hook elementary school for daniel love sports loves outdoor sports getting muddy i see my friend fred gutenberg his daughter jamie was a freshman at marjorie's delman douglas high school she was an accomplished dancer i see bran and wolf over the shooting at the at the at the impulse at the pulse club not a nightclub he survived but his 2 best friends die great jackson who was just walking down the street when he was caught in crossfire of a gun fight and of course i see a close friend of jill's and mine congresswoman gabby giffords who was here who was who was speaking with her constituents in front of a grocery store in her state when she was shot and a member of her staff was killed you know. they're here and their pain is immense and you know what a lot of you hope for the many of you don't know if you've gone through a trauma. no matter how much you work to make sure others don't go through it every time you show been event like this it brings back when you got that phone call it brings back the immediacy of what happened at that moment so i genuinely mean it thank you thank you for having

psaki: people like fred gutenberg and shanann watts and abby giffords, these are people who are absolute heroes on getting gun safety measures in place. they have led the effort and there was no appetite in washington and none at the federal level to putting in place laws around the country. the president recognizes that and he is -- has a huge respect and value for the role they have placed which is why they were here today. our team has had conversations at a range of levels with a number of these gun safety leaders through the course of the president's presidency and they have ideas, proposals, and that was taken into account as we were considering policy options to put forward today. >> german chancellor burkle spoke with vladimir putin today about troops on the ukrainian border. what is the u.s. position and has there been contact between the u.s. and russia on this issue? ms. psaki: i don't have additional contact to read out other than the last high level contact was at the defense ministry level the took place at the end of last week. since you gave with the opportunity, let me c