning at cpac. that conservative conference that s in maryland. i am told he s going to talk about guns. so i anticipate we re going to hear more about his proposal to arm certain teachers. we re also, i am told, going to hear about north korea. mr. trump expected to make an announcement about that critical foreign policy crisis as well. clearly he s got a lot on his plate. for anyone hoping that this president is going to break with the nra, i want you to listen to some of what we heard yesterday from donald trump and from the
nra s wayne la pierre jr. we must immediately harden our schools. we have to harden our schools. so-called gun-free zones that are wide open targets. it is such a target for the killer. they look for gun free zones. it should not be easier for a mad man to shoot up a school than a bank. i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected, just like everything else. the national rifle association originated the national instant check system. they actually came up with certain of the rules and regulations that we have now. they came up with the rules and regulations. that seems odd, doesn t it? i want to bring in my panel, tim o brien, bloomberg view. jennifer palmmary, white house communications director under obama. and brett stevens, op-ed columnist for the new york times. what do you make of what you heard? it s clear the president s being programmed on this
particular topic by the nra because i don t think he had a mind of his own on it. he s never been a student of policy. it s i think the he understands money though and if teachers are armed in schools that would sell a whole lot of guns. right, give them a bonus, they ll carry a gun. i think this is one of those examples where the sort of tragic comic path the president follow, the policy positions, have dangerous implications. he hasn t been a student of the gun issue other than to play to his base or play to the nra. there s good politics for him involved in that decision in terms of getting re-elected, in terms of supporting his core base. as a matter of public policy, he s ignorant. and the problem here is that he s almost advocating position, about things that he sees in films or on tv. the idea of turning teachers into little rambos who can then protect the students should a shooter appear on a school campus is ridiculous. let s remember ft. hoort. hood, was a shooting in f
video you just showed i think really matches that of the cowardice of the deputy who failed to take action. because the promise of the trump presidency is here was a guy who didn t care. help w he was willing to blow up one conservative orthodoxy after another. on many of these i disagreed. i was horrified. but his strength was his the ability to just kind of break through that nonsense. and simply say hey, i don t care if the nra seems to have a grip on the gop. we re going to go for a kind of all of the above solution. we re going to have incredibly intrusive background checks. we re going to make it a lot harder to get a gun than it is to drive a car for, you know, just to take one example, you re going to need owneress gun insurance. did you think this was pipe dream friday? there is a political moment right now. i think what has come out of