congress. it has republican and democratic support. the president also repeated his support for background checks but he also added it with a heavy kavanaucaveat. listen to what the president said. background checks, i ll say for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. so it s a big problem. it s a mental problem. so now even though the president did say he was for background checks, he s waffled on that, we ll have to see what background checks means. it s different definitions in different pieces of legislation. it could be an indication he s not willing to fight to keep them in. we ll see how it shakes out. these are the initial comments.
out with findings that aren t good for the president, that nra far right universe, some people smear robert mueller and not believe those findings. is that what is driving the president here? no, i think what s driving president trump is he likes to meet the moment and he s a salesman. he really wants to show that he is trying to acknowledge and act on all the anguish and all the anger as a result of this shooting and cumulative effect of all of these mass shootings. but he s and so he says this is remarkable that he said this about the nra. he s never spoken about the nra this way. whether or not he s going to follow through is the big crux of the question. they will not go out on a limb without him. they don t know what his definition of comprehensive background checks means. they don t know where he s going with this. it is a lot like the immigration thing where it s a bill of love one minute and the next minute he s shutting things down saying democrats are trying to stop this.