attention off the gun violence problem. i just have to note, because you and i last talked i think three weeks ago when there was a different mass murder mass killing, mass shooting that that s were discussing. that s when we had 146 mass shootings here in the u.s. three weeks ago. we are now up to almost 40 more since then. it is chilling. frank figliuzzi, thank you for joining us with your expertise. when we return in just 60 seconds, a weekend of wild weather with tornadoes and driving rain. we re live along the mighty mississippi with that river expected to crest today. e. jean carroll back on the stand in her civil rape trial against donald trump. the latest legal maneuver by his team as they look to squash the case. also nbc s richard engel will join us from france whereas many as 1 million people could hit the streets for mayday
said his age was a major reason why. and there is more. if, perhaps the driving force behind his relative success is gone, then what? a surprise announcement on that in today from the white house per the domestic policy advisor susan rice is out. she recently came under fire, you probably heard following a report from the new york times that the former un ambassador was keenly aware that many of the migrant children the administration quickly released into the country were forced into grueling jobs. meanwhile for the talk about solving the violence problem to gun violence problem the president inexplicably has not met with any of the victims of the covenant school shooting in nashville although he did take time to meet with the nashville three lawmakers who were sanctioned by state house republicans or noisily demanded
buildings, looking for the exits, and i m doing that as well and it shows that even if yo don t go through a shooting, the fact that americans ar scared that a shooting could happen at any point, shows how bad the gun violence problem has gotten our country and as a survivor of a shooting, it breaks my heart every time see a shooting, because i know those students are gonna hav to live with trauma for th rest of their lives. and especially with youn people they should not have to deal with that for just goin to school. they shouldn t have to deal with and i m reminded of that b people like these young people are s brave. these young people are organizing you shouldn t have to be thi great. you should not have to be doin this organizing. that work should have been don by the generations before. you and then gun safety, front and center in tennessee. since the covenant schoo shooting, the state legislatur adjourning abruptly last week. taking up the issue but then friday the governor
we see it in congress but the other thing about this we think is important, what i ve been saying a long time is there is no republican party. they are just a dime storefront for a terrorist organization called maga, but also what they failed to deliver to the people they are representing because it is not just about suppressing the vote. it is not just about picking up duly elected representatives. it is about the fact that they are not really offering much. the state of tennessee is 11th in the nation in gun violence. the state of tennessee is 45th in the nation when it comes to access to mental health services. you ve had over a dozen hospitals close due to financial reasons in the last decade in the state of tennessee, so even if republicans want to kick out democrats for protesting on behalf of of solving the gun violence problem, they don t seem to be offering any alternatives, either. what is going on in the mind of constituents who are happy with no services being provided by
if you re tracking domestic extremist mass killings in the u.s. by decade, there is 2011 to 2020, and a skyrockets. we are, of course, not done with the decade, but we are already on track with five, and it is the month i had to think about it for a second, february of 2023, far from the end of the decade. how are you processing that? what do you glean from this chart other than we are getting worse as a society, quite obviously. as a society, not only do we have a gun violence problem, we have a mass killing problem. we very specifically have a extremist muscling problem. when you look at the last 12 years, there have been 26 mass killings like buffalo, el paso, pittsburgh and so on. that is more than we saw in the previous 40 years. a, extremism is being normalized. the narratives that animated are in the public, on social media, the access to weapons by extremists is as easy as it has ever been.