background check system. in two days time when we have this meeting at the white house you will hear more of that. what do you make of the continued failed alerts that were given by so many? we know of two at the f.b.i. right now. the sheriff said 20 times they were called to the house. the school kicked him out. when you get that many warnings and no action is taken or no action can be taken, byron, what are we left to think about this? this is one of the most across the board failures i think we ve ever seen. after incidents like this in the past we ve had this kind of depressing argument with republicans saying that more needs to be attention needs to be paid on mental health and democrats saying more needs to be paid to gun control. and this is a situation in which there was a failure all across the board. clearly the authorities, the local health authorities, the f.b.i., the police, the school,
week as those students call for action. president trump last night saying he supports changes to some background checks. watch that story. alicia: griff jenkins is live in washington what s the white house saying? good morning. we ve seen this movie before. a push for gun control following tragic events and nothing gets done in washington maybe because of these students things will be different this time. they rallied all weekend and took to the airways in full force. after a few days of intense pressure the white house announces the president will hold a listening session with students on wednesday. last night the white house issued a statement saying the president spoke to senator cornyn on friday about the bipartisan bill to strek en the f.b.i. s database systems. discussions are ongoing and revisions considered the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system. then deputy press secretary raj shah elaborated a little more this morning.
we got yesterday was a reelection campaign speech. i guess it sort of tipped it off to me this last weekend when we heard he was quote ago speech, not floating a speech, not a plan but a speech and sent his campaign manager to discuss it, not his budget directionor, not his secretary, chief of council economic adviser, but he sent his campaign manager out to announce this. we ve asked we have a good relation with the omb, our budget staff, a lot of them came from omb, we talked to them on pretty much nearly a daily basis and we called omb to find out what the new numbers, what is the plan, show us the benchmarks, the data points, they basically referred us to the president s budget and the secretary s office. so this was really a speech, not a plan, as far as i can tell. so speeches aren t plans. speeches aren t ant action. it s speeches. the president said that there was nothing serious about a budget that would cut bill: so paul ryan has not changed his tune from
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