sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
through the grieving process. you know, all all of thosee. steps that people gon through when they grieve. i know many people in the audience have felt that , you know themselves. so i think right now i wanted to take this time to say, you know, i think it was important for us and i think it was important for the show to notot to not force the families to give themd talk to their space, to let them know that we love them, to let them k know what an amazing community they are. so let them know that we are we are going to tell their story and we re going to tell the truth. we re goin going to tell the whole story. but we want them to know that we are there to a support them and that we are there to love them. and right now i know the mayor was speaking, mayor johnug mclaughlin, he is an amazing man. he has really been there forco the community. texas dpsmmy. has been here. h the texas department of public safety has been out here th not too fariesas from where i m standing. actually the
for one another. s mr. mayor,ea i known: m wer. m k this audience a lot of loveye and prayers in these very, very difficultt days for you and thec families, especially in the community. . alk for being with usnini all right. and now far left voices all across the media mobme exploitig the tragic shooting in texas to launch more smears against, conservatives. advance that agenda. listen. it will adv be goldberg who s saying she s going to punch someone in the face if she hears another o republican offe. thoughts and prayers really will be that s the question q what are we doing?e because where where why are we always at square one with us ? i swearr to god, if i see another republican senator talk about their heart beingngng bron ,i m a go punch somebody and i can t take it thoughtsra and prayers and your thoughts and prayers really with everybody youyedy have done something by now.w. so you saw them. they are suffering at the gun show. see you in court.
p we to go we re goingnk back live to you allto day texat with the very latesthe on the horrific shooting. now earlier today, the texas contracts that he s going to weigh in now. also the mayor that called beto o rourke a sick s.o.p. sick slbs joining us he s joining us as well as we continue. this is what he said excuse me, 50% saying let s sit down. you re out of line with our house. i veso got to shoot him right nw and you re not no robbery at i relaxium. this is totally predictable when you re out of things. soso you are not likely to exit the exit. i can t believe you re a big deal like this to make the whataboutism what we want
mr. mayor, i know you had your vigil tonight and i know it s been a very emotional, you know, tumultuous, you know. 48 hours. twenty four hours for the people in your city. what what what are the plansth for the days to come? doe? you know yet? we don t know our biggestre and foremost is to make surear these families are cared fored their needs are met whatever they need. you know, like i said, you k know, thank god we did have the state here because we didn t have the resources to it. with we ve had to deal with what they brought into our community has been justas unbelievable. and the outpouring ofev loveur that we ve got from allinot over the country and thete support that we ve gotten, you know, in the next couple of days we re going to continue to grieve. but we reo also a strong community. you know, when one man asked me, they said we ll be stuck with the stigma for the rest thf our lives. in the valley is a place whereot school shooting was know that may be true, but we re not g