Nadlers announcement that al formal impeachment proceeding is in fact underway. News to a lot of people. And robert dobby is here featuring the hunting of maga supporters. Here in new york, republican lawmakers want to make water attacks on cops a felony. Democrats are pushing back. Former nypd commissioner Bernie Carrick is here to respond. First, President Trump is open to embracing new gun control measures. The commanderinchief says change is needed in the pair of Mass Shootings last weekend that left 31 dead. He claims its logical, not political. Frankly, we need intelligent background checks. This is not republican, democrat or nra. I spoke to Mitch Mcconnell yesterday. Hes totally on board. We dont want insane people mentally ill people, bad people dangerous people, we dont want guns in the hands of the wrong people. Foxs Kristin Fisher is live at the white house today withs reactions from both sides of the aisle. Kristin . Raymond, before leaving the white house today for new jersey, President Trump said the time has come for tighter background checks on gun buyers in america. Now, he said this before, but backed down to the pressure from the nra, which is led by wayne lapierre. This time he says its different. I this time wayne and the nra will either be there or maybe well be a little bit more neutral. That would be okay, too. Its a slippery slope. One thing leads to a lot of bad things. I dont agree with that. I think we can do meaningful very meaningful background checks. I want to see it happen. The president spoke with another skeptic of background checks, Mitch Mcconnell and President Trump says mcconnellfm is totally on board. The president and mcconnell hav denied democrats requests to Call Congress back early from august recess to vote. Mcconnell said the issue will bm front and center when they getti back in september. Senate majority leader, chuck schumer, said that mcconnell must commit to putting the bipartisan housepassed universal background checks legislation on the floor for a vote. Pressure has been mounding on President Trump andee Congressional Republicans to act after the mass shooting lastep weekend that killed 31 people in texas and ohio. In addition to tighter background checks, President Trump said he would consider supporting red flag laws, but hes not in favor of an assaultb weapons ban. So the Big Questions now, will this push for tighter gun control reform, will this push finally be different . And how will this play with the president s base heading into 2020. Raymond . Kristin, thanks for thes report. Here to respond is eric pratt, Senior Vice President of gun owners for americans and mark glaze. Eric, im interesting in how gun rights organizations see this. Do you and your members believe the president is caving or is supporting background checks a sensible way to respond to these massacres while protecting gun rights . Eric. Raymond, what the president is pushing is not only going to violate the Second Amendment g rights of americans, its going to backfire on republicans. This is akin to george bushs read my lips, no new taxes broken promise of the 1990s. This is going to completely backfire. Rush limbaugh has been talking about this for two days. Here you have a president that two years ago promised theha second the assault on the Second Amendment is over. Now hes doing an aboutface. If republicans stab gun owners in the back, theyll suffer at the polls in the same way that george bush did, the same way that bill clinton did when he said he lost the majority of the congress because of the gun issue and the same way that kelly ayott lost her seat by 1,000 votes because key gun rights organizations say they wouldnt support her because of her gun votes. She lost by 1,000 votes. But, eric, its background checks. I mean, its not limiting capacity, its not taking gunst off the market. Its simply background checks. Ill get to mark and let you respond. Mark, how effective would these be even if you did pass them nationally . Ohio and texas have them. These guys got their guns. Well, those states dont have universal background check laws. The way the system works now the only way i take a background check is if i buy it from a licensed dealer. If im a felon, i know how to avoid that. I go online or buy from a private seller. Thats how people slip through the cracks. The checks are effective. They dont stop anything any lawabiding citizen wants to do. If youre a felon, if youre under a Domestic Violence restraining order, if a judge said youre too mentally ill that check stops you. Thats why 90 of republicans in a politco poll just came out said its a good idea. It does stop good people from getting guns. Theres mistakes in the system and people end up dying. E a right delayed is a right denied. People have died waiting to get their firearms. E police by a 21 margin favor concealed carryover expanding background checks because thats the way you stop the Mass Shootings. You need people that to shootot back. The fbi has documented many many cases where thats how Mass Shootings have been stopped. Let me stop a second. Eric, i hear in your voice, do you believe the president will pay a political cost for backing even this limited background check, national or universal background check . Im not god or predict the future. Those that dont study history are doomed to repeat it. President clinton lost control of the congress he said because of the gun issue. Will your organization oppose the president in 2020 if he backs background checks . We wont support him if he goes forward with, this. Mark, i want to move on to you. There was talk of red flag laws that would confiscate guns from individuals. A judge deems them a threat toto himself and others. Heres the president from earlier this week. We have to make sure thathe those that pose a great risk to Public Safety dont have access to firearms. If they do, the firearms can be taken through rapid due process. Thats why i have called for red flag laws, also known as extreme Risk Protection orders. Mark, the studies on the red flag laws are all over the place. They have a zero impact on the outcome, on firearm homicides. Theyre relatively new. They just started to be passed. We know what the immediate effect is, in the 17 states that have these laws, theyve been used hundreds of times to prevent people from buying guns with Mental Illness or other problems. The el paso shooter might have been one of them if texas had one of these laws. His own mother reported him to the police. Before we go, one of the dayton shooters notebooks were released to the daily mail. On we decided not to broadcast images of his writings. Theyre filled with a desire to hunt people down, satanic references, referring to himself as a servant of the evil incarnate. Friends describe him as a methamphetamine smoker that played violent video games. These are common marks. They share isolation, Mental Illness, violent video games. Are we focused on the wrong thing by worrying about background checks and limiting to guns when perhaps its the perpetrator and not the instrument that we should be focused on and identifying these people early . Ill give you each of you a chance. Banning the tool or controlling the tool will not stop the evil in the heart. Ea california, illinois, floridag all have red flag laws and yet theyve had Mass Shootings in the past year. Nd the laws are not working to make people safer, what they do do is allow police to take guns from people without due process and in some cases thats resulted in death like gary willis, an African American gentleman in maryland, where an angry relative wanted to get revenge against him after an argument. He was completely innocent. Police came to the home when he answered the door with a gun in his hand because it was 5 17 a. M. He ended up being shot to death. These are very dangerous laws and no republican or Senate Democrat before i run out of time mark, quickly. Heres the common sense answer. People in every country in the world play violent video games. People watch violent movies. People in every country have the same incidence of mental illnese in the United States. Its only in the United Stateses that we have these Mass Shootings this frequently thats not true. Tell that to the guy that went to four places in Orange County and stabbed people. You can use a car a knife. You can see the knife violence in london. The instrument is secondary. The United States is not eveo in the top 50 when i have to leave it there. Thanks for this embracing discussion. Joe biden is living up to his reputation as a gaffe machine. Campaigning in iowa, he had two big blunders, including just watch. Watch it for yourself. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. We choose truth over fact. We have this notion that somehow if youre poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. Heres how the president reacted to that today. Joe biden is not playing with a full deck. This is not somebody that you can have as your president. If he got the nomination, id be thrilled. Here to debate, mark lauder for trumps 2020 campaign and mark levine. He is a Virginia State representative and a strategist. Mark, i want to start with you. Bidens gaffes derailed his past president ial runs. Are you and the democrats concerned that were seeing more than slips of the tongue . No, not really. Joe biden is a known quantityth and his gaffes are far less than those of the president. So you did some selective o editing there. You cut out where he said the poor people can do as well as the wealthy kids and the white kids as much as the black kids. But he phrased it wrong. He corrected himself immediately. Its different from this president. He uses racism and White Supremacy to divide the nation. A slip of the tongue is different. Mark, even msnbc wrote the former v. P. Cant afford for voters to see him as an unpredictable risk. Mark lauder, is that a danger . Even the Washington Post asked democrats if they should reevaluate their presumed front runner and his electability status. Re lets correct one thing. These are not gaffes, this is a pattern. In 2007 joe biden talked about education in the district of columbia and how they have higher racial minorities than in iowa. He said things that were disparaging of barack obama. So its not a gaffe. Its a pattern. After two failed tries calling the kettle black here. T youd think that joe biden would learn. Its blundering by biden all over again. Mark . Its crazy to compare a few gaffes by the Vice President to Donald Trumps open embrace of racism. Thats a lie. Hes the one that provoked a domestic terrorist did you hear donald trump talk about mexicans and racist mark, dont talk over theres a big difference between mixing up some words and intentionally mixing up words mark, mark over a decade mark and mark, please. I watched these gentlemen . The president held court for 35 minutes before getting on hisn helicopter. I watched biden weaving his way through the iowa fair. Biden is addeled, confused. Not sure where to go. The stumbling syntax just as an impression from a voter, it could cause them to second guess him. I want to move on. Congress they did this to Hillary Clinton, too. Shes a little faint. She was failing. She fell. Joe biden is the Prime Minister of great britain. Congress woman ocasiocortez has a new rest me to beat trump. I want your reaction. I think moving the party in the direction is how we get trump out of office. S i dont think radical is a bad word. R how do you think that will play in 2020, mark lauder . I welcome it. Say more of those things, aoc. The more you take the Democrat Party to the radical left, which is what you endorsed, the easier it is for President Trump to win. Every time she talks and every time their candidates talk, the middle of america, people that are moderate are tuning out. Mark levine . Pl its a radical message. Even nancy pelosi hassed had to put the bridle on some of these congress woman. Aoc is not running for president. She doesnt represent the mainstream of the Democratic Party. I understand why mark wants to talk about her. Er shes one member of congress. Shes not represented by congress. Let her say what she wants. Lets not pretend shes the face of the Democratic Party. Y. Most of their candidates signed on to her green raw deal the Green New Deal eliminates cars and cows you dont believe that alexandria ocasiocortez is a thought leader in the Democratic Party . Shes a thoughtful person. Shes a socialist. She and Bernie Sanders are the im not sure there are others. There may be two were three more. Hundreds of members of congress in the Democratic Party. Shes an interesting character says interesting things. I dont think she represents the mainstream of the Democratic Party, no. Before i let you, go i have to have your reactions. Kamala harris is out with a new campaign ad and focused on her 3 00 a. M. Agenda, which is very reminiscent of another former candidates classic ad. Look. After we were fed and in bed our mother would sit up trying to figure out how to make it work. Thats something that most americans know all too well. Thats what my 3 00 a. M. Agenda is all about. Now where have i heard 3 00 a. M. Agenda before. Its 3 00 a. M. And your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone . Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. What difference does it make . Mark, why would Kamala Harris borrow an ad idea from a failed president ial candidate . Why would donald trump borrow make America Great again from Ronald Reagan . Ea you yeah, but he won. Ronald reagan won an election or two. And hillary won by 3 million votes. She was pretty successful. I understand the russians invaded and all of those things. Kamala harris, 3 00 a. M. , its an interesting idea. Who do we want to pick up the phone at 3 00 a. M. . Kamala harris would be a good choice. Mark lauder, i bet you dont agree. Of course not. Kamala harris problem is not 3 00 a. M. Or her ad. Its going there iowa shes going to race taxes by 1,400 and 1. 9 Million People will have their Health Insurance taken away. Shes lowering mid class taxes. Raising taxes on the billionaires and spin your narrative. I have to leave it there. When its 3 00 a. M. , i hope were all sleeping. Thank you. Up next, Alan Dershowitz is here to rerespond to the Jeffery Epstein sex trafficking documents. React to news that a formal impeachment proceeding is indeed underway. Stay there. Impeachment proceeding is indeed underway. Stay there. Its show time. Lets cowboy up exhilarating speed. Woo precision control. Woo maximum reliability. Access denied. [ repeats ] access denied. If its not xfinity xfi, its not good enough. For wifi with super powers, get xfinity xfi. And go see, fast furious presents, hobbs shaw. Now playing. Raymond new tonight, federal prosecutors unsealing thousands of pages of documents in a case against Jeffery Epstein. The wealthy investor charged with child sex trafficking. Ed the documents name numerous poll situations, businessmen and harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz that joins me to respond to the new revelations. First, lets go to foxs chief t correspondent, Jonathan Hunt in the west coast news bureau. Jonathan . Good evening, raymond. Around 2,000 pages of documents related to a lawsuit involving a former girlfriend of Jeffery Epstein and one of his accusers were released and revealed that in the 2015 lawsuit, the alleged victim, Virginia Giuffre, accused epstein of forcing her to have sex with a string of public figures. They include names weve heard before. Prince andrew, for instance. Seen here in a photograph with then 17yearold giuffre. In the background is maxwell epsteins former girlfriend and the woman giuffre accused of orchestrating a socalled sex slave ring with epstein. Giuffre names a well known lawyer, Alan Dershowitz as one of those with whom she wasn forced to have sex. Dershowitz has repeatedly denied the accusations. A new name surfaced in the documents. Among them, former senate, majority leader, George Mitchell and former new mexico governor bill richardson. Richardson denied the allegations. He said governor richardson hal never been contacted by any party regarding this lawsuit. To be clear, in governor richardsons limited interactions with mr.