msnbc caught up with chuck grassly to get his thoughts what the nation should do. this is his response. >> we have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the fbi files and we need to concentrate on that. >> then he walked away. now senator grassly speaks in a sometimes elliptical manner. he can be hard to follow. he said we have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a get getting their name into the fbi file asks we need to concentrate on that. that's what he said. to be perfectly and specifically clear here, senator chuck grassly was the lead sponsor in the u.s. senate of the bill that pasted one year ago today that had one specific purpose, which was to keep people who had been adjudicated as seriously mentally ill from having their names added to the fbi data base he's talking about right there. we haven't done a very good job making sure people who have mental reasons for not being able to handle a

chuck grassly and lindsey graham have written a letter to the national security advisor susan rice about this declassified e-mail they obtained in the senate. in their letter to susan rice, they quote this e-mail back to her in full and then they say this, quote, it strikes us as odd that among your activities in the final moments and the final day of the obama administration you would feel the need to send yourself such an unusual e-mail. they then send a list of a dozen questions they want to ask her about this newly declassified e-mail. by releasing this today, the senators have given us an extraordinary window into what the obama administration was grappling with. knowing russia intervened to help trump win the election and the incoming trump national security team were lying about their contacts with russia and knowing there was an active fbi investigation because of the contacts with russia, president obama in that moment according to this new e-mail, president obama in that moment went to his national security team:went to the top law enforcement officers and said i'm not going to

donald trump has his own ideas of course, he is routing those through chuck grassly, that one got verybottom line is none of them. it's looking pretty grim. donald trump could just reinstate daca, after all he is the one who set the deadline, but we don't expect that to happen. here we see the president yesterday as he spoke about the latest school shooting. he says he will visit the high school during his weekend trip to florida. >>> republican mitt romney delayed his announcement he is running for senate out of respect for the shooting victims. this morning he made that announcement via this tweet. romney is a frequent critic of the president. former fbi director james comey says his new book will come out april 21st. trump fired comey of course even trump admits it was because comey was investigating the white house's connections to russia. comey's firing backfired, it led to the creation of the special counsel. speaking of the special counsel, cnn reporting rick gates the former trump campaign adviser is making a deal with robert mueller turning states evidence. if that is indeed t