office as long as he can. guys, i m out of time. chris, alana, rick, thank you. protesters are hitting the streets to demand the president do something for gun control laws. and about the president again linking gun violence to mental illness, is he losing it is nerve to take any action on guns? action on guns any physical changes to this man s appearance are purely coincidental. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.
message of, no, we re still an ally and the message will endure. to pema s point, certainly uniformity in trying to condemn trump about it, but they re also partly urging israel to reverse that decision they initially made. what is the takeaway from their reaction? the democrats are in a response to change the course. they we they were going to let her see her elderly grandmother and then she decided not to go, so there was some back and forth there. jewish voters are a huge supporter of the democratic party, so i think this is a story that will continue to play out. sure. another story continuing to play out is guns, and it seems the president is somewhat in a reversal mode, no longer talking about background checks. instead he s trying to lock onto
mentioning background checks less frequently and talking more and more about mental health. we heard him talk about that at his rally in new hampshire. he did not bring up background checks at all. although we did hear him speak frequently about expanding background checks, expanding what kind of gun sales require an fbi background check immediately in the wake of the shooting, we did hear him speak about it a little bit earlier this week. take a listen. look, there s nobody more pro second amendment than donald trump, but i don t want guns in the hands of a lunatic or a maniac, and i think if we do proper background checks we can prevent that. reporter: the white house legislative affairs team has been sounding out proposals with key lawmakers, a senior administration official tells cnn that the white house team hopes to get president trump on board with the specific
right now. we ll have more on this. sam and david, stay with me. there are a number of other political stories here to discuss, including this, which is happening in just a few hours. gun control rallies planned across the country two weeks after two mass shootings. yesterday, heartwarming support in el paso for the husband of one victim. he opened the funeral for anyone who wanted to pay their respects. hundreds showed up. meanwhile, a fox news poll shows overwhelming support for expanding background checks for gun sales, but here s what president trump focused on during a rally this week. we are working very hard to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of insane people and those who are mentally sick and shouldn t have guns. years ago, many cities and states, i remember so well, closed mental institutions for budgetary reasons. they let those people out on to the street.
mental health. take a listen. we are working very hard to make sure we keep guns out of the hands of insane people and those who are mentally sick and shouldn t have guns. it s not the gun that pulls the trigger, it s the person holding the gun. as i said before, that last line is a classic nra talking point. but are you concerned the president moves away from supporting background checks? is this the end of the push for background checks now? you never know what trump will do. he changes from minute to minute, tweet to tweet. the fact is he is a prisoner of the nra lobby. he showed it when he met with the parkland high school parents and other survivors in the white house and said he was going to stand up, he wasn t afraid of the nra and he was going to stand up and do something strong. he didn t do anything.