Blindsided, the family who opened their home and hearts to the shooter before the rampage speaks out. Everybody seems to know we didnt know. We had rules and he followed every rule to a t. And before he moved into your home, how well did you know him . I had met him a couple times before. He had spent a night at the house, and he was very polite. He seemed normal. Cnn has learned that the parkland, Florida School shooter had obtained at least 10 firearms, all of them rifles, according to Law Enforcement officials in the year prior to the shooting. Meanwhile, President Trump may have found an opening to take action after last weeks massacre. Today the white house is signalling a willingness to talk, saying in a statement, all discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, and the president is supportive of efforts to approve the federal background check system. Its possible the president is is reacting to the Strong Language from the students at the margery sto ri stoery stone high school. Students are gathering every microphone within reach to take action. If President Trump wants to see us, he should have taken our first invitation. Were not coming to him, he needs to come to us. Im going to ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle association. Mr. President , you control the house, you control the senate and you control the executive. You havent taken a single bill in Mental Health care or gun control and passed it. And thats pathetic. Youre either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around. Many of those same students also reacted when the president chose to connect the tragedy in florida to the russia investigation, suggesting the fbi was spending, quote, too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion, the president said. Here to share with me their reporting and their insights, bloombergs tulia rampa, Jonathan Martin and Mary Kathleen ham from the federalist. Tulia, i want to start with you because were seeing the pressure that students are putting on lawmakers, putting on adults around the country right now. Has it changed the parameter of this discussion . This morning we saw the president come out and say, you know, i could support perhaps federal background checks and tweaks there. Its very clear that the words from these young people is something thats differentiating this particular tragedy from previous tragedies weve seen in the past where weve heard about thoughts and prayers and not very much action happens afterwards. Now these young people are actually calling out lawmakers, calling out the president by name. You know the president spent a lot of time watching tv this weekend in maralago, he tweeted as much, and its clear hes hearing the voices of these young people. I think thats part of the reason why youre seeing the white so you say were open to some type of gun legislation, which is something the president has supported very wholeheartedly the nra, he didnt think as much. He didnt think any new laws would restrict gun owners. Now theyre looking at maybe a bipartisan bill by senator cornyn and the senator from connecticut, chris murphy, because they realize that something needs to be done. Weve seen these tragedies happen over and over and not much action in congress. So the question is, do they and are they, right . Because this legislation that the white house seems to be open to from john cornyn, the texas senator, this was introduced in the wake of the Sutherland Springs shooting. This deals with background checks, this deals with domestic abuse, this deals with the military discharges and the like. Is there room for Common Ground here . Can this get past . Look, i dont know if the underlying big issues of this debate have changed, because frankly you always have the two sides who are pretty dug in. I do think there has always been some opening for some of these tweaks. The issue, of course, is that in 2007 we actually did an ncis improvement amendments act post virginia techs shooting which allowed for connecting databases and making sure Mental Health stuff has been reported. It has not gone that well, so i think the quickest path, i think, is to go for some of these tweaks that improve what already exists on the books and allows for things to be more openly shared. But as always, in the United States of america, liberty and security are going to butt up against each other and you are going to have some issues as the aclu did with obamas actions on the Mental Health part of this and gun checks. Bump stocks changing that wide support, not particularly controversial at this point. You would think if there was a will, they could get that done quickly. The president down in maralago asking the people staying there, apparently, what he should do on this. Fae affected, we are told, by meetings with his people on friday. And this morning before he goes golfing, we see this on the background checks. What do you make of it . This is sort of a n nonidealogical president who sort of asks peoples opinions. This is nothing new, but going to the primary he had to make some accommodations to secure the nomination, right . Guns, abortion, i think. He made it clear where he was to the republican base, and hes not really wavered on those issues. This is the first time youre seeing some wavering. He sees the Media Coverage, thats what drives him. He sees kids on tv and i think that bothers him so now hes looking at, what can we do . For him its more how can we stop the Media Coverage of these kids and change the tenor of the coverage . I think if that is this cornyn background check, hell be in support of it as long as the nra is okay with it and many senators. You mentioned bump stocks. If a week from now or a month from now, this has faded and were on to ten new things and there is not any kind of urgency in the congress, then hes not going to be for it because theyve moved on. The students are organizing this march on march 24, so there is a month here, at least. You have a monthlong window, i think, at a minimum for this to happen. Kaitlyn, you know, its interesting, weve seen lawmakers speak about this just this morning on cnn. Both from florida, one republican, one democrat talking about where they might be able to meet on this. Lets listen. We should be done talking about this and these should be pa passed and signed into law next week when were back in washington. Ted can put me down on his legislation right now. I will add my name to it as soon as he is ready to file it. I think that Republican Leadership is starting to realize that americans arent going to accept that this is the new normal. Americans arent going to accept that we may drop off our kids at school one day and that they may not come home because someone slaughtered them. You know, one of the words they used there, kaitlyn, was leadership. Paul ryan, whats he going to do next week when theyre back there . Is this something that will be a priority, do you think . I think what you bring up about the issue of momentum especially on gun control issues is so critically important. Weve seen that over and over and over again. Yes, there is bipartisan support for background checks broadly, but again, it depends on what the details are. Weve already seen big issues with big bipartisan support in the public go down and fail, really. Daca was the recent example. And also you also have this kind of new bogeyman of sorts in the fbi. People are pointing to the fbi mistakes as, okay, lets focus on that. So its a lot more complicated than just support, and it also depends on what the president s endorsement is actually, right . Is it an endorsement for this bill . Will he be kind of whipping votes if they do decide to bring it to the floor . There are so many question marks left. The real question is, is there acceptance to agree on the things that are already agreed on . I know that sounds counterintuitive. If they wanted to, they could get something done very, very quickly. Are they going to keep that debate in the area where there is agreement, or are you going to see both sides try to shift it. I want to play Rush Limbaugh who was talking about this over the weekend. Lets listen. The solution is we need concealed carry in these schools. If we are really serious about protecting the kids, we need a mechanism to be defensive when this kind of thing if were not going to take action to stop it, we better have mechanisms in these schools to stop it when it breaks out. If we dont do that, and all the rest of this is nothing more than political pog pos tosturine 2018 midterms and the election. Its no more than political posturing for 2018. Im not sure people like the political posturing. Its a tough issue for candidates sometimes. Its a tough issue for not only republicans but a lot of red state and conservative area democrats who have seen in the past when theyve voted for gun control type bills, theyve been voted out of office. So this is something that in some ways they want to keep in a very narrow section. They want there to be areas where there is both bipartisan support for things like fixing background checks, but when you talk about putting more guns in schools or arming teachers, then you enter a more politically thorny environment and it will be harder to get a bill passed. In places like atf where they have had issues with some of these shootings having missed these red flags, a Work Study Group of some kind who studies that and looks to how it can be improved would be helpful, too. They were told january 5 and there was no action taken. That clearly has to be addressed. That may be a separate issue completely. Just where we began this discussion with kids i keep calling them kids these students who keep bringing up this discussion, how can you counter that if you are the white house or if you are guns rights advocates . How do you need to address that, kaitlyn . What is the difficulty . It is difficult, and i bring up the attention that this is getting, right . 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This group, basically through social media organizing and telling their friends and neighbors to come here to the white house north lawn, and theyre staging what they call a diein here. Just a few minutes ago before we came to you live, they read off the list of victims of gun violence in schools over the past decade, and then this group of young people, these are all students in high schools in the area, laid down on the ground in front of the white house, a white house that i should point out is still displaying a flag at half staff in honor of those victims of the parkland shooting. What theyre attempting to do here is represent the number of young people that have been killed as a result of gun violence in schools across the country. Their message is pretty clear, john. They want members of congress to take action, and specifically they want them to take action to write and pass into law stricter controls for firearms across the country. They believe that is the big problem here, and that theyre sick of members of Congress Talking about this and not doing anything. Weve seen some shirts that have said enough of your thoughts and prayers, it is time for action. As you can see here, john, this is a pretty dramatic moment of symbolism for these young people trying to send a message to their members of congress. John . Ryan, i dont know if you had a chance to speak with any of the people out there now, but is this something they intend to keep up for a period of time with a march coming in washington on march 24 . Absolutely, john. I think what these young people have expressed here today is that different than some other kind of flashpoint moments in the debate over gun control, they dont want this one to just fade away, that they are not going to just give up on their calls for new laws as it relates to gun control, that theyre going to continue the fight and that theyre going to be in the face of these members of congress and the president of the United States who they feel at this point are not doing enough. Its worth pointing out, john, that many of these young people who are lying down on the ground, many of them probably not even old enough to vote yet, as were many of the victims of the shooting in florida, they want to make it clear to members of congress that in the not too distant future, they will be one of these voters who will be casting votes in these crucial election. In particular, the 2020 race for president. Theyre going to make their voices heard, theyre going to put the pressure on. Theyre going to lobby members of congress. As you mentioned, a big rally planned in washington, d. C. In the coming weeks. These young people do not plan on going away, and this symbolic move, although it is symbolic at this point, they hope it turns into real action. Theyre specifically pointing to members of congress, though, john. They think now is the time for action to take place. Ryan nobles outside the white house. Again, as we look at the live pictures of this protest, High School Students in the washington, d. C. Area with a liein outside the white house now. Right now two families are saying goodbye to their 15yearold children. They were both freshmen at Marjory StonehamDouglas High School. Diane is near where one of those funerals is being held. Diane . Reporter yeah, john, two freshmen in high school today, those funerals, the service for elaine petty is happening in the church behind me right now. Her family described her as quick to smile. She was kind to others. They say she dedicated her very short life to service for others. She was in jrotc. She was active with her church family. After hurricane irma, she went and helped to rebuild. One other member of this congregation of this church, ali milford, was injured in this shooting. She is still in the hospital recovering, but we hear her parents are going to leave the hospital to pay their respects to this 13yearold girl. Luke hoyer, 15, his family described him as a good guy. His aunt told People Magazine he didnt know what he wanted to do. He was a 15yearold kid. He was excited to be in high school. He liked lebron james, he liked basketball, he liked hanging out with his friends. Really, thats what resonates with these people. Their lives were so short. And alaina petty will be talked about, what she was able to accomplish in her short years. Several members are here at this funeral today. Peter wang is being hailed as a hero. His last moments were sacrificed for others. He held the door open so people could escape when the shooter was in the school. They have a petition up and they hope he will at least get recognition. His funeral is tomorrow. Thank you so much, diane. Well be right back. Any chance of an upgrade . Any chance of an upgrade . Upgrade . Pretty please . Look into my eyes. Could be twins. Have you thought about being a model . Dont upgrade your seat. Upgrade your airline. Fly emirates. The best Economy Class in the world. Hey, need fast try cool mint zantac. It releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat. Zantac works in as little as 30 minutes. Nexium can take 24 hours. Try cool mint zantac. No pill relieves heartburn faster. My ci can worry about it,ine. Or do