goods on those ships to consumers. the senate has passed legislation and i'm hopeful the house can do the same to send the legislation to crack down on these companies to help lower overall costs. my plan does all this without raising a penny in taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. without raising the deficit at all. by taxing the super wealthy and big corporations. the 55 major corporations that don't pay a single pen knee taxes even though they had a $40 billion in profits. the point is this. i'm doing everything i can on my own to help working families during this stretch of higher prices. i will continue to do that. but congress needs to act as well. we can do so much more if we come together to lower the costs for american families. but my congressional republican friends led by rick scott have a different approach. he has introduced the plan

wanting to raise the taxes on working families by an average of 1,500 a year. put medicare and social security, medicaid -- social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. every five years they will no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god's name are they doing? i'll work with everyone who has real solutions and real savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. now, the other element i like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends the republicans like to paint me as the big spender. let's look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded rising every

year he was in office. under my plan we're on track to cut the federal deficit this year by 1.7 trillion. hear me now? this year by 1.7 trillion. that's a fact. the largest decline in american history. by the way, those aren't white house projections. they come from the nonpartisan congressional budget office that you and the press and everybody around the country quotes all the time. that progress on tackling the deficit was not pre-ordained. it was my economic strategy. built into our historic recovery that we didn't anticipate a war in ukraine at the time. historic economic growth that not only helped families moved up but helped our federal deficit come down. because of that strategy we're on track for a deficit to take up a lower share of our economy than it did before the pandemic. in fact, the treasury department is planning to pay

down -- pay down the national debt this quarter. which never happened under my predecessor, not once, not once. unlike my predecessor, the deficit has come down both years i've been here. i propose a plan to keep shrinking that deficit. by making common sense reforms to our tax code. leveling the playing field so the biggest companies no longer have an incentive to ship jobs overseas to make their product because they get charged less in taxes and avoid paying their fair share of taxes here at home. we put together a multi-nation initiative that i'm hopeful will come into play at the g-7. ending the outrageous of our tax systems. if you can make a billion dollars i'm all for it. pay your fair share. just pay your fair share. billionaires pay a lower rate than a teacher or firefighter.

the bottom line is this, part of the reason i ran for president is because i was tired of trickle-down economics. it doesn't work. my plans will produce the strongest, fastest, most widespread economic recovery america has ever experienced. with record jobs, new record small businesses, wages rising. it's the foundation for an economy that works for working families. because of that foundation we're better positioned than any country in the world to overcome global inflation that we're seeing and make a new chapter of stable and steady growth. so let's come together focus on what matters. let's build on the extraordinary progress we've made. let's continue to build this economy from the bought many up and the middle out. when that happens everybody does well including the very wealthy. thank you and god bless you and may god protect our troops. i will take your questions. >> are you going to saudi

arabia? >> elon musk has said he has a super bad feeling about the u.s. economy. and jamie diamond said the same thing. >> president biden: elon musk is talking about that ford is increasing their investment overwhelmingly. ford is increasing the investment in building new electric vehicles, 6,000 new employees, union employees, i might add, in the midwest. the former chrysler corplation are also making similar investments in electric vehicles. intel is adding 20,000 new jobs for making computer chips. so, you know, lots of luck in his trip to the moon. >> are you going to saudi arabia? >> i am not sure whether i'm going. i have no direct plans at the moment. let me tell you that i have been engaged in trying to work

with how we can bring more stability and peace in the middle east and there is a possibility that i would be going to meet with both the israelis and arab countries including, i expect, saudi arabia would be included if i did go. i have no direct plans the at the moment. i won't change my view on human rights. as president of the united states my job is to bring peace if i can and what i'll try to do. >> will you be open to meeting with the crown prince if you end up going to saudi arabia? >> we're getting way ahead of ourselves here. i want to see to it that we diminish the likelihood that there is a continuation of this some of the senseless wars between israel and the arab nations. that's my focus. >> is opec doing enough on oil production? >> president biden: what i read talking to my team they

acknowledge that there is a oil shortage and they have made announcement of late that they will increase production. so i don't know enough to know whether it's enough but i know it's positive. >> mr. president, does ukraine have to cede territory? >> president biden: you've been always fair with me. from the beginning i've said and i've been not everyone has agreed with me, nothing about ukraine it's their territory. i won't tell them what they should and shouldn't do. it appears to me that at some point along the line there is a settlement here. what it entails i don't know. i don't think anybody knows. in the meantime we will continue to put the ukrainians in a position where they can defend themselves. thank you all so very much.

>> [inaudible question]. >> gillian: you've been listening to president biden. coming back to the podium. >> the house and senate wanted to talk about guns. a constant interchange and i've been constantly briefed. i will do what i can to try to see that we have some real progress. thank you. >> gillian: all right. you have been listening to president biden making wide ranging remarks on the economy after the u.s. saw higher than expected job growth last month. experts say it was still sluggish. it comes at american consumers are facing raging inflation and sky high gas prices. welcome to "the faulkner focus". i'm gillian turner in for harris today. the labor department reports the economy added 390,000 jobs in may. the lowest growth since april of last year. unemployment stayed at 3.6%. but employers are struggling right now. there are 11.4 million jobs open today and 6 million

unemployed americans. if you do the math, that's nearly two jobs open for every person looking for work. let's bring in steve forbes chairman and editor in chief of forbes media. what do you make about the numbers? sounds like job growth was higher than expected but lower than last month. talk to us about those numbers and tell us what kinds of jobs are open, too? let's get into that. >> the jobs report wasn't bad but it underscores how slow the recovery has been from the lockdowns of 2020 and part of 2021. and unfortunately the biden administration has been putting barriers in the way of this economy recovering from those lockdowns starting with energy. in terms of job openings you talked to restaurants and small businesses they want more employees. having to pay more for that. but at the same time you have another paradox, a lot of large companies especially retailers are noticing that spending has

been slowing down a little bit and you are starting to hear about layoffs in some of these companies. this shows the economy's footings are not very strong. wages are still lagging inflation. we saw what's happening on the energy front and people are running down the savings they got despite what the president said. it was fictional in that "wall street journal" article. people are running down their savings. when that happens you get a crunch. income is not meeting price increases and it spells trouble for later this year and early next year. >> gillian: the white house communications team is doing the pivot to the economy for the month of june saying the goal is to convince voters that the president has a handle on inflation and the goal is to convince americans that despite their own experiences the overall economic picture is strong. does anything in these numbers read that to you? >> well the economy, what the american economy is showing is that it's ready to roar if you remove the uncertainties and

barriers. raising the cost of energy, they are going after the railroad industry and meat packers. typical scapegoating that you get when prices are rising. the government blames everyone but themselves. if joe biden thinks he can put the inflation situation off on the federal reserve he reappointed gerome powell as head of the ged ral reserve and appointed the governors on the federal reserve. he can't say it's their fault. not mine. they are hurting the recovery from the lockdowns and the federal reserve as a huge problem of having printed too much money and now ready to flood the economy which means more inflation in 2023. not a good picture. >> gillian: it's interesting because the federal reserve vice chair was asked if we have seen the worst of inflation and he says yeah, take a listen. >> i'm going to be looking for a consistent string of data on

the strength of demand, labor market coming into better balance, and importantly a string of decelerating inflation data to feel more confident. we're certainly going to do what is necessary to bring inflation back down. that's our number one challenge right now. >> gillian: what do you say? >> unfortunately the federal reserve believes you bring down inflation not by stabilizing the value of the dollar but inducing a slowdown in the economy, they are threatening a recession. they think inflation is caused by people buying too much so they think right now amazingly we have too much prosperity and they want to slow things down. when they talk about a soft landing that's fed speak for crash landing and possible recession. so they have it all wrong. they should go back and look at the history from the late 1980s and 90s. the great moderation when they followed commodity prices and

the like. brought stability to the dollar and the economy responded positively. right now the only thing the federal reserve knows how to do is austerity. it is not what the economy needs right now. >> gillian: let's switch gears for a second while i have you to gas prices. seems like groundhog day at the pump. prices up again for the second time in two days jumping 5 cents overnight to a new record of $4.76 a gallon. it is just shy of double the cost per gallon when president biden took office. he said this hour he has no direct plans to travel to saudi arabia. you heard that. he reiterated that just now in the press conference. he is not ruling it out, though. what do you say about that? if he comes face-to-face with the crown prince, any room to make more moves with opec to bring down prices for americans or is that just political

showboating? >> they realize the big problem is at the gas pump. people feel that almost every day. so it's amazing now one way or the other they are begging the saudis and opec to increase production. this is what is so obscene about the energy front. they're deliberately slowing down production here in the u.s. of oil and natural gas. despite their rhetoric they make it impossible to drill on federal lands. putting up other barriers to stand in the way of people want to get things done. and then so we would be producing today not the throw out numbers probably 3 or 4 million more barrels a day if they left the energy industry alone and let the pipelines go through a year ago. they say putin's war. it's part of it. the biggest part is we're not producing to our full potential. american people know it. they are begging others to do what we can be doing on our own soil getting that oil and natural gas.

>> gillian: thanks for laying it on the line for us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> gillian: fox news aleft now after a wave of mass shootings across the country president biden is pleading with congress to pass what he calls common sense gun laws. in a national speech last night he called for pan assault weapons ban and limit on magazine capacity and expanded background checks. >> president biden: i respect the culture and tradition and the concerns of lawful gun owners. at the same time, the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. >> gillian: today the president is at his beach house in delaware. >> if the president thinks congress must act immediately to end the epidemic of gun violence will he bring key players from capitol hill to the beach with him tonight?

>> okay. so i don't have -- >> biden's whole thing he niece how to get things does. >> he does. he has beaten the gun lobby before. >> gillian: over on capitol hill no one agree even on the starting point making the solution to shootings in schools look farther away than ever. aishah hosni joins us where the negotiations are this hour on the hill. >> you just heard the president asked by the reporter if he will head to the hill next week and he just said he was going to do everything he could to move forward with gun legislation. maybe a talk with members of his own party would help him do that. right now democrats in both chambers are doing their own thing when it comes to guns. late last night house democrats in the judiciary committee advanced what they are calling the protecting our kids act.

it is sweeping new gun legislation, a huge package. the first to get a hearing since the uvalde school shooting. among many reforms they want to raise the age from 18 to 21. ban sale of magazines and they are talking about blowing up the filibuster and packing the court to get their way. >> if the filibuster obstructs us we'll abolish it. if the supreme court objects, we will expand it. now we know where they want to go. >> their real beef is the second amount. >> in the senate different approach. members of both parties working together negotiating behind closed doors on mental health and school safety. things that everyone can get behind. the red flag laws. house democrats were asked yesterday why not do the same? why push such an ambitious plan that is doomed to go nowhere in

the senate? >> america is not deserving of nickel and dime legislation. again this is about courage. it is not about convenience. >> here is the thing. even if the senate is able to come up with some kind of deal we aren't sure if those liberal democrats in the house are going to go for something they might deem to be watered down. gillian. >> gillian: sounds like a lot of hope but no chance. thanks so much. the january 6 committee is trying to get america's attention with a big move announcing its first hearing will get underway next thirst at 8:00 p.m. during prime time. they promise the findings from over a thousand interviews and never before seen evidence from the day. no word on who of those thousand witnesses will testify. democratic chairman bennie

thompson expects eight hearings this month and they issued subpoenas to five house members none of which have committed to cooperating. mccarthy and jordan with both subpoenaed and say democrats are weaponizing this committee. >> my position has not changed thon committee. it is not valid. republicans were not allowed to appoint anybody. it is purely political. >> they want to go forward. do you want one party being able to subpoena the other party? and play the politics that i think they're playing here? >> gillian: tammy bruce is the hoist of get tammy bruce on fox nation. tammy, they are trying to grab some headlines with rolling out the first hearing which is understandable. they have been plugging at this for well over a year now. the first question to ask is, is there anyone left in america whose mind is not already made up about what happened on

january 6th? what they saw? is there anybody whose take on this is still muteable? >> i don't think so. we've seen certain people who did horrible things who undergone trials or pled guilty and serving time in jail. an f.b.i. investigation. legacy media rarely talks about it that found no evidence to some large-scale plot involving donald trump to overfurniture the election. but that also again went out there because it didn't serve a political narrative. this tells you how concerned the democrats are about their whole base. i don't think it will be well received by democrats and independents considering what's going on in the country. we're seeing them not get their act together about what to do regarding what has been plaguing our society with

mental health and drug abuse and gun abuse. so they can't do that. but they will roll out major broadway theater over this targeting effectively of donald trump and his supporters. this is a classic star chamber which is like a secret hearing or pre-planned hearing that is meant to persecute one individual. americans don't like that since we know there are so many things that are affecting our lives. inflation, crime, the border, international drama. this is not going to land well at all. >> gillian: to this point, tammy, the republican party at large, trump supporters and none say they don't want to argue in the media about this anymore. is there any pressure on these five gop house members to put forth some of this evidence they say is in abundance so everybody could see for

themselves that there is nothing going here and then the country could move on? >> i just noted for a year, an extended period of time that has been discussed. we've heard about these things to some degree but when you begin to participate in a pre-planned, pre-judged end result, which is what many people see this as being. you have cheney and kinzinger on a panel they didn't have an open mind. they've been vocal about their loathing of donald trump and his supporters. the american people are very smart. they are informed certainly the people watching this network are, and they see this for what it is. remember the mueller hearing. the democrats put a lot of investment into that thinking it would be the punch that nailed donald trump. it didn't work well for the democrats. i think the american people already know, we've seen what has gone on and understand the variety of what happened on

that day but we also know political gas lighting when we see it and especially with the country in such dire straits the timing is bad. it smacks and smells of desperation. and the american people want work done. they don't want theater. >> gillian: tammy, it is time for something completely different. i want to ask you about seattle where citizens are paying a steep price right now for officials' decision to defund the police. the department can no longer take on any new adult sexual assault cases this year. they are at capacity. they say the community expects our agency to report to sexual violence and current staffing levels. it is unattainable. let's break down the numbers. at the end of 2019 there were over 1200 deployable officers. it dropped to 958 in december of 2021. then from 2020 during the

summer of defund until now 401 officers left the force, 145 new ones hired only. are you shocked? >> no. we saw it unfold not just in seattle but across the country when you have rhetoric that demonizes law enforcement and when political leadership in democrat cities don't have the back of the police, and these are people who leave their homes every day to go and risk their lives and their futures for total strangers in their community. so of course people are going to not choose that as a career or leave to go to a city that does support them. this is the problem for the democrats and the base in these cities. they don't think about the impact of what might be exciting rhetoric but my goodness, for everybody cares about being able to investigate sexual assault, rape, the dynamic of what happens in women's lives in general and in everyone's lives and now they are seeing that wait a minute,

the police actually do these things. there is a repercussion to this kind of rhetoric and it goes to our previous conversation. this is what is being discussed at the kitchen table. this is what americans face every day, not just in seattle, but in other cities where the police, like frankly here in new york, where they might come, they might not come. or in los angeles where you have d.a.s that will not prosecute. this is the kitchen table daily life experience. and now we are getting the background experience of the fact that it's one thing to not have an officer be able to respond but when there is a rape that is reported, they can't even really investigate it. this is horrible and this is what has got to be dealt with and solved. it is the rhetoric has done this. the lack of funding has done this. they have effectively defunded many departments by rerouting money and this is where the americans see democrat leadership doing and why they

will be in such trouble in november across the board. >> gillian: the rhetoric that led to the movement and the action, the policy action of defunding. tammy, we have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it as always. >> thank you, dear. >> gillian: the search for an escaped convict in texas ended but not before a family of five was murdered. plus this. >> were you able to speak with the president about when he was informed? >> he expressed concern. >> we're trying to understand the information nro*e in -- flow in the white house. >> gillian: so many test qwest about the baby formula shortage and so few answers from the white house. tyrus is in "focus" with us next.

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the baby formula crisis. that shortage has millions of parents across the country running scared and scrambling to feed their babies. she answered this way. >> i'm telling you the proper se.s i'm telling you what happened. i'm telling you the fad moved too slowly. i'm telling you this happened on the side of abbott. that's the way it happened. that is the way the timeline was laid out and so that is -- you may not like my answer but that is the way that we see it. >> gillian: the biden administration now says it will investigate the fda's decision to shut down an abbott production plant in february. it led to the nationwide shortage. it is tyrus time now. fox nation host and co-host of gutfeld. it is hard to keep all your titles straight. thank you for joining us. tyrus, this shortage is a real

crisis compounded by botched messaging or at the very least unclear messaging coming out of the white house. hough do you see it? >> it is shocking to me when you hear it's not our fault. that's not what leadership does. there is no solution. this has become a first world problem administration. they focus on unimaginable things as far as pronouns and things like that instead of actual things america needs. i never thought in my lifetime the united states of america would have third world problems. where we have to look to mexico, canada and the u.k. to get food for our babies. i have friends who are taking trips to mexico to get baby formula. it is unbelievable. onthe positive things having an administration in such disarray. the president's age fading he is unable to maintain the lies.

i think he was honest when he said he didn't hear about it in april. you are hearing about the bickering in the back. it's shocking. president joe biden was supposed to be a moderate and beat the progressives. they needed him to get into office and he just gets in office and lays down to the extreme left propaganda and putting people in positions who are not qualified to do their job. the answer is that's how we see it, that's what you are getting from the united states government. that's how we see it. shameful. >> gillian: to be fair here, let's break it down. the president, he is saying he heard about it in april, right? the commander-in-chief. he has a lot of stuff going on. helping to fight foreign wars, you know. if he wasn't briefed by the staff, he wasn't briefed by the staff. that's on them, right? >> it is all on them and we don't have to be fair when it comes to baby formula for our children. that's something you just expect the united states of america to have.

this should never be an issue. the excuse of well the fda did it and we didn't -- of course again all these hires in these positions being filled when they are checking boxes and not checking resumes and that's exactly what we're seeing and unfortunately once again mom and dads of america are suffering at the hands of this administration. >> gillian: and the babies. >> and the babies. >> gillian: even democratic strategists are saying the way the biden administration is handling this crisis is disas trous. here is one. he has to show he is on top of these situations. the last thing they want is to be the subject of another republican talking point. almost everything since the afghanistan withdrawal foul-up has been biden and the white house playing catch-up. second strategist adds this looks so bad. it raises questions about competency. the more that comes out, the worse it looks. is there a way, tyrus? you are a solutions guy.

do you see a way forward with the president to stumble out of this and get on top of the problem now? do you think that these flights, the formula flights are doing anything to help ease some of the panic? >> showing one jet filled with baby formula coming into the united states is not the answer. again it goes back to the thing where when you have problems and you have no solutions and your answer is i didn't know, we didn't know, that's unbelievable. the fact that they are saying it. i get so frustrated when they say it's republican talking point. no, it's an american talking about. republicans, democrats, independents. people not in government at all not getting formula for their babies. it is not a republican talking point. it is an american talking point and this administration needs to figure that out real quick. they aren't just hurting

republicans. they are hurting their base and anyone who has a small child who need special diet food or moms trying to get back to work. this again is not a partisan issue. it is an american issue. i wish they would own up to it and get some things done. >> gillian: maybe everybody should do what bette midler says and breast feed their babies. >> when celebrities provide advice maybe leave that to the experts. >> gillian: we like when you ad lib because you are a small guy. love having you. >> sounds a little back handed but i'll take it. >> gillian: i meant it sincerely. thank you for joining me. love talking to you. we'll go to a fox news alert. police in texas shooting dead an escaped convicted murderer but not before he kaild family in their home. he had been on the run since

last month when he broke out of a prison transport died and died in a shoot-out with police last night 50 miles south of san antonio. david lee miller joins us with the latest. >> one of the largest manhunts in texas history has ended in tragedy. three weeks law enforcement has been looking for lopez. he was shot to death last night but not before police believe he killed a family of five. late last night authorities following up on a phone call from someone worried about an elderly relative discovered the bodies of one adult and four minors in centreville 100 miles north of houston not far from where lopez escaped. there are no details about the killing. the family's pickup truck was missing and spotted 250 miles away on the outskirts of san antonio. a spike strip blew out the tires. there was a chase and then a

shoot-out. >> my understanding he fired several rounds at officers and was armed with an ar-15 and pistol and i believe multiple officers engaged lopez. ultimately shooting and killing him. >> he was serving a life sentence for murdering a man with a pick axe escaped last month being transported in a cage in area when he cut through the cage and attacked the driver. he briefly got behind the wheel and fled into a wooded area. we have to go back to the drawing board and figure out how lopez was able to break free. now is unable to harm anyone else. >> gillian: david lee miller in the new york city newsroom this afternoon. critics are ripping the biden administration over their hemming and hawing over student

loan forgiveness and some say -- it's one of the problems the white house is confronted with this week. >> everybody is pointing at each other saying this is your fault, this is your fault. then you get a downward spiral. >> gillian: new reports about infighting and dysfunction between senior and junior staff over at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the power panel to debate coming up next. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! ensure, complete balanced nutrition with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. ♪ ♪

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>> gillian: one week, three reports on staff infighting and messaging struggles at the white house. an nbc headline. inside biden white house adrift. "washington post" says white house scrambles on inflation after biden complains to aides. cnn. tracking which channels are taking the speech live and realizing a number of times the

answer was none. you are thinking said one person why are we doing this? older aides dismiss the younger aides as being too caught up in tweet by tweet thinking. younger aides give up when they constantly get knocked down. gingrich says it's bad optics for the white house. >> everybody is pointing at each other saying this is your fault and your fault. then you get a downward spiral as people begin to bite each other and spend their time fighting because they can't change their policies. they really believe in this stuff even if it doesn't work. so you have will see them continue to go down this direction. >> gillian: let's bring in the power panel. david avella and richard fowler. thank you so much for joining us. great to see both of you. richard, i will go to you first. i have worked in two different

administrations in white house. this is a real thing. i have seen it firsthand before. younger, more junior staff totally at war with the older, more senior folks who the end to be closer to the president because they got two different perspectives on the world and two very different sets of priorities. >> just the thing is almost everything washington institution. older, more senior officials versus younger, more innovative officials trying to figure out who is right and who is wrong. you are seeing it play out in the biden white house. with that being said i thought what we saw from the president this week and his "wall street journal" op-ed and talking about inflation and his two prime time addresses around both the shooting in tulsa, oklahoma as well as the one in texas was a white house trying to find its footing in the moment closer to the mid-term elections. with he have to see what happens. i think it is all palace

intrigue and what is more important to watch is how the president's approval rating is doing and where the president has struggled and i will continue to say this. he struggles in talking about the base, the voters that got him to the white house in the minds of some of his senior advisors they're trying to find a new base and expand his base but you can't expand your base if you haven't solidified the folks and kept the folks happy that got you to the white house to begin with. the president needs to run to his base and basics and from there move out. >> gillian: let's pick up precisely right there about the president talking to his base. president obama's deputy chief of staff told bill hemmer a couple days the president's most important job now is to be the explainer in chief. obviously he needs to explain policy decisions to the american people. how is he doing this week? >> not too great. the white house staff is fighting. as we get closer to the

mid-term elections it will be candidates in competitive races who will be distancing themselves from this administration when you have a president who is at 36%, when 51% of americans believe it is his policies that are making america in a worse position. and 2/3 of americans now believe we are headed towards a recession. you will have candidates in competitive races who will have to distance themselves from this administration, particularly on their economic policies. but even when you hear the president make comments like he did last night where the second amendment is not absolute. the question then becomes to every democratic candidate is what other amendments are not absolute? is the freedom of religion absolute, the freedom of the press absolute? what are others not absolute? with we're heading when you

have a president at 36% is not less infighting, it is more infighting within the democratic party. >> gillian: that's a good point, right? if you want to be a real leader, not just in the white house commanding your own staff by a leader in the party you have to perform. the president is not performing well in the polls. >> i think the president needs to work on upping his approval rating. where he starts is where we saw him yesterday. you saw a very clear, somber but president who was very, very strong. he said very clearly i believe in the second amendment but like former justice scalia it has some limits to it and some of those limits are you should be able to go to school and the grocery store and movie theater and a cultural festival without worrying about being shot by an ar-15. to get to that he offered simple policy solutions, raising the age on buying a gun

from 18 to 21. banning ar-15s. guns used in mass shootings. the third thing make sure we have mental health counseling. things republicans have said they want to do. these are very simple things and things american people understand and things the american people want. he has to stick to this messaging and now more than ever break out of the washington, d.c. bubble and get into the states, get into the communities and start talking about this messaging to real people and answering real questions from them. that's where the rubber meets the road. >> so richard didn't answer what other amendments should we have absolutes? how about the -- i didn't interrupt you, richard. secondly, as we go down this path what amendments are they also maybe not in completely in line with in our constitution, we also have to think about the

fact that within the democratic base, the largest owners of firearms, the biggest increase is among women and individuals of color. so the very idea that you are going to now disarm americans at a time when progressive district attorneys won't prosecute the law. they are making big -- they are making big statements. they are making big cities unsafe, richard and prosecutors that won't prosecute. you have folks trying to -- >> gillian: let's pause this and break it down. richard, talk to us about gun owners today in america. who is the president going to tamp down on when he starts limiting gun ownership? >> the number one new purchaser of guns is black women, right? i am also a gun owner. if you talk to black women, a

recent poll was done. if you talk to black women and black men and people of color they believe in background checks. they believe there should be increasing in the age of who can buy a gun. let's be clear and also remember the constitution and its amendments are full of limits. that's the reason why you can't walk into a movie theater and yell fire and the second amendment says clearly that a well regulated militia is what gives you the right to bear arms. that part david forgets. >> gillian: so we know mental health is very much on the table for republicans. we know that gun storages safety is very much on the table. any wiggle room when it comes to moving ownership age up for assault rifles? is that something you think is on the table for the party in a meaningful way right now or not really? >> it appears all to be discussed in the senate. which is a different approach which is what the house is taking on.

they are trying to find come prom aisles in the senate. time will tell. it goes to the poll it -- implications. if they don't think they're safe they will vote against democrats and every indication right now is that's where voters are heading. that's indisputable no matter what richard wants to say. >> you can look at this through a political lens but i look at the lens of the children. >> we're a political panel. we are supposed to look at it that way. >> you don't look at it mass shootings through the political lens all the time. people losing their lives in groceries stores and hospitals and schools. how do we prevent it from happening? stop folks from getting their hands on military-style weapons period. >> gillian: thank you for joining us today. >> good to see you. take care. >> gillian: thanks for watching "the faulkner focus". harris is back on monday.

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