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Rather than a mental health issue, we'll never get to the core of this, which is accessibility of weapons that kill a lot of people in a very short period of time. look, a mental health person, a person with mental health issues with a knife is a scenario i would much rather take as a security expert than one with a gun. >> right. juliette, got to leave it there. appreciate your st. peter tease, as always. juliette kayyem, thank you so much. and thanks everyone for watching our special coverage. i'm michael holmes. do stay with cnn. we'll have more on donald trump's trip to japan and that news...

Our people and our countries working together. i also want to take a moment to continue sending our thoughts, prayers, and deepest condolences to the victims of the horrific assault on a church in a beautiful area. so sad. sutherland springs, texas. such a beautiful, wonderful area with incredible people. who would think something like this could happen? so i want to send our condolences, the condolences of our first lady. in tragic times, americans all pull together. we are always strongest when we are unified. to the wounded and the families of the victims, all of america is praying for you,...

President trump also talked about the shooting in texas. let's play that for a moment. >> we have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. but this isn't a guns situation. i mean, we could go into it, but it's a little bit soon to go into it. but fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction. otherwise, it would have been much worse. but this is a mental health problem at the highest level. it's a very, very sad event. it's a -- these are great people and a very, very sad event. but that's the way i view it. >> and cnn's jim acost...

These are great people and a very, very sad event. but that's the way i view it. >> all right. let's bring in juliette kayyem, cnn national security analyst, former assistant secretary for the u.s. department of homeland security. juliette, as i was chatting with jim acosta a little earlier, it sort of smacks of what we heard after 58 people were killed and people shot in las vegas, that it's too soon to talk about guns and that mental is the reason. >> right. so mental health doesn't kill people. guns do. and i think the president is right in the sense that other countries do have mental heal...

They're happening with more frequency, as you've seen in the last month or so. you've had two of the deadliest shootings in history happen almost back-to-back, in las vegas and now with this shooting at the church in texas. so the president just trying not to deal with that issue of gun control, as you do hear from gun right supporters that this is more of a mental health issue. it suspe a gun safety issue. >> all right. we're losing the line there with jim acosta. but we got most of that in. jim, thanks so much. we're going to take a short break. we're going to discuss what came out of this n...