canada's streak of olympic gold away. getting a special message from president trump. congratulations on winning the gold, go team usa. speak all right, thanks for joining us today. >> "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: we are waiting to hear from the president. officials at the white house right now. at the meeting comes one day after he welcomed the students students, parents, and teachers affected by gun violence at schools. now, he says he is open to conceal and carry for some teachers and increasing background checks. this is "outnumbered." i am sandra smith, and are today, harris faulkner, lisa boothe, former deputy spokesperson for the state department and fox news analyst, marie harf, and are joining us on the couch, my coanchor, bill hemmer. he is here. >> bill: it's been too long. great to be back with you

ladies. difficult day, but we will get through it together. >> sandra: good to have you, let's begin. talking about school safety. this comes after he held a listening session at the white house for students, teachers, and parents affected by gun violence. he listened to their consumed my concerns and endorsed a certain gun control measures, tweeting this morning, i will be strongly pushing up background checks with an emphasis on mental health. raise the age to 21, and end the sale of a bum stocks. congress is in a mood or to something, and he also talked about the possibility of arming teachers. >> this would only be two people who are very adept at handling a gun. and it would be called concealed carry, where the teacher would have a concealed gun on them. they would go for special training, and they would be there, and you would no longer

have a gun free zone. a gun free zone is let's go in, and let's attack because bullets aren't coming back at us. >> sandra: he clarified his remarks and several tweets today saying i never said to give teachers gun, what i said was looking at the possibility of giving concealed guns to only the best. at 20% of teachers, a lot, would now be able to immediately fire back if some savage sicko came to a school with bad intentions. a gun free school is a magnet for bad people. attacks would end. history shows that a school shooting less on average for 3 minutes, it takes police and first responders are approximately 5-8 minutes to get to the site of the crime. if a potential sicko suitor shr knows that it has talented shooters and others who will be shooting, the sicko will never attack. carter's cowards it won't go th. problem solved.

emphasizing the need for these schools to be better protected. >> everyday, young children are being dropped off at schools that are virtually wide open targets for anyone bent on mass murder. and what a moment that was. i'll hammer, you and i were watching him. he was not on the schedule, but then he popped up there. >> bill: we sat there and listened. he came with a lot of fire, frankly. it is a hard topic. i think this last week has bummed me out, a lot of you, as well. i am certain our viewers also. i also think that these laws are difficult to change, and they are difficult to create. it is going to take some time. i truly do not know what comes out on the other side, if anything comes out on the other side. we have been down this road many times. but it in the meantime, i thought that what the sheriff

did, it was pretty gutsy. arming deputies throughout the schools, and you can only imagine what he is hearing. parents are coming to him every day saying is my kid going to be okay? am i going to be able to drop him off in the morning and pick him up in the afternoon? and i also think that decision and, with his suggestion about arming teachers, arming deputies, rather, throughout the school system, that is a lot quicker, then it will to take washington to pass a law or wait on any of the 50 states. >> sandra: and the president says he is listening to everything. he is holding another listening session as we speak. this is a president that is showing willingness to change things. >> marie: well, i think his tweets this morning made that clear, including his idea about changing the age. it is a state issue. as bill mentioned, that is

challenging, but the nra doesn't support that, so if he continues to advocate for some ideas that may be go against what people expect him to say, i think that is a good thing. you know, we can talk about all of the different things, whether it is having people armed in schools, whether it is mental health training, but i think these students are also going to keep pushing us towards a conversation about the second amendment. it is not unlimited. where is the line? it is routinely upheld in individual states, i don't know where the line is, but it's a conversation our country -- i think may now be having in a real way. i don't know what comes out on the other side, like bill. it takes a lot of political courage on both sides of the aisle to tackle this in a real way. >> sandra: are producer is now letting us know that when he is holding the snow second listening session at the white house, he said a lot of things are happening. we want to get something done. a feeling with the nra.

i >> harris: you talk about people giving the president cover. i thought that started with that town hall on cnn last night. also spoke of this morning. was in the center seat, taking all of the questions from the students last night. it was pretty combative at times, but there was this moment when rubio said we have got to stop being a society that doesn't let information change our way ahead. basically, he is saying there is nothing wrong with a correction, and i am paraphrasing him, if you get better information that lets you see things differently. and listening to dana last night represent all of the nra members into the rank and file there is the organization, as she put it, talk about background checks and the component of mental health and all of that, it was really fascinating to see that may be there is an opening for information to come in and for people to consider things that they might have never considere

considered. and i think when you talk about giving the president cover, that is it. >> lisa: is there has been a lot of criticisms of florida legislator and not passing legislation regarding ar-15s and what people like to call assault weapons, but i would just like to remind everyone that back in 2013, you had 16 democrats who voted against that type of legislation, even democrats that came from blue states. so this is often presented as a left versus right issue, and it is not. so we just need to be honest about the conversation, and i think if we do, we come from a perspective of what would have actually presented in previous shootings, what could prevent future mass shootings. that is the place two approaches too often, as i mentioned, i have heard this criticism that it is the florida legislator's fault, but as i mentioned, we have seen democrats vote against the same sort of bill. >> bill: this is a sick kid. he's been sick for years, he has

been walking around throughout florida, flashing warning signs everyday. and so many people side. >> harris: while, 39 visits from law enforcement. >> bill: if you are going to submit to mental health, which i am all in favor of, just put the information in the system. would he have not fielded mental health check? >> harris: only 38 states require that. >> bill: i don't think we have facts that suggest that his state of mind would have been entered in the system anyway. a social worker went to his house a year and a half ago, and she deemed he was not a danger to other people, and if that is the bar, and if he operated within a state law, what can i do? >> lisa: we can go back, i am from the state of virginia. we can go back to -- i don't know if you guys remember the virginia state senator, his son, who had mental health issues, stabbed him, and ended up

killing himself. the night before, he was trying to find help for his son, and there was not a single bed available in any of the mental hospitals in the state. perhaps these are things that we can look at to give parents liked out some hope. i don't know what those answers are. we should look at a lot of different things like that. >> sandra: the president did just wait and further on that, i called many congressmen last night and senators, they are into doing background checks. that they would not be thinking about two weeks ago. he then went on to address the age limit. and that portion of the conversation, working on getting the eight over 21, instead of 2018. they will be talking seriously about mental institutions and in some cases reopening them. >> bill: we are about to hear that, is that right? is it wasn't striking to to me yesterday that this is president trump at his best, you know, being in a room with

people, interacting with others, and you think about it, he has basically been taking off of the field. he doesn't do interviews, he doesn't hold press conferences, that is because as long as the molar matter is out there, they have control over the schedule, you are going to see less and less of it, but i think it is a reminder yesterday about how effective he can be when he is in a room with people. >> marie: that only matter so far. you're going to hear increasingly from students that words are important, actions are actually more important, and if the state legislator can't actually act, that will be a big problem. he can, and he should. >> harris: he is pledging action in that room right now. meanwhile, possible compromises on gun control. >> sandra: some intense consternation from teachers and families last night, affected by the parkland shooting.

open to changing his position on other issues. >> i absolutely believe that in this country, if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle, and i will support something that would it take that right away. i have not previously looked at magazine clips. after this, some of the details i have learned about it, i am reconsidering that position. i will tell you why. i will tell you why. because while it may not prevent an attack it, it may save lives. >> sandra: what a moment that was. and then he was asked if he would support donations from the nra. >> i do support the second amendment. i will always support anyone who agrees with my agenda. >> sandra: and without a little bit earlier today,

slamming lawmakers for the dramatic restrictions on guns. >> how about harris? bill de blasio? cory booker, christopher murphy? and keith ellison? they are not democrats in the role of john f. kennedy. they hide behind labels like democrat. left wing, and progressive. to make their socialist agenda more palatable. and that is terrifying. >> sandra: so we watch that together earlier today, but going back to marco rubio, and i heard you as you were watching that say wow, that's took a guts. >> bill: yeah, a tender moment. touching time for the community. as you know, marie, they voted overwhelmingly for

hillary clinton. showed a lot of guts on his part. >> marie: absolutely, he showed up. he said i am looking at new information. i'm looking at the issue in a different way. that is what we want politicians to do, to look at the world as it is and say how can i help? and i give him a lot of credit. the governor did not show up, he was invited. we cannot be scared to engage on these issues because they are too hard or know one solution will stop everything. we have to be able to tackle the tough issues in a nuanced way, and i give him credit. >> harris: there are so many ways that i could push back about how president obama did not show up on certain things because he did not want to be challenged. >> marie: that is not what we're talking about today. >> harris: bill hemmer, how complicated does it make this matter with the nra on one side, it may not be a republican and democrat issue, but the nra is clearly on one side, and then that they are on the other, whatever political party they

subscribe to, where does that leave the president? >> bill: i have often thought about going back to the campaign, we talked about being a democratic liberal from new york at, or going back to the republican party, et cetera, we have watched this political background. maybe that gives him a grand opportunity to broker this agreement, to make a change, that is satisfactory to some people. on march 24th, washington, d.c., is going to be rocking. you think of that seen in tallahassee, florida, with something, to prepare and plan, it is going to be really hard to deny a 16 or 17-year-old teenager who came from thousands of miles away to washington, d.c., and not listen to their voice. i think the president has heard that voice already, and yesterday was a really good start. and we will see a more in a

moment. >> lisa: i think there are a lot of voices that are not being heard in this country as well, and they need to be heard. they are often not the ones that are presented in the mainstream media. because we have networks like cnn. and those voices would be the individuals out the texas church or shooting, many lives were saved because you had an nra instructor with an ar-15, who shot back at, so i think there are a lot of people in this country, various parts of the country, who feel that if you take my gun away, that is how i protect myself, and there are a lot of americans -- >> bill: we missed a great opportunity today to talk about this, how his life was there. how about a number of police officers who have been killed in the line of duty in the past week alone, we have to weave that into the story. let's be honest about the fact that if someone was shooting us on this couch right now, we would want somebody who is around here to protect us and shoot back, and we also have the

fact that many americans are worried about their rights being taken away, their ability to protect themselves or their families as well. >> harris: one thing, and i do think about this, as we set out here on a very broad streets, the public can see a little bit of what is going on. we do have a lot of people around us. we have people bang on the glas glass. the differences we have patrol on the perimeter. so then the question becomes what can you do without washington getting involved? because they have immigration, or anything else, or even this issue over and over again. and the hardening of those targets of schools, just like we probably need to do with many more of our most. because we know that of those are also softer targets. that is something that we can do. does it have to be teachers? no. they talked about deputies. there are a lot of ways that we can do it, but hardening the targets is something that we can

do. >> marie: the present is there now with the second listening session, with the families grieving over the loss of loved ones. >> sandra: the concern for many of us is that this is getting so political so fast, it is becoming such a left-right tissue, i'm back to bill's point about the nra, is this helping the situation, and are those families going to see something done to help protect our schools at the end of all of this customer marks before i hope that the families see something. but i think that's they missed a huge opportunity. i don't agree with much of what he said, but there could have been a tone of coming together. his tone it was so partisan. he went after democrats, call them socialist, i just think that he missed an opportunity in the wake of tragedy to be more uniting, and he went the opposite direction. i was really offended by his speech. personally --

>> lisa: you have those on the left naming the nra as if they are responsible for the shootings, so i would be offended if i were the nra as well, and we do need to approach this conversation for what our actual things i could make a difference, and i think the senator has looked at focusing on the database, trying to place this on federal estate to make sure that they are getting the actual data, i think that is a smart and common sense thing for us to discuss. there are lots of faces of compromise, but it does get partisan. >> harris: they go back to school on tuesday. what has changed in terms of hardening that target to make it safer for them? >> sandra: we are still waiting to hear those remarks from the present, we will bring those to you live. he is holding the official meeting right now on the issue of school safety. so we will keep watching that, in the meantime, it has not always been a good relationship,

but waits until you hear the praise he is getting from bill clinton's former press secretary, the one thing he says the president is doing better than clinton or obama. plus, bernie sanders appearing to throw hillary clinton under the bus and her response to russian modeling, his claim that she could have done more. we will debate. >> i did not know that they were promoting this. it appeared that there were lots of strange things happening, checking hillary clinton.

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>> harris: meanwhile, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, asking for more than $300 million in new funding to help safeguard the elections against kremlin interference. bernie sanders appears to be blaming hillary clinton for not doing more. watch this. >> the real question to be asked is what was the clinton campaign doing? they had more information about this than we did. the guy who was on my stuff, he checked it out, and he went to the clinton campaign and he said you know it? i think these guys are russians. >> harris: i wonder how that played out. here's a clue. sanders later appeared to backtrack. telling politico "no candidate should have to wage and electoral contest and it the way of foreign interaction." >> bill: god god forbid they spend $600 in pennsylvania. >> marie: don't look at me.

those things can be true, bill. v5 every time we do this story, we must mentioned no votes were changed. over and again. no votes were changed. you're talking about influence now. look at, sarah sanders is looking at that. i think we deserve an answer. i think we need to know what their plan is, but $600 in wisconsin, i don't know. i think we are a better country than that. >> harris: what it does may be indicated is that the democrats knew this was happening on their watch, previous even to the election, which would come back to the question, why didn't they deal with the russian meddling, as it was coming in? >> marie: there were reports that president obama didn't want to do anything because he thought that hillary clinton would win. i also remember going back in

september, homeland security secretary, telling us that this is way too decentralized for russians to pack. >> lisa: we know that based on the book "shatter,," that they specifically looked at to blame the election laws on russia, so i think there is a place of a great dishonesty from democrats on this issue, also the media, trying to pretend that somehow, $2,000 on social media, and a state like wisconsin swayed to the election for donald trump. anyone who has ever worked on politics and knows anything about advertisement, that is nothing. that is pennies. and not anything that is going to sway an election. >> marie: you are okay with russian interfere in? >> lisa: no, i am not, but i think the idea that somehow, $2,000 spent in wisconsin shape the election is a complete joker, and at places such dishonesty from the individuals out there that are trying to pretend -- see for what they are talking

about with funding is preventing it from happening again. i am happy to debate it. it doesn't matter anymore. we have an election coming up in six months, and such money could go to hard and or defenses, we heard that from the intelligenc. you have to have the tech companies. >> bill: i have had bigger bar tabs in wisconsin than the amount of money that they put i in. >> marie: that is not relevant relevant. if i look, the administration owes us an explanation. let's see what they come up with. but if we are going to go back to 2016, one way or the other, i think it is just hogwash. we are smarter than that, people. have you ever identified at a restaurant had before? anyone? >> lisa: there were tens of thousands of them. >> bill: did you say that is a russian ad? >> harris: there is a long

article in the times today that i thought was pretty interestin interesting. it is about bots. how their language is like a whole cartoon thing. how they have changed but to become more effective any very short amount of time, so what you are saying is so true, even though you did not even read the article with the artwork. people are going to have a hard time knowing. how can you even say -- >> marie: that is where the tech companies come in. that is a different issue. whether people were influenced is it different than whether things were changed. >> harris: only one thing really matters. >> marie: absolutely not. if they were influenced to change their vote -- harris, people attended rallies in florida organized by russia. people have a right to know tha that. that is concerning, you guys, as americans, we have a right to know that.

period. >> lisa: nancy pelosi is more concerned with undermining president trump. >> bill: organized by a babushka. >> harris: okay, we are going to move on now. you too, together. democrats divided over whether nominating a woman to run against president trump is the party's best bet to take back the house. going back down to those compartmentalized voters again, could this be a winning idea for them? we will debated, and good news for the g.o.p.'s tax law. whether the boost can help republicans hold onto the seat, and the effect it will have on the messaging strategy of both political parties going forward. stay with us.

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to be two people across the country are bringing home extra dollars, thanks to the g.o.p. tax law. the average american worker will see a $4,000 increase in their annual paychecks. guarantees of internal polling show that it has no been seen more favorably than not and several battleground states, as is spending money on roads, bridges, and highways. they are setting up their messaging strategy for the midterm election. something tells me this will be a big part of the republican platform. >> bill: yes, it will, and they have a shot of holding the majority. i don't think this election is about hispanics or african-americans. i think it is about women.

and it depending on how many women turn out to vote, that will go a long way in determining who holds the majority house. if they lose the majority in the house, i think impeachment proceedings on whatever grounds, they will begin the first week of january 2019. >> harris: marie, do you think that? >> marie: i think that in less baba moeller -- i think that we will take back the house, and less he comes up with a misdemeanor, or something. i think that the mainstream of democratic party will not push that, you may have some outliers who do. i will put money on it right no now. >> bill: i am not smirking. if you look at some of the special elections right now, not on the national level, but on the state level, you have districts where trump won by a lot of points.

and they are flipping. this is a real danger for republicans. i know that they have their eye on it, but it is too early to tell whether or not this is going to be anything. >> lisa: this is my background, working on political campaigns, this is what i love. so i think that the tax reform law will help mitigate what will be the historic losses, not historic losses, but historically, the party not in control, losing the seed is the point that i am making. i think it can help mitigate some of those losses, my only concern is how much are they motivating and driving this for republicans? because midterm elections are about driving up the base, so they have to be excited, they have to be motivated, so i think it depends on how effectively republicans can utilize it to get that turn out. is it that democrats are going to stop those economic successes? or how is it going to be used to

motivate people to get out and vote, and before repealing obamacare was sort of that's motivating factor in the 2010 and a 20 midterm elections it. >> harris: i thought that he -- he was starting to get that conversation going by saying it promises made, promises kept. he hit that hard, he also said that if you want to bring about change, it takes engagement -- i am paraphrasing. we need everybody to be engaged. he called on people to actually get out and vote in this midterm election here. to me, i think that begins a conversation about intensity. and yeah, you can mention all these other things, but feeling like you are part of something, if you are a part of something about a president trump have created, continuing to be a part of that. bill -- >> bill: he had a long list of accomplishments. and i think it should be talked about. and they will continue to do

that. and private conversations i have had with women outside of work it, women are democrats, they have said that they felt as if they let the country down. because of hillary clinton's loss. in 2016. and that is part of the fuel that is giving us this energy, i think it, to something that we may see next november. and that very well may be destroyed when we wake up the day after. >> harris: all right, i know that you are working on something. >> sandra: we are getting some new information with the president and his listening session right now. we are told that this is ongoing right now, but he is making some remarks about keeping children safe in this country. specifically recognizing the nra and what they are pushing for. >> harris: or agreeing to, anyway. >> sandra: or agreeing to, anyway. you will have to forgive me. i did not get a print out.

>> harris: is restricted sales. they will support aid restrictions on some guns, that is coming out. >> bill: i think that is a state question. >> lisa: it is really important to get the details here. he is saying that the nra would back aid requirements, it would be a very important distinction. he did indicate going into this that the nra was talking to him, and they were open to some type of change. listening to him earlier, the chief of the nra. he is very heated, it is a very political moment involving the gun debate, so to hear the president is actually willing to put in some sort of change, that is interesting. three when, i want to see the actual quotes. i am the biggest believer and the second amendment. he has spoken now to the nra.

"the nra is ready to do some things. people like to blame them." he called john kelly a tough cookie. he would want him to have a gun. this is the present talking. on the age-restriction, it should all be at 21, and the nra will back it. that is the present talking, coming out of this meeting. still inside the white house right now. so as this video is released, we will play it here on fox news channel. so you can see the president making these remarks. cameras in there, but we can't rule life right now. >> bill: don't think this is any slam dunk. there are house conservatives who will fight hard against us. there are democrats in the senate who are up for reelection in november, and states, do not think that they are for this either. we will see, but i also think this discussion began with

las vegas, and it began with bump stocks. >> sandra: president trump has declared war on the press is the claimant. bolstering the case both ways. we debate. patrick woke up with a sore back.

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before welcome back. a new questions about president trump's relationship with the media. earlier this week, during a panel discussion, urging the white house press secretary to change how the president deals with the media. accusing mr. trump of declaring a war on the press. listen. >> we have not declared war on the press. >> yes you did. yes you did.

and that's a big, big differenc difference. and you need to take that back. you can't do it, but the president has got to roll that back. >> lisa: admitting that president trump has been more available to the media than barack obama or his former boss. >> he has been more accessible than either obama or clinton. because that is something that is regularly left out of conversations, how accessible he is, how often he interacts with the press, how often he interacts with the american public. >> did not have a president to tweeted at all hours of the morning. >> sandra: let's go to the present at the white house now. let's listen in. >> president trump: there is a great feeling, including at the nra, including with republicans, and hopefully democrats,

senators, and congressmen. i want to think you for being here, attorney general. i also want to thank the truly tremendous attorney general, that is pam from florida. thank you for being here. great job you have done here. yesterday, i met with survivors of the parkland shooting. it is just horrible. so many people, and so bad for our country. families who have lost their children in school shootings, local communities of washington, d.c., who want to make sure that every child is safe at school. having a lot of problems in washington, d.c. i listened to their heartbreaking stories, asked them for their ideas and pledged to them that we will take action, unlike for many years where people sitting in my position did not take action. they did not take proper action. they took no action at all. we are going to take action. today, we want to hear from you

and how we can improve this, tackle the issue of mental health, which is a very big issue. at this person that was caught, having killed so many people, 1, and it badly and drink so many others. people don't talk about the injuries. and they have to go through life with it. horrible, horrible situation that they were put in unnecessarily. people don't talk about that. visiting them in the hospital. and these are injuries, like people wouldn't believe. and we want to ensure that while we see warning signs, we act quickly. we have somebody that is mentally unstable, or like at this that was a psycho. there were a lot of warning signs, people were saying he is going to do something bad. people have to ask. as i said last week, we will

work together to create a culture of our country that it cherishes life and the forces really human connections. we are also working to reduce violent crime in america to make our communities places that can be totally safe for our children, our families. under my administration, gun prosecutions have increased very significantly. the attorney general is very, very much after that. and we are also after the gangs. the gangs have been incredible. ms-13, i see there were a couple of commentators saying oh, ms-13, who talks about that? that is only about on fox. that is talked about in communities. where they are killing people. not necessarily with guns because that is not painful enough. this is what they think. they want to do it more painfully, and slowly. so they cut them up with knives. they don't use guns, they use

knives because they wanted to be a long, painful death, to people had no idea this was coming. and we are getting them out by the thousands. putting them in jail, and we are getting them out by the thousands. and our people from ice, and our border control people are much tougher than they are. that is the only thing they understand, by the way, they don't understand niceness. and our people are much tougher. they go in there, they grabbed them by the neck. there are no games being played. and i let them know that is what we want. we need to have our people than they are. our people are a lot tougher than they are, so we are working on getting violent offenders off the streets and guns out of the hands of these dangerous criminals. there is nothing more important than protecting our children. we had a really incredible meeting yesterday with some of the family is that have suffered so greatly.

in different places, not only in florida. as you know, columbine, it was a very sad situation. but i will tell you, background checks, i called many senators last night, many congressmen, jeff and pam, and everybody in this room, i can tell you, they are into doing background checks that they wouldn't be thinking about maybe two weeks ago. we are going to do strong background checks. we are going to work on getting the age of 221, instead of 18. we are getting rid of the bump stocks. we are going to be focusing very strongly on mental health. part of the problem is we use to have mental institutions. i said this yesterday, we had a mental institution where you take a sicko like this guy, he is a sick guy. you bring him to a mental health institution, those institutions are largely closed because

communities didn't want them. communities didn't want to spend the money for them, so you don't have any intermediate ground. you can put them in jail because they haven't done anything yet, but you know they are going to do something. so whether it be talking seriously about opening mental health institutions again, and in some cases, reopening. i can tell you that a new yorker, the governors in new york, very, very bad thing, when they closed our mental institutions, so many of them. you have these people living on the streets. and i can say is that in many cases, throughout the country, that they are very dangerous. they should not be there. so we are going to be talking about mental institutions, and when you have a person like this, that you can bring them to a mental institution. and they can see what they can do, but we have to get them out of our communities. so with that being said, i would like to ask the very talented people around this table, who have just -- could they just

introduce themselves, say a few words, maybe we can start with pam. speak out am pam, the attorney general of florida. thank you, i know that you are going through a lot, when you were there with me until 3:30 in the morning, when all of these families were being notified, it was horrific. i know that you have been through a lot. i have a couple issues that i will wait -- do you want to talk about them now? well, one, some of the things that you said, and florida, is the civil commitment act. it is weak. i have had my solicitors on and for three days now, working on it. we are rewriting us, you are going to meet with him. he is going to give you a ton of good information. we have been rerunning it, we are going to bring in something called the gun violence restraining order. so if someone is committed,

typically you can hold them for up to 72 hours, but people are getting out within 24 hours, the majority, so what we want to do is let law enforcement come in and to take the gun. they are a danger to themselves. to >> president trump: which you can do right now. >> without being adjudicated. >> president trump: you want them to take the guns, not go through the six months or a legal trial. >> exactly. we also have to give the mentally ill the due process which they deserve, president, so they are going to be able to take the gun, when they are taken into custody, or into the hospital, and then when they are released, within 24 hours, or 72 hours later, typically is 24, but law enforcement will have plenty two hours to determine whether or not they should give those guns back, and say your honor, please keep these guns. we feel this person is it still a danger to themselves or other others.

>> president trump: so this would not have works the way that it is currently. as it is currently constituted. speak out as it is currently. we are going to make changes. this is huge, it is a big issue. we need a clearing house. that is what we have all been discussing. several of my counterparts have done it across the country, but it is an app. kids now are on social media, and there were so many warning signs on snapchat, twitter, they were sending them to all different sources. we just got it written in for at least half of a million dollars per year, to fund this, what it does, so i met with ten students, and they loved it, and they said i am empowering them, three of them are by graphic designers, they are going to name it, they are helping us with it. probably about $100,000 maximum to develop. that is all in our budget, so what kids can do now, they can

automatically send something that says i'm going to buy a gun, i'm going to do this, and one of the girls who i met with, says he has been doing this since middle school. she recorded it. it's so they can instantly, they can do it with anonymity, put it in this app, it will go to one clearinghouse with state law enforcement in florida. >> president trump: you mentioned that the internet. we have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds, and their minds are being fooled. and we have to do something about maybe watch they are seen, how they are seeing it, and also, video games, more and more people saying that the level of violence in video games is really shaping young people's thoughts. and then you go to a further stuff, and it is the movies. you see these movies. they are so violent, and he has a kid is able to see the movie, killing is involved, and maybe

they have to put a rating system for that. and you know, you get into a whole very complicated big deal. but the fact is that you are having movies, apps that are so violent, with the killing and everything else, that's maybe that is another thing that we are going to have to discuss. you have these movies today where you can go and have a child see the movie, and yet it is so violent and so disgusting. so we are going to have to talk about that also. thank you very much. thank you very much. speak out for a while, we watched your meeting yesterday. my wife was very moved by it. i think it has touched people all over the country. i salute you for that. and i won't talk now. i was just saying we believe that we can do better, we can -- some of the things that attorney general bondi is

talking about can work. we have done a lot of research in this country, we need to go back and act on it. and we can help you develop the kind of policy that will make america safe. >> president trump: thanks, you did a great job with the gangs. the gangs are such a problem. we talk about child safety. the kids walk home, they meet one of these gangs. these are absolute animals. these are not human beings. they are animals. in this country, who would ever believe a thing like this could happen? we are literally getting ms-13 out by the thousands. but they come in, they are smart, they have franchises going to los angeles, we have no state help from the state of california, if i wanted to pull our people, you would have crime like you have never seen in

california. you just have to send in i.c.e. and border control, you would be inundated -- you would see crime like no one has ever seen in this country, and yes, we get no help from the state of california. they are doing a lousy job. they have the highest taxes, and they don't know what's happening out there. frankly, it's a disgrace. the sanctuary city, working on it, and the protection of these horrible criminals in california, and other places, but in california, that if we ever pulled our i.c.e. out, said let them figure it out, they would be begging for us to come back. and you know what, i am thinking about doing it. >> mr. president, it is a pleasure to

>> mr. president, it's a pleasure to be here. i thank you from the bottom of my heart. i've been very impressed, mr. president . before you came in actually, i do think mental health is a serious issue affecting us across the nation. i know it is in north carolina. i appreciate you talking about the fact that i do think there is a place for properly trained people in certain areas as well. i think multilayered security has a lot of facets and i believe you've got certain leadership to bring all of this together and respond to good ideas out there. you listen to, it's going to take a lot of courage on the part of leaders in this nation to bring the community together, to do the things they really want to do in their heart but maybe haven't had the courage to do yet. >> thank you. political courage, a lot of political courage. some of it won't be politically