grunting today is your day. Crush it. Angies boom chicka pop whole grain popcorn. Boom this is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A little past 11 on the east coast. New developments tonight. A 19yearold exstudent kefzed to the Florida High School shooting rampage. Nikolas cruz is charged with premeditated murder. Amid questions about Mental Health and warning signs he left on social media. That as President Trump addressed the nation a day after the deadly rampage. You know, the president said something today that hit me. You might have missed it in the remarks. The remarks where he didnt mention the word gun once and said he wanted quota plan that works. What a great idea. What is the plan . Anyway, what he said was this. And so always, but especially today, let us hold our loved ones close. Let us pray for healing and for peace. And let us come together as one nation to wipe away the tears and strive for a much better tomorrow. I want everyone in this country to hold their loved ones close. And tonight on this show our job is to hold our president and lawmakers accountable. Because thats really where the difference is going to be made. Lets start with the president. He has done nothing in his presidency to stop gun violence. He talks about Mental Health as he did today. We are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of Mental Health. That would be much morp kwon convincing if his budget and policies didnt cut funding for Substance Abuse and Mental Health services by over a billion dollars. Why does he talk about Mental Health and not guns . Could it be because the nra spent some 30 million to get trump elected . More than anyone in history. This they unflinchingly sported him last april he returned the favor. I will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Never be ever. So trump signed one gun measure since taking office. It cancelled president obamas plan to have potential gun buyers to provide Social Security numbers for a background check. It was intended to block mentally ill people from buying guns. So the one thing the president who talks about Mental Health has done is potentially make it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns. After the las vegas massacre, he said this. Well be talk about gun laws as time goes by. Time and lives keep going by. Vice president pence offered this tweet. Our hearts break for all the victims and families affected by the terrible School Shooting in Broward County, florida. The students teachers administrators and families all remain in our prayers. The nra endorsed his vp bid and called him a freedom fighter, saying pro gun candidates dont come any better than mike pence. They praised him for repeatedly voting to pass legislation to protect firearm manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for the criminal actions of third parties. While serving in grez pence had an a rating and collected nearly 33,000 from the gun lobby. As indianas governor, pends gave gun manufacturers greater immunity from liability. House Speaker Paul Ryan doesnt think this is a good time to talk about politics either. He said this today on a radio interview. Just a horrific, horrific, horrible, horrible shooting. I mean, i think we need to pray and then our hearts go out to the victims. And you know, i think what as Public Policy makers we dont just knee jerk before we have all the facts and the data. Here are some more facts. Paul ryan has of an a rating from the nra. As speaker he rchzed to allow votes on banning assault style weapons. Here is data. He collect add whopping 342,564 in gun lobby contributions. With 172,000 of that coming just in 2016. Jeff sessionsways a long serving senator from alabama before he became attorney general under President Trump. But florida was once his home. As a native floridian, i know this is a painful day to you, a tragedy we have seen there, really all americans feel the loss that we have seen in that school and the young people we lost. Its certainly a tragic event. And were going to work on it in many ways to do something about it. When presented with an option to do something about it, as senator, Jeff Sessions passed. Keeping his a rating by the nra must explain why he voted against background checks and Assault Rifle ban and to ban high capacity magazines. He collected 22,800 in nra money for his elections to the senate. The shooting happened in the home state of senator marko rubio who says laws will not stop horrible attacks. Someone decided im going to commit this crime, theyll find a way to get the gun to do it. That doesnt mean you shouldnt have a law that makes it harder. It just means understand to be honest it isnt going to stop this from happening. You can still pass the law per se, but youre still going to have the horrible attacks. Senator rubio as nra rate something a b plus. But the nra spent an eye popping ready for this, 3. 2 million to support him in his last three elections. When he was running for president , senator rubio said that new gun laws were ineffective and infringe on the rights of lawabiding people. Senator rubio, are you okay with not even trying . Another senator, bill nelson had to this to see in the murderous aftermath. At some point we as a society have got to come together and put a stop to this. This senator grew up on a ranch. I have hunted all my life. I have had guns all my life. I still hunt with my son. But an ar15 is not for hunting. Its for killing. Senator nelson has a flat out f rating from the nra. He has taken in over 11,000 from the gun control lobby. He voted in favor of background checks. And Assault Rifle ban and to ban high capacity magazines. Principals the vast majority of americans agree with. Floridas attorney general spoke at a press conference yesterday. We will pay for the funeral expenses of these poor victims and do everything we can to help their families. So everything we can. In 2013 the attorney general pam bond y he supported the proposed to prevent young people from buying handguns. Crime stsks in state show thats the most frequent age for a murder arrest. Add to that, a fourth of gun homicides in florida are committed by people between 18 and 20. The nra gives her a rating and gave the the nra gave her 75,000 to support her election. They also called bondy a a true Second Amendment supporter say she has been a friend of our organizations. After the orlando pulse massacre, this is at least the second mass smooth for her. Today Florida Governor rick scott seemed to express more willingness to change whats not working. We love our children. Im going to do whatever i can do to keep the kid safe. Im im going to talk about every issue to keep the kid safe. So lets hope that is true. Lets hold him to that. As it stands in florida now no permit is required to purchase a handgun or firearm. The governor another a plus winner for the nra laws drafted by the irgts and not congressman and signed by the governor. Rick scott has the final say of what can or wont change. Facts first. When you hear these lawmakers speak think about the money behind the statements. The numbers we have used come from the center for responsive politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group, that logs campaign donations. So you can see where your elected officials get contributions. If you agree with them and what theyve done or not done, well this is america. And if you dont, well this is america. And you can vote. But here is my question. And i want everyone to really think about this. Why are we allowing pliken beholden to lobbyists to get in the way of what the majority of americans want. 68 of americans want a ban on assault style weapons according to a recent pew poll. According to quinnipiac 95 of americans want universal background checks. We talk about americans and guns being sacred. But most of the population doesnt even own a gun. Pew found that only 37 of households report someone owning a gun. A study by harvard and northeastern universities found 3 of americans own half of all guns in this country. 3 of americans own half of all guns in this country. That is 7. 7 Million People who own an ample of 17 guns each. So a majority of the population actually own guns and a smaller a smaller percentage of them own half of that. Actually dont own guns i should say. And that is who is deciding the fate of people like the ones who lost lives just yesterday at a Florida High School. Now you tell me if that makes any sense at all. Lets discuss now, rich lawyery the editor of national review. Cnn political commentator joan walsh. I think youre looking at this totally from the wrong perspective. Lets take paul ryan for instance. Im sure almost certain he was pro gun rights even before he taut about running for congress. So the idea all the republicans are secret gun controllers and just have been bought off to go out and lie and pretend theyre in favor of gun rights is not true. This is sincere. Where the evidence i never said. Well youre suggesting that paul ryan. Im not suggesting anything. Because of the money. Just reading the facts. So the contributions have nothing to do with the conviction on guns we agree on that. We dont agree with that. Thats the point im making. Youre saying theyre secret gun controller. Youre saying theyre bought off. What are they being bought off to a position they dont agree with it . Is that what you suggest. Do you think theyre not influenced by the money. No. Are you influenced by money. Do you know where your bread is butter. Paul ryan you think he is a secret gun controller. No he wasnt saying that why creating the straw person thats what. How it the money relevant. Its relevant. Gets them elected. The nra supports him because he is pro gun. They have come around. I am looking at it that way. Whats wrong. No it doesnt. Because he is influenced by the money. No, no, no. So you think you think when he was 16 years old out hunting deer he was in favor of gun control then he ran for office and all this lobbyist money came to him and he changed his view on guns. You are create ago straw person. Why opposition common sense restrictions vast number. Do you think he was out with an ar15 hunt sfloog with a rifle. The ar15 is the most popular rifle in the country at the moment. Millions own them and they dont shoot up schools. Every one of the gun control measures you mentioned universal background checks, cosmetic ban on certain stylistic weapons would do nothing to stops these sort of killings. How do you know that unless you try it, rich . How do you know. Virginia tech one of the worst School Shootings. Hold on let me let me just tell you this. Other country haves done the same thing. They have banned, done background checks. They have done sensible Gun Legislation. And guess what . They arent nearly where we are when it comes to guns. Lets talk about background checks. Everyone brings up background checks. Wise. Almost every case they passed a background check because they hadnt been adjudicated and werent guilt of crimes. There is no background check you can devise. You could devise it. So how are you going to jude kate someone who hasnt. Joan wait a minute. You can do a background check have the length be longer. If youre talking. Also where it doesnt have to be jude indicated. It could be a doctor. Send people to be checked. Checked records when it comes to psychology. People who are troubled and mentally ill have more interventions i agree with you. I agree with you but youre criticizing donald trump for saying that. Im criticizing all politicians. Its a constitutional right. Regardless republican or democrat who wont broach the subject of how we get sensible Gun Legislation to stop this from happening. We talk about it all the time. The solutions the solutions you offer have no interaction with the horrific crimes. If you can give me. Propose that people who. We can have a conversation. Diane feinstein proposed people on the terror watch list were not able to buy guns. Republicans couldnt even come to consensus on that. Because the terror watch list is a mess. Everyone acknowledges that. If you clean it up. Clean it up. Fine lets clean it up and then we can have the conversation. Do that as well. The fundamental fact, don is the Second Amendment that this country. Youre saying people on the terror watch list in the interim while you clean it up they should be allowed to have guns. Mentally ill people gun. Again youre talking about something that has no interaction with the crimes. We care more about guns than we do children. And its disgusting. And we need to change the culture that that ensh rierns guns a a kind of manhood. We are not entitled to ar15ever. We are entitled to own guns, not entitled to own weapons of mass destruction. You brought the receipts all these guys, yes theyve been bought and paid for. They may now have come around to agree. Near not secret gun controllers. They have. Youre saying they have been bought off they must not agree with the position. They are now kept. I i dont know how they started but they are kept. Do you know the definition of conflict of interest. No, look. No you dont. No, no, no you believe none of these people are sincere some of them think the Second Amendment. I never said they werent sincere. Here is what im saying. I put the information out there. Did you hear what i said facts first. Right. But what what okay ill if you think that getting. But what are you suggesting. Getting thousands of dollars millions of dollars doesnt influence someone nonyoure sadly mistaken come on. So youre saying they sincerely believed there are all sorts of gun control measures that will make these go away. I think youre doing the same thing now with me in the conversation as people who oppose sensible gun laws do. Gou to extremes. And you say things that people are not saying dont want to look at the facts because they dont line up with your ideology. Young man couldnt buy a beer couldnt buy a handgun. Paul ryan has gotten 340 some odd thousand dollars. What do you think the consequences. You tell me. You brought this up. What do you think the consequences. I thinks he sincerely believes one in gun rights. And two, that the kind of measures you have talked about in the program would have nothing to do with stopping the shootings. Thats not true. How does the universal background check stop the shooting. Thats not true. There is a new poll from harvard printed in the New York Times yesterday. The only factor that separates us from other countries is the amount of guns and access to guns in this country. Well, look we had an assault weapons ban and the best research in the 90s says it did nothing. Its a cosmetic its a cosmetic definition. Semiautomatic. There is debate on that. Thats not true the facts dont show. Most guns are semiautomatic weapons thats basic Technology Process you want to ban all semiautomatic weapon thats enormous prohibition. You have to go and confiscate them. Youll have Second Amendment problems. The critics thats not most americans want a ban on semiautomatic weapons. Most want a ban on. There is no magic solution, don. You can either. That doesnt mean theyre going to be a good. S in the problem with gun controllers. You says in minor things were suggesting useful background checks. They make no difference. Or you can actually advocate something on large scale that might make a difference but youre but most gun controllers are afraid. How do you know it doesnt make a difference. What shooting would a universal background check what mass shooting what mass shoot shooting. This young man was known to the police. The police came to his house multiple times. And he got a gun. There should be more intervention. There should be more easier. And matching up with Police Records with guns. Compel treatment for treatment who are seriously mentally ill and need for intervention for them. Smud they be able to get guns. If they havent been adjudicated gun ownership is an individual right. If i said to you the media is part of the problem we need to ban the media from talking about the shootings you would say, rich, there is a First Amendment right you cant do that. Thats the way this country works. There is a bill of rights. Yes, there is a bill of rights. But then if congress or someone decided to do something about that, then we could talk about that. To do something about the bill of rights. Yeah. Or what rights. Talking about the availability of guns. There is nothing that stops there is nothing that stops people from having conversations about it. How much does the president. Okay were having a conversation. Dont overtalk me. The president talks about all the time the media. He hates the media. He is upset about the media has a conversation about the media. The sheriff today says please media dont put. En the camera on anybodys face. Please dont do it we are free to talk about it. Propose a law a lot of people right will i say there is a First Amendment. If you want to change the Second Amendment lets have the debate. Doesnt mean its going to happen. You want to change the Second Amendment. He didnt say that. Okay what are you saying. You never said i wanted to change the Second Amendment. That is your extreme argument because you dont want to take you dont want to take the small steps to try to figure out how to stop what happened. Thats what youre saying. Youre saying that i want ill say it again and then ill stop and let you say it. Island let me say it again. Okay. What we said was we give the facts on how much money gun lobby ifrts are offering these people who are in congress who are lawmakers and who refuse to do anything at all about gun violence in this. I get that. Okay. We agree you took it to an extreme saying i want to get rid of the