expanded its blast radius over the weekend to a premium outlet mall in texas where that state s republican leaders are today striking a pose of complete impotence in the face of both deadly forces, the 199th shooting took place in allen, texas, a suburb of dallas, texas, eight people were murdered including a 5-year-old boy. six others were injured. unimaginable. unthinkable carnage unfolded as a man armed with an ar-15 style rifle opened fire. here s how one eyewitness who rushed to the mall when his son said shots had been fired outside the store where he works described the scene. the first girl i walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes so i felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side and she had no face. and so when i rolled the mother over, he came out and asked him are you okay, he said, my mom is hurt. my mom is hurt so whether than traumatize him anymore, i sat him down, he was covered from head to toe like somebody poured blood on him. th
under pressure the growing calls for senato diane feinstein to step down i ll talk to the first democra to say it out loud the congressman ro khanna. and senator tim scott s toug position the most prominent black man i the republican party leans int the culture wars as he explore a run for president. i m jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we hold these truths to b self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator wit certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit o happiness. the declaration of independenc certainly rings hollow today a the republican party continues to push legislation that is no only wildly unpopular an dangerous, but also strips these unalienable rights fro americans. friday, the supreme cour ordered continued access t mifepristone until the court could make a final decision on wednesday. polling shows a majority o americans, 64% believe abortio should be legal in all or
they were automated and mechanicized, a machine that comes out in support of only binary thinking. it s a hispanic. it can t be anything other than a gang or border security problem. we don t want to hear about anything else about guns. i mean, frank, real quick, i mean, in politics it s called rapid response. in the right wing intersection of russian disinformation and right wing disinformation, what is the strategy, that it can t be true, that a self-described neo-nazi white supremacist carried out a shooting? what is their strategy of what they did around your truthful post. i think there s two parts. one is, it s got to be the people with brown skin. that s the problem and, gosh, that s got to be a border security problem so there s your probably. it certainly isn t guns. the other side of is let s never talk about guns because second amendment. got a lot of that in my responses, yep, you re against the constitution. you hate america.
the opening montage there that we play that the republicans i indianapolis, at the nra convention, donald trump talke about the problem isn t guns, th problem is, and i quote, too many thugs, who had loans, and savage criminals on ou streets. and yet, the alleged perpetrator of nashville doesn t fit that description the shooter in louisville, day later, doesn t fit tha description. who is he talking about? what you have with that is, an attempt to erase race into a conversation and feel his base, who loves to do a very similar thing, becaus the person and others on him for the presidency don t wan to have a real conversation on the end of gun violence in our community, east of the rest of our country really does, because what we realize is
him a racial pacifier. i think his walking this fin line, i mean, he has criticize donald trump he criticize tim when trump wa president over charlottesville and other things, but it strikes me, whatever this line he s walking isn t going to go over so well within th republican party simply because if you are goin to be a racial pacifier, par of the pacifier piece is, yo don t talk about this. don t talk about it at all and by - reading that he talks about it in a wa that doesn t acknowledge certain systemic problems, historic factual experience in this country, when it comes to race so, that is what i mean. i was one of those peopl during my 27 years with th party who also was not completely, i think i was naive, actually, to have prevalen