to do that. and certainly given the circumstances of this particular case, another mass shooting in america, it requires congress to finally find the courage, particularly in the senate, because we ve acted in the house, to do something to address the gun violence epidemic that we have in america as bipartisan legislation is sitting in the senate right now that will do something about our gun violence problem in america and we need the republicans to stop being obstructionists. i want to ask because gun violence keeps happening. you re working alongside gun enthusiasts who made carrying gun to work on capitol hill a part of her campaign, quite frankly. she s made threatening comments, she s made insulting comments about your fellow colleagues. i m just curious with the discord happening on capitol hill right now, do you feel safe
that had opposing philosophies of government so we could get back to talking about these differences. but that s not what we have. we have one party that is for democracy and one party that s for autocracy. and all the rest is just noise. all these ads we made about capital gains tax and health care. none of that matters. the central truth is is american democracy going to survive? stuart stevens, great to have you on. thank you. thank you. when we come back, the latest on the deadly shooting in a michigan high school. i ll talk to senator chris murphy about why he says congress has become part of america s gun violence problem. this only happens in the united states of america. there s no other nation in the high-income world in which kids worry about being shot when they go to school. it happens here, in america, because we choose to let it happen. with alka seltzer plus. with 25% more concentrated power. alka-seltzer plus.
have you on, thank you. when we come back, the latest on the deadly shooting in a michigan high school. we ll talk to senator chris murphy about why he says congress has become part of america s gun violence problem. this only happens in the united states of america. there is no other nation in the high income world in which kids were about being shot. it happens here in america because we choose to let it happen. happen dad, why didn t you answer your phone? your mother loved this park. she did. my hygienist cleans with a round head. so does my oral-b my hygienist personalizes my cleaning. so does my oral-b
it makes it difficult to investigate crimes that we want to investigate. we had a full-time traffic unit, we had a full-time narcotics unit, we had a full-time k-9 unit, all three of those were folded back into patrol. reporter: city leaders are betting that pumping money into community-based groups like the pioc part of the office of violence prevention will take some of the burden off the police force. we have clearly a gun violence problem in our community, we have a homicide problem in our community and the community should expect that we will have adequate resources, that s the tools, the training and the personnel. reporter: back on the street the outreach team meets up with a community member they are hoping to help with their services. have you experienced any gun violence? i just got shot in my hand, right there, actually. when police officers talk to you do they even come to you with that openness that he came to you with? they try to tell you what you need to
st. louis post that if we really want to get this gun violence problem under control then we got to start making new law. is that going to solve the problem? because from my vantage point, there is a lot of straw purchases being made and a lot of filing of serial numbers off of guns in new york city. no, you are right. we miss you. i know you are in no. god love you. you can t hardly get anything up there but in st. louis, this is crazy. so i lived in downtown st. louis. i can see the arch from my backyard. i could smell the hops and barley and everything else heiser bush. when my kids went to play out in the street and ride their bike, everybody felt cool can that happening because they knew i was armed. we had a drug bend that opened up at the end of my street. it wasn t the gun that was doing it criminals kept getting rereleased from bad prosecutors and weak judges, a judicial rot. in fact, it was my side arm that