i don t mean to get all preachy about it. it s no sure thing. whatever they come up with will likely be less than what democrats want and a tough sell in the red states. they are looking at bolstering checks on 18 to 21-year-olds who want to buy semiautomatic weapons, red flag laws, school security, and mental health care. the white house says president joe biden is optimistic on negotiations and believes, quote, any step is a step forward. and you only have to listen to this to know how crucial all this is. a fourth grade teacher shot in his classroom in uvalde. every one of his students killed. he s begging parents, please, don t be angry with me. i lost 11 that day. i m sorry. i tried my best. i did what i was taught to do. please don t be angry with me. you only have to listen to the son of one of the ten people shot to death in a racist attack in buffalo testifying in a senate hearing on domestic terrorism today. my mother s life mattered. my mother s life mattered
and we ll see you tomorrow night. a big show to get to tonight. thanks so much. this is don lemon tonight, and we are at a very critical point in this country right now. a crucial point, as a matter of fact. a moment when we get to decide whether we re going to do something about the gun violence that is killing more and more americans every day, even if it s only a first step, or do nothing and just watch more and more funerals, more and more families torn apart. this could be the moment. i don t want to get preachy about it but it could be the moment. a bipartisan group of senators working to hammer out a deal. but it s no sure thing and whatever they come up with will likely be less than what democrats want and a tough sell in the red states. they re looking at bolstering checks on 18 to 21-year-olds who want to buy semi-aublth v automatic weapons, red flag laws, school security and mental health care. the white house says that president joe biden is optimistic and negot
and it was common sense. kaitlan collins was in that room as matthew mcconaughey spoke and she joins me now. that was an impassioned plea from the actor who, again, is an uvalde native. talking about gun safety. what was it like in that room hearing him talk about these victims? don, it s rarely that silent in the briefing room. it s obviously reporters tweeting, taking notes, asking questions of the press secretary. it was almost completely silent in the room as he was speaking and really eulogizing these 19 school children killed in his hometown. as you noted, just a mile from where his mom used to teach kindergarten. he talked about guns and high powered the rifle was that the gunman used saying it disconfigured the bodies of these children and going into graphic detail, talking about how some of them could only be identified from a dna swab from green converse sneakers that his
tweeting, taking notes, asking questions of the press secretary. it was almost completely silent in the room as he was speaking and really eulogizing these 19 school children that were killed in his hometown. and as you noted, just a mile from where his mom used to teach kindergarten. and he talked about guns while he was in there. he talked about how high powered the rifle was, the gun was that the gunman used here, saying that it disconfigured the bodies of these little children. and going into graphic detail about this, don, talking about how some of them could only be identified from a dna swab, from green converse sneakers that his wife was holding alongside the corner of the briefing room for one of the victims i want to play that, kaitlan, for the audience, and then we can talk about it. here it is. reporter: yeah. maite wore green high-top converse with a heart she had hand-drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature. camila s got these shoes. can