chicago, mayor lightfoot, is coming out of the box with a tough on crime message. the fact of the matter is voters see where the crime rates are and they are reacting. they re reacting. and new york they ve got a new mayor. and he s tough on crime too. harry inton, thank you very much. thanks very much to all of you. thanks very much to all of you. anderson starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a fourth grader talks about watching her friends and teachers murdered. a mother describes the shrapnel that will be in her son s body for life. a doctor recounts the kinds of wounds once seen only on battlefields but are now inflicted the movie theaters, synagogues, supermarkets, and most recently, fourth grade classrooms. the house committee heard from people whose lives were touched and changes forever by the mass shootings in buffalo and uvalde. their testimony came with lawmakers in both chambers debating gun legislation.
for life. a doctor recounts wounds that are inflicted in movie theaters, synagogues, supermarkets, and most recently, fourth grade classrooms. john berman here in for anderson. today, members of the house oversight committee heard from people whose lives were changed forever in the mass shootings in uvalde and buffalo. i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with miah, 11 years old, talking about the moment the gunman came into her fourth grade classroom at robb elementary school and her teacher tried her best to keep everyone safe. we do want to warn you that it s graphic and difficult to hear, but it s important to hear it unfiltered, because no matter where you stand on the issue of guns, this shouldn t be happening. we were just watching a movie and then she got an email and then she went to go lock the door and he was in the hallway
the poor performing elementary schools in the city. the new principal, new this year, nice nice nice guy. let us come in let us walk around, go into one of the fourth grade classrooms where the mayor had actually been earlier. they were asking why is this happening, when tell stop. funny story he s a cause caution principal. the kids are not used to seeing that in this school. they call him principal b. and when he started, one kid said are you light skinned? he said i guess i am. the child walked to his buddy and said see i told you he was black. they have 330 kids in the elementary school, 45 people working there. that s from principal b. all the way down to the custodians helping the kids. they also have a rec center
if he is that upset our side must be making progress. bret: talk about education in america. you have a special this weekend. tell us about it. cool things are happening outside the smothering government monopoly of public education. four years ago i did a sw with 20/20 called stupid in america talking about kids are trapped. everybody says we re not funding education. we don t care about it. we are spending three times as much adjusted for inflation in the last 40 years and it s flat. spending flat, made no difference. now the charter experiment, if they don t work they go out of business. if they work, more of them happen. i was in fourth grade classrooms where i d say to kids school is boring. they d say no, it s not, mr. john stossel. it s exciting. reading and math is difficult. but reading is rocking aw awesome.
if he is that upset our side must be making progress. bret: talk about education in america. you have a special this weekend. tell us about it. cool things are happening outside the smothering government monopoly of public education. four years ago i did a show with 20/20 called stupid in america talking about kids are trapped. everybody says we re not funding education. we don t care about it. we are spending three times as much adjusted for inflation in the last 40 years and it s flat. spending flat, made no difference. now the charter experiment, if they don t work they go out of business. if they work, more of them happen. i was in fourth grade classrooms where i d say to kids school is boring. they d say no, it s not, mr. john stossel. it s exciting. reading and math is difficult. but reading is rocking aw awesome.