anif you ve got a lifee. you gotta swiffer . pz and vice president pence meeting with the executive director of the nra lobbying arm last night. the nra official later tweeted that the two, quote, don t want gun control. how does that square with what the president said in his meeting with bipartisan lawmakers. take a listen. i m going to write the bump stock, essentially write it out. it doesn t make sense that i have to wait until 21 to get a handgun, but can get this weapon at 18. i like take the guns early. take the guns first, go through due process second. florida republican congressman brian mast was at that meeting. how do you marry these two reckonings of the status quo? i think it s very difficult to try to walk that back whatsoever. you can t do that. you can t walk back saying, hey, bump stocks are as good as gone.
guns of anyone identified as a possible threat, even without a hearing. i like taking the guns early. take the guns first, go through due process second. i love my president. i supported him. i still support him. but he and i are just going to have to disagree on this idea of due process. reporter: republicans are also cool to the president s call for universal background checks and for raising the age to buy a rifle, policies opposed by the nra. some of you people are petrified of the nra. you can t be petrified. they want to do what s right. reporter: republicans did not like that. i think he s it s a little hyperbole. reporter: and the nra didn t, either. i thought it made for really good tv. but i thought some of what was discussed is going to make for really bad policy. reporter: gridlock on guns is nothing new. but president trump told the lawmakers, he is the one that can change that. you have a different president now. well, listen you went through a
can you add some of the things? you re not going to agree. if you help. no, i ll help. if you can addo mess tick violence paragraphs, pages into this bill, i m all for it. i think it s electric if you can do it. it could be done. that could be done, too. take the firearms first and then go to court take the guns first, go through due process second. throughout that amazing meeting, the president endorsed among other things universal background checks, raising the age limit up to 21 for buying guns and stopping guns from getting to the mentally ill. while all positions are not popular with the national rifle association. the president tweeted this morning many ideas some good and not so good emerged yesterday at the white house. after many years a bill should emerge, respect second amendment. congressional republicans confused by the president began lowering expectations. watch. i have seen this movie
welcome back. is this just political theater or is the president laying down some serious markers on policy? the democrats in the room were smiling, even winking. the democrats were just playing to the cameras and really didn t mean something like this. it doesn t make sense i can wait till 21 to get a handgun but at 18 i can get this weapon. some of you are petrified of the nra. take the firearms first and then go to court. take the guns early, like in this crazy man s case that just took place in florida. he had a lot of firearms. they saw everything. to go to court could take a long time. you could do everything you re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.
take the guns first, go through due process second. raise the age. two things the nra doesn t want. most republicans in congress vote for it until they re forced to by their president. does he mean that? or is it i m saying this for the cameras today and it doesn t matter what i mean tomorrow. when you talk about gun control on the right when they talk about con physician indication confiscation of guns, it doesn t apply to the president. i think they re looking to him what to do. he s put himself in the center of this and they don t know how to act. he told steve scalise he s not going to get his closed carry reciprocity bill. they re looking to him to see exactly what he means, because i don t think they thought he meant everything he said in that meeting. you make a good point, because some guns rights groups would say, next knock on the