{"id":977,"date":"2015-10-02T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/press.nbcnews.com\/?p=977"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:42:02","slug":"mtp-guns-no-guns-it-doesnt-matter-says-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2015\/10\/02\/mtp-guns-no-guns-it-doesnt-matter-says-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"MTP: \u201cGUNS, NO GUNS \u2013 IT DOESN\u2019T MATTER,\u201d SAYS TRUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 2, 2015 \u2013 In a sit down interview with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Chuck Todd, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump reacted to President Obama\u2019s response on the tragic Oregon shootings: \u201cNo matter what you do \u2013 guns, no guns \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have people that are mentally ill and they&#8217;re going to come through the cracks,\u201d said Trump, \u201cand they&#8217;re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to \u201cMeet the Press\u201d this Sunday for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p>A transcript of this interview excerpt is below, and you can watch the excerpt here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1ON1BE9\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/1ON1BE9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts of the interview may be used subject to the following restrictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory credit to NBC News\u2019 \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on first reference.<\/li>\n<li>The onscreen \u201cMeet the Press\u201d credit must be clearly visible and unobstructed at all times in any image, video clip, or other form of media.<\/li>\n<li>Embedded web video must stream from the NBCNews.com media player with the unobstructed credit as described above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANDATORY CREDIT: NBC NEWS\u2019 \u201cMEET THE PRESS\u201d \/ CHUCK TODD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p>DONALD TRUMP: I watched his statement, and I understand exactly what he&#8217;s saying.\u00a0\u00a0 But, you know, no matter what you do \u2013 guns, no guns \u2013 it doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 You have people that are mentally ill, and they&#8217;re going to come through the cracks. And they&#8217;re going to do things that people will not even believe are possible. And whether it&#8217;s the school shootings which are really very prevalent in this country.\u00a0 They seem to be more prevalent in this country. And I\u2019m not sure &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CHUCK TODD: What&#8217;s your explanation?<\/p>\n<p>DONALD TRUMP: They&#8217;re just sick people. They&#8217;re mentally imbalanced, and they probably see it happening here more so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CHUCK TODD: Do you think we have more mentally ill people than other countries?<\/p>\n<p>DONALD TRUMP: I think what we have is, I think, we have copy cats.\u00a0 I think that they watch it and they see it here more than other places. And the world can be a pretty sick place in so many different ways.\u00a0 But we have mentally, very unstable, people and that is going to lead \u2013 and you know it\u2019s not politically correct to say.\u00a0 You can have the best security. You have the best everything, but people are able to get in and do this &#8212; just terrible damage.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, please contact<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Petersen<\/p>\n<p>NBC News<\/p>\n<p>202-885-4159<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:olivia.petersen@nbcuni.com\">olivia.petersen@nbcuni.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEET THE PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/urkgouhq\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\">\u201cMeet the Press\u201d<\/a> is where newsmakers come to make news \u2014 setting the political agenda and spotlighting the impact Washington decision-making has on people across the country. \u201cMeet the Press\u201d reaches more than 3 million people every Sunday through its broadcasts and millions more through NBCNews.com, the #TweetThePress interview series, Flipboard, and social media platforms.\u00a0 Chuck Todd is the moderator of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and John Reiss is the executive producer.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCT. 2, 2015 \u2013 In a sit down interview with \u201cMeet the Press\u201d moderator Chuck Todd, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump reacted to President Obama\u2019s response on the tragic Oregon shootings: \u201cNo matter what you do \u2013 guns, no guns \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d \u201cYou have people that are mentally ill and they&#8217;re going to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nbcuniversalnewsgroup.com\/nbcnews\/2015\/10\/02\/mtp-guns-no-guns-it-doesnt-matter-says-trump\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from MTP: \u201cGUNS, NO GUNS \u2013 IT DOESN\u2019T MATTER,\u201d SAYS TRUMP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[4,110,160],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meet-the-press","tag-feature","tag-meet-the-press","tag-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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