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avoiding a perjury trap, the president's attorneys are trying to figure out all the ways the president could testify before the special counsel robert mueller. all of that coming up? but first, stronger background checks, more mental institutions across the united states and arming some teachers. those are the ideas proposed by president trump a while ago in response to the florida school massacre. the president said he met with leaders of the national rifle association over the weekend and, quote, they're on our side. the president also told a meeting of the nation's governors there is one area where he's ready to take action. >> bump stocks, we're writing that out. i'm writing that out myself. i don't know if congress does it or not, i'm writing it out myself. you put it it into the machine gun category, which is what it is. it becomes essentially a machine gun and nobody is going to be -- it's going to be very hard to get 'em, so we're writing out bump stocks. >> let's bring in senior

correspondent jeff zeleny. what does the president mean when he says, quote, he's writing out bump stocks? >> reporter: what the president means is he's going to take some type of executive action with an executive order or ordering his department to do that. there are existing laws on the books here that it seems he is essentially going to take matters into his own hands here, wolf. it's important to point out, of course, the bump stocks were used and discussed after that las vegas shooting on october 1st, nearly four months ago. it's something the white house has not talked about much at all until that shooting in florida. so it's something that the president does believe that he can act on alone. we're told he's been frustrated by the workings of the government here, by the justice department for not taking action on this, so it seems he wants to sort of take matters into his own hands on this alone, wolf. but a fascinating conversation with most of the nation's governors here. a long interaction with them, questions and answers, talking

about the nra as well. he said he had a private lunch with executives at the nra over the weekend. he said they are committed to doing something on guns. of course, a lot of skepticism about that. but then the president also talked about mental health institutions, how he says government should actually fund take a listen. >> in the old days you would put them into a mental institution. we had them in new york, and our government started closing them because of cost. we're going to have to start talking about mental institutions, because a lot of the folks in this room closed their mental institutions also. so we have no halfway. we have nothing between a prison and leaving him at his house, which we can't do anymore. >> so there we are hearing the president talk directly about mental institutions, but wolf, it's important to point out, his own budget has not proposed any more money for mental type institutions, in fact, it has stripped away some funding for this. but it is just a sign, wolf,

that the president clearly is reviewing a bunch of different options, throwing out a bunch of different ideas, even saying that he would have rushed into a school without being armed himself. that, of course, raises the question of if schoolteachers actually should be armed. wolf, a few moments ago i caught up with a florida governor who is in a meeting there with the other governors. he opposes the president's plan to arm schoolteachers. he says more money should be spent on school safety and security, not arming teachers. so clearly there is not a consensus here. but wolf, there is definitely a discussion as congress comes back into town this week about gun policy. wolf? >> what if anything did he say about raising the age limit from 18 to 21 to purchase certain guns? >> reporter: that has been something the president talked about last week but then he dialed it back again. he does support that proposal but does not seem to be drawing as much attention on that as arming schoolteachers. that has become one of the president's predominant talking points about this, but he does still support that and that's something the florida governor

is pushing in florida, raising that age limit for buying weapons, wolf. >> that is something the national rifle association strongly opposes. jeff, thank you very much. members of washington have return made a poll that say 70% favor stricter gun laws. that's up from 52% back in october, not long after the shooting in las vegas. our correspondent phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. phil, what is the chance the needle will move in washington? >> reporter: it's not just an uptick in support of gun laws, it's an uptick for support. the question is what is reality, and that's the reality of who controls congress right now. wolf, during the course of the last couple days, he's been talking to republicans in the

house, the senate, lawmakers as well, and there is a dose of skepticism about exactly how much can get done. basically i'm being told right now if something at all gets done, it will be more minimal than some type of maximum gun debate that deals with major and specific changes to certain gun laws. what they're looking at right now are some small bore reaction to the gun laws. can the president who seems to be the wild card in all of this put congressional leaders to have a more wholesome debate? we haven't seen the president as focused on one particular item as he has been the last couple of days. if that sticks, that could change indict nam i cthe dynami capitol hill. the nra wants to do something about the florida

shooting matter. i will discuss that and more with our panel, our congressional reporter for the "washington post," rachel -- excuse me, caryn is a congressional reporter for the "washington post," and a reporter for politico and our chief legal analyst goloria borger. what do you think of the nra? >> i think people in congress do worry about the nra. they worry about the money they have in primary support on the right. one of the ways for members of congress to beat the nra is if anti-gun people decide to become single issue voters, period. and that hasn't been the case. they think something ought to be done. maybe they're changing, but i hesitate to say that because we

said that after newtown multiple other times in the past and things didn't change. what is interesting specifically about the president is that he didn't talk about raising the age limit for buying an ar-15, say, which is something he talked about in the early days. now it's clear the nra has pushed back on that. you have governor scott talking about raising the age limit. we'll have to see where that goes or did the president buckle to the pressure from the nra on that? >> that's a good question. go ahead, rachel. >> i totally agree with you, gloria. i think that this push, this clamoring for gun control changes, that's only going to happen when a republican loses his or her seat because they opposed a gun control measure or voted to loosen gun laws. show me a single republican that has ever lost his or her race because of a gun issue. never. this won't change unless it becomes a campaign in the mid terms. phil was talking about smaller measures.

we could potentially see funding for school safety, we could see funding for mental health, but definitely don't expect anything like an increase to the age of buying an assault weapon or any kind of assault weapons ban, it's just not going to happen in congress. >> it's interesting, though, the president is speaking to the governors when he talks about this. the one place where you maybe hope to have some form of change is at the state level. the governors are not going to sit back and wait for congress on this one when you have rick scott coming out already saying, no, i do want to see the age raise, i do want to see some of these changes made even if they are not endorsed by the nra. so you're going to have -- at least that being out there in the gop, it's not clear that can actually pass state legislatures, which are a very high bar to clear. but in some of these states that maybe are a little bit closer, where this stuff hits a little bit closer to home, maybe you'll see some stuff there. but yes, the more things change, gloria, the more they stay the same in congress because even when you have individual people

like marco rubio in this role saying, we need to do more, i'm ready to do a little bit more here, it's really, really hard to build that all the way up to leadership and have that get to the floor. >> just how difficult this will be for congress, the president was talking about a background bill by senator cornyn that he wants to pass in congress. this doesn't pass background check at all. it's probably going to come to the house floor and pass, but even conservatives, it doesn't do anything, number one, and conservatives will go crazy on paul ryan about this because they wanted this to be paired with conceal carry. >> listen how the president mentioned his meeting he had with nra leaders over the weekend. listen to this. >> i had lunch with wayne lapierre, chris cox and david lehman of the nra. i want to tell you, they want to do something. i said, fellows, we got to do

something. it's too long now, but we got to do something. we're going to do very strong background checks. we have to do background checks. if we see a sicko, i don't want him having a gun. i know there was a time when anybody could have one. even if they were sick, they were fighting. and i said, fellows, we can't do it anymore. there is no bigger fan of the second amendment than me, and there is no bigger fan of the nra. these guys are great patriots, great people. and they want to do something. they're going to do something. and they're going to do it, i think, quickly. i think they want to see it. >> he's pretty upbeat about that. go ahead. >> first of all, isn't it amazing that they had lunch with the president? talk about access to the president of the united states. i mean, i think lots of lobbyists would kind of like to have that access to get in and say, oh, i'm going to have lunch with the president over this issue. the second point is they want to do something. do what? do they want to do the cornyn bill that really doesn't shut

gun loopholes. the cornyn bill says you have to make states report mental health issues, et cetera, et cetera, so what does they want to do a lot mean? they don't want to ban assault weapons, we know that. so we have to see what the president is talking about here. it's completely vague. >> it's also interesting optics to see the nra at a lunch with the president as various members of congress are trying to say, oh, no, i'm not bought and paid for by the nra, the nra isn't controlling this discussion. the fact you have it happening right now, okay. it's also interesting to say, put your faith in gun control, even though they're pushing back proposals that have already been endorsed. it's certainly a step to say the president and the nra are talking. maybe he can take the heat from the nra which a few weeks, months ago said that he would, but is suggests they're going to control more of this discussion and that will not lead you to a

place where you can get that happening. >> he's very grateful to the nra for that substantive support. >> the nra is backing the cornyn bill. they're fine with that. they'll have an issue to raising the age of buying an assault weapon from 18 to 21. that's not something they're going to get behind. i think that's wishful thinking on the part of the president if he thinks they're going to back something like that. i think it's interesting that he's also talking about mental health institutions. he said they were closed decades ago because of lack of funding. no, they were closed because it was a civil libertys issue of people getting help but also keeping their civil liberties. i think the conversation with continue on this issue, but i don't know that opening mental health institutes, more of those, is going to be something lawmakers are going to back. we should see more discussion about that in congress.

>> he's very forceful of the president saying at least some teachers should be armed, should have concealed weapons in the classroom. he got some serious pushback from governor ensley of washington. listen to this. >> you're suggesting arming our teachers -- >> no, not arming our teachers, only a small portion that are gun adept and truly are able to handle it. you have a gun-free zone, it's like an invitation for these very sick people to go there. i do think there has to be some form of major retaliation if they're able to enter a school. and if that happens, you're not going to have any problems anymore, because they're never going to the school. you're never going to have a problem. it would just be a very small group of people that are very gun adept. go ahead. >> if i may respond to that, let me just suggest whatever percentage it is, i heard at one time you might have suggested 20%. whatever percentage it is

speaking as a grandfather, speaking as the governor of washington, i've listened to the people who might be affected by that. i've listened to the biology teachers and they don't want to do it at any percentage. 'li i've listened to first grade teachers who said they don't want to be armed first grade teachers. they don't want to be trained which takes about six months. educators should be educating and they don't want to be fogiv this responsibility of packing heat in the classrooms. i just suggest we need a little less tweeting here, a little more listening, and let's just take that off the table and move forward. >> thank you very much. you know, we have a number of states right now that do that, and i think with that in mind, i'll call on greg abbott, great governor --

>> oops. well, didn't take that advice to heart, it would seem to me, and then go into the state of texas, right? i think this is something the president clearly wants to do. oou you've heard him say since the day of the shooting that if we had more people packing heat in the schools that this wouldn't have happened and that the deputies did not do what they should have done, and that if there was some great teachers in there, if that coach had had a gun that things would have been different. you know, you have the teachers unions coming out very strongly saying that they oppose this. they don't want their teachers to do this. and so, you know, i think this may end up being a state-by-state issue. >> it's definitely going to end up being state-by-state and each state will have to grapple with more detailed issues. what kind of gun? exactly how far apart do you space these teachers? because any teacher could run into the situation that the deputy did. you have a less powerful firearm, you're not in the exact right place at the right time

and you freeze. we're talking about this again but at another level. >> very quickly the president says he wants better background checks, including at gun shows where background checks are not very significant at all? >> that's a very popular idea. most americans support that. it's tough, though. they tried to do this in the senate after newtown when toddlers were killed. but they're talking about a background bill that just reinforces existing laws, doesn't even go that far. so even though it's popular, it faces an enormous uphill battle. >> ladies, thank you very, very much. coming up, the president condemns the officers first on the scene after the school shooting. >> you know, i got to watch some deputy sheriffs performing this weekend. they weren't exactly medal of honor winners. >> much more on his comments coming up. also prepping for a battle.

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the parkland officer who did not go into the high school is now defending himself. his attorney says the fact he was a coward is patently untrue, and make no mistake, mr. peterson wishes he could have prevented the untimely passing of the 17 victims that day and his heart goes out to the families of the victims in their time of need. after calling peterson a coward last week, mr. trump once again today attacked him and other deputies that responded to the shooting and may not have entered the building right away. >> you know, i got to watch some deputy sheriffs performing this weekend. they weren't exactly medal of

honor winners. all right? the way they performed was, frankly, disgusting. you know, i really believe you don't know until you test it, but i really believe i would run in even if i didn't have a weapon, and i think most people in this room would have done that, too, because i know most of you. but the way they performed was really a disgrace. >> cnn's kaylee hartung is in parkland. kaylee, the president is offering his version of events z on that day. what exactly is mr. peterson saying? >> his lawyer says there are unfounded criticism on mr. peterson on that day and unfounded comments on his characteristics. the claim here is that the sheriff's statement at best was a gross oversimplification of

the events that transpired so, they outline the events by mr. peterson. he said he thought they were firecrackers, not gunshots. so when he heard the gunshot, he believed they were happening from outside. he sought cover and assessed the situation. then further radio transmission alerted him of a gunshot victim near the football field, so that was confirmation of his belief that shooter was outside the school building as opposed to inside. peterson further defended his actions to say he was the first officer to advise he heard shots fired. he then initiated a code red which allowed the school to be locked down. he instructed administrators to review security cameras to locate the shooter and provided the swat team with keys to the building so they could go inside. he also provided the swat team with hand-drawn die grams of the campus for them to evacuate students. a very vireview is under way of

officers who responded, but until that review is completed, a lot of instruction will be at the broward county sheriff's department. jake tapper questioned the sheriff for what responsibility he bears. >> i can only take responsibility of what he knew about. i exercised my due diligence, i gave a amazing leadership to this city -- >> amazing leadership? >> yes, jake, there's a lot of things we have done throughout. you don't measure a person's leadership about a deputy not going into -- these deputies received the training they needed. >> and yet peterson says he's confident his actions were appropriate given the circumstances and says video and eyewitness testimony will exonerate him, wolf. >> thank you, kaylee. kaylee hartung reporting for us. there was a rally at the state

courthouse this morning where the students demanded changes to gun laws. broward county faced serious criticism of his department's handling of the attack. dozens are calling for scott israel to resign as there was an officer that did not confront the shooter. let's bring in two guests right now. linda stewart is joining us. she's a democratic state senator from florida. also chris labella. he's a republican representative in the florida state house. thanks to both of you for joining us. representative labella, first to you. almost all of those calling for the sheriff's resignation are republican, only two are actually from broward county. where do you stand on this? he claimed it's political since he's a democrat. >> yes, sir, the broward county sheriff's office had 23

interactions with either the shooter or his family. in 2016 there was an instagram post where nikolas cruz threatened to shoot up the school. in 2017 there was a call in to the broward county sheriff's office that said nik cruz could be a school shooter. two and a half months later after that, nikolas cruz murdered 17 people at stoneman douglas high school. not only a school resource officer waited outside but also three county deputies. i believe the sheriff should acknowledge what he knows and when he knew it. i find it highly ironic that he went on cnn last week at a town hall meeting and didn't say a word about the school resource officer standing outside.

that was information that he knew at the time. >> so you think he should resign? >> i think that the letter that i signed was for the governor to suspend him. whether or not he resigns, i think, is up to he and his community, but i think ultimately the buck stops with the sheriff. >> all right. senator stewart, what do you say? >> frankly, i think that this fdle investigation is something that we should follow through with, and i don't want this to become a distraction to what we really need to do, which is to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, particularly the ar-15 and the bump stock. there is a lot that needs to be done. it was only the sheriff that we're talking about now, but dcf had been called in, the shooter had been seeing a mental health counselor and then quit, and nobody followed up on that. there is a lot of blame that could be made out there, but all

this is doing is distracting us from what we actually need to be doing, and that is to ban these assault weapons. you cannot have an increase in three years that that's going to stop anything because every shooting that has occurred has the ar-15 involved. and if we don't get rid of that, we're not going to be able to impact what we're trying to do here, and that's make the kids safe, the shooting in pulse. i represent pulse. the guy was 29 years old. the shooting in las vegas, he was 64. we're ignoring the gun factor. that has to be brought into play. >> representative labella, where do you stand on banning these assault type weapons? >> wolf, there is a bill that's going to be introduced this week to raise the age limit to 21 to buy a firearm in florida, to ban bump stocks, to extend the

wedding period f waiting period for all guns in florida and also to expand the background checks. for the assault weapons ban, i'm undecided on that. i'm gathering input from my constituents and others, and ultimately i will make that decision. i suspect there is going to be an amend attempted to be filed onto that bill, and as of right now i'm undecided how i'll be voting on an assault weapons ban. >> and i'm undecided. >> i know you're not. senator, you're totally decided on this. representative labella, senator stewart, thanks pho both of you. i just want to point out that governor rick scott does want to raise the age to 21 as the age to purchase guns from 18. >> that's not enough. >> a lot of people, senator, agree with you, but he is risking the rath of the nra which wants to keep it at 18, so it's a step in the right

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the democratic memo. >> reporter: the democratic memo gives us details of what was presented to the fisa court, and it kt it consisted of the fbi's warrant on carter page was proper, that the dossier of christopher steele was exposed. the democrats were trying to claim that the dossier was key to getting the fisa, the surveillance warrant for carter page. but the democrats memo clearly shows it wasn't a key. there was more to the information they had that they relied on and that the fbi developed information from its own sources. and then lastly, wolf, the democrats say the fbi gave all the necessary information to the court, including the political motivation behind the dossier, but as a standard, they didn't name clinton and the dnc in the court filings to this fisa

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airstrikes and artillery fire from russian-backed syrian regime battered the area despite a u.n. cease fire. the russian minister calls those reports a hoax. the u.n., meanwhile, reports that in the last week alone almost 500 people were killed in

fighting. the u.n. secretary general made an impassioned plea earlier today. >> we cannot wait. east ghouta's cannot wait. it's time to stop this hell on earth. >> essentially the russian president, vladimir putin, is calling for a humanitarian pause to be implemented tomorrow. do you think civilians will leave? will they be allowed to get out of the way? >> reporter: well, i think thaelts the critical question. now, the russians are asking the rebels who control the front line on that area between the main city of damascus and east ghouta to demine that route for this five-hour period. that, of course, from the rebel perspective would allow a counterattack or an opening for an attack by governor forces. ground forces have been engaged in the last 48 hours trying to get into east ghouta.

that's the first point to make. the second point to make is this is not a route out for civilians into a safe haven, it is a route out into a government-held area given the scale of the destruction visited upon by east ghouta, wolf. it's very unlikely that many of the 400,000 people trapped in the city would take the opportunity. there could be one group of people for whom there is an exception. that is many hundreds of people who are in critical need of medical attention. they may well take that route offered if, indeed, it materializes. but the problem is, wolf, it's only a five-hour window, the implication being that syrian and russian forces for the rest of that 24-hour period will go back to business as usual, which has been raining bombs and reportedly pouring gas down on 400,000 people. wolf? >> and more death and destruction coming in this never-ending battle over there. sam, thank you very much.

sam kai lylie reporting for us. north korea now saying the door is open for dialogue. it follows a meeting for the delegation that attended the closing ceremonies of the olympic games. south korean president moon did say both sides need to lower their threshold for talking. the north has said, we will see if pyongyang's message that it is willing to hold talks represents the first steps along the path at denuclearization, closed quote. coming up, a major blow to president trump by the u.s. supreme court will not hear the trump administration's bid to end the daca program. what this means for the roughly 700,000 daca participants. that and more when we come back. run,

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the united states supreme court is staying out of the daca debate, at least for now. the court said this morning there will be no ruling on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program at the moment. the so-called dreamers program. at the moment president trump has said march 5 was the deadline to find a deal to keep the program alive. our supreme court reporter is with us now. what does it mean for the trump administration -- the supreme court's decision not to hear arguments? >> it is a loss for the trump administration. the supreme court said it would not review the lower court opinion that temporarily blocked the administration from ending the program. so that means these renewals can continue, but this whole issue is going to return to the lower courts. remember, it's the lower courts

that blocked that march 5 deadline. the issue here was never the legality of daca. it was always how the administration chose to end it. >> so basically the dreamers, 700,000, 800,000, the president suggested maybe 1.8 million including some who never signed up formally with the daca program. the pressure is off them to come up with a solution by march 5. >> it's true the pressure is off. these dreamers aren't looking for the courts to fix this. they really want this long-term fix. and that's why they're really hoping the president and congress are finally going to come together and figure something out here. because the legal issue will play out, but it won't be the long-term fix. >> they have extra time now. members of the house, the senate, the white house, the president. they can work on it easier without the march 5 deadline over them. >> absolutely. the renewals can continue. the march 5 deadline is not in

play now. >> the lower court rulings have suggested people can go out there and register as potential daca recipients. >> what they have said is you can renew. you can't -- there can be no new people coming in. but if you are a part of the program, you can renew. that's where things stand with the lower courts right now. >> the fear that some of the dreamers have is if they sign up, they could be in danger. >> that's right. they have been apprehensive. what's the future? should we come out of the shadows and then have this all go away? that's a clear fear on their part. >> if it eventually winds up in the hands of the u.s. supreme court, any indication which way they might decide? >> what the trump administration asked for here was a long shot. they asked for this issue to come right to the supreme court and jump over the federal appeals court. the supreme court doesn't like requests like that. they want to see it going through the federal appeals

court because they want to hear from more judges on the issue so if it does reach them, they will have a more robust record here. >> these are critical moments. there are hundreds of thousands of dreamers who are anxious to get a solution. the president keeps saying he wants a deal. he wants a solution, but he's adding other stuff to this and it's causing some serious debate now. >> absolutely. >> we'll see if there is movement on that front. thank you very much. >> thank you. meanwhile, the search is on to find the next head of the federal aviation administration. president trump reportedly has a nominee in mind. that nominee reportedly his personal pilot. axios news reporting president trump is pushing to have john duncan lead the f.a.a. duncan flew the president's personal plane during the presidential campaign. but an administration source is quoted as saying that duncan also has extensive airline management and certification experience. we'll see where that goes. that's it for me. thank you very much for

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