facing a no confidence vote triggered by members of his own party. the question is, will the british leader now be removed from office? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, june 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for joining us. we re coming off another weekend of deadly mass shooting across the country. in the past 72 hours, at least 17 people have been killed, nearly 70 were hurt and several of those victims have critical injuries. according to data from the gun violence archive, there were at least 13 mass shootings from friday, through sunday. the independent research group a defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot. not including the shooter. two cities saw the worst of the violence. in philadelphia, three people died and 12 were wounded, late saturday night, in a popular downtown district. south street. investigators believe the shooting came after a fight between two men. and most of the victims, innocent bys
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will
john lemire? yeah, young up and comer, trying to get his way in the world. he is good. your story is terrific, buzzing all weekend. come back soon for sure. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. jam-packed morning joe starts right now. the first weekend in june saw london celebrate queen elizabeth s 70 years on the throne. rafael nadal s 14th win at the french open. signals from the vatican an aging pope may soon retire. in the united states, unfortunately, it was more of the same. we had another weekend punctuated by the sound of gunfire and a flurry of mass shootings. mass shootings in philadelphia that left 14 shot, 3 dead. in chattanooga, 14 shot, 3
been ill for a long time before he finally passed away in two how five and there were people who advised him, critics from the outside, as well as insiders, at least to consider this idea but he felt it was a lifetime responsibility. that he would not give up this important role as shepherd of the entire universal church during his lifetime. bill: i also felt though that the message of pope john paul ii was the respect life in all its forms, whether that s the life of a baby or whether that s the life of an aging pope who still needed the attention of the people around him to take care of that life until he left his earthen vessel. i always felt that was the moment when pope john paul ii was in the window at the vatican, the last time seen publicly. you saw the dove fly in and land. it was almost as if the holy spirit were calling him to the heavens above. i felt that he, it was