communications committee, also sits on the house judiciary and foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here. my pleasure. mike: your reaction to what we saw in odessa, texas? i think like everyone who watched those accounts, i m broken hearted. i think it is yet another example of epidemic of gun violence in this country. we have an ability to do something about it. and, you know, it is not enough to extend thoughts and prayers. the american people expect congress to work together in a bipartisan way and to respond to this epidemic of gun violence. 40,000 people will die at the hand of a gun this year which is standard in this country. we passed two common sense proposals back in february, universal background checks and closing the charleston loophole. they are sitting in the senate awaiting action. we ve called on the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to bring the senate back and pass those bills. universal background checks and the reason this is important is univers
shot, including three police officers and a 1 17-month-old grirl. 3:18 p.m. in midland. officers pulled over a vehicle for failure to use a left turn signal. the driver put a rifle in the window and opened fire shooting a texas state trooper. we have an active shooter. negative. what is the status to have trooper? tbsphwhr they re working on a trooper right now. the rampage was on, speeding toward odessa. he shot two more police officers, he shot an individual on i-20 and continued into east odessa. the gun fire took place at multiple scenes. we don t know the details of how he got out f h iz truck but he exited the vehicle and stole a postal truck. he drove from there and drove to
he shot an inned on i-20 and continued into east odessa. there was a lot of random gun fire there, multiple scenes of bloodshed. a lot of the bloodshed was along the highway. we adopt know the details of how he got out of his truck but he got out of his truck and got into a mail carry vehicle. he drove that vehicle to the energy center and that s where the gunman was shot and killed. terrified witnesses watched it all unhold. oh god. they re shooting right there. he hit the barrier. the cop just hit the barrier. get down. get down! stand still. he s shooting him. he s shooting him. and among the victim as 17-month-old girl. witnesses say she was strapped into her car sheet and shot through the shoulder. that little girl was air lifted to the hospital in lubbock, texas. there are two different hospitals in the area.
or odessa, and that last piece of video we showed when they ultimately confronted the gunman who stole a mail truck, if we can show it, if you look at it closely, you can t really see it on our screen, but these officers if we drop the banner, these officers jump out of their vehicle i mean, as quick as you can imagine, and run toward this guy who presumably has a high-powered rifle, in order to neutralize the threat after with so much uncertainty, that video right there, god bless the people that put on the uniform every day, they don t know if they re going home and in this case they ve got a mass shooter on their hands. and rather than cower, they run toward the bullets. jedediah: yep. pete: what it takes to do that is the ultimate in human courage and service to your community. jedediah: and what it takes to just be a good law enforcement official, to be able to put yourself completely aside. they know they re in harm s way. they know that anything could happen to them. they
police. among those five who are dead, that does include the gunman who was killed by police. you have four victims, one gunman who was killed by police officers. it all started with a traffic stop. officers with their troopers with the texas department of public safety pulled over a vehicle that failed to use a turn signal. at some point he put a rifle out the window and fired, striking one trooper. then the rampage was on. the gunman sped off in the direction of odessa. he shot two more police officers one a midland police officer, another odessa police officer. headed off i-20 to east odessa, spraying bullets randomly, a bloody scene. ultimately more than 21 people were shot, that includes three police officers and a 17-month- 17-month-old who was shot through the shoulder while she was strapped into her car seat. at some point the gunman left his vehicle and stole a mail truck, he drove that to the nearby movie theater where police shot and killed him.