report" get a look at april's job report for this picture of the u.s. economy overall. coverage tonight in about a half an hour right here on jesse's show. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" is now i'll be over on the fox stations doing that coverage. >> jesse: all right. we will see you there. thank you so much, bret. ♪ >> jesse: fox news alert, at the bottom of the hour president biden will deliver a speech to the nation on guns. and we'll take that live when he comes out. this comes in a shaky moment for his presidency back-to-back-to-back mass shootings at a texas school, at a buffalo grocery store and at now at a tulsa hospital. a white supremacist armed with a rifle, a black shooter with a rifle and a handgun, and an evil white school shooter with a rifle as well. all of these guns were legal and in each of these cases red flags

were missed. and the shooter should have been stopped. but, in the back drop of all of this, joe biden, the candidate, ran on uniting the country and bringing us out of a funk but that's not what's happened. record high gas prices and inflation have shattered the country's confidence and pocketbooks. a crime wave it and an open border are among our top concerns and now a baby formula shortage has pushed this president's approval rating into the 30's. tonight, he has an opportunity to strike a different note and seize the moment. peter doocy is at the white house now. what can we expect, peter? >> pete: it's interesting ahead of this address, jesse. white house officials were boasting that president biden has beaten the gun lobby before when he was in congress. but, as it turns out, he is not sharing any of this insight that he gained battling the gun lobby in congress with the lawmakers he is now counting on to pass some sort of legislation.

>> if people are dying every day. >> absolutely. >> why does this president then say he want to give it some space and let somebody else -- >> -- but you are also going to hear -- you are going to hear from the president tonight. it's not that he -- you know, it's not that he hasn't been involved. >> it's notable that the president plans to tell the american public in a half an hour that congress can reach a solution on gun control because he said he wasn't so sure that would be possible. the last time we saw him just yesterday. >> are you confident congress will take action on gun legislation, sir? >> confidence for 36 years. i'm never confident. totally. >> white house officials are talking up a potential assault weapons ban, even though it's not clear there is nearly enough support for that in congress. and they are declining to tell us what the president is going to say tonight that is actually new. instead, the word of the day of the day briefing renew. as he will renew calls for congress to act.

the plan is for him to speak at 7:30 p.m. sharp and then fly directly to his house, beach house in rehoboth delaware where he and first lady friday, saturday and part of sunday. i asked the press secretary sunday if these lawmakers who they say need to act urgently to stop what they call an epidemic of gun violence would be joins the biden administration at the beach? it doesn't sound like they are. jesse? >> jesse: really sharp questions. thanks a lot, peter. given his track record, as peter mentioned, "jesse watters primetime" doesn't believe he is going to say anything different than what he usually says about guns and crime tonight. if history is any indication, he's going to attack the second amendment and say deer don't wear kevlar vests. >> no one needs to have a weapon that can fire 30, 40, 50, 100 rounds unless you think a deer is wearing kevlar vests.

>> think about the shootings. many 100 rounds. a weapon of war. >> no amendment, no amendment to the constitution is absolute. >> i'm f. i'm elected either i'm coming for you and gun manufacturers i'm going to take you on. >> to gun owners out there who say well, a biden administration going to come for my guns. >> bingo, you are right if you on assault weapon. the fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period. >> jesse: we don't expect to hear much about tonight is violence in america's inner cities. most of the mass shootings, which have taken place, mass shootings are defined as shootings where e. where four or more people are shot at a time take place with handguns in urban america. the year has already been bloody with homicides already on pace to top last year's highs in many cities and the summer hasn't even started yet. most of them you will never hear about these mass shootings. they don't fit the media's narrative. according to the fbi's latest data, in 2020, there were more

than 8,000 murders using handguns. but for some reason joe biden won't talk about that. the gang shooting at each other in the south side of chicago aren't using ar-15s. the guns they are using are hot guns. criminals don't follow the law. chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country but it's the murder capital of the country. think about that for a second. 47 people were shot just this last weekend there. >> this is the second mass shooting of the weekend. chicago police say at least six people have been killed. >> jesse: but biden didn't care. if he did, he would talk about it and neither does chicago's mayor. when a reporter pointed out that the city's violent rep is scaring away tourists she completely lost it. >> nonsense that you are spewing that tourists aren't coming to our city, all you have to do is walk up and down michigan. >> no, sir, no, sir, no, sir. you will stop speaking.

you will stop speaking. >> michigan avenue. >> you are full of crap. that's the nicest thing i will say. i will not let you spoil this moment. >> jesse: it would be nice if she got mad at the gangs slaughtering innocent kids on her streets instead of the reporters asking questions about it. it's not just chicago though, remember, philadelphia's d.a. larry krasner he said the city doesn't have a crime problem. >> there is not a big spike in crime and it's not true. there is also not a big spike in violent crime. neither one of these things is true. we don't have a crisis of lawlessness. we don't have a crisis of crime. we don't have a crisis of violence. >> jesse: fast forward to this weekend, over 40 people were shot in philly. my hometown. sounds like a crisis to me, larry. pretending violence isn't real leaves more innocent people dead. and tightening gun laws just means the only people who can get guns are criminals.

you need common sense solutions. not the same old ideas that have been making the entire country more dangerous year after year. is biden ready to look at the facts and protect americans? i have laid out on the air specific policies to harden schools and beef up red flag laws. these are easy, common sense solutions. all americans can agree on. we have also discussed on the show the need to keep violent criminals off the streets. and we have also discussed the attack on masculinity in america, how the toxic internet and covid shut downs are polluting people's minds. the politicians just need to get it together. and do their job now. raimondo lopez is a democrat chicago alderman and chicago mayoral candidate. what the heck is going on in chicago? >> jesse, good evening to you and your viewers. chicago is in a state of lawlessness right now thanks to

the policies of lori lightfoot who has enabled and emboldened criminals to feel that they can living roomily get away with murder on the streets of chicago at any day of their choosing. we have seen for not only our law-abiding citizen becoming victims to violence with almost 200 people shot and killed in the city this year so far, but we have also had an officer shot not just yesterday but today as well. while criminals run around knowing that they have the mayor at their side, that lori lightfoot is willing to stand up and enable them to be as lawless as they want, going back for the last two years when she first allowed the righteous protesters to come down and destroy the city of chicago and in every step since she has tried to deflect and divert attention from her failed policies that have led to chicago the most american of american cities, a global city, to be run into the ground under her leadership. >> jesse: i think you actually confronted her about that. she likes to yell at people. i think she yelled at you.

let's listen to what happened there. >> what are we going to do and what do we tell our residents other than good faith people stand up? it's not going to be enough. >> thank you alderman. next question? >> no, i want an answer. >> i think you are 100 percent full of [bleep] is what i think. >> what is lori lightfoot's plan to address violence in chicago besides yelling at you and other reporters? >> sadly, the mayor does not have a plan. any time she is confronted she is accuses the people of being full of crap or worse. she says that you are racist, misogynistic, sexist, homophobic. every other excuse or card she can come up with rather than focusing on the truth which is that she has been a failure as mayor. she has not kept the people of chicago safe. she has allowed craltsd to run amok throughout every neighborhood of the city of chicago. and that the only time she gets really riled up, the only time she has a call to arms is when she is trying to desperately

elevate her national profile in the hope that someone, anyone will take her from this job that she has. right now the city of chicago is failing under her leadership and she has no one else to blame but herself. i would love if she and the president and everyone else come out and say criminals will be apprehended and they will be put in jail for the crimes that they commit. justices serve. i would love for that to be our approach. as approach and shouldn't be partisan. it should be easy for us to use common sense in this great country of ours. >> jesse: i couldn't agree more. you mention the president of the united states. have you heard from the president? has he addressed chicago violence? i can't remember him specifically taking on what's going on in chicago. can you? >> we have had six mass shootings in the city of chicago this year alone. four of which were in the month of may. fireworks, excuse me, not once has anyone on the national level, let alone our own mayor

called out the shooting for what they everywhere. mass shootings. no one wants to touch it because it's something that we are directly responsible for in cities like chicago where we are in charge. where we are the leader. and the choose to deflect and dodge responsibility while we continue to see the carnage on our streets. you have people from every neighborhood, every walk of life, every demographic living in fear and the only ones that are to blame are the politicians that continue to enable and enable those gang bangers into thinking that they're the ones running the show. >> jesse: i don't usually say this but i mean as a democrat, you make a pretty good mayor i know it's hard to get elected mayor as a republican in chicago. if you are up against lori, you would have my vote if i was a chicago guy. >> common sense will prevail. >> jesse: all about common sense. it's not that difficult. thank you again for joining us. >> thanks.

>> jesse: we are minutes away from joe biden's address on guns. but that's not the only crisis he can't handle. we can't even feed our babies in america. wait until you hear what he said about that. ♪ ♪ (♪ ♪) to help prevent bleeding gums, try saying hello gumwash with parodontax active gum health. it kills 99% of plaque bacteria and forms an antibacterial shield. try parodontax active gum health mouthwash.

your spirit is stronger than your highs and lows. your creativity can outshine any bad day. because you are greater than your bipolar i, and you can help take control of your symptoms - and ask about vraylar. some medicines only treat the lows or highs. once-daily vraylar is proven to treat depressive, acute manic, and mixed episodes of bipolar i in adults. full-spectrum relief for all bipolar i symptoms. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. call your doctor about unusual changes in behavior or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. report fever, stiff muscles or confusion which may mean a life-threatening reaction, or uncontrollable muscle movements which may be permanent. high cholesterol and weight gain, and high blood sugar, which can lead to coma or death, may occur. movement dysfunction and restlessness are common side effects. sleepiness and stomach issues are also common. side effects may not appear for several weeks. you are greater than your bipolar i. ask about vraylar and learn how abbvie could help you save.

i know there's conflicting information ask about vraylar about dupuytren's contracture. i thought i couldn't get treatment yet? well, people may think that their contracture has to be severe to be treated, but it doesn't. if you can't lay your hand flat on the table, talk to a hand specialist. but what if i don't want surgery? well, then you should find a hand specialist certified to offer nonsurgical treatments. what's the next step? visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started.

>> jesse: from afghanistan to crime to covid waves to inflation, the president never sees anything coming. joe biden said he is not a mind reader, and didn't see the baby formula crisis coming, either. except yesterday he admitted he was warned about it months ago but didn't really think it would be that big of a deal. >> i don't think anyone anticipated the impact of the shutdown of one facility in --

the abbott facility. once we learned of the extent of it, and how broad it was, we kicked everything into gear. i think we are -- i think we are on the way to be able to completely solve the problem. >> understood it would have a very big impact? >> they did but i didn't. >> jesse: the fda told biden this was going to be a problem and biden said awe, common, mann that isn't going to be a problem. he has been on the baby formula problem from the start. >> i became aware of this problem some time in -- after april -- in early april about how intense it was. we did everything in our power from that point on. >> first joe said he didn't think this was going to be a problem in april, all over this since april then why did he wait until late may to invoke the defense production act and fly

formula in from europe. he is either lying or he is incompetent. so what's the white house doing about it well? they are going to wait and see what happens. >> we can't let up on the infant formula market back until it's all the way back to normal. that's going to take a couple more months. >> jesse: the same guy told us our shelves would be back to normal in a few weeks. now he is saying the babies are going to be hungry another few months. those record high gas prices you are paying right now? you would be lucky if those get fixed any time soon. biden is saying it's going to take a while, also. >> there's a lot going on right now but the idea we're going to be able to, you know, click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term nor is it with regard to food. >> jesse: in other words, don't look at him for answers. he may have told you he was doing everything he could and even bragged when he lowered

your gas by two cents in december but he has got no answers for you now. is he saying just deal with the pricy food hungry babies and high gas prices. well, america is not happy, so we sent my assistant johnny out to ask people how they are dealing with it, watch. ♪ >> inflation tell me about it. >> it [bleep] sucks and i hate it. >> when does it end? >> we don't see any relief nowhere in sight. talks about -- >> inflation has to do with money. >> yes. >> and. >> what is inflation? >> i'm trying to think, i know this. -- i don't know. >> i don't know. i don't remember. >> inflation is essentially making everything more expensive. >> goes all the way across the board from the supermarket all the way to the restore. [laughter] >> prices are going up as you

know, whose fault is it? >> the greedy, hungry thirsty bastards. >> those bastards. >> that's a lot of external forces. >> may the force be with you. >> the people. >> we asking for a raise. >> you sound a little bit like joe biden blaming the people. >> i love him. he's my man. >> god love them. god love them. >> is it joe biden's fault? >> definitely joe biden. is he horrible. >> i'm what a stupid son of a pitch. >> he could do so much better in so many ways. >> let's go brandon, right? [laughter] >> i like this guy. >> that was funny. >> food prices are going up. why are food prices going up? >> because of our president. >> i'm sick of this stuff. >> that's the same question i asked. >> they cultivate the same thing every year, it takes the same amount of people to get it done,

why? >> food is stuck on the barges and they can't get it in. >> seems like ports are more secure than our southern border. >> oh, wow. >> wow. ♪ >> is this the result of the putin price hike? >> i think this -- >> the putin putin price hike. >> tell me about joe biden's plan to reduce inflation. >> i don't think he has a plan right now. >> do you think is he confident he has a plan. >> no. i'm never confident totally. >> we have to stay tuned. >> do you know where he is going this weekend? >> where? >> vacation to delaware do you think that's a good idea. >> i don't think it's deserved. >> you are letting him stay home? i can't believe it. >> do you think joe biden should give donald trump a call. >> he used to call me on the cell phone. >> how is inflation affecting you specifically? >> my rings and everything else i have on is more expensive today. eggs, it costs too much. >> i tried to buy particulars

and they are like 700 bucks for like a maine cabin. >> i paid $60 more just to go fishing this weekend. >> did you catch anything good? >> oh i did, i caught a bunch of fish. >> you are going it need a bigger boat. ♪ ♪ >> jesse watters, he wants to hear from you. what do you want to tell him? >> not much. >> i feel like that sounds like a very made up name. jesse, you say blessed, bro. and peace and love. >> jesse: peace and love. but americans are struggling right now. and instead of feeling their pain the white house is causing more of it. it is one thing to be incompetent and caring like jimmy carter was. it's another thing to be incompetent and yawn while people are trying to fix the problem you created. no really that's what he did yesterday.

>> jesse: so joe says he is not going to be able to do anything about all of those problems for a couple months and tonight he is going to give a big speech on guns and later is he going to go back to delaware where he has spent almost 200 days so far. he has been spending time away from the white house and all of the previous past presidents, trump, obama, bush, but he can't read minds and he can't turn on a switch but he sure can point his finger. maybe he should use that finger to turn on that switch. monica crowley a former treasury assistant secretary and host of monica crowley podcasts. all right, monica, your reaction to what we just saw right there. >> well, you know, the biden presidency has been historic catastrophe, jesse. and what's very telling is the fact that he will not course correct. he talks about well, i don't have a switch on gas prices and i don't have a switch on inflation. actually, he could send all of these disasters into reverse

today if he wanted to, particularly with regard to energy. he has waged war on american domestic energy production and that's why gas prices are through the roof and since energy is built into the price of everything we consume in this country, if he just turned that policy around literally tomorrow, you would start to see progress in terms of bringing down inflation and gas prices. but he won't do it. and that is very telling. and it tells us, jesse, is that all of this is deliberate. they want to torpedo the u.s. economy, they want to bring americans to their knees in order to use economic coercion to change everybody's behavior. no matter what you drive when you drive, what you consume, what you eat or how you move around, what jobs you have. this is all part of the leftist great reboot. and that's why there is no course correction here. even in the face of political annihilation come november. >> jesse: you are right about

that. it's revealing about what he says he can and cannot do. he can't do anything about inflation. he can't do anything about gas prices, monica, he can reengineer the entire use economy off fossil fuels and lower the earth's temperature. does that make any sense to you. >> yeah. don't forget the sea levels too, jesse. he is going to lower the sea levels as well. look, the reason they continually attack the energy sector fossil fuels is because energy is the biggest of them all. energy is the biggest lever available to them to fundamentally transform u.s. economy. reengineer the relationship between the government, the individual and the economy. and move it into a more collectivist, marxist kind of model where they are in total control. so, yes, they are waging war on small businesses and yes waging war on other corner ares of the

economy. energy. focused on it your suffering is immaterial to them because their eyes are on the much bigger prize of changing the very nature of america and, in fact, the cruelty is the point. and last week the president described particularly on energy this transition as incredible. he called it an incredible transition. so, in their eyes, all of this suffering, all of this economic dislocation is a good thing. >> jesse: well, he didn't bargain for the moms. he has made the moms very angry first with the covid school shutdowns and then with the crt garbage and now the baby formula shortage and i don't think he has any idea what's coming in november, monica crowley, thank you so much for joining us. >> jesse: fox news alert. we are moments away from president biden's address to the nation. let's bring in karl rove. former house deputy chief of staff and mollie hemingway and editor and chief of the federalist and guy benson.

host of the guy benson show all are fox news contributors. all right, karl. you heard what some of our other guests have said tonight it looks like president biden is going to double down on the assault weapons ban. how is that going to play in the country. >> first of all it's a misleading term, what is he really trying to do take weapons semiautomatic pulling the trigger, shoot a bullet that look like they are dangerous. lots of people have semiautomatic weapons after sawbilityd weapons ban we had enforce in the late 2,000s. but, jesse, more important than that, let's step back for a minute. this is all about politics. within one day, less than a day the attack in uvalde that killed 21 people the democratic national committee sent out a message from the president of the united states about the need for gun control and this

afternoon they sent out another message from the democratic senatorial committee talking about are you going to tune in tonight and asking for a political contribution. this is all about politics about guardianshipping up the base for the fall and taking advantage of this there is action until signal. trying to get something done. how is that looking? >> i think it looks more problematic and more tenuous if president biden comes out tonight and gives a gun control speech. i could understanded human impulse to want to come out and say something it's been a very hard few weeks. he has spoken on this issue delicate negotiation, jesse between republicans and democrats trying to forge a path ahead. it is by no means guaranteed to work or lead to something that is passible in the u.s. senate that could get 60 votes and by very unpopular president, a

polarizing president stumping into the debate further, i think diminishes the chances of something succeeding because he might force republicans to dig in further if this really becomes a political issue. that's the risk that he is taking but i think as karl said political reason,. >> jesse: he could poison pill it tonight with a really partisan speech, mollie there. scuttle any sort of bipartisan action in the senate. that would be another one of his legislative priorities didn't go through. where does that leave him politically now in the late spring? >> i think we will have to see what he does tonight. he really does have an option. he could show leadership. there are a lot of things that would unify the country at a time like this. he was promised. shown himself to be none of those things. by politically exploiting the situation to push his anti-gun agenda, that will show him not to be the leader what he

promises to be, i think sadly we will expect him to do more of what he has done. >> jesse: karl, we have to hear something on the inner city crime, the handguns, those are the main weapons used in a lot of these gang shootouts, we have to hear something about hardening schools. we have to hear something about red flag laws. mental health do you think you will hear something about that? >> i hope we do is hear something on the last three. with the handgun issue with all due respect chicago has some of the toughest anti-handgun laws in the city. doesn't seem to work. >> jesse: it sure doesn't. we just proved that at the top of the show. all right, here is the president of the united states right now taking the podium from the white house. >> memorial day this past monday, jill and i visited arlington national cemetery. as we entered those hallowed grounds, we saw rows and rows of crosses, among the rows of head

stones and other emblems of belief. honoring those who paid the ultimate price battle fields around the world. the day before we visited uvalde. uvalde, texas in front of robb elementary school we stood before 21 crosses for 19 third and fourth graders and two teachers. on each cross the name, and nearby a photo of each victim that jill and i reached out to touch. innocent victims murdered in the classroom that have been turned into a killing field. standing there in that small town like so many other communities across america, i couldn't help but think there are too many other schools, too many other everyday places that have become killing fields, battle fields here in america. we stood at such a place just 12

days before across from a grocery store in buffalo, new york. memorializing 10 fellow americans. a spouse, a parent a grandparent. a sibling, gone forever. and both places we spent hours with hundreds of family members who were broken, whose lives will never be the same. they had one message for all of us. do something. just do something. for god's sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time that can't be true. this time we must actually do something. the issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. for so many of you at home i want to be very clear. this is not about taking away

anyone's guns. it's about -- not about vilifying gun owners, in fact we believe we should be treating responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave. i respect the culture and democrat addition and the concerns of lawful gun owners, at the same time, the second amendment like all other rights is not absolute. it was just -- it was justice scalia who wrote and i quote: like most rights, the right to the second amendment by -- the rights granted by the second amendment are not unlimited. not unlimited. it never has been. there have always been limitations on what weapons can you own in america. for example, machine guns have been federally regulated for nearly 90 years. and this is still a free country. this isn't about taking away anyone's rights.

it's about protecting children. about protecting families. it's about protecting whole communities. it's about protecting our freedoms to go to school, to a grocery store, to a church without being shot and killed. according to new data released by centers for disease control and prevention guns ares number one killer of children in the united states of america. number one killer. more than car accidents, more than cancer. over the last two decades, more school-aged children have died from guns than on duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about. more kids than on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god's sake. how much more carnage are we willing to accept. how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we

say enough. enough. i know that we can't prevent every tragedy. but here's what i believe we have to do. here's what the overwhelming majority of american people believe we must do. here's what the families in buffalo and uvalde and texas told us we must do. we need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. and if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21. strengthen background checks. and enact red -- red flag laws. repeal the immunity to protect gun manufacturers from liability. address the mental health crisis deepening the trawsm of gun violence as a consequence of that violence. these are rational, common sense measures. here's what it all means. it all means this.

we should reinstate the assault weapons ban and high capacity magazines that we passed in 1994 with bipartisan support in congress. and the support of law enforcement. nine categories of semiautomatic weapons were included in that ban. like ak-47s and ar-15s. and in the 10 years it was law, mass shootings went down. but after republicans let the law expire in 2004, those weapons were allowed to be sold again, mass shootings tripled. those are the facts. a few years ago, the family of the inventor of the ar-15 said he would have been horrified to know that its design was being used to slaughter children and other innocent lives instead of being used as a military weapon on the battlefield as it was designed. that's who it was designed for. enough. enough.

we should limit how many rounds a weapon can hold. why in god's name should an ordinary citizen that holds 30 round magazines that let mass shooters fire hundreds of bullets in matter of minutes. the damage is so devastating in uvalde, parents had to do d.n.a. swabs to identify the remains of their children. 9 and 10-year-old children. enough. should expand background checks to be -- keep guns out of the hand of felons, fugitives and those under restraining orders. stronger background checks are something that the vast majority of americans, including the majority of gun owners agree on. i also believe we should have safe storage laws and personal liability for not locking up your gun. the shooter in sandy hook came from home full of guns.

they were too easy to access. that's how he got the weapons. the weapon he used to kill his mother and then murder 26 people, including 20 first graders. if you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it. every responsible gun owner agrees. to make sure no one else can have access to it. lock it up. to have trigger locks. and if you don't, and something bad happens, you should be held responsible. we should also have national red flag laws so that a parent, a teacher, a counselor can flag for a court that a child, a student, a patient is exhibiting violent tendencies, threatening classmates, or experiencing suicidal thoughts makes them a danger to themselves tore others. 19 states and the district of columbia have red flag laws. the delaware law is named after my son attorney general bo

biden. fort hood, texas, 2009, 13 dead and more than 30 injured. marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, 2018, 17 dead, 17 injured. and both places countless others suffering with invisible wounds, red flag laws could have stopped both these shooters in uvalde the shooter was 17 when he asked a sister buy assault weapon. denied because he was too young to buy one himself. she refused. as soon as he turned 18, he purchased two assault weapons for himself because, in texas, you can be 18 years old and buy an assault weapon even though you can't buy a pistol in texas until you are 21. we can't ban assault weapons as we should, we must at least raise the age to be able to purchase one to 21.

look, i know some folks will say 18-year-olds can serve in the military and fire those weapons. but that's what w. training and supervision. by the best trained experts in the world. don't tell me raising the age won't make a difference. enough. we should repeal the liability shield that often protects gun manufacturers from being sued for the death and destruction caused by their weapons. they are the only industry in this country that has that kind of immunity. imagine, imagine if the tobacco industry had been immune from being sued where we would be today? the gun industry special protections are outrageous. it must end. and let there be no mistake about the psychologic trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl that brave little girl in uvalde who smeared blood off her

murdered friend's body on her own face to lie still among the corpses in her classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive. imagine, imagine what it would be like for her to walk down the hallway of any school again. imagine what it's like for children who experience this kind of trauma every day in school and the streets and communities all across america. imagine what it's like for so many parents to hug their children goodbye in the morning not sure whether they will come back home. unfortunately, too many people don't have to imagine that at all. even before the pandemic, young people were already hurting. there is a serious youth mental health crisis in this country. we have to do something about it. that's why mental health is the heart of my unity agenda that i laid out in the state of the union address this year. must provide more school counselors? more school nurses?

more mental health services for students and for teachers. more people volunteering as mentors to help people succeed. more privacy protection and resources to keep kids safe from the harms of social media. this unity agenda won't fully heal the wounded souls but it will help, it matters. i just told you what i would do. the question now is what will the congress do? the house of representatives already passed key measures we need. expanding background checks to cover nearly all gun sales. including at gun shows and online sales. getting rid of the loophole that allow us a gun sale to go through after three business days even if the background check has not been completed. and the house is planning more action next week. safe storage requirements. banning high capacity magazines. raising the age to buy an assault weapon to 21. federal red flag law. codifying my ban on ghost guns

that don't have serial numbers and can't be traced. tougher laws to prevent gun trafficking and straw purchases. this time we have to take the time to do something. and this time it's time for the senate to do something. but, as we know, in order to do any -- get anything done in the senate, we need a minimum of 10 republican senators. i support the bipartisan efforts that include small group of democrats and republican senators trying to find a way. but my god, the fact of the majority of the senate republicans don't want any of these proposals even to be debated are come up for a vote i find unconscionable. we can't fail the american people again. since uvalde just a week ago, there have been 20 other mass shootings in america.

each with four or more people killed or injured. including yesterday at a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. a shooter deliberately targeted his surgeon using an assault weapon he bought just a few hours before his rampage that left the surgeon, another doctor, receptionist and a patient dead and many more injured. that doesn't count the carnage we see every single day. it doesn't make the headlines. i have been in this fight for a long time. i know how hard it is. but i will never give up. and if congress fails, i believe this time a majority of the american people won't give up either. i believe the majority of you will act to turn your outrage into making this issue central to your vote. enough, enough, enough. over the next 17 days the families in uvalde will continue burying their day. it will take that long in part

because it's a town where everyone knows everyone. and day by day they will honor each one they lost. children i met with the owner and staff of the funeral home is being strong, strong, strong to take care of their own. and the people of uvalde mourn as they do over the next 17 days. what will would he be doing as nation? jill and i met with a sister of a teacher who was murdered and whose husband died of a heart attack two days later. leaving behind four beautiful orphan children all now orphan. the sister asked us what could she say? what could she tell her nieces and nephews the most heart breaking moments that i can remember? all i could think to say was i told her to hold them tight, hold them tight. and she visited the school.

we attended mass at sacred heart catholic church with father eddy. in the pews families and friends held each other tightly. as archbishop gustavo spoke, he asked the children in attendance to come up to the altar and sit at the altar with him as he spoke. there wasn't enough room, so mom and her young son sat next to jill and me in the first pew. as we left the church, a grandmother who had just lost her granddaughter passed me a handwritten letter. it read; quote: erase the invisible line that is dividing our nation. come up with a solution and fix what's broken. and make the changes that are necessary to prevent this from happening again. , end of quote. my fellow americans, enough. enough. it's time for each of us to do our part. it's time to act.

the children we have lost, the children we can save. the nation we love. let's hear the call and the cry. let's meet the moment. let us finally do something. god bless the families who are hurting. god bless you all. from hymn based in the 91st psalm sung in my church may he raise you up on eagle's wins and burr i couldn't on the breath of dawn. make you to shine like the sun and hold you in the palm of his hand. that's my prayer for all of you. god bless you. >> jesse: the president delivering a we emotional and passionate address to the nation on gun control. ending that address with a

prayer. blaming republicans for no action on gun control, even though his own party controls the house and the senate. he said if it doesn't go down in the senate, then have the people make gun control their central issue to their vote in november. some of the specifics he mentioned banning assault weapons, raising the age. if that doesn't happen, for purchasing assault weapons from 18 to 21. federalizing red flag laws. repealing the gun manufacturing liability shield and expanding background checks, also safe storage laws and addressing the mental health crisis. let's bring in our panel back. karl rove, former white house deputy chief of staff, mollie hemingway, editor and chief of the federalist, and guy benson, host of the guy benson show, all again fox news contributors. all right, karl, your reaction to what the president laid out there.

>> well, it was emotional and was passionate. a couple things that we need to correct. the evidence does not show that the 1994 assault weapons ban had a significant statistically significant decline in those kind of incidents for the ten years it was on the books, and similarly when it was allowed to laps in 2004 for the next decade there was significantly insignificant change after the law disappeared. he misstated that. look, red flag laws might work. but, remember, new york had a red flag law and disturbed individual went to buffalo and killed people despite that. i'm in favor of. let's consider. let's be careful of saying we have got to do something and expect these kind of things to just magically disappear. you know, he talked at length about how we need to get rid of the protection for gun manufacturing. we want to gut the gun

manufacturing industry of the united states. imagine what we would do if we say if you are injured or killed in a car crash, you can go sue the company that made the car that is clearly -- it shows where he is really coming from which is an antipathy towards guns and the second amendment rights. and some of this is simply unworkable there are literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of magazines out there that can you put 30 bulls in or 10 bullets in or 20 bullets in. how are you going to deal with that? are you going to criminalize possession of that and somehow send the police in to grab every large capacity magazine that's sitting in somebody's storage cabinet? and the ending, i thought, while powerful when he talked about his prayer, the part just before that took a two-by-four to republicans is not helpful

getting things done. >> jesse: something he didn't mention gang warfare. also nothing about hardening schools. what did you make of the president's address? >> yeah, if you want to talk about common sense, one of the pieces needs to be protecting schoolings with trained armed guards and security. that's not a perfect solution but nothing is. look, jesse, i think that the president there channeled a lot of the horror and gut wrenching pain that many americans have felt across the political spectrum in these last few weeks. no one likes to see what's happening. his antidote that karl at the end talking about the grandmother who slipped a note to him saying please, erase these divides country. sentiment. the type of sentiment that helped joe biden to get elected. it's undercut dramatically by his attempts at shaming republicans in that speech and making this at times into something of a political voting electoral call for action. those things don't really

coexist very well and i think he did not help the chances of something actually happening in the senate very much in his speech tonight, unprize surprisingly. >> jesse: mollie, do you agree with that do you think he hurt his chances with senate republicans and senate democrats getting a gun deal together? >> he showed this was, for him, a partisan political approach. do something is not a serious policy but the actual policies that he listed are extremely troubling. i think it's comforting for simple minded people to think that restricting the natural right to keep and bear arms would solve all of our problems that destroying the constitution would solve our problems that is not true. and we have a natural right of self-defense and to guard against tyranny in the second amendment. this is something that makes us american. and joe biden showed that he does not respect the constitution. he does not support this natural right. that really is an impeachable

offense to talk this way against something so foundational to the country. but it was also just really divisive and unhelpful for him. and i think, you know, he helped people see what really is at play here. very little of what he is talking about would actually prevent some of these horrible mass shootings. he kind of gave away the game when earlier this weekend he talked about getting rid of making illegal to have handguns. this is a really extreme agenda. and he is misguided if he thinks this is going to be a political winner for him. i know they are desperate. but this is not going to sell well in this country. >> jesse: we discussed that on "the five" this afternoon, karl. the trust factor. if he is just going to casually throw in there oh, nine millimeters, i mean, that's the most popular handgun in the country. not only does he want to strip away the most popular rifle the

ar-15, he just casually says oh yeah the 9-millimeter handgun, too, that's got to go. how are any republicans going to deal in good faith with this man. >> they have got to attempt to deal in good faith to try to arrive at things that may actually make a difference, fortunate in the senate to be led by john cornyn following the sour they're land springs massacre there were problems with the database the shooter there had been tossed out of the military. and the military failed to give that information to the national database that would have kept him from buying a weapon. and john cornyn led an effort, republicans in democrats to fix that issue and to make other improvements in the background checks and database. so he has got somebody on the republican side who is willing to sit down and make reasonable and sensible improvements but is he never going to go for something as in they as what the president was alluding to today. everything from removing the -- you know, allowing you to sue

the gun manufacturer if somebody uses their gun to all kinds of other things. they simply are not going to go anywhere in the united states senate. and are just a political gesture on the part of the president. >> jesse: where is the common ground here, guy? is it red flag laws? because i have laid out a red flag law plan. is it background checks? is it the mental health component? what is it? >> mental health probably. red flag laws for sure. there are some red states that have enacted red flag laws, florida has a pretty good one that was but the into place after parkland, i think other states can look at that i think it's better served at the state level. that's an area for common ground. so should some reasonable protections at schools that should be on the table at least. was not mentioned as you pointed out at all from the president tonight. it might seem like small ball to some people, but that's what is realistic. and i think if the president had wanted to actually move the process forward, he would have said very little, if nothing at

all tonight, except for i'm hoping that the bipartisan group in the senate gets their work done and i look forward to seeing what they offer. that would be constructive. i understand the desire to emote. we are all emotional. but the question is are we really going to have enough and try to get something done. and if that's the president's true aim, true intention, a big speech tonight while politically tempting, i don't think is the ticket. >> jesse: but is he worried about his base, mollie. he is losing his base. they are angry with him. he hasn't gotten anything really done legislatively, so he needs to go hard after the ar. isn't that what this is about? >> well, the base is the only group that has been served well by the biden administration since it began. all of his policies seem to be appealing to them. unfortunately, there's not much in the democratic caucus itself. they all support what he is working on. but i do want to say i think too often people accept the framing put forth by corporate media and other democrats that this issue

that we are dealing with is a gun issue in the same way that we just talked about if a car is used to commit violence you don't blame the car. we really do have a problem in this country. we are raising children who seem to have lost their moral compass or never had it to begin with. and we need to be talking about things to actually deal with that weather it's fatherless homes, drug use, mental illness and other things and a serious nation would talk about this. >> jesse: yeah, hillary clinton said herself it takes a village right, mollie? thank you, guys. thank you very much. let's bring in katie pavlich fox news contributor and editor at town hall.com. all right, katie, your reaction to the speech? >> well, the president seems to be very focused on bringing back what he calls the assaults weapons ban. he didn't specifically define what that means. did he list a number of firearms, said there were nine of them. he didn't say what that would mean. did he make this comparison between automatic weapons being banned in the 30's to being able to being able to implement some kind of assault weapons ban now.

the difference is in the 1930s there were very few automatic weapons that were privately owned. now today there are 20 million ar-15s, minimum, that americans own. so when democrats throw out this argument it should just be wanted. we have heard confiscation. they don't talk about what that looks like logistically. what is the constitutionality of banning something that has been legally acquired by tens of millions of americans? what is the constitutionality of having that gun now registered if you had purchased it legally and now it's banned to prove that you didn't acquire it through illegal means? the other thing, too, is the background check system. there is this narrative that there is not a background check system in this country. the fbi does 25 million background checks every single year. if the background check in terms of what is going into the system is not clean, for example, when hunter biden lied on his background check form when he purchased the firearm said he wasn't on drugs, he was on drugs. that went into the system and he passed the background check. he still has not been prosecuted for lying on that form.

there can be a lot of talk about cleaning up these systems and adding on to it until you have good information going into the system. the state is helping with that. that's going to be very difficult to congress to make it. >> jesse: ar if you have one beto o'rourke comes and knocks at your door that's what he said he wants to do. >> i don't think he grasps what that means. >> jesse: tucker carlson is up next. have a good night, everybody.