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The nra and congressional republicans is getting softer tonight and president trump may also be persuadable when it comes to legislation once unthinkable. "the washington post" reports the president spent this weekend pulling friends down in palm beach on what they think about gun control. while discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background checks system. if republican lawmakers are trying to blunt the criticism of survivors from last week school shooting. president trump reportedly told friends he was watch...

Immigrants across the world, basically of looking forward and saying we are strong, we don't have to crouch, be in a crouch position. we can fling open our arms to the world and we can beat anybody on any given day. >> absolutely. >> that's basically his message and it's a message that a lot of conserve tif conservatives are going to be excited about. >> president trump is said to be open to bipartisan legislation to shore up the nation's background checks system. the white house is referring to a bill introduced by chris murphy and republican senator john cornyn. the senators crafted the bill...

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The last spending bill. he has the ability to essentially push this past the midnight deadline, though the votes are here in the senate to ultimately get it through. what is in this bill, over 2,000 pages long, 1.3 trillion in spending, and includes money for the defense department, infrastructure, the opioid crisis, the fix nics background check bill, which improves the existing background checks system, but certainly falls very short of those sweeping gun control measures that many democrats wanted. also improves money for border security, money for the new construction of border fencing, bu...

Law that would have mandated that information, make it into the background checks system. how would your bill deal with that? >> it wouldn't. you know? the fact is the bill that joe manchin and i introduced and that we still support, chuck, it's not going to solve all problems, and we never suggest that it would. and one of the challenges we face is what to do about someone who's clearly mentally deranged, but they haven't acted out yet in a way that allows you to adjudicate them as dangerously mentally ill or haven't committed a crime. here there were all kinds of warning signs that were adve...