you know, he wants to end these gun-free zones and i think this is one way to end gun free areas. you know, look, i think he s focused right now on the school safety issue . and that s what you re focused on. and that s where it should be. he told that group of lawmakers in that meeting that you all are petrified of the nra. does that apply to you? no, look. i have been a life-long member of the nra, and there s no need to fear the nra. they are good, upstanding folks, the members and the organization, and i m proud to say i stand with the nra. all right, over the weekend, former white house chief of staff made the news. he was on the sunday shows talking about jeff sessions and the president s problem with him. listen to this. i think it is a problem, and i don t think that it would be good for the president for attorney general session to leave, but i also
how the background system works that is largely done through senator cornyn s bill. that s one of the reasons he supports that. again, he s looking for ways that we can improve the mental health system. a key house republican says even if lawmakers ban a particular weapon, there s still millions of firearms on the street. there s 2.5 million ar-15s in this country already. unless you re going to go in and get rid of those, we need to be talking about school safety, we need to require every school to have a plan, we need to have them assess what they need and give them grants to give them help for what they need. some focused on guns, others mental health and then the school safety issue, shep. shepard: thanks, mike emanuel. a man hunt after another deadly shooting. this time on a college campus. we re getting breaking details on this still-developing story and we ll have them next. smile dad.
times about this guy. two times they were warned he was going to be a possible school shooter. now he is running a p.r. campaign, going on cnn, blaming the nra, not roots attempting t accepting responsibility. almost seems like he s more concerned with bashing the nra than solving the school safety issue. democrats for the last several years had said police departments need to be held to a higher standard, need more scrutiny. now they have no appetite to look into it. republicans usually give police the benefit of the doubt but at this point, theirs, looks like there s a lot of mistakes that were made. republicans want to investigate here. i think that s fine. investigate. let the facts fall where they may. i don t want to see a cover-up, and it sounds like there might be a cover-up going on. greg: dana, when you watched the jake tapper interview sunday, do you think he realized the sheriff had
approach. what these tragedies give you is a chance to reset. you re seeing different issues being brought up than just traditional ones about more guns or less guns. you have school safety and what that means. you have background chemicals when it comes to people mentally ill. the school safety issue is brought sharply into focus. with saw what one father in particular meeting yesterday. here is his emotional plea for change. i m here because my daughter has no voice. she was murdered last week. and she was taken from us. shot nine times on the third floor. we as a country failed our children. this shouldn t happen. we go to the airport and i can t get on the plane with a bottle of water. but we leave some animal to walk into a school and shoot our
otherwise how can age be checked at all if you don t expand background checks to all purchases. there s no one panacea. but we know that action has to be taken. nicole, back to you. you ve had the experience of going through this, losing a child. remember the very passionate guy standing over to the right of you, with the three sobs who lost his daughter. he talked about how we should not focus on guns but focus on the school safety issue. can you separate the two? can you separate the ar-15 semi-automatic basically school shooter weapon where you can go in and just spray bullets and kill all kinds of people from the issue of school safety? absolutely not. and you know, the ar-15 is the same weapon used at sandy hook to kill my son. this is an issue about guns. this is about access to those guns, about arab to deal with the mental wellness of the people who have access to those guns. this is a complex thing and it s not guns or people.