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Conversation starts to change. is it still going to be a priority? will we see those changes at the federal and local level? thats the discussion happening at the white house this morning. >> right. i think the white house has been extremely engaged on this. they have met with not just victims but local law enforcement, the meeting that they are having right now. but the problem is they are coming up with solutions that hopefully can actually address the problem which is -- i dont believe tinker...

Semi automatic weapons. >> lets see a bill proposals. and lets see how long the president sticks with this proposal. the nra is against it. lawmakers are capitol hill are saying, i dont see this happening. meanwhile, public opinion is behind it. there is a public push. the president now has an opportunity to be that bipartisan deal maker that he said he could be to take this public push for, what is, some people would say a pretty modest proposal, not like hes looking to ban -- >> ban all assaul...

Handgun? >> he would be at as today advantage facing it with a hand gun, but not as much as the people who are inside the building that are completely unarmed. he is there with a gun. he has body armor and training. >> so i keep reading this week as i try and become more knowledgeable about appropriate police response, in fact ill put the "new york times" up as an example of what im about to say, the shooting at columbine high school in 1999 fundamentally changed police protocol amid fears that ...

From a military perspective, your thoughts. i talked to military personnel on this debate over guns and what type of weapons civilians should have in their hands. col. ralph peters said i draw the line at the semi automatic weapons, they shouldnt have them. >> i dont get into those debates. im just another citizen. my opinion is protect kids in school, a kid with a gun right now who is thinking about doing this, we have 2 protect those kids. the level of violence has gone up in ways most of us f...

Capability to take these people out rapidly before they can do this kind of damage. >> reporter: president trump repeating his call to allow some properly trained teachers to carry a concealed weapon and denouncing the armed deputy who police say did nothing during the parkland school shooting. >> somebody who was outside, theyre trained. they didnt react properly under pressure or they were coward. >> reporter: at a conservative conference the president arguing an armed educator might have made...

Families and she wanted to help women. she said dad, i want to go to washington. i want to help women. and i said, you know, washington is a mean place. she said i dont care. i want to help women. i want to help families. she was very much involved, as you know, in the child tax credit. now shes working very much on family leave, things that i dont think would be in the agreement if it werent for ivanka and some of our great senators, et cetera. but she was very much in the forefront of that. i ...

But the national education association opposes this. in parkland, florida, where 17 people were killed last week, stoneman douglas teacher greg pitman who owns a gun but keeps it at home he worries about arming teachers. >> the president wants to raise the age when people can buy semi automatic weapons. >> were going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18. >> but that pits the president against the national rival association who says this will deprive people of their constitutional ri...

Across-the-board threshold for that, or certain classes of weapons? how specific can you be? >> for semi automatic weapons. >> just for semi automatic weapons? >> correct. >> can you talk about what motivated him today to come out against active shooter drills around the schools? a lot of districts have been doing these drills to basically prepare students and teachers to survive if theres an incident? >> i did talk to him about that. he said the term active shooter drills is particularly -- can...

Past shootings weve had at schools. every one of them was done with some sort of semi automatic weapons. these weapons shunts be in the hands of these people. we need shouldnt a serious conversation about banning these types of weapons so they dont kill innocent children. >> when they find another tool what will we do? ban all the tools? >> what we know is the semi automatic was used in sandy hook and at stoneman douglas. this is about the safety of our children. its about our children. 17 died ...

The needle and make parents feel more comfortable that their kids will go to a safe school. that is the goal. those two weeks after friday, well get something done. >> i dont think im making a crazy prediction by saying i doubt that semi automatic weapons in this state or nation wide will be banned. what go you thido you think is ? >> one thing he could do is there is a law in this state that does not law mayors to pass their own lawyers. florida is it a very large diverse state. polices like mi...