america s gun violence epidemic. plus, ruben gallego joins me here in the studio as he launches his bid to evict conservative former democrat kyrsten sinema from the senate. and the latest from the devolder files. george santos claims to have been mugged on one of the busiest and fanciest avenues. when it comes to the january 6th assault on the capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy, the wheels of justice are indeed actually turning. in the two years since the insurrection, the department of justice has made more than 950 arrests. nearly 500 of those people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges. at least 40 have been found guilty at contested trials. just yesterday, four members of the extremist group the oath keepers were found guilty of the most serious charge lobbed in the attack, seditious conspiracy. this follows november s conviction of two other oath keepers including the group s leader, elmer stewart rhodes under the same charge. and righ
enforcement says saved lives bravely confronting and disarming the monterey park gunman. we ll have more on that interview and the latest in that investigation in just a moment. meanwhile, in northern california, a beach side community is the scene of the state s second deadly mass shooting in three days. this time the gunman appears to have targeted his coworkers. also ahead, more convictions for members of an extremist group, heavily involved in the january 6th attack on the capitol. and it appears kevin mccarthy made a bff during his day s long struggle to become speaker of the house. we ll have the new reporting on his alliance with one of the most extreme members of the gop. plus, mike pompeo is making headlines for his criticism of an american journalist who was murdered by the saudi regime. we ll show you those excerpts from the former secretary of state s new book. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 24th. with us, we have the host of
On the run. Schools closed in the area as new Surveillance Camera images reveal new clues about how c convict may be surviving and a new search area. Special counsel jack smith is still investigating, and following money, and where the fundraising money was spent as part of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, and what it could mean for Donald Trumps unindicted coconspirators. The far reaching Unintended Consequences as north koreas president kim jongun could be soon speaking with Vladimir Putin. Sara is off today, and im here today with kate bolduan. Police are expanding the manhunt from a killer who escaped a prison in pennsylvania one week ago. They say that convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante has been spotted overnight and they have photos. Two School Districts in the area are closed today because of the concern that the escaped killer could be hiding nearby. Danny freeman is with us now for the very latest. What are you learning . So, john, you really said it. The search i
that we re going to talk about. yes, i live being here. the thing about mass shootings is that they are so uniquely american. if you compare us to england or australia and you look at the shootings per capita, we dwarf any other developed country. we re 25 plus times as many gun violence deaths. and more guns. more guns. we have 334 million people in this country and 393 million guns. so we have 1.2 guns per person, which is insane, which is insane. that s the difference. that s what separates us. if mental illness everywhere, workplace grievances. video games. person grudges, you name it. all the dysfunction we have, the one difference is that here, hey, i want a gun. i want another gun. it s easier to buy a gun than almost anything else. to rent a car. you think about it, it s not just the fact that we have so
and a lot of lesser developed countries in the world. why do we have this horrific toll of gun violence, every single year, every single week, every single day. it s not just the mass shootings, it s the individual shootings. it is absolutely incredible that we accept this as normal, that we accept this as okay somehow. it s not okay. in this country, we have 334 million people, and we have 393 million guns. we are out numbered by our weapons of war. and that should be absolutely unacceptable to every american because it puts us, every one of us, in a needless danger, mortal