we begin this hour with these incredible images from all around our country. today, thousands of protesters took to streets at more than 450 rallies, from washington, the sea to parkland, florida, austin, texas, new york city, all to push congress to take action on gun violence. one party, and only one party has heard the calls for those actions. this week, the house oversight committee held a hearing on gun violence, where members heard from survivors of recent mass shutting s, including maya cerrillo, a fourth grader at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. he shot my friend, and i thought that he would come back to the room, so i covered myself in blood and put it on me. maya, who is just 11 years old, speared her classmates blood on her face to protect herself from a gunmen. also this week, the house passed a series of petrol bills that would raise the age to buy most semi automatic rifles to 21. it would ban high capacity ammunition magazines and create a federal red fla
absolutely agree. it didn t i didn t i did not notice, or not notice that many times or invoked in mississippi in this moment. you are absolutely right the kind of collapse of radical reconstruction, had everything to do with the ascent, the assault on democratic rights across the south. you think about what happened in north carolina, in the late 19th century, where those little red shirt over, throw a coup that overthrew the government. so your harkening back to that history, actually it points but i want to see this really quickly, there is a sense in which as a professor, i was reading this first hearing as the interim directory paragraph. what they have done is they laid out in some ways the broad architecture of this is what we are going to do. i remember when you were writing papers in high school, in college, the professor was a tell me what you re going to do, then tell me what you did.