The future. i suspect as does pat, this is going to be a political winner. this is a theme, i think, americans are going to cling to and they re not really going to care about the theatrics of it. let s talk about gun control for a second. andrea mitchell, a lot of people very angry progressives and one mayor of new york city, very angry that the president didn t seize on this moment to talk about gun control. i think you ll hear that from a lot of the big city mayors, mayor bloomberg was putting out statements last night, carolyn mccarthy who got into politics because her husband was among those gunned down on the commuter train in long island. right. and people felt very much that with especially with the empty chair, gabrielle giffords, with the parents of christina taylor green in the balcony with the first lady, what we re hearing from the white house is that the president plans a subsequent speech on gun control. was it a mistake not to bring
Go. that s a good conversation. a really good conversation. thanks for being with us. my pleasure. back to savannah guthrie at the white house. let s talk about gun control. a lost people last night reviewing it. the brady campaign, a lot of left wing bloggers and some people in the media were concerned the president didn t talk about gun control. now, the white house assured them we ll talk about it, we ll get to it later. when is the speech on gun control coming. i don t know if it will be a full speech. i just had an exchange with somebody here. i did not get the feeling that was the plan as of now. the president, they say, will address the issue in some way. he doesn t plan to ignore it. a lot of people look at that as one of the lost opportunities of this state of the union, particularly when you had such an emotional backdrop here. you had the parents of little christina taylor green sitting in the first lady s box, daniel hernandez. and the president obviously
Up gun control? i think it was the right thing to do. that s a very tough, divisive issue. he didn t mention abortion either. but abortion doesn t relate to tucson. you re right. the point of the whole speech and the point of what s happened and what we re trying to do in tribute to gabrielle giffords is bring the country together. i agree with the president s strategy. if his strategy is to bring this up later, fine. i ll ask you, pat, same thing before we go. if i were communications director i d say don t put in the magazines and things like that. you ll get a big headline, it will be a distraction. they ll ask all the guys leaving about it. i would do exactly what the president is going to do it, if he s going to do it, do it in a separate speech. that separate speech is coming, right andrea? that s what they tell us. senator pat toomey will be with us today. he s, of course, senator from pennsylvania. ohio senator sherrod brown, congressman james clyburn and debbie