attack to make immigration policy, his base all supports gun rights. and it is just not an area he feels comfortable wading into and going against his base on this. so, he is feeling more pressure potentially from the students and those comments. it is interesting as they pointed out, we may not be your voters. well, that is a very interesting question. because they are not necessarily his base and his voters, does that change how he handles things 12 things? we re going to have to wait and see friday. hallie, i want to put this up. president bush at ground zero, 9/11 was controversial. that he spoke to the nation was not in question. president clinton after oklahoma city, never a question whether or not he spoke for the nation against the atrocities carried out by timothy mcvay. president obama, whether or not you came down in favor or opposed to the gun control measures president obama and vice-president biden fought valiantly for after newtown, there was no doubt that in
president obama s comments after newtown when he went there, that he spoke for the nation. i wonder if there is any sense, hallie, at the white house, do they think they succeedsed in speaking for the nation this morning. reporter: i think that they will tell you that the president spoke for the nation. and i m not sure that that s how it was received in every corner of this country, nicolle. i m not sure that is surprising either given where we are right now in this moment politically, in this moment culturally. you have people that are extraordinarily dissatisfied with what donald trump said today. partly for the reason ashley points out, that he never once said the word gun. and then there s the tweet. so, he tweeted, he essentially blamed the community for the atrocity yesterday. the president tweeting, quote, so many signs that the florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school forbad behavior. neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. must always
requiring background checks for all gun buyers, 95%. there s not much, 95% of americans agree on at all. but 95% of americans agree on background checks. yes, that s true. however, there are other polls that ask a more simple question, which is do you support or oppose stronger controls on guns. and in those polls it s about even nationally. and in those polls, republicans a majority two-thirds of republicans say, we oppose those things. if you re a republican legislator, you know that the primary ads that are going to be run against you by republicans who want your seat is not going to be, yes, he stood up for background checks, he advocated for new gun control measures, right. and so the politics it seems as though background checks could be an easy lift. the senate tried to do this and failed in bipartisan legislation. on newtown. after newtown.
that s why i think gradually you ll have millennials fully embraced affordable care act, and it s going to be really an incredible opportunity. and one of the things that people are really frustrated about and the president addressed today already is the lack of accomplishment in washington. only 60 bills passed by congress since last january. tom daschle was on the show just a few minutes ago talking about four or five days where both house and senate are in session, only ten days by january 15th. it s really an asnoutounding la of accomplishment. one of the things that s not gotten done, as you know very well, any new gun laws. there s a new public service announcement i want to share with you and our audience. this comes from the moms demanding action for gun sense in america and the mayors against illegal guns, and it focuses on newtown. let s watch. on december 14th, we ll have
a moment of silence for newtown, but with 26 more school shootings since that day, ask yourself, is silence what america needs right now? it s pretty powerful stuff. i interviewed nicole hockley yesterday, whose son was among the victims. she s here in washington trying to persuade people to take this up. what can you say to her? what i say to her is that we need to make sure that the republican leadership in congress is hearing moms across the country like her. the millions of people, the majority of the american people who believe that they support the second amendment and at the same time believe that when you purchase a weapon in this