Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace 20180520

On fox news sunday. Plus, President Trump offers security assurances to kim jong un after the North Koreans threaten to cancel the summit. Were willing to do a lot and hes willing i think to do a lot also and hell get protections that will be very strong. Chris well ask senator Lindsey Graham whether the president can keep the singapore summit on track. Then if youre going to write a fair report, fine, write it. If youre going to write an unfair report, write it and well combat it. Chris a new effort by President Trump and his supporters to discredit Robert Muellers russia investigation as he marks one year as special council. Well ask our sunday panel about reports the fbi had an informant on the campaign. And our power player of the week. This is justify. He is a big boy, as you can see. Chris a triple crown winning trainer, on why his horses keep making it to the winners circle. Hello from fox news in washington. There is major news today on a trump, kim summit and trade talks with china. But we begin with another School Shooting, the 16th this year. This time a high school in santa fe, texas where 10 people were killed. The attack coming just weeks after nationwide walkouts by students seeking tougher gun controls at the massacre in parkland, florida. Walkouts that santa fe students participated in before they became targets. Well look at what can be done to protect our children. Well talk with incoming nra president oliver north and get reaction from gun control advocate mark kelly. First, to doug mcelway from santa fe, texas with the latest on the investigation. Reporter for the first time we are hearing from the family of the accused gunman in a formal statement. They said they asked for their privacy and they added, quote, we are as shocked and confused as anyone else by these events that occurred. We are gratified by the Public Comments made by other high l School Students that showed him as we know him, a smart, quiet, sweet boy. Like so many other americans, they seem unaware of some of their sons disturbing social media postings. The suspect made an initial Court Appearance on capital murder charges. He told investigators that he spared the students he liked. The death toll remains at 10. Among the 13 wounded, Police Officer john barnes who ran to the sound of the gunshots and helped neutralize the shooter. He remains in critical but stable condition. Another wounded, sophomore rome shubert was shot in the back of his head. It went into the back of my head, just right like kind of the middle of the back of the head and came out right here. I took off running. I had no idea that i had been shot. I took off running out the door and theres a seven fa foot wall over there. Reporter among the dead, sabika shek who was in the u. S. From pakistan. The funeral will take place today in houston. J. J. Watt has agreed to pay for the Funeral Services of all of the deceased. Chris . Chris , thank you for that. Joining me now the next president of the National Rifle association, oliver north. Welcome back to fox news sunday. Thank you, chris. Chris i want to start by playing what two students from santa fe high said after the shooting. Here they are. I shouldnt be going through this. Its my school. This is my daily life. I shouldnt have to feel like that. And i feel scared to even go back. Its been happening everywhere. Ive always felt like eventually it was going to happen here too. Chris what do you say to young people like that who have come to expect shootings in their school. They shouldnt have to. They shouldnt be afraid to go to school. They shouldnt worry about the fact that they might not go home that night because some crazed person comes in with a firearm which is one of the reasons why nra for over two years has been advocating a program called School Shield, is funding legislation for it. Theres 75 to 100 million approacappropriated by the fedel government to assist. If School Shield had been in place at santa fe high school, far less likely that this would have happened. The problem is were trying to treat the symptom without treating the disease. And the disease in this case isnt the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence. Theyve been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of the perpetrators are male. And theyre young teenagers in most cases. And theyve come through a culture where violence is commonplace. All we need to do is turn on the tv, go to a movie. If you look at what has happened to young people, many of these young boys have been on ritalin since they were in kindergarten. Im not a doctor. Im a marine. I can see those kinds of things happening, endangering those two gals. Chris this was the 16th School Shooting so far this year. That is the most at this point in a year since they started keeping records after columbine in 1999. Two or three key specific things that you think would keep children safe. School shield would. Chris which is what. The nra introduced it two years ago. We do an assessment. It costs the School Nothing to get the assessment as to what the issues are in terms of ingress, egress, the ability to hide a firearm and get it into a school, the number of School Resource officers you really need and very few schools actually have them. Chris lets talk about that, if i may, just talk about that specifically. This school had two policemen, armed, roaming the halls. The School Administrator said yesterday they considered santa fe a hardened school. There was no way to detected a firearm being brought into the building. We came through the lobby in this building where were sitting right now. There was a security desk there. There was a barrier for us to pass through. You cant get on an airplane today without going through a metal detector. Chris theres no metal detector in our building. Are you suggesting there should be a metal detector . Im not saying thats wrong, a metal detector at the entrance for every school for millions and millions of students. If you want to stop the carnage youre not going to fix it by taking away the rights of law abiding citizens. Youve got to fix it in a way that hardens the place sufficiently that those kids are safe inside the doors. If that means five metal detectors, you get five metal detectors. Chris one of the parkland students who led the march for our lives movement, tweeted this after the shooting. Donald trump does not care about you or your kids getting shot. Heres what you said about the Parkland School movement. What they did very successfully with a frontal assault and now intimidation and harassment and law breaking is they confused the american people. Question. Whats wrong with students like this fighting they would say for their lives . Look, that is taken out of context as people are fond of saying in our business. I was talking about the people who organized the harassment, the vandalism, the threats, the hacking, and throwing the full force of the First Amendment against the Second Amendment. And theyre leading the cause. These kids arent the problem. Theyre being used by forces far bigger than they are to make sure that the Second Amendment goes away. Chris who is using the parkland students . We know what mayor bloomburg was up to. We know what george soros has funded. His creations have gone after you and me. Chris some are saying hes working and speaking for himself. I was not criticizing those kids. Your next guest is going to be a person who is an advocate for more gun control. Hes got a First Amendment right just like i do. I believe that what were doing right now with the National Rifle association is trying to make sure that kids are protected without taking away the rights of law abiding citizens. Thats all its about. Chris ive got less than a minute left. You say one of your jobs as the incoming president at the nra a is you want to reassure politicians with all of this movement now for gun control that its a good thing to be associated with the nra, not a liability. Hows that going . My goal is a million more members. We have 6 million now. Weve been around since 1871. I want to get a million more. Im going to go out and ask every nra member to recruit one more. That will put 14 million activists on the street. Not the types of george soros is fielding, not the types that showed up down in dallas to protest our right to gather. Those are going to vote for people who support the Second Amendment. Thats our cause. Chris ollie, thank you for coming in today. Now lets bring in mark kelly, the retired astronaut who became a leader in preventing gun violence after his wife, former congresswoman, Gabby Giffords was severely injured by a shooter in 2011. Mark, you just heard oliver north. Heres what president said after the shooting. My administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others. Chris mark, your reaction . Well, on the surface those sound like reasonable words. I mean, keeping guns, weapons out of the hands of people that pose a threat. You did not hear ollie say that. Ollie talked about the school being the problem and not the fact that we have proliferated guns throughout society. Im a gun owner. Like ollie, im a supporter of the Second Amendment. We make it so easy for irresponsible people and criminals to get access to firearms. Chris let me pick up on that. Lets review the facts of this specific case, the t shoote shos case had a shotgun and a pistol. There were no assault weapons. The guns were bought legally by his father. He was on the School Football team. He was on the honor roll. There were no red flags. The fact is, most of the things that you generally talk about would not have prevented this shooting. In general. But one thing that could be done, the state of texas is an example, could pass a piece of legislation that requires parents to safely store their firearms if they have a child in the house. This kid was 17 years old. He shouldnt have access to a semiautomatic shotgun and a. 38 revolver. There is legislation. It works. It works in the states that have less gun violence. They have stronger laws. Chris but youre talking about texas, people go hunting, the idea that a 17yearold is not going to have access to his dads shotgun and that were going to have a law preventing that . It exists in some places. I go hunting as well. But all my firearms are locked in a safe and if i had i dont even have a kid in the house anymore. If i did, i would even probably even double down on that. There are things that work. When we allow irresponsible people to get their hands on firearms and criminals i mean, your last guest is about to take over as the president of an organization that is against background checks for gun sales. I mean, the most common sense thing that we can do to protect society, they are so strongly against and then they advocate for an alternative reality that the problem is the school and the access point. We can take steps chris i want to pick up on that. As i discussed with oliver north, this is the 16th School Shooting so far this year. There clearly is a copycat aspect to this, one disturbed student seeing what another disturbed student did and following in that path. The question becomes at a certain point, particularly as i point out where a lot of the things, assault weapons, red flags wouldnt have worked in this case, do we need to harden our schools the way we do our airports with metal detectors and limited access to get in and out of the school . Absolutely. I mean, i think we should make it more difficult, figure out a way to prevent people coming in the door with a firearm. At the same time, make sure that that irresponsible person cant get the gun in the first place. I mean, there are a lot of reasons why we have the level of gun violence that we currently have in this country. Its not one reason. We have 38,000 people dying every year from gun violence. Another 110,000 people are shot and injured. I could tell you this, and this is from somebody who owns eight firearms. Its not because we dont have enough guns in our society. I mean, we have more guns than almost every other country. If the issue was more firearms and more places, which is what ollie north and the nra advocates for, we would live in the safest country on the planet. Chris i want to ask you one final question. Gun control has generally not been a big pro gun control has not been a big voting issue in elections. Oliver north said he is on a campaign to try to reassure politicians that being part or associated with the nra is a plus, not a knew minus. He wants to add a million more members voters. Do you think you can make pro gun control issues a voting key voting issue in this campaign . Well, gun safety already is. We saw that in november in virginia. Were going to see this here in november. These kids from parkland who by the way ollie referred to as terrorists, i believe is what he said about them several weeks ago, i mean, these kids are motivated. Theyre smart. Theyre articulate and theyre angry. And they have a right to be angry. The kids in santa fe i live 10 miles from that school for 1 15 years. Those kids have a right to be angry about this and the alternative reality Rex Tillerson just gave a speech at vmi, a commencement speech, and he talked about how alternative realities are a threat to democracy. And i think what the nra is proposing is an alternative reality. Chris mark, were going to have to leave it there. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today. And urg unfortunately we will sy on top of this important story. Up next, Steven Mnuchin on talks to settle big differences between the u. S. And china. Can the worlds two biggest economies avoid a trade war . Whats the value of capital . Whats Critical Thinking like . A basketball costs 14. Whats team spirit worth . cheers whats it worth to talk to your mom . Whats the value of a walk in the woods . The value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. Morgan stanley its whats on the outside that counts. And we know the farther away you get, the closer together you end up. We know the great outdoors. We love the great outdoors. Bass pro shops and cabelas. Where great gear, good people, fair prices and an experience like no other all come together. Save on great gear during the go outdoors event and sale. Plus a a a this weekend its just a burst pipe, i could fix laugh no. With claim rateguard your rates wont go up just beacuase of a claim. I totally couldve. wife nope switching to allstate is worth it. Chris china is showing some signs of compromise in talks with the u. S. But heading off a trade war that has kept the Global Markets on edge is still far from a done deal. Joining us now, President Trumps point man in the negotiations, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mr. Secretary, welcome back to fox news sunday. Thank you. Its great to be here with you. Chris after two long days of talks, thursday and friday, where are we on the one hand on china agreeing to buy 200 billion more of u. S. Goods in return for the u. S. Dropping tariffs on 150 billion of chinese goods . Well, chris, im pleased to report that weve made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a framework, which is important to understand. And the framework includes their agreement to substantially reduce the trade deficit by increasing their purchases of goods. We also discussed very important structural issues that theyre going to make in their economy to make sure that we have a fair ability to compete there. And also protections about technology, which have been very important to the president. Chris but china and one of the big things the president has said is he wants them to reduce the deficit by 200 billion, by 200 billion more of u. S. Goods. They reportedly refused to agree to that specific target. Theres nothing about a specific target in the statement. One, have they refused to agree to a target and is there still the possibility of a trade war . Well, chris, were putting the trade war on hold. So right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute the framework. The president has been very clear since the first meeting with president xi, that we are going to reduce the trade deficit. We have a an agreement with china that they will substantially agree to it. I would just comment that ultimately these are not government to government transactions. Its not a giant purchase order with us. We are immediately going to follow this up with secretary ross going there, with very hard commitments in agriculture where we expect to see a very big increase, 35 to 40 increases in agriculture this year alone. In energy, doubling the Energy Purchases. I think that you could see 50, 60 billion a year of Energy Purchases over the next three to five years. And strategically thats very important for us and very important for them. Chris just to lock down two points, sir, one, no specific target of 200 billion . Chris, we have specific targets. Im not going to publicly disclose what they are. They go industry by industry. As i said, not only do we have targets but ultimately this is about industry being able to have hard contracts and deliver these goods. Chris and as far as the president s threat first of 50 billion in tariffs on chinese goods and 150 billion, those are all on hold . They are. The president had a very productive meeting with the vice premier in the oval office with all of us and the vice president. He heard these commitments himself. And he can al

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