as investigators worked to piece together a motive. ramos s aunt shelby telling me she s in disbelief. my heart hurts for everyone right now. do you have any idea why he flipped. people go through things and nobody understands. everybody has, i don t know what was going on. reporter: while he had no known criminal history or record of mental health illness, a series of private messages posted on facebook give a chilling warning. the third post, less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school was i m going to shoot an elementary school. across texas, emotions running high. former congressman beto o rourke running for governor in texas disrupting his opponent greg abbott s news conference on wednesday saying another shooting would happen without real reform. you re doing nothing. no. he needs to get his sir, you re out of line. reporter: as so many others struggle to make sense of yet another mass shooting. this morning the painful images are continuing t
how to do that as a country. and i do want to point out in some new political polling that we had just out today after this tragedy is that congress, the members of congress, the members of senate who aren t voting for some of these things that might come up, are out of step with the american people. you have 88% of american voters saying they strongly or somewhat support requiring background checks on all gun sales. you have 75% saying they are creating a national data base about each gun sale. and 67% say they are in favor of banning assault style weapons. and so now they re looking to congress to do something. but where are the ten votes from republicans to make this happen. and also where the 50 democrat votes to get rid of the filibuster for that. that is what advocates are asking today. eugene daniels reporting from the white house. thank you very much. willie, those numbers that you heard, flash poll, those number are consistent with where they ve been over the past
be out front and give people a reason to come out, have to give democrats especially more of a reason and make this issue just as important to democratic voters as inflation, gas prices and immigration are to republican voters. that s something that when you talk to democratic strategists, that they re a little worried that the administration is going to do. one person yesterday told me they need to let harris loose on this issue. what the administration is telling me, though, is she will speak about it when appropriate and i think she is going to want to do that a lot more. eugene daniels reporting live from the white house, thank you. joining us democratic senator jackie rosen of nevada. she s a member of the armed services committee. we ll start with this draft opinion that was leaked. your reaction to it, is the
to make fun of him and he gets to make fun of us. so we ll continue to see how this shakes out. but the kate beddingfield news adds another wrench into who is going from the white house because she s communications director and speaks to a lot of folks here. all right. morning joe senior contributor eugene daniels reporting live from the white house. thank you so much. and we ve talked about it before, does it doesn t make sense for me for him to go to this dinner. maybe if they hold it outside. just why away from the courtyard or something like that. but again, why do it? it seems like when willie goes, everybody is jumping on him and so we can t let him go. it is outside of the ed sullivan show. no, it is late elvis. the white house correspondents association is a great organization. truly. and as we sit here today we
reagan, clinton, and obama, and they were all re-elected. morning joe senior contributor eugene daniels reporting for us at the white house, looking good. thank you very much. coming up, a look at a group of voters that could be crucial in the midterms and why they re backing away from dems who need them. steven kornacki will be here to break it all down. and before we go to break, willie, what do you have planned for sunday today ? i think you re going to like this one coming up on sunday on nbc. my conversation with the great and hilarious and talented jane lynch. oh, my gosh. jane is starring in the broadway revival of funny girl. highly anticipated, amazing reviews already. it s in previews right now. it opens in earnest next sunday. so we got together to talk about that show and her role as sue silvester on glee, her emmy-winning role on the marvelous mrs. maisel.