we are saying to the leader, do the right thing. gavel the senate and when emergency sessions we can take immediate action on the bipartisan already passed gun legislation. all it does is basically says that people are criminals, mental patience have mental issues and people who are spouse abusers are guilty of domestic violence and should not purchase guns. he has given credence and a very strong look to the red flag legislation. shannon: let s bring in our panel. byron york, chief political correspondent of the washington examiner. amy walter, national auditor for the report and mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist. what is the appetite for any of this? congress has a really long history of not doing anything after these shootings. no matter how horrible they
they ve written blogs about it. the fbi, the church, they went to everybody and no one would listen. i think it s a culture in the white house than a p.r. crisis. and they re handling it poorly to say the least. i think porter is like a lot of people that are accused of domestic abuse. they re spouse abusers hiding in plain sight. he s right there, right in front of their eyes. flags are flying from the ex-wiv ex-wives, from girlfriends, all over the place. yet, this white house looked the other way. they had every clue that led to this guy shouldn t be here. yet, they looked the other way. they said they felt they were misled by him. the white house is saying that. if he misled or lied to the fbi, he could be in some big trouble. sure. we do know and the fbi saw the pictures. sure. and we know the wives spoke to the fbi. and we know they had this information. there was a restraining order, all they had to do was go down
topic. on the issue of gun violence. would you agree that universal background collection would help with law enforcement and prevention of gun violence. the more able we are to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and spouse abusers, the better. the more information we have, the better for law enforcement perspective. i ll take that as a yes. thank you. call on senator tillis. i think we have one member that, if that member is going to come back for first round, then we have three or four, maybe five of us that want a second round. so i hope that people will get back here so we know exactly how many people we have out of courtesy to director comey. senator tillis. director comey, thank you for being here. i m always impressed with your composure and your preparation. and i want to get to a couple of other things, maybe first, then if i have time come back to what
violence, would you agree that universal background checks would help with law enforcement and prevention of gun violence? the more able we are to give the guns out of hands of criminals and spouse abusers, the better. the more information we have, the better for law enforcement. i ll take that as a yes. thank you. i think we have one member, if that member is going to come back for first round, we have three or four, maybe five of us that want a second round. i hope that people will get back here so we know exactly how many people we have out of courtesy to director comey. director comey, thank you for being here. i m always impressed with your composer and your preparation. i want to get a couple of other things first, and if i have time, come back to what the
on the issue of gun violence. would you agree that universal background checks would help with law enforcement in prevention of gun violence? the momore able we keep gush out of criminals and spouse abusers, the better. i ll take that as a yes. thank you. i ll call on senator tillis. i think we have one member if that member is coming back for first round, then we have three or four, maybe five of us that want a second round. so i hope that people will get back here so we know exactly how many people we have out of coof courtesy to director comey. sno senator tillis. thank you for being here. i m always impressed with your composure and your preparation. and i want to get to a couple of other things maybe first then if i have time come back to what