White House Press secretary Josh Earnest speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room on June 15. | AP Photo White House: 'We'll see' about Trump's NRA meeting

The White House appeared noncommittal Wednesday when asked about Donald Trump’s announcement that he will be meeting with the National Rifle Association to discuss prohibiting gun sales for people on the terror watch list or no-fly list.

“The president does believe that the notion of preventing people who are in the no-fly list from buying a gun is a pretty common sense proposition. It is the kind of thing that even people who have profound political differences should be able to agree on,” press secretary Josh Earnest said during the daily briefing, deflecting specific questions about Trump’s meeting with the NRA.


Instead, Earnest criticized Republican lawmakers for preventing efforts to pass gun control legislation after other mass shooting incidents.

“I think it's unclear at this point exactly what his intentions are," Earnest said of Trump, adding that Democrats have put forward legislation. "We would welcome the support of anybody, including the presumptive Republican nominee.”

Trump’s announced meeting with the NRA follows the deadliest shooting in U.S. history on Sunday in Orlando, Florida, where 49 people were killed and more than 50 were injured at a gay nightclub.