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The white house tried to clean up those comments but there was not much clarity on what kind of gun control measures the president would support, besides banning bump stocks which werent even used at parkland. >> thank you very much. president trump insists he would have saved the day. >> i believe i would have run in there even if i didnt have a weapon and i think most of the people in this room would have done that, too. >> reporter: unlike the deputies, the president says, who choked. >> th...

Of arming teachers in an interview with nbc. >> i think that having a teacher who is armed who cares deeply about her students or his students and who is capable and qualified to bear arms is not a bad idea but its an idea that needs to be discussed. >> reporter: the white house was asked whether the president is backing away from his support for raising the age for people buying assault rifles to 21 nationwide. the president tweeted his support for that last week but today press secretary sara ...

Thats why the president was trying to gin up controversy surrounding the release of this democratic memo saying it was a bust, calling in to a fox news show to talk about it. so it didnt get the reaction they wanted but the president was hoping this memo would not be as significant as it was. >> some of the tweets on saturday, the president was on a tweet storm. one of the tweets jeffrey, dem memo, fbi did not disclose who the clients were. the clinton campaign and the dnc. wow. thats what he tw...

Democrats pushed back strongly against them and made accurate points that this is a much deeper investigation than one dossier. >> and we should look at how the white house handled the release of the memos. with the republican memo they released it very quickly against what the doj and fbi advised the president to do and the president was on a microphone saying he was 100% going to release the memo before he read it. meanwhile they blocked the release of the democratic memo for two weeks and onl...

Their fellow classmates, that could have been a moment to highlight that instead of saying what the president would have done in a situation that he likely is never going to be in and i think thats why people took issue. >> its and worst waiting for the full analysis to try to prevent those mistakes down the road. jeffrey, heres the president standing by his assertion that at least some school teachers should have concealed weapons in classrooms. >> i dont want teachers to have guns. i want high...

>> hows that playing? >> i can see how its uncomfortable to be asked. theres multiple allegations made against your dad from sexual misconduct to paying porn stars to sexual assault. she said she doesnt believe the women who have credibly accused of father of all of those things. shes not just daughter of donald trump. shes senior advisor in the white house. she has the title of special stapt assistant to the president. shes supposed to be the champion of women in the west wing. i cant fathom ho...

Does that? >> i dont know how she is planning on handling that but theres only one thing they can do if they want the answers whiches which is vote to hold her in contempt and force her to answer the questions. the republicans who lead that committee have shown no inclination to do that regarding any witnesses so basically they are giving white house witnesses a free pass to refuse to answer any questions they dont want to answer. >> youre shaking your head. >> this is a fraud. we just went thro...

Into a presidential conversation, police chiefs, students, teachers and mental health professionals and they have a couple questions -- how do we stop guns from getting in the hands of people who havent committed a crime? how do we secure schools that dont have fences? instead the president is talking about this is what i would do if i were faced with that situation less than two weeks after 17 people are dead, including 15 children. the question is quite simple. to honor those children what que...

Answer she could have given to discuss the question as opposed to saying no i do not believe the saaccusation, period. >> her husband is either going to be able to continue his work as special middle east envoy and other issues without full security clearances or not. >> that phone call from the deputy attorney general to the white house saying were continuing the investigation. we cant fully clear jared. in the midst of the mueller investigation. what is the code that rosenstein was trying to p...

Experts. let me play the clip, the president weighing in on the actions of the police who were there, the first responders. listen to this. >> i got to watch some deputy sheriffs performing this weekend, they werent exactly medal of honor winners. the way they performed was frankly disgusting. i really believe you dont know until you test it but i really believe id run in there even if i didnt have a weapon. >> thats generating a lot of buzz out there. what do you think? >> in fairness when you ...