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Prosecution. bringing children with you doesnt guarantee you wont get prosecuted. >> nbcs peter alexander is at the white house. nick confessore is a political reporter for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst. quick reminder to our viewers, we are also waiting for the president to speak on immigration any moment now. peter, before jeff sessions gave this interview to cbn where he is trying to say, no, no, we never tried to do this, "the washington post" counted 14 times -- 14 times ...

Blocked an obama-era rule that made it tougher for the mentally ill to obtain guns. today, no mention of gun control. >> will you do something about guns? >> reporter: immediately after past shootings, the president had said it was too soon to discuss gun control. but today, in that grief-stricken community, many saying now is the time. lori alhadeffs 14-year-old daughter, alyssa, is among the dead. >> president trump, you say, what can you do? you can stop the guns from getting into these child...

To streamline it, gain efficiencies not just lower the tax rate. not just get a sugar high off lower tax cuts. >> what i was saying, statutory rate of 30%, companies play 18 points. nobody disputes this, some do. kevin hassett, art lapper, same thing. if we dont fix this, the point, low are the rate and broaden the base, as people like to say. have more people paying a more consistent rate. >> right. >> i guess the question is this -- the white house came out and said between 4,000 and 9,000 dol...

Situation where it looks like the party and the president once more out of sync. >> dana: i dont know if they want to call for this, but senator lindsey graham used some pretty colorful language. can we toss to it? >> we should be politically horse whipped if we dont try again. the best idea, we havent even brought up. take all the money under obamacare and block granted back to the states. in single-payer health care, the government closest to the people is the best government. the health care ...

Im going to take that away if you dont fix this, and lindsey graham is agreeing with them saying lets get back to and try to solve this problem. >> juan: it might be seen as the president kind of bullying members of congress, who set, including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he said, its time to move on. really, what republican voters have said, we want tax reform. >> kimberly: i think they should do tax reform, but i think the president is trying to honor his commitment to the american...

You dont fix this, and lindsey graham is agreeing with them saying lets get back to and try to solve this problem. >> juan: it might be seen as the president kind of bullying members of congress, who set, including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he said, its time to move on. really, what republican voters have said, we want tax reform. >> kimberly: i think they should do tax reform, but i think the president is trying to honor his commitment to the american people, regarding health care...

Again and people want to believe their president. so, if he doesnt fix this, his second term is quite frankly lost senator enzi is talking about the regulation that was passed that would lead to exactly what we are talking about. millions of people, not being grandfathered but losing their policy, we actually had to vote on this. and he laid out -- he foretold what was to come that people would lose their coverage and that you couldnt keep what you had. he said when they tell you you can keep yo...

To the constituencies presumably were supposed to care about. if we dont fix this, dont fix medicare, seniors are in trouble. thats not right for them. if we dont fix medicaid. thats a bad income for low-income americans. my goods agreement with the folks like you, who are desperately wrong in this -- -- did i say that right? >> no, you meant to say, deeply correct. its like im -- >> to say we dont have a problem is to say were not going to fix things that desperately need to be for exampled. yo...

But wait a minute. in your book -- i dont remember the words you used, but you said he failed. >> yes. he did. boehner fail audio. >> sean: but he could have -- he could have made this happen. >> but the president is the leader of the country. and this is -- i tell you that you know this and the conservative knows this, any liberal knows this. if we dont fix this, we are screwed as a country. now, it should be the biggest issue in the presidential campaign. and it is not coming up. why? >> sean:...

But wait a minute. in your book -- i dont remember the words you used, but you said he failed. >> yes. he did. boehner fail audio. >> sean: but he could have -- he could have made this happen. >> but the president is the leader of the country. and this is -- i tell you that you know this and the conservative knows this, any liberal knows this. if we dont fix this, we are screwed as a country. now, it should be the biggest issue in the presidential campaign. and it is not coming up. why? >> sean:...