From the New York Times on Michael Barbarale, this is the Daily

Today President Trump stuns lawmakers with his calls for gun control and his disregard for the NRA

They have great power over you people he said they have less power over me

and hope Hicks says she's leaving the Trump administration one day after

testifying that her job requires telling white lies for the president

It's Thursday March 1st

So good afternoon. It's a very important subject and it's happening I

Think at a critical time Mike. There's this meeting at the White House on Wednesday. What's going on?

Well, it was really remarkable

This was a discussion that the president hosted in the Roosevelt room at the White House with a bunch of democratic and

Republican lawmakers from the House and Senate Mike sheer watched the meeting at the White House on Wednesday

The ostensible reason was to kind of discuss possible solutions possible responses to the tragedy that happened down in Florida a couple weeks ago

Directly on his left is Senator Diane fine sign of California one of the leading proponents of gun control measures on his right is

Senator John Cornyn of

Texas a Republican leader in the Senate and you know a real sort of hardcore gun rights kind of

Senator and then you know around the table other members would determine to turn our grief into action

I really believe that I think that the people at this table wanted. I mean I see

Some folks that don't say nice things about me and that's okay

Because if you turn that into this energy

I'll love you

So how does this meeting start? Well it starts I think as many meetings with Trump starts

Which is sort of a soliloquy by the president and he launches into a

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