right now on andrea mitchell reports, the monterey park california community devastated by a weekend mass shooting leaving ten dead, ten others injured and the 72-year-old alleged gunman dead while investigators search for motive. i ll speak to the district s congresswoman about the tragedy as well as top law enforcement experts. and a pulse nightclub survivor of that 2016 orlando mass shooting about continuing scourge of guns and high capacity magazines. also this hour, an unprecedented fbi search the private home of a sitting american president, uncovering more classified documents. how the drip by drip of this controversy is eroding support even among leading democrats. should be held accountable and responsible is what we all are and for those in unsecured spaces is irresponsible. at its heart of the issue is the same. those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either joe biden or donald trump. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in
to me, that points towards personal. it s a personal issue. so maybe that is the situation here. i know we don t know the motive yet, but i see that the age is kind of indicating that maybe there s this historical you know, relationship issue with the community and the people in the community. jim, the officers who briefed on sunday said that the gunman was carrying a semiautomatic assault pistol. not the long gun rather. ar-15 style gun, but in any case, a really dangerous weapon and illegal in california. that s right. that s right, andrea. what happens is a lot of these guns, short style assault pistols were developed to be machine guns. that was the original development of them. they take 30 round magazine. of course you could put a 30 round magazine in a standard handgun as well. they re not some of the models are not real expensive. they re stamped steel.
way to avoid stricter gun control, get the guns out of the hands of the people who are dangerous. this person was clearly dangerous. and, they didn t act on it. hopefully other police agencies learn from that. you need to be aggressive. and were going to watch, one, the investigation to find motive to see if they can prove a hate crime, bring hate crime charges. there are plenty of witnesses to the shooting itself, plus surveillance video. here in washington, the president of the united states issued a statement, we need to enact an assault weapons ban to get up in support of america s streets. there were two guns involved, and ar 15 style gun and a handgun. the president issued a statement but we can go back in time. i don t say this to be mean but we can go back to prior shootings and see similar statements. is there any will in washington , especially now that house republicans will take the majority in 43 days? it is a very familiar washington, d.c. story. there was a mass sh