law career helped me become governor. gave me advice on being a good dad. he s one of the people i talk to most in the world, and very rarely were we talking about my job. he was an incredible friend. we also lost julianna farmer, jim tutt, josh barrack, each amazing people whose families grieve them, whose community will morn and be miss. these are irreplaceable, amazing individuals, that a terrible act of violence tore from all of us. kentucky governor andy beshe making the comments about the mass shooting in louisville, hours before a fifth bank employee died at the hospital. we ll get a live report from louisville for the latest on the surviving victims and the investigation in a moment. plus, one of the two tennessee lawmakers expelled from the house floor for protesting gun violence gets his seat back. we ll have more on that development and what s next for the other lawmakers straight ahead. also this morning, we ll take you through the legal battle over a common
normally be reliable voters for either party, and made them into reliable democrats in some sense by pushing them away on issues that are so tangible to so many of these voters who are copping up and seeing a future they don t want to live in if they don t get active in politics. i ll add to what john said. i mean, this is a generation you look at justin jones, justin pearson. you look at people in congress like maxwell frost you look at david hugg they ve grown up doing gun violence drills in their elementary, high school. that was part of their lived experience that wasn t part of my lived experience, going to elementary school, middle school, high school in the 80s and 90s. this is a part of theirs this issue is motivating a group of people who young people who may hate politics, may hate parties. they relate to it because they ve lived it, too. that should be scary to the a-rated nra members out there who think they re going to hold
i agree, i m actually optimistic just because unfortunately this violence is touching communities across the nation, across class, across racial and ethnic identity. we can think about the pulse shooting in florida which specifically targeted the homosexual community. we can think about wealthier communities. we can think about sandy hook and small children. we can think about gun violence and new orleans, chicago, and even brooklyn. so i think that when i talk to my students and i remember my mother telling me that when they were younger they had drills for russia and the cold war, right? now my students are telling me about their gun violence drills and how they ve had them for several years. this is part of their educational fabric which is problematic and they re tired of it. as they think about not just who they support but the types of platforms they re going to run on when they re running for city council or state legislature or for congress and hopefully some