they have to be completely transparent. we have to do a thorough investigation and whoever didn t do their job has to be held accountable. there is no one i talked to that isn t disgusted that the local sheriff s deputy that was there didn t go in and kill that individual. deputies make mistakes, we all make mistakes. it is not the responsibility of general or the president if you have a deserter. you look into it. we re looking into this aggressively and we ll take care of it. justice will be served. sandra: meanwhile the democrats f.b.i. memo finally unleashed on washington over the weekend and there is brand-new reaction coming in from the white house. bill: we have live team fox coverage in all this and so much of it ties together. phil keating the latest in florida but let s start at the white house with john roberts. what s the aim of the big meeting with the governors today? 10:40 in the state dining room in the main building the president will host the
thank you very much. we have a number of states right now that do that. with that in mind, i ll call on greg abbott. shepard: besides bump stocks and arming teachers, president trump has pushed for the background check for gun buyers and raising minimum age to buy semiautomatic weapons from 18 to 21 years old. the nra is against raising the age requirement it reports and against banning bump stocks, but the president says he met with the nra leaders this weekend and as he put it, they are on our side. we have team fox coverage, mike emanuel on capitol hill. first, the chief white house correspondent john roberts who is in the briefing room as we wait for that. hello, john. sarah huckabee sanders fresh off the air will be briefing us in a few minutes. the president as you saw today when he spoke with most of the nation s governors, getting a measure of support for his plans
co-sponsored the latest background check bill. he said if this is all the white house is willing to do, it s wholly insufficient. team fox coverage continues with john roberts on the north lawn. john? the president will have the meeting this afternoon and he will likely hear the same pleas for change that we heard from tallahassee and those students. here s who will be attending. 15 to 20 students, teachers and parents from marjory stoneman douglas high school, davis hogg who you have seen on the air and many programs was invited. he wanted to go to the tallahassee rally so he s not coming to the white house. there will be members of sandy hog promise. this san efficacy group created by parents whose children were killed in sandy hook, connecticut several years ago as well as representatives from rachel s challenge who aims to lower violence in schools.
a high school where students walked out there. they marched to the city hall chanting no guns in our schools. and in our nation s capitol. your hand, our blood they chanted. students on capitol hill trying to send their own message and outside the white house, students holding another lie-in. a nod to all those killed by gun violence. demonstrators are still out even as schools close or get ready to dismiss. students screaming for change, concerned that lawmakers might turn the page again. we have team fox coverage. john roberts on president trump s sit-down with school shooting survivors in the last hour. first, rich edson is on fox s top story. he s live in tallahassee. rich, what are you hearing from these kids? some of the parkland students are telling us they fear as though they re lobbying efforts
there s more involved here. also today, we re hearing from the couple that took in the accused killer after his adoptive mother died. they recently told the south florida sun sentinel newspaper they did not know they had a monster living under their roof. today they told good morning america that they felt shocked and betrayed. we didn t know anything. we had rules and he followed every rule to the tee. i m heart broken. just heart broken. devastated. i still can t process what he s done. this wasn t the person that we knew. not at all. shepard: that s kimberly and james snead that took the accused in. his lawyer now describes the two as good people who tried to do the right thing by helping the young man. the couple said they had they none of his disturbing social media posts, they would have never let him in their house. we have team fox coverage now. steve harrigan outside the courthouse in ft. lauderdale,