david brooks and ruth marcus give their take on national gun debate., much more. >> woodruff: in the aftermath of the school shooting in florida, ths been discussion about a number of ways to prevent a repeat of these tragedies, from arming teachers, to stricter gun laws, and addressing people with mental and emotional problems. but preventing violence by using mental health records is more complicated than many realize. for example, posting a disturbing message on social media does not necessarily mean an indidual has a mental health concern, and someone treated and agnosed for a specific illness may never turn up in the federal ecckground system. to help lay this out and lk at some of the challenges, i'm joined by dr. jeffrey swanson. he's a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at duke university. professor swanson, thank you for joining us again on the "newshour". just to -- i want to clarify something going in. you were just reminding us thata the vastjority of people who have mental and emotional chlenges don't turn out to be violent. i

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joining us now kimberly atkins, also with us, ruth marcus. and, ruth, to kimberly also, you both have the floor to comment whatever way you want. but ruth i wanted to start with the striking phrase from donald trump, of all people, due process in that tweet. your reaction to the that? >> in a word, galling. of all the people who do not have standing to complain about people not getting due process, donald trump would be first among equals. he only cares about due process, it would seem, when it goes to friends of his or political allies of his who have been accused in particular of assaults on or abuse of women, but when it came to the central park 5, when it came to locking up hillary clinton, when it comes to accusing president obama of criminal wiretapping of him in trump tower, where was the due process then? where was his concern about due process then? >> i want to listen to something that the white house press secretary said today. not because it's true, and i don't usually show what she says because it's always just a pack of lies. the

. >> joining us as well, ruth marcus, "washington post" deputy editorial page editor. ruth, the fact of keeping him on the job, don mcgahn must have told kelly, kelly had to know he didn't have a full clearance because there had to be moments when he couldn't enter the sit room so how does this happen? >> it happens when you have a white house and a chief of staff that is so desperate to have competent, capable people staffing the place and to -- so desperate to bring some order to the kay yot that i think general kelly walked into that i think you are willing to ignore and kind of not -- see no evil in the rob porter story. this notion that he wasn't fully aware. if he wasn't, it's only because he didn't want to be aware. if he didn't know, he should have known and i think it's a combination of the absolute imperative that he has felt to have some capable people in the place he was running and also, quite honestly, and this is from the man who told us that he longed for the days when women were sacred, an absolute failure, no matter what he says now, to understand the

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. >> joining us the discussion now, ruth marcus, deputy editor and columnist at "the washington post.ublic schoolteacher for a few years. i never had to face this question. it was before the age of mass murder in public schools. but the idea that thousands and thousands of teachers all over the country tonight talking to their kids who are worried about whether they come home again just by going to work is a new working condition for the american teacher. >> it's a new working condition for the american teacher and it's a new kind of life condition for all of us. every parent who sends a child off to school. everybody who sends a family member to a workplace. we know this can happen in so many places. it can happen in movie theaters, it can happen in parking lots, it can happen at concerts. we are not safe, and the -- i am not taking anything away from the incredibly powerful story of the teachers and the heroism of their actions in florida and elsewhere, but there is a lack of -- there is a new worry for all of us that we're not safe, and it's not about kind of the random risks that

. >> joining us now ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor from the "washington post" and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, andness price spokesperson for the national security council and a former cia analyst. he's an msnbc national security analyst. ruth, i just want to get your reaction because this is a moving story with new elements coming out by the hour. your reaction about where this story stands tonight. >> well, the phrase fully aware is possibly the most maddening phrase i've ever heard here. if general kelly was not fully aware of the allegations against rob porter, it's only because he chose not to make himself fully aware because he heard something and you know, they're in this tribal mentality, circle the wagons in this white house. they convinced themselves that this was part of a smear campaign against rob porter orchestrated by his political enemies. and they just -- they didn't want to know. so if he didn't see this photo before yesterday, it's just because he didn't wan

. >> joining us now ruth marcus, deputy editorial page editor from the "washington post" and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama and a professor at the university of alabama school of law, andness price spokesperson for the national security council and a former cia analyst. he's an msnbc national security analyst. ruth, i just want to get your reaction because this is a moving story with new elements coming out by the hour. your reaction about where this story stands tonight. >> well, the phrase fully aware is possibly the most maddening phrase i've ever heard here. if general kelly was not fully aware of the allegations against rob porter, it's only because he chose not to make himself fully aware because he heard something and you know, they're in this tribal mentality, circle the wagons in this white house. they convinced themselves that this was part of a smear campaign against rob porter orchestrated by his political enemies. and they just -- they didn't want to know. so if he didn't see this photo before yesterday, it's just because he didn't wan

ruth marcus from the washington post. the white house is confirming a few details about a surprise phone call between trump and putin. a call we learned about from russian state media. they said the call was initially a con dole answer call for the deadly plane crash that killed 71 people on a russian passenger jet and the call pivoted to talk about middle east peace and trump is calling for pla palestinians to come to the table and at the time he meeting with putin. and senator, good to see you, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> you and 20 other democratic senators sent a letter to secretary tillerson asking what is going on with sanctions that congress overwhelmingly passed against russia six months ago saying it has been unacceptable that the president refused to do anything about this. have you had a response? >> we've had some hearings but not a direct response. these were sanctions that were passed by kog -- congress, overwhelming and mandatory sanctions and it was not just one category, but te

ruth marcus, and mike medley. >> we've been following joe biden a long time. he very clearly said the president of the united states does not tell the truth, that he does not understand his position and their position on rob porter in today's breaking news, that resignation. >> well, two things. one's manners. and the other's confidence. he's still old school on manners. he's not going to call someone a liar. he did call someone a joke the other day, and i think he regretted that. the fbi works with any politically elected government, like this trump administration. you rely on the fbi to do a full field investigation on every one of your employees. as a speech writer, you had to go through it. they had a full-field report on rob porter. that's all you need. so why did they have any more information required? they didn't act on it. that's a problem, not working with the fbi on something the fbi has absolute responsibility for, which is to check out people. >> and he talks about doing putin's business for him, doing his job for him, ruth, by attacking the fbi,

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. >> that said, ruth, going after president obama -- >> ruth marcus is here. >> ruth marcus is here with an op-ed every three hours today. >> like some other people i know. >> very motivated. but, ruth, the if the president wants to find a weak spot in the democrats' argument against him, barack obama is a great place to start because barack obama knew, he was warned, he didn't do anything and they hide behind mitch mcconnell, that's fine. but there's only one president. and if a foreign country -- what mitch did was despicable, but if you're the president of the united states, commander in chief and you're being attacked by a foreign enemy, you should respond, right? >> absolutely you should respond. and if people want to say that barack obama did not do enough behind the scenes, that he was not vocal enough out front, totally fair game. the washington post has done some terrific reporting on that. however, it must occur, even to president trump, that he is the one who has been president since january 2017 and he is the one who has failed to take action now. it's also, it seems to me, t

and so i call ruth marcus, who is the assistant editorial page editor, i said, "is that it?" "oh no," she says, "we've got a really nice space "reserved for you on the op-ed page in the sunday paper, "it'll be in the sunday paper." the next day, somebody from the washington post video department, the washington post now has a video department. and they called and said, "by the way," said, "we pulled a few soundbites from several debates "that you've moderated, why don't you come in "and just comment, we'll play and you comment "on what they meant and so forth?" and i said, "fine." i think before it was over, that one story that i wrote appeared on five different platforms. - that's how they do it. - and that's the way to make it work now. and the washington post hired 60 reporters this year. as far as i know, they're the only news organization-- - well, every time you buy toilet paper through amazon, you are funding journalism. (bob laughs) just think of it that way. it's okay. - but it's great. - but it's great. the times is coming along too. - and they also have had massive

at the "washington post," ruth marcus. she's out with two new columns that are subtle.p's vile new attack on democrats and trump is far worse than nixonian. >> we'll try to figure it out. also with us, the author and former special counsel to the clinton white house, out with the new book "the unmaking of the president 2016." i'm so glad you say this. because after the election, i went to church and i had all these democrats come up going, oh, they stole votes in michigan. they stole votes in wisconsin. the russians. i was like, dude, it wasn't the russian, it was james comey. and you wrote an entire book. which of course makes the entire republican fbi conspiracy so ludicrous because the fbi director elected donald trump and you have to prove it. >> trump number one is the morning october 28th -- >> preview -- >> morning, 1:00 p.m., was comey letter. >> hold on a second, guy, he's holding up charts. you can actually show the charts. >> i like that. >> really, tv, guys. >> 5.9% the morning of october 28th. and her trend line is up in real clear politics. that's longer t

. >> joining the discussion now, tony vanpelt, also margaret carlson, and ruth marcus is still with ustony, your reaction to the story. >> my reaction is that john kelly should be gone. the women of america deserve better in our white house. >> i want to go to something we heard from jennifer willowby tonight on cnn, and this is about rob porter intervening with her, trying to get her to change her story about their marriage. let's listen to this. >> i had been in contact with rob a lot in the last two weeks as he gave me some warning that stories might break and knew people might be sniffing around my blog post. we were in contact a couple days ago as he was asking me to release a statement about my blog post and i went back and forth with him for an hour or so about what lang i would be comfortable with and the language he asked i wasn't comfortable with. and he came out with that statement less than an hour later. >> she already talked to the fbi almost a year ago at that point and changing that story after telling it to the fbi would be incurring, to put it mildly, some legal diffi

yamiche from the pbs "newshour," jonathan swan from axios and ruth marcus editor for "the washingtonnd much more than that. i know. you know, there was a television show on for nine years called -- about firing people. he ended up firing people. now it's reality tv again. here's the president of the united states in his slow motion i can fire comey, i can fire mccabe, i can fire sally yates. i can fire rosenstein. he does it relentlessly with the same sort of grinding power. now he has a pretext to do it again and fire rosenstein in the next few days for all we know. >> out of watching that or reading the memo, the thing that stuck out to me, what's the big news here? when you start looking at the one paragraph that lists sally yates, james comey you start realizing one of these names is not like the other. only one is still employed. even though there's to do about the memo, it's about that one paragraph. >> it's an indictment. did you notice they weren't redacted? he didn't want the names redacted, jonathan? he wanted the names in there. >> he did. there were people who obviously w

ruth marcus bloomberg, a heel kapoor and also gretchen ryder. welcome all. so interesting tact i think. i just want to go with the tact that the white house is taking that no, hey, we are being tough on russia, which tells me they fear the idea the perception that they are not. >> yes, they do about that and i think they realize that there is a congress full of people including republicans and leaders in their party who are russia hawks at heart. democrats, some of them may not have been, but i think they -- >> they have become one now about that. >> so the policies that the trump administration is capable of waging on this has limits based on what congress will allow. but the issue is kind of a personal no-fly zone for donald trump because he is unable to view it as anything other than an attack on the legitimacy of his presidency. shear a p here is a partial list. forcible kissing, barack obama, hillary clinton, oprah winfrey, cnn, russia hearing, adam schiff, the fbi, his national security adviser, the press in general, democrats. not a single tweet about

book now at lq.com ruth marcus. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders today also commented on president trump's assessment of embattled chief of staff john kelly. >> where does john kelly stand as we sit here today, if the president has confidence in him, why does he have confidence in him based on everything we've learned over the last week. >> look, i don't have anything further to add. the president has confidence in his chief of staff. >> i don't know what that means. a vote of confidence doesn't necessarily translate to a job security for anyone, especially when dealing with the trump crowd. let's watch. >> reince is doing a fantastic job at the white house. and i believe he has the president's confidence. >> does he remain as chief of staff. >> i think reince is doing a great job as chief of staff. >> basically question here, does the national security adviser enjoy the full confidence of president trump? >> yes, general flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president. >> was it a mistake no

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. >> ruth marcus, everyone should go read your piece, explain the rob porter story, any of it. best thing i've read all day. thank you for spending some time with us. >>> when we come back, i will show you the single best political interview of the trump era, i swear to you, it is the most insightful questioning and the most authentic responses from a trump staffer that i have ever seen. you will not want to miss this. stay where you are. whoooo. looking for a hotel that fits... ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. >>> when the tape i'm about to show you was sent to me today, i thought twice about watching it as i always do. once i opened it and listened to the questioning of former white house advisor omarosa by ross mathews, i was riveted. keep in mind i was fired from the view for not knowing much about pop culture. this is called celebrity big brother. let's watch. >> and on the outside, i thought as a voter, a citizen, i never got it. >> why

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