to get a no, we won t sun port you, but what is worse is that i am with you and i accept the idea, but i can t support you in public. don t make me do this now. collin, i appreciate your saying that, because as i watched the president yesterday in the press conference and the emotion, certainly part of that was about the president being a father and the emotion i feel, but it is a different emotion, because when he comes out to say i m angry, and i have an action here, and part of the tears were there is nothing i can do and no political coalition to get behind me not having to stand at this podium over and over again and talk about our children being killed. we have to make that coalition. we have polled gun owners and nra members and found broad support on things like background checks on all gun sales. the american people who are watching and believe that we deserve better than this and
pennsylvania avenue, appreciate that. i want to bring in collin goddard now. he is the assistant director of federal legislation for the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. he is also a survivor of the virginia tech shooting. collin, i want to start where kristen sort of left off. the brady campaign giving this administration an f for its effort on preventing gun violence. what more should we be doing? what more should this president be doing? what more should the congress be doing? it s a number of things. it s not just one thing to do. there s not just one solution that s going to help save lives. there s a number of policies. and at this point, we really need to be looking at all of them. i mean, that s what you know, the sense we re getting from the outridge of the american people, that s kind of the sense we got from the president as well, who s had to give a number of these speeches already. and you can tell he s getting fed up with this, just as we all are. i think he
she has 68 co-sponsors at the last time it was introduced in obama s first term and not reintroduced in to a second term. but you have to think that if this is a rational thing to do, build on the coalitionb and picking up your point and something that chris hayes said earlier, we don t have worthwhile national conversations very often. that is not how it works. no, you don t need a conversation on this. you don t need a conversation on race, quote, unquote, but we have good debates when there is leadership. we had a health care that went somewhere because it was something on the table and it went to the left and the right, and we need to build up the coalition for the mental health stuff, and that is on the congress and the president. i want to bring in the k conversation exactly this issue of collin goddard who is the assistant director of victim and
0 there. so, that was a sort of another aspect of this that we ll clearly want to know more about. we do know that adam lanza had tried to get a long gun assault rifle at a sporting goods store in danberry, just on tuesday. the sale didn t go through, because he didn t want to go through the waiting period that connecticut law requires. but he was able to draw from the gun collection of his mother, nancy lanza, who of course he ended up shooting as well. earlier today, police said they had good evidence of a possible motive. we did not hear anymore about that evidence in that last news conference. at this point, any indication what that evidence might look like? perhaps a note? no, actually, all we know is that it came in response to a question from lester holt about e-mails or writings that adam lanza may have been left around or had been found by investigators and in response to that, lieutenant van, the spokesman for the state police, said there is a lot of good evidence that we
parents and sisters and brothers and family of these children and adults who were lost. there were 18 children pronounced dead at the scene and two children transported to the hospital and pronounced dead at the hospital, and there were six adults pronounced dead at the scene. evil visited this community today. this is a terrible time for this community and for these familie families. good morning. i m melissa harris-perry. we are awaiting a press conference on the latest on the school shooting in newtown, connecticut. today, we are focused entirely on newtown. approximately an hour and a half outside of new york city, newtown, connecticut, is a small commuter town locateded in fairfield kocounty. it is a predominantly middle-class white community with approximately 30,000 people. they have several schools and synagogues and churches and it has a rotary club and basketball league like many other towns, but yesterday, as many of you know, newtown became the latest statis