good to be with you. i m katy tur. at least 12 more people are dead after another wave of shootings over the weekend. in downtown philadelphia, two handguns, one with an extended magazine were found in the aftermath of a shooting on a crowded street. three people were killed and 12 others injured. now police say they are searching for at least three gunmen and two more guns. in summerton, south carolina, a drive-by shooting a the at a high school graduation party wounded several and 12 killed. in phoenix, arizona, 8 killed and 1 injured. and in hempstead new york, chicago illinois, 7 dead and 54 injured. this all happened as the families in uvalde are still burying the dead, the children killed by what ted cruz has called a violent psychopath who was legally of allowed to buy an a.r.-15 style weapon and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition. sickened enough to speak out, more than 250 republican donors and self-declared you gun enthusiasts in texas, including several wh
isn t up to do the most important job in the world, but joe biden is succeeding and succeeding at an extraordinary and historic rate. the amount of major legislation passed by this president, the first gun violence bill in 30 years, the first major investment in clean energy, the biggest infrastructure investment in this country, all of that doesn t happen without joe biden. he is a master legislative tactician. he was involved in a detailed way in the passage of all of those bills. i know, because i wrote the gun bill and i was talking to joe biden on a regular basis. you pair that together with this dramatic expansion of the economy, america recovering at a faster pace than all of our other high-income competitors, and there is really zero evidence that joe biden can t do this job. so i don t begrudge any of my friends in congress from considering a presidential run i was going to say, should given all of that, should congressman phillips run? well, i mean, congressman phillips
an indicator that a candidate isn t up to do the most important job in the world, but joe biden is succeeding at an extraordinary and historic rate. the amount of major legislation passed by this president and the first gun violence bill in 30 years and the first major investment in clean merge and the biggest infrastructure investment in this country. all of that doesn t happen without joe biden. he is a master legislative tactician and he was involved in the detailed way in the passage of the bill, and i know because i wrote the gun bill and i was talking to joe biden on a regular basis and you pair this together witexpansion and there zero evidence that joe biden can t do this job, and so i don t bebruj any of my friends in congress from considering a presidential run given all of that, should congressman philips run? well, i mean, congressman philips can do whatever he wants. i don t think he will get very
the economy. what about democrats who are voting no? well, let s be clear. this is not an accomplishment, right. all we did was prevent default by raising the debt ceiling. this is something that we have done routinely as a congress over 60 times. and we are in this circumstance only because we have a much juvenile delinquents that are in charge of the house of representatives, we have basically said our agenda is so unpopular, this is the house republicans, the only way we can get it passed is to melt down the entire global economy. so, you re dealing with political extortionists here. all we did was prevent default. it doesn t sound like a reason to celebrate. that wasn t some grand bipartisan victory. you know, just a years ago, we were saving lives with the most significant gun violence bill
gun violence bill that we have. the charlotte loopholes and back universal background checks. i have done all that. again, if we focus on guns, as i said, it s a multi-faceted factors. what about the other issues? social isolation, what about the ideology? it s not a single approach to this, but i think if you look at it, if we look at the research, the research out there says that it s a multi-facet approach that we need to look at. and one more thing. one more thing. a lot of these folks, they indicate, they give tale tell signs. they ll get on social media. we just have to do a better job in making sure we look at those signs in the future. i hear you. if i can slip in one last very quick question. are you okay with officials in texas not holding any kind of news conference today about what happened in allen, not to update