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Families and she wanted to help women. she said dad, i want to go to washington. i want to help women. and i said, you know, washington is a mean place. she said i don't care. i want to help women. i want to help families. she was very much involved, as you know, in the child tax credit. now she's working very much on family leave, things that i don't think would be in the agreement if it weren't for ivanka and some of our great senators, et cetera. but she was very much in the forefront of that. i will let general kelly make that decision. and he's going to do what's right for the country. an...

But the national education association opposes this. in parkland, florida, where 17 people were killed last week, stoneman douglas teacher greg pitman who owns a gun but keeps it at home he worries about arming teachers. >> the president wants to raise the age when people can buy semi automatic weapons. >> we're going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18. >> but that pits the president against the national rival association who says this will deprive people of their constitutional right to self-protection. >> thank you very much. i don't think i'll be going up against them. i real...

Across-the-board threshold for that, or certain classes of weapons? how specific can you be? >> for semi automatic weapons. >> just for semi automatic weapons? >> correct. >> can you talk about what motivated him today to come out against active shooter drills around the schools? a lot of districts have been doing these drills to basically prepare students and teachers to survive if there's an incident? >> i did talk to him about that. he said the term active shooter drills is particularly -- can be frightening for young children. he thinks a drill that has a different name and is not the bran...

Past shootings we've had at schools. every one of them was done with some sort of semi automatic weapons. these weapons shunts be in the hands of these people. we need shouldn't a serious conversation about banning these types of weapons so they don't kill innocent children. >> when they find another tool what will we do? ban all the tools? >> what we know is the semi automatic was used in sandy hook and at stoneman douglas. this is about the safety of our children. it's about our children. 17 died last week because of an ar-15. >> jon this is the pattern. the people on the left side of this i...

The needle and make parents feel more comfortable that their kids will go to a safe school. that is the goal. those two weeks after friday, we'll get something done. >> i don't think i'm making a crazy prediction by saying i doubt that semi automatic weapons in this state or nation wide will be banned. what go you thido you think is ? >> one thing he could do is there is a law in this state that does not law mayors to pass their own lawyers. florida is it a very large diverse state. polices like miami are different. so you you should allow local leaders to put in laws that they feel address th...