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Country and for this community, an opportunity to heal, but in order to heal there needs to be an acknowledgment of the words and the power of the words and the hate and the racism in the words that he view -- that he views to describe my community and of spanish immigrants and if we cant have that dialogue, my feeling was i refuse to be a prop. im not going to stand next to him as he pretends to care about what is happening in the community. i hope he truly does care. but these are really diffi...

Before. weve seen this with rob porter and a number of instances where the administration starting one would assume from the president because he chose to finally address this issue not on the comments that she made but on the leaking now that they want to focus on. they dig in their heels. can he do that, alex, at lunch today? if he has senators and cornyn and thune pressing him on zte and other senators pressing him on the mccain comment. can he really just say, no, no, nothing there, nothing ...

In the senate. today hes headed to the hill to meet with them. theyve been confuse today say the least why the president is now trying to save a company that u.s. sanctions pretty much killed. lets go to our christine romans with more. youve got senators cornyn and thune scratching their heads. why, mr. president, are you trying to save this big chinese tech firm zte and the president responding with a tweet trying to clean it up. >> its remarkable. its reversible and a reversal. first president...

Office. >> just this week as you mentioned, we have this reporting, manu asking more than a douzen gop senators if they are ready to back donald trump in 2020. most wouldnt commit. at least not yet. senators cornyn, collins, alexander, sanford, king singer, kennedy, thune and others. what does it say about the state of the republican party under president trump? >> well, i think it means were going to have a very interesting to 2020. certainly, there will be challengers to emerge to the presiden...

Welcome back. in the months since the shooting of marjorie stoneman high school weve heard a lot from the president on gun safety. >> well be doing background checks and the mental health of somebody. >> they are not going to walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns. it may be 10% or maybe 40%. >> i dont want teachers to have guns, i want highly trained people that have a natural talent. >> think of it. you can buy a handgun, you cant buy one if you wait until you are 21 but you can b...

>> to that end he is weighing other options including raising the minimum age for buying a firearm. current law federal law people cant buy a handgun from a licensed dealer until age 25 but they can buy a rifle or shotgun including an assault-style weapon at the age of 18. if you buy from an unlicensed individual there is no minimum age for purchasing a rifle. a study cited by the law center found one quarter of violent gun oh fepders would have been prohibited from acquiring a weapon if the nat...

First, you mentioned background checks and conceal carry reprosty. >> i havent spoken with him about that. i know he spoke with senator cornyn friday. hes generally supportive of that. were going to continue those conversations. >> last week there was news by private travel with different senators and using federal resources. do both of them have the confidence of the president? >> i have no reason to believe otherwise. if somebody no longer has the confidence of the president, you will know. >>...

Donald trump says he thought that hillary clinton was going to win and department want to rock the boat. president trump also insisting today that hes much tougher on russia than president obama is, even though, shep, as you pointed out he did not put into effect the sanctions that congress had passed. president trump referring to have a constructive relationship with russia. shep? >> shepard: whats the latest on an improving background check as mentioned by sarah sanders? >> the one thing that ...

Isnt stepping up, doing the right thing. the fact that hes not part of the conversation to help move the ball forward and is instead attacking individual numbers of the presidents staff shows the lengths they are going to blame people for their own failures. sick of the white house defended a tough new immigration add put out by the trump campaign. charges democrats who dont support border security measures will be complicit in crimes, and by illegal aliens. >> democrats who stand in our way we ...

Respond to the magnitude of this tragedy. san antonio area hospitals and trauma centers have coordinated with regard to patient movement and patient care. the red cross has set up family assistance center to help all families affected by this. one thing that is very important for everybody affected by this, whether youre a family member or nonfamily member is that you avail yourself of counseling resources that will be made readily available in abundance. now, we have so many people who have hel...