mourning. the entire town in mourning. everyone here knows someone who was inside that building. allison, thanks so much to you. joining me now is annette killby smith. she is the editor of the wilson county news, a local newspaper that covers sutherland springs. annette, thank you so much for being with us. you ve been on this since the very beginning of the shooting. just tell me about this community. it s kind of hard to actually follow sherri s words that were just read. it is a very tight-knit, small community. just everything revolves around the community events, church on sunday, school, everyone knows everyone. the wider community, as well. and everyone here, it s not just sutherland springs that is impacted. we all know were friends and neighbors and families with everyone affected here. it s this is in some ways the
and this is going back to that, yet again. but like margaret just said, there are sensitivities to this. i talked to a republican source this morning who said, you know, quietly, people who are close to secretary ross are very concerned. the question really is, did he lie during his senate confirmation hearings? and that will be investigated. this is now probably going to be a piece of what mueller will be looking at. yes, the press gets the information and we put it out there. but the issue is, there is something there that needs to be examined. the question is, is it what you re saying or is it something else? so people want to use us as the scapegoat. we re just reporting on what is there or possibly a question. that s fine. they can keep doing that. it doesn t stop the hunt for the facts and the truth. to you both, i want to get you quickly on something very important. the words the president used this morning, margaret, to you first, on the horrible, horrifying mass shooting in
be both right now. ed, you ve been here since last night. 26 people dead in a community of 600 when everyone s here. that s a significant percentage of this community that s dead this morning. this place is reeling. talk to me about what you ve heard. there s not anybody in this town who doesn t have some sort of direct connection either to someone who was killed or wounded in all of this. so the impact is i don t think you can overstate. we were here last night, just before midnight, and we witnessed the church is just over here, over our shoulders. we re actually on the backside of the church. there was a family that we saw walking across the street completely distraught. and we asked them what was going on. and they said they hadn t heard from their daughter. this was almost 12 hours after the shooting and they had no information about their daughter. ed lavendera, thank you so much. we ll let you get back to your reporting. the goal of this church, the first baptist church,
texas that took action against the shooter, thank god he had a gun. thank god he was able to do something. but having said that, it doesn t mean that we ve got to take some steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. criminals, people who are suffering from some form of mental illness that make them a danger. people with long criminal histories, assault. for him to do a year in jail for assaulting his wife and child, that had to be a pretty serious assault. so why are we going through this constantly? it s not going to fix itself. we ll be back here again with another mass shooting, because we re not taking the steps to actually try to correct the problem or at least make it more difficult for people to get their hands on these guns. and look, there s no such thing as only 26 people were killed. that is a horrific number. one person killed is a horrific number, even if it still could have been worse. tom fuentes, charles ramsey, thanks so much for being wi
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