Good evening. We begin as we often do these days with presidential double talk. In fact,

today we got two perfect examples of double double talk. The first occurred when the president

today confirmed that, yes, in fact, he and the White House are considering a payroll tax

cut just yesterday when the Washington Post reported the White House was considering a

payroll tax cut. The White House denied it. They denied it to us and to the Wall Street

Journal. So yet again, the president just confirmed what they have been busy denying. Now,

at this point, it's not clear if we should really ever believe anything a White House

spokesperson says or what the president says for that matter because they just contradict

each other constantly and themselves. We're going to have more of the payroll tax double

talk in just a second because a lot of it is on camera and you really sort of have to

see it to believe it. In fact, one spokesperson even denied it and confirmed it in the same

interview, which is, I mean, that takes scale. It's the best people. I want to begin by

discussing though, and but focusing on the other presidential double talk we saw today

and it's about background checks for gun buyers. Remember after the mass shootings in

El Paso and Dayton, the president was talking about meaningful background checks. Well,

today, a confirmation that he no longer is looking at background checks. That was also

just double talk. We'll be joined shortly by a reporter for the Atlantic with details.

The moment the president may have fully caved a phone conversation with the head of the

NRA, it's not the first time he's done this. He did the same thing after Parkland, after

the shootings in Parkland, exactly the same thing, saying he'd stand up to the NRA and

quickly shrinking down. It was just nine days ago, after these latest shootings, he said

he favored, quote, intelligent background checks. He said, quote, this isn't a question

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