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Around. O. J. Simpson giving a hypothetical confession into an explosive interview. He may try to describe it as a hypothetical but, of course, it becomes odd. Five passengers killed in a Helicopter Crash in new york city. It was just going straight down like he was coming in for a landing but it was really fast. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Welcome, everyone. Welcome to your new day. The white house officially putting out their thoughts on gun violence and School Shootings. Theres a notable omission in their plan. President trumps idea to raise the minimum age to buy certain guns is not included. The Trump Administration says they will help states pay to arm teachers and improve the nations background check system. The plan also calls for a federal commission on School Safety headed by education secretary betsy devos, though, hours after setting that up, the president mocked that idea. One way to look at it is pretty simple. Sometimes you got to fight the nra. Every proposal in this plan is backed by the nra. Now the president has some other political concerns, namely that the republicans can hold on to a seat in the pennsylvania representative there, special election. The president won by 20 points, maybe even more than that. So he was there campaigning for Republican Rick Saccone over the weekend but the rally became all about the president s peeves, attacking his perceived opponents and rallying his base. He even renewed calls to execute drug dealers. Lets begin our coverage with Kaitlin Collins live at the white house. Reporter good morning. Overnight the white house unveiling the president s School Safety proposals away from the cameras and three weeks of after that shooting in florida and those they are pushing forward with one of the president s more contentious proposals which is to provide School Employees with Firearms Training, there is no denying that the president is shifting his stance on one key issue after multiple conversations with the nra. President trump backing down from increasing the minimum age for purchasing certain firearms, an idea strongly opposed by the nra that the president repeatedly pushed for. It doesnt make since that i have to wait until 21 to get a handgun but i can get this weapon at 18. Reporter the shift coming after the president publicly shamed toomey and manchin for not including it in their bill. We didnt address it, mr. President. Youre afraid of the nra. Reporter raising the age on gun purchases will be one of a range of issues studied by a new federal Safety Commission chaired by education secretary betsy devos. Do you feel a sense of urgency . Yes, because this sounds like talking. No. There is a sense of you are yensy, indeed. Reporter but on saturday President Trump mocked the concept of these types of commissions to solve problems like the opioid epidemic. We cant just keep setting up blue ribbon committees, they talk, talk, talk, two hours later, then they write a report. Reporter the white house proposals includes providing rigorous Firearms Training for School Personnel on a voluntary basis. This is one solution that can and should be considered but no one size fits all. Every state and every community is going to address this issue in a different way. Reporter the administration also sports transitioning veterans and retired Law Enforcement to work in schools, adopting measures to allow Law Enforcement to remove firearms from threatening individuals, overhauling and reforming Mental Health programs and the cornynmurphy bill criminal proved reporting to the federal background check system. The white house rolling out the bill one day after the rally. Instead the event felt more like a Campaign Rally for the president where he attacked potential 2020 challengers. Can you imagine covering bernie or pocahontas . How about that . Id love oprah to win. Id love to beat her. I know her weakness. Reporter and debuted this new campaign slogan. Keep America Great, exclamation point. Keep America Great reporter the president touting the steep tariffs he imposed last week on steel and aluminum imports and his potential summit with north korean dictator, kim jongun. Who knows whats going to happen . I may leave fast or i may sit down and make the greatest deal for the world and all of these countries. Reporter he surprised everyone by suggesting drug dealers should be executed and raising eyebrows with what some democrats say a racially charged attack on congresswoman maxin waters who has called for his impeachment. Shes a low i. Q. Individual. You cant help it. She really is. Reporter the president is hoping to talk up another republican victory in pennsylvania tomorrow night during that closely watched special election. Its a district the president won handedly in 2016 but to give you a sense of how concerned the white house is about this race, the president is sending his son to campaign for rick saccone today. Thank you very much. Now to this story, President Trump slamming a report in the the New York Times that said he is in talks with a veteran d. C. Attorney who happens to be former president bill clintons lawyer that he used during his impeachment hearing. The president tweeted this yesterday. The failing the New York Times purposely wrote a false story saying i am unhappy with my legal team on the russia case and im going to add another attorney to help out. Wrong im very happy with ty cobb and jay sec ulou. The only collusion was from the democrat. Cnn political analyst and the New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Habberman joins us now. Hi, maggie. Reporter hi. Whats your response to the president s criticism . I think the basis concept is problematic that he believes people need quote unquote, access to report on the president of the United States. We report on him regardless but he has no idea who our sources are or how many people around him are talking to us. He says you have no access. You interviewed him 12 times at at least. We saw during the campaign that he has this habit of pointing to a table like this and saying this is a sofa and this is no exception. We do not need his permission to cover him. This is something hes continued to think the people need. This is his idea of journalism that was cultivated over many decades dealing with new york city tabloids. Thats not how the white house works or government. This is a weird thing for him to have this reaction to, among other things, hes saying that the story said things he didnt say. We did say hes meeting with a lawyer who specializes in that i word impeachment and that is something you know that for a fact . We know that for a fact. Oval office was in the they were in the oval office and thats what they were talking about. Somebody who can serve as an intermediary for him with the department of justice. He gets himself in a thorny position with this repeatedly with the Deputy Attorney general. He has all kinds of questions about the fisa process. Ty cobb has not played that role. The person who has been the point person dealing with the Mueller Investigation and don mcgahn cant because he is a witness in that investigation that despite what the president claims has not been privy the president is not his client. Correct. The white house is and its meaningful distinction here and somebody didnt serve him well because the idea of letting it come out that youre trying to negotiate that the president will sit down with investigators if you negotiate a hardened date to the investigation had to do a lot of damage to the relationship. That would be a death sentence for muellers guys if they cut a deal like that. Its never going to happen. So somebody did him a disservice and it would suggest that theyre going to have to add somebody who can make it better. Heres the problem with that, right, because we have been saying that for some period of time. There are various people who have done him a disservice but none more so than himself. The main way he does that is he refuses to fall the clinton model, kaz owe wits wanted to follow the clinton model, you set up, heres a separate team legal that is going to deal with the investigation and then press around the investigation and heres our Government Team and they are dealing with all manner of the government, the presidency, the white house. Keep them separate. This president will not allow that. He doesnt want that so you end up in this situation where everybody is a cross purposes and tiptoeing around and he just weighs in with a tweet that doesnt help anybody. About your back to your reporting on emmitt flood whos this veteran attorney who dealt with bill clintons impeachment. It was pretty innocuous. It really arouses his ire. It got him at cross purposes with i think his own lawyers did not know that he was doing this and i think hes worried about inflaming them or leak something so he puts out this attack the messenger thing which weve seen him do over and over. It suggests respect for potential consequences. They dont want to follow the clinton model right. Dont follow the clinto plan but short of that the idea that hed even be considering it, that hes even thinking about how to prepare for that is correct but its reality. It also raises the possibility and kron but it raises the possibility that flood turned him down and hes spinning it forward as, this wasnt even real. Weve seen him do all of this. None of this is particularly surprise. Its not productive in his amazing fixation with my unusual shah and coverage remains astonishing. Flood could have come out and said, i was there but he could have cleared it up right away. It was not offbase. You didnt see anybody from the white house say a thing about it for 24 hours until the president decided to spend sunday morning doing this. Now on to policy. The white house has put out their thoughts on stopping School Shootings and gun safety and as we pointed out this morning, it could read like a checklist, an nra approved checklist that doesnt mean such as, you know, transitioning former veterans and Police Officers into the schools to help out, that these things wont effective but theres nothing that pushes the boundaries of what the nra would have been comfortable with. Theres nothing that matches the thunderous rhetoric that we heard from the president that the president thought was a really good event. This just suggests no follow through and it suggests that the followup meeting that the nra had with them, they were the last voice on this in his ear, had some effect. What is missing from this plan is the study anything related to upping the age requirement in terms of the type of weapons that were used in the parkland, florida, shooting. What was said on this call with reporters last night was that this commission that is going to be chaired by betsy devos is going to study this and this is as you played earlier in sound exactly the kind of thing that the president denounced the evening before his whole brand, is action on doing something. People are not going to not notice that the age range doesnt change and that the age minimum doesnt change and that is something the nra was against. Lets just remind people where the president was on this idea over time. Take a listen. In addition to everything else, in addition to what were going to do about background checks, well go very strong into age, age of purchase. You cant buy a handgun at 18, 19 or 20. You have to wait till your 21 but you can buy the gun, the weapon used in this horrible shooting at 18. You are going to decide. The people in this room pretty much are going to decide, but i would get very serious thought to it. Perhaps, well do something having, you know, on age, because, it doesnt seem to make sense that you have to wait till youre 21 years old to get a pistol but to get a gun like this that this maniac used you can get it at 18. Why wasnt it in the proposal . Because it was controversial and because his advisers told him it was a political problem. I dont think weve heard the last of it especially knowing him. Well see a tweet today as hes sitting and watching all of his headlines and coverage. Hell say i never backed off of it. At the end of the day weve had years of this now with him of im going to take various sides of the same issue and you can all guess and hear what you want to hear. There will either be a raise in the age minimum or there wont and if there isnt it is going to be met with a lot of frustration from people look, background checks are more politically popular, i think, that is certainly true. They dont cover all sales. 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Do you think they should be able teachers should be able to carry assault weapons since presumably they may face assault weapons, do you have an opinion on that . I dont think assault weapons in schools carried by any School Personnel is the appropriate thing, but again, this is an issue that i think is best decided at the local level by communities and by states. A student could legally carry an assault weapon, a student over 18 . Not in schools, they cant. Okay. So you still want the schools to be gunfree zones except for the teachers . I think schools have to be protected like every other large gathering place. All right. Lets bring back Maggie Habberman. Devos has got problems in terms of acumen that shes controlling. Guns are just dumped on her plate and theres going to be struggle because theres not a lot of common sense flow to the restriction. Right. But this is what happens. Someones going to have to be in charge of how to put guns in the schools and teachers hands and its going to come down on her. What they said last night on this call with reporters is the Justice Department is going to be the agency thats going to be working with schools with local officials. She is chairing this commission. I cant get a sense of whether theres a direction they want to take. It sounds like a punt. They formed this commission. Justice department is going to work with local officials on this rigorous firearm training was their description of it. Does not sound like a new funding flow, doesnt make clear what were talking about in terms of what type of firearms and so forth other than its not appropriate to have an assault style rifle in schools or assault weapons in schools. I think that this is not going to satisfy a lot of people who thought that there was actually going to be a different type of conversation after this particular shooting, to your point, some of this is not her fault. This is essentially this football that she was told to go carry, but in general there is a sense of sort of a lack of preparedness, not just by her but by every official who has had to doend with this issue because they dont have answers. Theyre laying out this commiss