peter doocy is on that live in washington what changes do advocates want the feds to make? >> a big protest yesterday for stricter federal background checks. >> i'm in favor of background checks, intensive background checks on every gun purchase. >> background checks before all gun sales. that's the first step. after that we could rethink what else needs to be done. >> the first thing is allow families and law enforcement to put mentally ill people on the background checklist. not every state even reports it. but they've already done it in california, texas, indiana, connecticut. we need to do it nationally. >> the white house says president trump is open to some legislation that would strengthen background checks. >> bill: is there something certain states could do to serve as a model? >> in certain states it is easier for authorities to confiscate weapons for people believed to be danger to themselves or others with extreme risk protection order. >> the state of california, the state of washington, oregon, indiana had one in place. connecticut. law enforcement can be noti

peter doocy is live on capitol hill. where do things stand at this moment? >> they're kind of up in the air right now, sandra because even though the house speaker paul ryan has promised a vote soon on the president's preferred immigration package, he has not guaranteed democrats, including the leader in the house nancy pelosi, that there will be an open amendment process. for that reason she is against this shutdown avoiding spending package for now and she has the support of dozens in her own party who blew off a joe biden speech yesterday to support her for more than eight hours. >> you guys if you want to see biden he will -- no, you don't have to do that. go see him. okay. >> her protest exposes a huge gulf between her and chuck schumer who takes mitch mcconnell at his word that a daca fix will be next. that comes as this bill is being discussed even though very few have had time to read it. it was posted near midnight last night. it is more than 600 pages long and it's a big problem for some republicans. >> i'm not a fan of the bill. i haven't seen a d

and bill nelson was on with peter doocy. i saw him on your program. he said there were multiple casualties and he mentioned fatalities. we waited for hours before we received a number. and when the number hits you, it is 17 holding right now. we hope it doesn't go any higher. it can take the national conversation and send it in a different direction, which it has already. >> big time. it has. it will take a lot of the oxygen and rightfully so of the news coverage over the next day. there are big things, big stories happening here, immigration, the vote affecting a lot of people. but this and you're right, the tone of the president as a real consoler in chief really. we've seen this role many times before. president obama played it many times. but now this president is going to be in that role in a devastating situation in south florida. >> sandra: you know, bret, sandra smith. as we do await the update here from broward county and as we await the president coming up at the top of the hour, this is a big moment for the president. i mean, he showed a lo

steve: peter doocy and i went, we invited you, you said you were busy. brian: what about you? ainsley: i went to do a story on it when i was there on the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. i've been back twice. steve: we built this channel on the news of the day. here is the headline. fbi and department of justice do not want you to see whatever is in that four-page republican written memo. they say it could be damaging to national security. adam schiff, republican from great state of california, essentially threw down the last thing, you know that thing the republicans wrote, they changed it, you can't show it to them now. ainsley: this is what he tweeted out. discovered late tonight, chairman nunez made changes to the white house, changes not approved by the committee. the white house approved the document committee has not approved for release. steve: what were the changes? >> changes that the fbi recommended to chief of staff john kelly before they released. they looked at it, it wasn't enough because the fbi still does not think the president should okay the release of this memo