good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i m john berman with brianna keilar. a deadly weekend in the united states with ten mass shootings since friday. ten. that is according to the gun violence archive. in philadelphia one of the busiest nightlife spots in the city that s where it took place there. in chattanooga at a nightclub. in arizona at a bar. in south carolina, virginia, and texas it was graduation parties. in phoenix a strip mall. omaha near an apartment complex. in macon georgia at an abandoned house. all told 12 people were killed, more than 60 hurt, the victims all ages including teenagers and senior citizens. so far in 2022 the u.s. has seen 246 mass shootings, 33 of those since the elementary school attack in uvalde, texas, just about two weeks ago. now, this morning there is cautious optimism on both sides as key senators say that a bipartisan deal on gun reform is within reach. negotiators will continue to talk this week
candidacy. and co-host of the good lies trying to make sense of the continued allegiance to the nra, at the nra meeting. stay tuned for that chat. good evening, i m mehdi hasan, if you support the democratic party, you probably don t want to hear this forecast from election expert and political analyst dave wasserman of the cook political report because he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november s midterm elections. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat president barack obama once called a shellacting, and republicans are planning for that victory for control of congress for what they re going to do and i tell you this won t be health care policy or tackling prices at the pump, top gops have conservative think tankers on the tony eastern shore of maryland ways to investigate the biden administration as soon as they get congress, and looking for flimsy excuses to launch congressional probes according to
congress, and democracy itself. this is another member of the ex presidents inner circle. he was indicted, and republicans are caught on tape planning to dispatch an army of activists to polling sites to target and potentially overturn votes in democratic precincts. the reporter who understood those tapes joins me later in the show. plus, the lawyer who scored an unprecedented victory for sandy hook families against the gunmaker in that case has turned his attentions to the gun maker in the uvalde texas massacre. i will talk to him about that legal strategy that could be the turning point in the war over guns in america, and what you might not know about how the gun industry markets directly to young men. then, day 101 of the war that vladimir putin plans to wrap up in three days. i will talk to lieutenant colonel vindman about how russia s war of choice in ukraine has changed. what is likely to come next, and likely, today, by the way, is the first day of the general electio
six committee. former chief of staff mark meadows and deputy. the justice department, this week, letting these trump associates off the hook, declining to charge them with contempt of congress. scavino and meadows cooperated with the committee at first, but trump s former chief of staff, turning over more than 2000 text messages. consulting to the january six committee, even describing meadows as the mvp of witnesses. starting november 3rd, november 4th, in a middlesex messages, all the way to the end, it is a roadmap. and i would have to say at this point, i think mark meadows is the mvp for the committee. i think they should pay him. the data that we got from there actually allowed us to really structure and effective investigation. well, the committee now calling the doj s decision on meadows and scavino, quote, puzzling. while praising the swift indictment of former trump advisor, peter navarro. navarro was arrested friday for defying the january 6th committee subpoen
wanting to offer some type of solace, some type of comfort to the families who lost so many loved ones in that horrific massacre here at robb elementary school behind me earlier this week. now the president right now is privately meeting with survivors and the family members of victims. he s been meeting with them for almost two and a half hours. the white house really blocking off a significant amount of his time here on the ground in uvalde to hear directly from those family members who lost loved ones. but first president biden stopped here at the memorial site at robb elementary. he and first lady jill biden took about 20 minutes reading each of the names, seeing and taking in the life-sized photos of these 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down during the school day on tuesday. the president, while he s also been here in uvalde, has also been hearing really from the local community members issuing calls to action both here at the elementary school and as he wa