that would accomplish what fix nics does and a lot more. president trump has said, quote, that he would push strongly comprehensive background checks, unquote, in the wake of parkland. well, we democrats are calling on him today to keep his word. we sent him a letter and we're asking to support existing legislation, bipartisan legislation, that close the loopholes that allows anyone to purchase a gun at a gun show or the internet without a background check. these loopholes make no sense. leaving these loopholes unclosed would be as if we checked someone's i.d. at the liquor store but not at the bar. that's what you could say about fix nics. if would be as if we checked someone's i.d. at the liquor store but not at the bar. we should have the same checks across the board. so today i call on president trump to come out in support of legislation that would close dangerous loopholes in our background check system. the n.r.a. vehemently opposes that, but i say to president trump, show so leadership, buck the n.r.a. they are way out of touch with

fix nics was brought to light after a horrific shooting at church in texas. a proposal to address that pick problem, but it leaves unaddressed the host of crucial gun safety issues, including and especially the loopholes in our background check system. if we only pass fix nics we'll be right back here after the next shooting in nearly the same place. if all congress does in response to the parkland shooting is to pass fix nics we won't be doing our job. we must do muchmer than that. this week, the democratic caucus will discuss what policies we believe will most effectively curb the uniquely american epidemic of gun violence. we will propose them and work with our republican colleagues to perfect and hopefully enact them. i sincerely believe we can make progress, even on an issue as broad as this one, but it will require one thing, republican friends to break free from the iron grip of the nra. my republican friends face a simple choice. do something real on guns or please the nra. doing both is impossible. the nra's number one goal is to make sure nothing me

not the stop school violence act and not the fix nics act, but both bills can help save lives. remember the 86 planned school attack us since the safe utah app was unveiled, and remember the 26 lives that might have been spared if the domestic violence shooter in texas has been properly entered into the fbi background database. mr. president, now is not the time for argument but for action. rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, i immore my friends on both sides of the tile coming to for the safety of our children. rather than resorting to recycled talking points, i ask my colleagues to heed minority leader schumer's call to, close, pass real legislation that makes a difference, unquote. rather than retreating to our partisan foxholes, i call on republicans and democrats alike to surrender their rhetorical weapons for the good of the nation and the good of our children, all of us must look beyond the horizon of our political differences to find common ground. mr. president, is this legislation enough to solve the problem of school violence? no. quite frankly,

let's do we can immediately to passs fix nics and build from there. i'm willing to work and the president is willing to work on things that bump stocks and try to make sure schools are safer, make sure the social media plaque forms are important. threats of violence to law enforcement officials so they can be followed up on. there are a lot of other things we can do. the one thing we can do this week before we go home is to pass the fix nics bill and send it to the house and to the president to sign into law. it will save lives. mr. president i yield the floor. >> mr. president this morning i had the opportunity to meet with some extraordinary young people. these arepl students from parkld florida who attended the school where the mass shooting took place two weeks ago. and what was amazingly impressive about these young peopleve is that in the midst of their grief, in the midst

it includes fix nics.t certainly includes making sure that the federal government can study this issue and as you know that has not happened for a very long time. >> that research, even if it were to come back today, obviously we would not have the findings for some time, there has been talk about more immediate action, one of them being raising the age limit which the president brought up and the white house back tracking a bit on it. is that something you support, raising the age limit? >> i would look at that. i point out that young people can serve in the military at age 18, but perhaps it would be appropriate to raise the age, but we have to make sure that weed arow cate legislation that can pass in both houses and, of course, in the senate, erica, there is the 60 vote rule. i don't favor that. that is the way the senate works. and so i want to make sure that legislation can reach the president's desk. fix nics seems to be the first part of that. i agree with you that there should be more. but let's g

certainly, the fix nics act would be a step in the right direction. to be totally frank with you, it is a pretty nominal movement. >> i'm almost worried, robin, that it gives cover to politicians to say, see, we passed gun legislation. >> absolutely. i mean, this would be about the most modest kind of reform we could possibly look for. it purely provides some funding for what is already the law, which is to put records of those that are prohibited by federal law from buying guns. again, it only applies when you buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer, not through a licensed sale. >> or a gun show. >> exactly. it just provides funding to put records that are supposed to be there already into the system. that's pretty modest when you look at the scope of this epidemic and the lack of legislation we have at the federal level. we don't regulate assault weapons or sniper rifles. we don't require fulsome background checks. the law is so lacking at the federal level. if we want to address this epidemic, we have to look at more comprehensive reform than th

the nics process only applies to federally licensed gun dealers. not private dealers who you'll find at gun shows nation wide. if you wish to sell your gun privately, you can do that directly and they don't have to check on you. that's why there are lots of holes in what we call the background check system. some people say you have to get a background check. clearly we showed you two mass shooters who succeeded in getting guns when they shouldn't have with a background system sort of like swiss cheese. >> there's a lot being done on the hill or talked about. kasie hunt is there live. there's a lot of proposals before congress. are you hearing majority of support for any of them or that paul ryan will bring any of this to the floor? >> reporter: i think your characterization of talking about than to say things are being done. gun politics are basically the same even in the wake of this terrible shooting in parkland. the one thing that may be a bit different is this question of fix nics. they're talking about requiring the air force in the case of th

and the houses that -- wanted to fix the nics system. and another thing that came up from some of the moms, i was a room mother when my kids were in school and now as a grandmother, i'm talking to a lot of young moms. they have said one of the things that we need to do as we review these issues is look at entertainment. and the video games, the ratings system, the movies, how things are approved and what children are being exposed to and especially children that have some of the mental health issues and they feel that has a role to play. >> i think that is a very important point. the video games and movies and noints is violent. i get to see things you would be amazed at. i have a very young son and i look at the things he's watching and -- and i say how is that possible? and this is what kids are watching. and i think you have to take a look at it. you rate movies maybe you have to also rate them for terror, for what they are doing and what they are all about. it is hard to believe that at least for a percentage or maybe it is a small p

that's the fix nics bill. even that is running into obstacles.house, republican leaders have attached it to a controversial concealed carry reciprocity bill that has no chance of getting 60 votes senate. those are the sorts of games that are being played. when that happens, it's hard to see -- it is not difficult to see why even very popular issues, very popular causes fail to pass. as i mentioned, the mentality that today you do fix nics or background checks. ban bump stocks. then tomorrow a slippery slope to repealing the second amendment. that has driven every gun debate so far. >> jake, you agree with that? you talked to cornyn. he is a very respected. is there no way to get at least the tpwhraeuring oglaring omissions fixed? >> this concealed carry bill, which allows people to carry concealed weapons across state lines, he's attached those two. that is a big problem for getting it through. he's right, that will never get 60 votes in the senate. i do think if president trump is able to focus his energy on one narrow proposal to beef up backgr

the nics database has holes big enough to drive a mac truck through. in the instance in florida, with the man who killed all these people, there is an assumption he's mentally ill, i don't know that, so i will call him an idiot. i don't know that. >> i want to move on to other subjects now. i want to move on to other subjects now you say you support the spirit of this. has the spirit prevented these school shootings? did the spirit prevent the shootings in las vegas? >> no, because the law is not being implemented. >> you need more spirit then. >> the law is not being implemented. the nics database, let me say again, is not complete because the states and the federal agencies are not sending in the information. >> you make your opinion extremely clear. no one could ever say you don't on that, senator. we appreciate you coming on and giving your opinion on that. quickly on russia, the president this morning called it a witch-hunt. the various investigations into russia, i assume he means the special counsel's investigation. is it a witch-hunt? >> no. no

conservatives are also concerned about this fixed nics bill, primarily the senate libertarians in the senate and rand paul who essentially say that it violates people's rights. what would this bill do? it would take data that already exists in many federal agencies like, for example, in the sunderland springs case, the air force. if the air force had sent its records properly to the nics database, it's likely the shooter in that instance would not have been able to buy a gun. there was a record there that showed he should not have been eligible. the problem was the air force wasn't talking to the system. that's what this bill is supposed to do. it's supposed to take existing current information and rules and make sure that the database has access to it. but of course even that is controversial. it already passed the house, but it only did so because they also attached to it what's called concealed carry reciprocity. if i have a concealed carry permit in virginia i can walk across the state line to maryland and not get in trouble even if i would not be allowed to carry a concealed weap

if all congress does is to pass fix nics, we won't be doing our job. we must do much more than that. this week, the democratic caucus will discuss what policies we believe will most effectively curb the uniquely american epidemic of gun violence. we will propose them and work with our republican colleagues to effect and enact them. i sincerely believe we can make progress, even on an issue as broad as this one, but it will require one thing, our republican friends to break free from the iron grip of the n.r.a. my republican friends face a simple choice. do something real on guns or please the n.r.a. doing both is impossible. the n.r.a.'s number one goal is to make sure nothing meaningful on gun safety ever happens. when there are national issues, when there's horrible shootings, they make a feign like they might try to do something but then they pull back because they want nothing to be done. as an example, after the shooting in las vegas, senators tried to do something about bump stocks, the modification that allowed the perpetrator to fire his arsena

>> that's why i'm on the fix nics bill. from rural departments, we're not getting information from federal entities into that system. >> that nodes to be fixed. that's why that legislation needs to be pushed. i'm currently on it. >> all right. let me move to the russia situation. you are on the senate intelligence committee the one committee in washington i think is work income a bipartisan manner. your colleague anything russ king said the following. i want to get you to respond it to on the other side. >> my problem is, i talked to people in maine who say the whole thing is a witch hupts and a hoax because the president told me. we cannot confront this threat which is a serious one with the whole of the response when the leader of the government continues to deny it exists. >> senator, that was on tuesday. we got the mueller indictments on friday the president tweeted about the mueller indictments 13 times since friday, including five times in morning, not once, sir, has he condemned russia. does that bother you? >> it do

murphy: i think we can add anything to fix nics that has 60 votes. background checks can be added to this if it has your support, mr. president, i would add, i hope we follow the data. it will tell you, talk a lot about safe schools and mental illness. we have 20 times rate of any industrialized country in the world. our schools aren't less safe. we don't spend less money on law enforcement what is different is that we have the loosest, most lax gun laws. illnessd fix the mental system is because it is broken period stop. not because we think it will stop the gun violence. the data tells us that the one thing that's different about the united states is our unbelievably loose gun laws. i hope we follow it. that's right. president trump: i think they work together. i like them together better. but joe, you have to fix mental illness. if someone is mentally ill, you can't take it away. it is ridiculous. they can buy. i'm sure you're going to fix it. i like a merger. i think it works out better. chuck, were you going to say one thing? sen. grassley: you'

fix nics is a good bill. if republicans are intending only to debate that bill, that's not something i can support. >> the president's made it clear he's going to act on bump stocks and we should do that too. either/or both those things are appropriate. i certainly think the background check issue is something we can work on as well. >> so kelsey let's break a little bit of that down. first, based on my report, it seems like the piece of legislation that has the best chance to get passed is that fix nics legislation. house speaker ryan talked about it. he said, look, we've passed our version. it comes with a poison pill for democrats because it deals with concealed weapons. now this gets kicked to the senate. the senate has a chance to potentially move on this. do you expect we'll see action just on that fix nics bill which would strengthen background checks? >> i spoke to the number two republican in the senate and he's a sponsor of that fix nics bill. he said they want to get a vote on it this week and they

it's called the fix nics act. which would toughen up background checks. what's the status of that? >> well, the president did talk to senator cornyn on friday. the bill that he announced last year or introduced last year, you know, would help to fix and complete up the background checks system. right now you have a bit of a patchwork in which local communities and states give information to, you know, one system. our budget has increase for 200 personnel to help staff that system. we want to make sure that the background check process is fully staffed. that all information gets in. and, you know, when you look at the situation that occurred, this tragedy in florida on wednesday really heart wrenching situation, you have a scenario where a lot of people in the community were raising red flags about this individual. steve: sure. >> and you have the phone call to the finn. to the fbi. when you are looking at ways to fix this system. look at measures like fixing the background situation. also want to understand what broke down and allowed for this individual to go on unattended while o

the one thing we can do this week before we go home is to pass the fix nics bill and send it to the house and to the president to sign into law. it will save lives. mr. president i yield the floor. >> mr. president this morning i had the opportunity to meet with some extraordinary young people. these arepl students from parkld florida who attended the school where the mass shooting took place two weeks ago. and what was amazingly impressive about these young peopleve is that in the midst of their grief, in the midst of the unbelievably traumatic experience they went through seeing their best friends shot in cold blood or wounded and teachers killed, they were solved not just to mourn and grieve their friends and neighbors, they resolved to stand up and fight back and come to washington, go to tallahassee florida, all around the country to doo everything that they can to make certain that no more children, no more young people are mowed down and slaughtered in schools. .. of guns throughout this country. there are five million assault weapons throughout this country today. and tragically,

to be perfectly honest nick mechanic line from the sports desk as always nic thank you very much. for the winter games have brought with it a thaw in relations on the korean peninsula and the tensions over pyongyang's nuclear weapons program today more north korea athletes arrived in south korea to compete in the upcoming olympics they were met by reporters and well wishers at young young airport the group included ten skiers and speed skaters a squad of women ice hockey players from the north are already practicing with their south korean teammates in a unified a live picture to win the winter olympics get underway in next week many of the athletes will need one thing in particular snow and if mother nature doesn't play along she's going to need a little help in the form of artificial white stuff snow making is big business in europe's alpine region so it's not surprising that a european team is in charge of making sure that there is plenty of the white stuff on the slopes in south korea. outside subzero temperatures inside their cooking soup and in the center of the action willi

now the nra has pushed the house republicans to attach the fix nics deal. the court and murphy bill very modest improvement focused on one issue that happened in texas that was not relevant to what happened here in parkland. they tried to attach that to the nra's number one legislative priority, concealed carry reciprocity. a bill that undermines our existing gun laws defeating the entire purpose of the legislation. even when it comes to the most modest improvements to gun safety laws, the nra always finds a way to stand in the way of progress. if we're going to get something significant done to keep our schools and our kids safe from gun violence, , president trump and congressional republicans will have to for the first time in a very long time block of the nra. it's our hope the republican leaders willep work with us in a bipartisan way to pass legislation that makes a real difference. not half measures, not baby steps, and certainly not attaching good legislation to legislation that would make the overall problem even worse. we hope republicans will c w

we can all agree that the nics system needs to work better, that we need to make sure all the data gets in there. we need to compel states to do that. we can prevent tragedies. texas is one example. what happened in florida perhaps another. it is extremely frustrating to the american people when they see that we have a background checks system and it's either not working the way that it should because we might need to enhance it or have officials not uploading the data. that is not acceptable. >> i want to hone in on some of the specifics if i may with you to get a sense where you stand on these issues. can i just run through a list of questions and ask you, do you support arming teachers? >> no, i do not. i think it's valid to ask. i don't. i've read more about this that indicates if a security guard is there. a teacher in the classroom, to me, strikes me as two or three steps too far. >> on that issue breaking with the president, would you support a ban on assault style weapons? >> let's get a universal definition of what an assault weapon is. at times there's cosmetic differences bet

the so-called nics fix. i support raising the age limit. we should also look at some of the issues to mental health about why is it that these particularly young men are not being flagged sooner. these issues have to all be discussed. i'm a possess mystic that something may happen. >> the first two words you said, not optimistic then pessimistic. there's this new cnn poll out that shows 70% of americans right now would like to see some kind of stricter gun laws and this is different than october following the shootings in las vegas. it's also the highest number, 70% since 1993, and yet, you're still pessimistic? >> well, again, like i said, doing something about dreamers and the daca and border security is an over 80% issue and didn't come out of the senate. i hope i'm wrong. i do hope that we can do something on incremental basis. banning the bump stock and that nics fix. >> how about raising the age to buy an ar-15 type rifle? >> i believe that we should -- we should allow -- we should require that if you're going to buy a high powered ri

nic robertson, cnn, abu dhabi. >> nic, thank you very much.e positions still open. >>> ahead for us, nfl commissioner roger goodell facing the media ahead of the big game. what did he say when he was asked about concussions in the league? that's next. my healthy routine helps me feel my best. so i add activia yogurt to my day. with its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. activia. now in probiotic dailies. i had a doctor's appointment. when you said you were at the doctor, but your shirt says you were at a steakhouse... that's when you know it's half-washed. now from downy fabric conditioner comes downy odor protect with 24-hour odor protection. downy's powerful formula conditions fibers to lock out odors all day. hey, your shirt's making me hungry. ha ha, derek. downy and it's done. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual w

nic? >> natalie, this perhaps the strongest speech we've heard here at the munich security council.s been interesting to learn that prime minister benjamin netanyahu hasn't just arrived here like some leaders to give his speech. he's been here for three days, having bilateral meetings ahead of this speech. this was, as i say, a very strong speech. it was very critical of iran. he showed a map of how he said, as isis is defeated, throughout the middle east, that iran is moving in, that iran's sheer islam is, in effect, he said, iran is trying to spread that around the world, a threat to the region, a threat to the world, to air rabs, as well as israelis. >> we're on the path to the rule of islam worldwide. that means right here, too. this is, in my judgment, the greatest threat to our world. not just to israel. not just to our arab neighbors. not just to muslims far and wide. but to you, as well. because once armed with nuclear weapons, iran's gregs will be unchecked and it will accomplish the entire world. >> but he also explained very specifically about iran in syria saying that th

that's where nics comes in. the checks are initiated by the dealer contacting the fbi or other designated agencies once a prospective buyer provides a government-issued i.d. and completes a federal firearms transaction record. red flags include criminal history, drug use, issues relating to mental health, your citizenship status, domestic violence or dishonorable discharge from the military. the problem is nics suffers from several data gaps. a glaring example is the church shooting in november in texas. the shooter was convicted previously, 2014, of domestic violence. that should have stopped him from buying a firearm but it did not, because the air force never reported the conviction to the system. so how does this bill bolster participation? it creates financial incentives for states and federal agencies to upload information about people who are barred from purchasing guns to the federal system. i want to be clear. this doesn't expand current background checks in any way. it is a push for federal agencies an

murder people in a church because the nic system didn't say yes or no within three days.hey are purposely underfunding nic. >> so we know what the character of the gun is, the signature of gun is. last word -- >> i think i want to say this, though. that democrats are also -- democrats are also using this issue. and they're talking about this issue now because it's top of mind. democrats did not -- this is not something that democrats were talking about. the same thing with daca. they were also talking about this. while the president is using this issue and is really using the failings of the broward clinton sheriff's office to his advantage pointing out the fact that the fbi should have done more in this case you have to be fair. everybody is seeing this political football and saying how can i use this to further my party. >> with all due respect, democrats have advocated for universal background checks forever. we have seven states -- >> but they haven't always done anything. >> i'm sorry? >> again, i'm not saying -- go ahead. >> go, yamiche. >> democrats have talked abo

there is -- nics again. there is no due process in there. i'm so kay if they have been adjudicated by a court as mentally incompetent for handling a firearm. but you can't let the department of education or the veterans or social security administration to do that. that's the problem with the bill in front of congress. kennedy: you run into difficulties there. the biggest problem with the background check problem are inaccuracies. oftentimes they are put on the list without due process. so what do we do? they talk about raising the minimum age for purchasing a long gun to 21, which i understand. but don't have you to shift all of awe adulthood in that direction which means can't you allow anyone to enter into the military until they are 21 or drive a car or vote? >> i'm going to introduce a bill tomorrow to lower the age to buy a handgun from 21 to 18. if you raise the age to buy ad handgun and long begun you completely extinguish the right to bear arms for a 20-year-old mother. that's unconstitutional. the heller decision said maybe states

the nics and the ncic, the national criminal information center.none of these data bases finds anything wrong, the gun sale can proceed. this takes a matter of minutes. it can take days. if they have something to follow up on, they could delay it. if any data base does find a problem, federal agents, this is interesting, have three business days to determine whether to deny the gun sale. if they don't make a determination in three days, by default the gun sale doesn't get c canceled, the sale could go through. if after three days, you could buy the gun. what could lead to a denial. if a potential buyer has a criminal history, a history of drug use, mental health problems, is not a u.s. citizen, has a history of domestic violence or dishonorably discharged from the military -- all of these things don't necessarily disqualify you, but they may delay the process. some of them will -- it will disqualify you from getting a gun. now this stuff, the concept of a dishonorable discharge and domestic violence should have prevented devon kelly, the gunman who

and before the week of that fateful day last week, the week before that, nic had his own fateful day,he week before that i saw nic get signed into und for swimming so he could chase his dream of becoming an olympian. but that is a dream he can no longer achieve because nikolas cruz decided to take nicholas dworet's life. we can't just blame nikolas cruz for this tragedy. the laws of the country allow him to purchase a weapon. nikolas cruz was able to purchase an assault rifle before he was able to drink beer. nikolas cruz was able to purchase an assault rifle although he had clear signs of mental illness. nikolas cruz was able to purchase an assault rifle with clear science of delinquency from the school. nikolas cruz was able to purchase an assault rifle with the intention to kill. on that day of the douglas massacre, i was a victim like everyone else. my piers dead, many performs heroics acts in their final hour and i was scared like everyone else. but my case was different than all the others. because, on that day, i was a suspected school shooter. on that day, i was in the sound i

nic, much on the agenda.o doubt, the indictments are on the minds of world leaders, mainly the u.s. and russia are present. >> reporter: and national security adviser, hr mcmaster will speak after sergey lavrov. it will be interesting to see if lavrov mentioned the indictments or the fact the military confrontation recently between u.s. forces backing their syrian allies that were attacked by syrian government forces backed on mercenaries. more than a dozen were killed. that's causing a stir in moscow. will lavrov mention this use of russian mercenaries in russia and the deaths? that's something we'll be looking for. what everyone was looking for from theresa may when she spoke was to deliver another of her brexit messages. there was a q & a session after she spoke, which was very telling. it was put to her that most people in the hole, that didn't like to see brexit were disappointed to see britain leaving the european union. she responded quickly to that saying the people of britain voted. we, the politicia

trump: fix nics has good things and in. it would be nice if we could add everything on it. the u.s.check bill. your bill is good. having to do with a certain aspect. maybe we can make it more comprehensive and have one bill instead of 15 different bills. >> if we could get 60 votes for it. >> i think you can. this is one of the things you can get the 60 votes and easily. >> i do. you probably know this but i became mayor of san francisco as the product of assassination. i have been the victim of terrorist groups, the department gave me a weapon, they taught me how to shoot it, we proceeded through the 1970's that way. what i have watched and seen is a development of weapons that i never thought would leave the battlefield out on our streets. is theest and newest ar-15. it has a lot of assets to it. it is misused. it tears apart a human body with velocity. i have watched the school shootings in particular, which you pointed out. i thought sandy hook -- i am delighted senator murphy is here today, we thought sandy hook would be the end. he and i introduced another assault weapons bill

stock who couldn't finish fourth so quite a surprise he really did disappoint the favorites all right nic mechanic line from use force many thanks indeed always great to talk to you. and for more on the winter olympics and young chung make sure you check out our website at www dot com forward slash the lympics all the latest results the best pictures and stories are right there can also follow us on twitter at sports of four live updates to be in this league football and our in saturday's action has already seen plenty of goals fly in here are the results so far had zero one two nil at leaver koos in frankfurt the bottom side cologne four to fellow strugglers hamburg lost two nil at dortmund had over one to one against freiburg hoffenheim beat mind for two the late game seashell to travel to bahrain on friday leipzig one to nail against alex work and there are two more matches to come on sunday. well carnival celebrations are underway in many parts of the world including brazil where many people have had to cut back because of the country's economic pinch rio de janeiro's mayor has also b

the nics improvement act requires federal agencies to submit mental health records. we passed this in 2007 when president bush was president, signed into law. now mr. thompson was talking about ermier was that the administration wants to take $20 million out of that initiative. and that would really -- that was really bipartisan. president bush signed that, he had bipartisan support for it. more recently -- mr. thompson: my amendment on the floor, we augmented it by around that same amount, by about $20 bhl, that was bipartisan also. ms. pelosi: and that was recent. what we do have to do is go to this, you have a select committee for almost anything, why not for this really important priority for the american people? we have bipartisan support for legislation that 95% of american people support improving the background check legislation, expanding that, and also what is it that we have this legislation put forth by my former but also deceased colleague mr. dickey of arkansas that put a chilling effect on what the c.d.c. could do in terms of gun violence prevention. y

and how exactly will he fight to the end for the very latest let's go to nic calmly standing by for us in care of next season warsaw now he's described the incident as a kidnapping as we just saw he was detained by masked men what's the latest on the situation. good morning brian well it certainly was a pretty dramatic afternoon here in kiev yes it's true the actual detention happened without much in the way of official procedure these were people in camouflage but without any uniforms on they later turned out to be agents for ukraine's border guard service it seems that once he was safe got to the airport it got a bit more official and he was handed some documents by customs officials before being put on a private plane and spirited off to warsaw i think the really important thing here is that the ukraine thought she's had to learn their lesson to extent that they would have to do this quickly if you remember just for christmas they tried to do the same thing again there were men security stuff in camouflage without uniforms trying to arrest him just a couple of meters behind me where

house majority leader kevin mccarthy, and nic mulval -- nic mulvaney. sarah sanders said yesterday the president has confidence in kelly. >> in comes as the white house struggles to control fallout over allegations porter, the former white house staff secretary, physically abused his two ex-wives. porter denies the accusations. chief of staff kelly defending his handling of the situation, though, telling the "wall street journal," "it was all done right." the scrutiny only intensified tuesday after the director of the fbi up-ended the entire white house timeline of events. >> let me go through a quick recap. monday the white house said top officials learned the "extent of the allegations" last tuesday and that porter's background check was still ongoing. but then yesterday, fbi chief chris wray told the senate intel committee the bureau notified the white house of the allegations months ago. >> i submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march, and then a completed background investigation in late july that is soon -- soon thereafte

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the aircra force knew about it they didn't put the information into the nics database. they have been on this bill before this latest massacre and what happened is it has been become the central vehicle for the response to parkland. they're saying the democrats are saying we can't do just one small thing and do it in a day. chris murphy, take a look. >> we need to have an open debate that allows us to talk about measures that truly respond to the epidemic of gun violence. if they are only going to debate that bill, that's not something that i can support. let's see where the debate ends up. i don't presuppose there is the vote for other measures, but let's see if we can get votes for broader background checks and protective orders. >> so they said they may be able to work out a deal with where both sides can offer amendments to see if they can get 60 votes to pass additional legislation. right now, the leader says i want to hear that from mitch mcconnell. so there is a lot of political calculus right now going on from the perspective of him putting his foot down saying

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is not a new program, but it would improve the national instant criminal background check system, nicsdley the spokesperson at the white house says this is one step that needs to take place. here is what president trump said last hour about doing all of this. >> we can not merely take actions that make us feel like we're making a difference. we must actually make a difference. we must move past cliches and tired debates and focus on evidence based solutions, and security measures that actually work. reporter: now, something else to keep in mind is chris murphy one of the sponsors of the cornyn-murphy bill, he tweeted moments ago in response to the president actually authorizing jeff sessions to come up with proposals to ban bump stocks. sign after sign this week we hit a fulcrum, i had to look it up, mean as pivot point, where politicians on the first time scared on the political consequences on inaction from guns. small but vital step in the history of our movement. that from chris murphy, the senator who is one of the sponsors with republican john cornyn or that bill if it becomes ba

nic robertson is covering this conference for us and he is live in munich. and that would be interesting, certainly there is much on the table involving this conference with the issue in syria and brexit. but certainly this has been major breaking news involving the russia investigation. >> reporter: yes, and the russians that we've heard from, officials that we've heard from on this issue, have pushed back, something that clearly upsets them and makes them angry. whether lavrov will get in to that in his speech today isn't clear. certainly a question people will be trying to ask him if he doesn't. what we've heard that a lot of this morning, is european security, specifically theresa may, coming here with a very important brexit message. she has important brexit decisions to make back in the uk in this coming week, very important for her leadership. but here, what she wanted to do was stress the importance of the commonalty of threat that all european countries have and therefore britain wants to remain part of an effective european mechanism to tackle thos

we were talking about what happens when the nics was created. i covered the gun debate in 2013.here's pressure from these right side groups, the gun owners of america that are paying attention to every single thing that members of congress are doing and there may have been times in the past when the nra would stay silent or not necessarily score a piece of legislation or negotiation a compromise around the nics background system. those days are long gone. they are the ones that shutdown this debate over background checks in 2013 and -- they pay -- i was just looking at it, this app they have, nraial, it looks like facebook for gun supporters and tweet your member of congress, urging him to support carry and conceal. here's a message from chris cox. this is the kind of organization that they have around these legislative initiatives and i absolutely agree with you and kelly that clearly wayne was sending a message that, no, this isn't going to fly. this is this one dynamic with this president where he feels something very intensely and he says that he wants to go and do something

this is what they say about the shooter, nic lazarus cruz.'s watch. >> he definitely had just some things a little off about him. it was just more or less that he was aggressive and quiet and shy about when he got aggressive. >> his personality was like very different. >> he was a bit off. he would like curse randomly in the middle of lunch. you know, he would just like scream out random curse words. he always seemed a little bit off, you know. just something was wrong with him. >> a lot of like crazy stuff that he did. just not -- he got kicked out of school most of the time. honestly people were saying it was going to be him. joked like that that he would be the one to shoot up the school. it turns out everyone predicted it. that's crazy. >> sean: just like with other mass shooters. there were signs, there were warnings of mental, social, emotional problems. but all the pieces were never put together to prevent this tragedy from happening. and like with many other shootings and terrorist attacks, nikolas cruz was telegraphing his attentions

. >> desjardins: on the senate pede, republicans echoed saker ryan, pointing to the so-called "f nics" bill to encourage more agencies to work with the n.i.c.s. or national instate criminal background check system. texas republican john cornyn: >> if our attitude is, "i want everything on my list or nothing," we're going to end up with nothing. let's do what we can immediately fix nics and build from there. >> desjardins: but democratic senate leader chuck schumer says that bill doesn't go far enough. he's calng for universal background checks. >> what will prevent future tragedies? comprehensive background checks will. let's not set our sights too let's try for significant, bipartisan legislation that will make a real difference in ing our children safe. >> desjardins: republican senator pat toomey and democrat joe manchin are working to revive their 2013 proposal to expand background checks. and republican susan collins and de acrat heidi heitkamp lead bipartisan group of nine senators, pushing to bar people on terror watch lists from rying guns. ent days, president trump has spoken

with their nic. that stood in. and said. straight. deprived of should be given then only i can leave my past that moment. yields take me did you die of hunger strike. now. hindu nationalists found it scandalous that gandhi would fast to ensure india respected the financial clauses of the partition agreement and transfer five hundred fifty million rupees to a country that had launched cross border rates on kashmir. so all on the ground did it. or don't do any. attempt. as far as i remember say one of their goosed. beds and did. their city. not end up. going to. see the mice and. the attack of january twentieth was botched. it was unable to reach the window from which he planted by his gun he hadn't thought of bringing a ladder. so hard drive from the river. it was so high here and. so. i mean he feels. rather loud. here in my ear. actions did not take place so probably. the group fled to plan a renewed attack their accomplice. was arrested. under interrogation he revealed the names of his coconspirators. even now there is debate in ind

we are learning more and more about nic nikolas cruz. this is the third warning that authorities had that he he had d troubles, deep troubles. the latest is a snapchat from last year in which he was showing cut arms and saying he wanted to buy a gun. this comes at the same time we're learning that the fbi might have dropped the ball on a call that was made in january of this year and that was a detailed warning, talking about his proclivity to harm animals, a concern that he was a danger to himself and the area and even nearby schools. and of course, all of this at the same time a lot of authorities are going back to another announcement from cruz on youtube saying he wanted to grow up to be a school shooter. add it all up, and authorities now are countering allegations that they dropped the ball to stop this from happening. we're going to be talking to the attorney general from the state of florida, the fbi revelations are enough to have the florida governor saying the fbi director has to step down. first, we go to steve herigan in park

>> meaning -- extend the background check period and include more things in the nic data base, raise the age limit, put in armed teachers. both of these ideas, what is wrong with the all of the above approach to see which ideas work rather than declaring one idea dead on arrival because i have my idea that i know my side likes better. >> let's be very clear about ideas. this is the place where ideas get exchanged. we are not new to the debate on gun bans or various features of how we put school safety into the forefront of the public mind. now that is with the legislative process is for. when the kids came here today, they have multiple ideas. some good, some interesting, some new. and then we receive those ideas. that is the deliberative process we do in the legislature. what we have to do is make sure that that -- jonathan cruz, after he took those livers in parkland, doesn't also take our constitutional right as long with it out of an over-reaction to the situation, that won't accomplish what we want which is defending florida's kids. >> my final question is this, though, we have

injured in a shooting in russia's southern region of dagestan and to get details live now to our own nic what do we know so far well in the last few minutes or so the interior ministry has confirmed that four people. all have been killed and some four others have been injured after a gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle on crowds in the southern russian region of dagestan now unconfirmed reports at this point suggest that all four victims in this shooting were female we also understand that of those injured two guards or police officers who were working at the festival is also being reported that the shooter himself has also been killed now this instant place on the final day of pancake we can drag us down it's a week for celebrations and final day of the celebration which brings families on to the streets to join the festivities and there are also reports that the shooter had an accomplice with a female who fled the scene before the shootout so if this is indeed the case then police will indeed be trying to track down this woman and find out what exactly her intentions were at the fe