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Country and for this community, an opportunity to heal, but in order to heal there needs to be an acknowledgment of the words and the power of the words and the hate and the racism in the words that he view -- that he views to describe my community and of spanish immigrants and if we can't have that dialogue, my feeling was i refuse to be a prop. i'm not going to stand next to him as he pretends to care about what is happening in the community. i hope he truly does care. but these are really difficult and important conversations that need to be had. they can't be had in moments of -- >> we're ...

Before. we've seen this with rob porter and a number of instances where the administration starting one would assume from the president because he chose to finally address this issue not on the comments that she made but on the leaking now that they want to focus on. they dig in their heels. can he do that, alex, at lunch today? if he has senators and cornyn and thune pressing him on zte and other senators pressing him on the mccain comment. can he really just say, no, no, nothing there, nothing there, this is just a problem of leakers? >> he certainly can say that and it's up to republican se...

In the senate. today he's headed to the hill to meet with them. they've been confuse today say the least why the president is now trying to save a company that u.s. sanctions pretty much killed. let's go to our christine romans with more. you've got senators cornyn and thune scratching their heads. why, mr. president, are you trying to save this big chinese tech firm zte and the president responding with a tweet trying to clean it up. >> it's remarkable. it's reversible and a reversal. first president trump said he wanted to save chinese jobs, now the president says he doesn't want to hurt u.s...

Office. >> just this week as you mentioned, we have this reporting, manu asking more than a douzen gop senators if they are ready to back donald trump in 2020. most wouldn't commit. at least not yet. senators cornyn, collins, alexander, sanford, king singer, kennedy, thune and others. what does it say about the state of the republican party under president trump? >> well, i think it means we're going to have a very interesting to 2020. certainly, there will be challengers to emerge to the president. and there's just a lot of republicans that you talk to around the country right now, who are ju...

Welcome back. in the months since the shooting of marjorie stoneman high school we've heard a lot from the president on gun safety. >> we'll be doing background checks and the mental health of somebody. >> they are not going to walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns. it may be 10% or maybe 40%. >> i don't want teachers to have guns, i want highly trained people that have a natural talent. >> think of it. you can buy a handgun, you can't buy one if you wait until you are 21 but you can buy the kind of weapon used in the school shooting at 18. if you can add domestic violence paragr...