Serious condition the Health Care Bill could affect millions of people. And leader Mitch Mcconnell has not held a single hearing. The options opponents of the plan have left. Drug overdoses theyre the leading cause of death for people under the age of 50. President trump launched a commission to deal with that crisis, but are lawmakers doing enough . To voice your opinions on these pulse questions, just grab your phone or your laptop, digital device, go to pulse. Msnbc. Com america and ere u can put in your responses, your votes. You can vote as many times as you like throughout the show. Of course, well give you the results as we go. Well start this hour now though with some breaking news just in to us here at msnbc. There are some reports of a terror attack on the capital of mali. A u. N. Official says people have been kill and wounded but no word yet on the usual in of casualties. The Associated Press is also reporting that hostages have been taken. Well keep an eye on top of this s
Kind of rifle, they say. And now investigators are trying to pinpoint a motive. I actually left right before the shooting happened and had an interaction with who i believe was the shooter, based on the profile that i saw on tv. Ive given a statement to the Alexandria Police department this morning after i heard about the shooting. They asked me to come down there because i had an interaction with someone in the parking lot who asked me if the Team Practicing was democrat or republican team. I told him they are republican. He said okay, thanks. I turned around and left and found out that my colleagues were targeted by an active shooter. Reporter the dead gunman has been identified as james t. Hodgkinson, 66 years old from bellville, illinois. The fbi says its too early to know whether this was an act of terror or whether lawmakers are targeted for assassination. Mo brooks was there at the scene, he used his belt for a tourniquet to stop the bleeding. I was getting ready to have batting
Harris all right. Tell me about what happened that you know of and how you are doing. It looks like we where 10 to 15 miles east of charlottesville when we had a direct impact. It wasnt just a clip. It was a force. People that were in the aisle went down to the ground. Smaller injuries as you said on the bumps and scrapes. We have dr. Larry buoyshon and dr. Marshall attending to those. Three people leaning out the window. Three large dump truck, three people on that. One, speculate looks like one didnt make it another bad injury and i dont know about the third. Harris all right. What are you being told right now just in terms of who is on the train . Im hearing aides, spouses. It was more than the members of your party going to the retreat. Thats correct. We have got several members of our leadership, including speaker ryan, who is just a few seats up ahead of me. We do have spouses. This is our once a year annual retreat that both house senators come together to come together to plan
Crash is under investigation. And the republicans retreat will go on with an adjusted program. Republicans have a jam packed agenda after last nights state of the union and President Trump made clear he wants congratulations to act on infrastructure and other critical issues. Well break that down in a moment. But lets continue with the latest on that deadly crash. It happened just before noon. Outside of charlottesville. Republican lawmakers of theo theous the house and the senate were on the way to sulphur springs, West Virginia. That is as high of a speed as we go in this area. So i dont know what that would be. 55, 60 miles per hour. I suspect my recollection was that is when we all got jolted. It wasnt from the hit of the accident, but it was when the train was stopping that we all got tossed a little bit. So the engineer stopped the train immediately. It is amazing how calm people were. There was no screaming except for the kids that bumped their heads. Just very calm. You heard t
Think that you will be extremely happy with the selection, right . [ applause ] President Trump and they are all great. Melissa and live from Berkeley Heights new jersey near the president s golf course with the latest, allison . President trump is supposed to sit down to dinner tonight with his Vice President to compare notes on the potential nominee for the Supreme Court when it comes to interviews, interviewing any of these nominees who are left sources say to fox news that the president is done with all of them. He started with a list of 25 potential nominees. Now President Trump says that he can count his favorites on one hand. He says that he will announce his pick monday evening and he thinks that he will, quote have a decision made in my mind by sunday. The president speaking with six judges. Sources say to fox news that the president is working on rollout packages to be distributed to brett kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge and the conversation with kethledge lasted the longest at