"Please, for those folks that I work with in the Congress, take a moment and let your position evolve. There are ways that we can put reasonable restraints without dramatically interfering with people’s Second Amendment rights.”
“It’s a three-letter word. It’s the NRA,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. “And it’s Trump and the Republicans who don’t have the guts to stand up to these people and that’s pretty pathetic."
"Let me be clear, he should be removed from office for his failure to protect the citizens of Texas," Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter, Jamie, was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said.
“The disease in this case isn’t the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence,” the incoming National Rifle Association president said on “Fox News Sunday."
“This claim by the president, the suggestion by Giuliani that there is a political spy embedded in the Trump campaign is nonsense,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd.
“It is not inconceivable now that Mr. Mueller and his team may seek to conjure up some extraneous crime, pertaining to my business, or maybe not even pertaining to the 2016 election. I would chock this up to an effort to silence me."
"I think it was a mistake to appoint a special counsel. They should have appointed a non-partisan independent commission, like 9/11, to find out how this election went wrong," attorney Alan Dershowitz said on ABC's "This Week."
"There's no agreement for a deal. We never anticipated one. There's a communique between the two great countries, that's all," the White House economic adviser told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
“The president wants us to be very tough on ZTE. And all he did was ask the secretary to look into this, “ Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, referring to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Special counsel Robert Mueller wants to interview President Trump — but how far is he willing to go to get the president's testimony?
Some legal experts believe Mueller might have gathered sufficient evidence for indictments even without a Trump interview. They say Mueller could be reluctant to get bogged down in the months-long legal battle that would ensue were the president to resist a subpoena.
