really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well
really happy to have you here. on a news day like today it is i will admit a little bit hard to know where to begin, but today is yet another day when one place to begin is with today s american mass shoot. this time in louisville, kentucky downtown louisville, right next to the minor league baseball park there police say a 25-year-old man armed with a rifle shot 13 people at a bank at which he was either currently or very recently employed. four of the people he shot were killed, nine were injured, and of those nine injured three are consi considerered to be critically wounded. because this is what it s like in our country increasely awash in high powered weapons, while the louisville police were responding to that absolutely devastating just catastrophic multiple murder scene at that bank, while they were responding
see the specter of so many states you just recounted that earlier in the show, rachel, of what is happening it s the product of the ballot box, too many extreme zealots out there unfortunately in our courts right now the solution to that is, yes, at the ballot box but right now on the ground in the states making sure we band together and make clear today i used my executive authority as governor of the state of massachusetts and i m proud to that and as a result our providers and subscribers are protected. i m quite positive we ll see more and more governors and state leaders all across this country step up because a majority of americans believe in this they believe in this it s common sense. the other point here that isn t getting enough attention but very important to me on a state that relies so much on life sciences where the global epicenter for life sciences,
the democratic lawsuit that says, fda, your approval stands. you cannot change anything about it those two rulings laid down simultaneously by journals of equal stature in two different places now, because of that, this is likely going to the supreme court, and god knows what s going to happen there. but in the meantime no one knows what s going to happen to the abortion pill, to the means by which most abortions happen in this country, given these competing rulings. and today there was court action in both of those cases today, the republican case in texas, and the democratic case in washington state but i mentioned a moment ago we re going to have the massachusetts democratic governor mora healey here in just a moment. the reason we re going to be speaking with governor healey in just a moment is because part of the response right now, part of the response to this radical turn on the right, on abortion rights right now is mora healey
to that call, they got a second call from less than 2 miles away, a call about multiple people shot at a nearby community college, one person dead there as well, one shot and injured. and that shooting is simultaneous with and unconnected to the other mass shooting in louisville less than 2 miles away and then, yes, because this is what it s like now in our country when it came time for the mayor of louisville to talk to his city, to update people on what had happened, to try to comfort the residents of his city after this awful day, the mayor of louisville, too, had to also remind everyone he also personally justservived a shooting when a gunman entered his campaign headquarters and started firing last year the man shot six times aiming right at craig greenberg. miraculously it did not hit him.