you. the president says he s going to have very powerful and strong changes to the background checks system. that is something that potentially if he s talking about the kind of film we discuss in the wake of newtown shooting would expand background checks. right now that s not what congress is talking about doing. they have a limited version of this bill that would make some changes to the background check system. that broader background check expansion couldn t pass congress after newtown. is there any chance in this environment that something like that could happen if this president pushed for it? i mean, i guess there s always any chance, right? but it is pretty unlikely. you and i both covered that debate on gun control after newtown and that was a moment when everyone sort of thought, this is when something could happen. you have all the bipartisan
john than anathan allen, and chs an editor for the los angeles times. thank you for being here on what is the end of an incredibly busy news night. christina, i want to start with you. the president says he s going to have very powerful and strong changes to the background checks system. that is something that potentially if he s talking about the kind of film we discuss in the wake of newtown shooting would expand background checks. right now that s not what congress is talking about doing. they have a limited version of this bill that would make some changes to the background check system. that broader background check expansion couldn t pass congress after newtown. is there any chance in this environment that something like that could happen if this president pushed for it? i mean, i guess there s always any chance, right? but it is pretty unlikely. you and i both covered that
these two tweets. one from brian schatz which i ve shown with governor hickenlooper. he said i am normally interested in compromise, not this time. i can t imagine a change. [ inaudible ] and now why should a 20-year-old single mom be denied the right to defend herself and her kids we should lower the age to buy a handgun instead of raising the age to buy an ar-15. and sad. and there are the two ends of the spectrum in congress right now. should anybody expect anything? well believe it or not, there is one policy of fixing the background checks system. which the nra supports. and even listening to the red meat speeches from the officials at cpac, that is the that is the real fix. let s at least get the federal background check system up to date which it is not and has been shown time and time again to have failed. that, i think, is a policy the nra supports that most reasonable people on either side
that is not the case. the navy yard shooter he was committed in new hampshire. his records weren t put into the background checks system federally. he went to virginia, bottom a shotgun, passed a background check and carried at the navy yard shooting. this bill would require by law, incentivize states with some kind of funding to put those records into the background checks. kennedy: make that system more accurate. katie: that is progun, national sporting shoots foundation, the nra who had been working for a decade to try to get this kind of legislation through congress. it isn t the antigun people who have tried to make sure that the mental health records are put in the system. yet, they are the ones accused all the time of not being for gun safety. juan: well, another side of that story, which is that president trump undid a regulation. that s not true. onon ion. juan: let me finish. you get social security disability payments and
in the aftermath, the white house says the president supports efforts to improve the federal background check system. this is based on a kfconversati the president had with a gop lawmaker last week. our pamela brown joins us with the latest. what more do we know these alleged improvements the president might sport in the background checks system? reporter: under this bill the goal would be to strengthen the background check system by holding local and federal law enforcement agencies accountable if they fail to upload criminal history records into the background check system. it wouldn t change the current system but the aim would be to strengthen it by creating these incentives for law enforcement communities to comply. it is worth noting here, even if the bill is passed and became law, it would not have prevented what we saw in florida. in that case, the gunman had a clean criminal history and had not been declared mentally defective by a judge, which is