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President take an active role in school safety. we want to do that across the board, whether the kid is in school or at home, no matter where they are, kids should feel safe. safety and security is a big part priorities of this administration both thank you securing our borders and stopping the flow of drugs, the flow of gangs, stopping the number of school shootings. the background system. im not saying its perfect. until every child is safe we can always do more. well show up every day for wor...

Should feel safe. thats why this company focused on the safety and security as a big part of the priorities of this administration, both through securing our borders and stopping the flow of drugs, stopping the flow of gangs, stopping the number of school shootings by the stop school violence act, the background system. im not saying its perfect. until every child is safe, we can always do more and were going to show up every day for work trying to do exactly that. [ talking at the same time ] >...

Is in a school, whether theyre at home. no matter where they are kids should feel safe and thats why this president has focused on safety and security as a big part of the priorities of this administration both through securing our borders and stopping the flow of drugs, of gangs. stopping the number of school shootings by the stop school violence act. the background system. im not saying its perfect. and until every child is safe we can always do more. were going to show up every day for work t...

Hours after holding a town hall on gun violence with her constituents last night. big welcome to you this morning. i want to ask you what you heard last night and whether or not there was common ground among all the voices for finding solutions to gun violence in this country. >> well, good morning, and thank you for having me here this morning. we had a pretty spirited town hall last night. one of the things i wanted to do was really give constituents in my district an opportunity to express th...

Fix nics passed and trump signed it into law to improve the nations background system but several democrats calling their colleagues to do more. >> fix nics, i supported. but let me tell you, 17 lives in parkland and the lives that we lose every work are worth much more than fix nics. >> people should know we have introduced an assault weapons ban, we are asking for a hearing. there may be amendments made to it. but there is an opportunity to do it. the problem is we need 60 and we dont have a s...

Theres a lot of bipartisan support across the whole country, super majorities agree that we need to have better background checks and we need to have age limits on the purchase of certain types of guns. we need to get rid of bump stocks. theres broad support for this. hopefully this will shine a spotlight on it and get the republicans to back away from the nra and stand up to the american people and for the kids in our schools. >> sandra: the omnibus bill, alexandra, includes the instant crimina...

Is enough, were at the capitol and we want gun reform. we want to fix the background system. why has it been so lax for so long. this is all so important to us and its something that could have prevented what happened at our school. >> how do you feel when you see so many of your fellow students leading adults, as many people have noted? >> im proud of them. if it werent for them we wouldnt be being hear because hopefully their voices end up being something substantial enough that lawmakers deci...

Criticism they are way behind the ball on this and they saw themselves as a platform. facebook faces tough questions from the regulators in u.s. and europe. it is hurting the stock price. losing $50 billion in two days before rebounding yesterday. $50 billion. a huge chunk gone. the house poised to vote today on a bipartisan $1.3 trillion spending bill to keep the government funded through september. the measure has president trumps support, but it is not clear if it will pass in time to preve...

Age. >> the white house plan does not expand background checks or does not raise the minimum age of purchase. it calls for a commission the day after the president said all commissions do is talk. for more, lets turn to boris sanchez at the white house. >> reporter: dave and christine, a multi-prong effort the white house is including to stop school shootings in light of the shooting of marjory stoneman douglas high school last month. the white house is first pushing for a task force headed by b...

A significant chance congress wont be able to do anything. i would say is not a debate between guns were no guns. its a debate about what level of protection, give kids in school. how can we take guns away from mentally unstable people, especially assault weapons. i was in congress in 1994. diane feinstein had a bill to take away assault weapons which past. 10 years later it expired. i do think something like that, more focused on mental health. >>chris: so why do you think nothing will happen? ...