His positions on one of the most divisive subjects for both his supporters and critics. Not far from the white house, conservatives are being warned by the head of the the gun loby that gun rights opponents are using the Florida School massacre to go after their weapons. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts starts us off with another day looking for answers. Good evening. It was the second meeting President Trump convened at the white house on the Marjory StonemanDouglas School shooting, meeting with state and local officials today to hear suggestions and float a few ideas of his own. How we can make our schools safer. President trump build the meetings as listing sessions but on one issue, the president and far more talking than listening. We have to harden our schools, not soften them up. A gun free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, thats like going in for the ice cream. Thats like here i am. Take me. Calling gun free zones nonsense, President Trump pushed to train and arm qualified teachers to stand as the frontline against a school shooter. Practically for free you have home made the school into a hardened target. I think we need hardened sites. We need to let people know you come into our schools, youre going to be dead. Its going to be fast. Unless you do that, your point to always have this problem. A handful of schools have adopted the idea. Getting that widespread value necessary to serve as a national deterrent will be a challenge for the white house. Much of a reaction we have seen has been negative. Does the president expect he can get enough buyin to send a signal to shooters that its a hardened facility. You walk in the door, youre not going to last very long. He thinks so. There are a lot of individuals, leaders in congress, the nra has been supportive of this idea. A lot of other folks have been supportive of this idea. President trump insists his plan could put an end back to School Shootings but it wasnt his only idea, tweeting this morning i will be strongly pushing comprehensive background checks with an emphasis on Mental Health. Raise age to 21 and end sale of bump stocks raising the age puts President Trump at officer at the nra which fiercely opposes changes. The statement saying passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20yearold to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self defense rifle on the market punishes lawabiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals. While the nra says theres been no change in its position, President Trump believes they will work it out. The nra wants to do the right thing. I have spoken to them often in the last two days. They want to do the right thing. They are going to do the right thing, i have no doubt. The Douglas High School shooting has ignited passions and the political arena. And a cnn town hall, florida senator marco rubio was confronted by the father of a young woman killed. Your comments this week and those of our president had been pathetically weak. On capitol hill, group of seven democrat sent a letter to paul ryan asking for debate to repeal an and nra backed amendd from 1986 that prevents the cdc from doing research into gun violence. The fbi waited in. Acting Deputy Director responding to why the fbi failed to act on a january to about the Douglas School shooter. Let me be clear. There was a mistake made. We know that. But its our job to make sure that we do everything in our power to ensure that does not happen again. Im not making excuses, because what happened was a tragedy, truly a tragedy. President trump suggested today changing the language around active Shooter Drills at schools saying they should simply be called safety drills because Young Students participating in an active Shooter Drill could be traumatized simply by the language. Bret john roberts live on the north lawn. Thanks. The head of the National RifleAssociation Says antigun forces are playing politics with last weeks massacre at the florida high school. Correspondent peter doocy is at the sight of the conservative Political Action conference at national harbor, maryland. A good evening. Good evening, bret. Even though we are 11. 5 miles away from the white house, the nra ceo who is a big supporter of President Trump delivered remarks about gun control that are a world apart from the president s proposed fixes. Their solution is to make you, all of you, less free. Wayne lapierre, ceo of the nra, did not mince words, warning about what he sees as a potential postparkland gun grab. Some people are calling for a new list of anyone, anyone who has sought Mental Health care to deny them their Second Amendment rights. The nra said presenting sponsor of cpac. It has a heavy presence throughout the convention center. Official spent for advocating for Stronger Security at schools and criticizing democratic lawmakers. For them, its not a safety issue. Its a political issue. They care more about control and more of it. Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment. The next speaker was Vice President pence whose parkland rumors included a pledge to come together. Later this week when the president meets with the nations governors in our nations capital, we will make the safety of our nations schools and our students our top national priority. Pence laid the foundation for the strategy g. O. P. Operatives tell foxes their best bet to keep the house criticize nancy pelosi. It would be a disaster for our cause of nancy pelosi became speaker of the house again that we are not going to let it happen. There was russia talk at thursdays session. In the context of the kremlin being a threat to the united states. There were no questions about the special counsels probe or the white House CounselDonald Mcgahn who used public remarks to explain how he helps President Trump select judges, as a rumors swirl about a summertime Supreme Court retirement. The president likes folks who have demonstrated courage, ability to stand strong in the face of adversity, people who know, you know they will not change and turning to someone else. Justice gorsuchs appointment spoken about today. Reducing regulations, vowing to move the American Embassy in tourism and repealing the individual mandate. It let bill clinton to call obamacare when the craziest things in the world. The only time i agreed with bill clinton. Other than about hillary. Im going to get in trouble about them. Cpac is not just speeches in a ballroom. The hallways are aligned with booths like this one. Organize say its about activism training and campaign management. The crowd appears very young and tomorrow theyre going to hear from President Trump. Bret peter doocy at cpac. Thanks. There are new charges tonight against the president s former Campaign Chairman and a longtime business associate. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge has the news. Serious trouble for paul manafort. Former trump aids charged with more financial crimes and to federal jurisdiction. Washington, d. C. , and now a separate 32 count indictment in virginia over bank and tax fraud. Allegedly laundering more than 30 million. Sources calling it it classic legal pylon and memos over surveillance abuse enter a new phase. House Intelligence Committee ranking democrat adam schiff says he wants the counter memo out this week. Negotiations with the fbi over what will be blacked out or redacted are nearly complete. White house spokesman said there would no be being a up. Once it meets the fbis standards, we would support its release. Just like the republican staff released earlier this month, source close to the process had the democrats version will likely require the president to declassify. Republican memo drafted by devin nunes alleges surveillances reviews by the fbi and Justice Department during the election. Departments knew that the trump dossier was founded by the dnc. Withheld specifics from a National Security of court when it applied for surveillance warrants for carter page. Republicans say the counter memo is unlikely to directly challenge the findings. Committee democrats say the republican account is deeply flawed. The fbi and doj are comprise a very good people, not acting politically. Doing their work on the american peoples behalf. I want to see the democratic reputation. The memo will show that a lot of the allegations were made and then nunes memo were not correct. Fox news confirms david jay kramer has invoked his fifth amendment right not to testify. Kramer was briefed on the dossier by Christopher Steele was a Critical Link in the dossiers to the fbi. Fox news asked why kramer took the fifth and if he helped get the dossier to buzzfeed. No comment from kramer or his attorneys today. Bret thank you. Spokesman for a syrian search and rescue groups as residents of one damascus suburb of being targeted by extermination. Civilians are being killed, wounded, and forced from their homes by a Syrian Government anxious to stamp out a resilient opposition. Conor powell reports from the middle east newsroom. Syrian and russian jets continue to pound eastern ghouta, leveling hospitals and residential buildings. Monitor group say at least 400 people have been killed in recent days. Thousands more are injured. The carnage leaving medical workers overwhelmed and that bloodshed showing no signs of ending. The arab news channel reported this morning the syrian army is preparing to launch a ground offensive into eastern ghouta. German chancellor Angela Merkel admonished the European Union for not doing enough to end the violence in syria. Saying that the e. U. Must step up pressure on the assad regimes biggest backers russia and iran. Translator the regime is not fighting against terrorists but against its own people, killing children, destroying hospitals. This is a massacre which needs to be condemned. Outside the United Nations today, protesters parked three large mobile billboards to criticize the International Communitys inaction on syria. The signs reading 500,000 dead and still no action. At the security council, theres a growing push for a 30 day humanitarian ceasefire. Russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov acknowledge the intensifying humanitarian crisis in syria outside moscow supports a temporary ceasefire. He refused to support any truth that included militant groups. A few months ago the assad regime pursued a similar strategy of talking about a ceasefire while at the same time intensifying violence in aleppo. In the end, the rebels were defeated while the International Community debated a truce and the assad regime regained control of a key syrian city. Bret conor powell in our middle east newsroom. Thank you. North korea is sending one of its most infamous political leaders to head its delegation to the closing ceremony of the winter olympics. While that man is set to meet with south koreas president , there appears to be no new effort for a u. S. North korea session. Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot is in seoul, south korea, tonight. North korea is causing a new stir at the ala fix. Naming a hardliner to lead the delegation to the closing ceremony. He is the head of Interkorean Affairs for the north. Notorious for his ties to the missile and Nuclear Programs and ordering attacks on south korean targets. Even though he has blacklisted by the u. N. And south korea, the south is still embracing him. We believe the north korean highlevel delegations participations in the closing ceremony will help improve the relationship between south and north korea. Ivanka trump arrives friday. She will dine with president moon but the white house says she wont meet with north koreans. Not ruled out, Close Encounter like Vice President pence had at the opening ceremony. He had tough words for pyongyang today. We stand up to murderous dictators. Well keep standing strong until north korea stops threatening our country, our allies,. A dictatorship willing to murder their own, a sign of that tense times that remain here along the dmz. Bullet holes left in a wall shot by north korean soldiers over there shooting at one of their own, a defector, coming across the border, huddling along the wall. He was rescued. Your folks got in there and saved him. They did. They werent sure what the response was going to be by the north koreans. Many weeks later, the north korean was still recovering from the incident. This week with the olympics gone, the border was relatively quiet. North korea turning down there propaganda blasted in the south. Would north korea engage us, you have to be ready for any kind of provocation. The paralympics will follow the end of the Olympic Games next month. It is feared the dangerous regional games could resume. Bret thinks. U. S. Official tells fox news defense equity james mattis is excited to recommend to President Trump that transgender people can serve in the u. S. Military if they deploy overseas. Official says secretary mattis does not want to go against recent federal court orders that the president s ban on transgender people serving the military is unlawful. Secretary mattis has not given his recommendation to the president. Pentagon press secretary says the decision is coming later this week. Up next, President Trumps influence on the Key Senate Race is our midterm coverage heads to arizona. First heres what some of our fox valley to run the country recovering. Fox 2 in st. Louis. Grand jury indicts the Missouri Republican governor on felony invasion of privacy charges stemming from an affair in 2015. He is accused of taking a compromising photograph of his mistress without her consent. The governor s Attorney Says the felony charges are baseless and the governor is innocent. Fox 11 in los angeles. As spaceks falcon nine blasts off from the air force air force base. Carrying a trio of satellites. The other two part of elon musks vision should create a broadband network. Live look from miami. One of the big stories there, and eye doctor once accused of bribing democratic senator bob menendez is given a 17 year sentence for medicare fraud. Salomon melgin convicted of 67 crimes. 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Former Maricopa County sheriff joe arpaio, recipient of trumps only president ial pardon, is the best known of republican candidates. This is a statewide race with national consequences. He faces stiff co