the tube but being in person watching sports. if all you have is the tv, go for it. it ll make you happier, according to the survey. pollsters clearly didn t talk to too many red sox fans when putting together those optimistic numbers. margaret talev, thank you very much. we appreciate it. thanks. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. three precious little kids lost their lives, and i believe three adults. and the shooter, of course, lost their life, too. it s a horrible, horrible situation. we re not going to fix it. criminals are going to be criminals. my daddy fought in the second world war, fought in the pacific, fought the japanese. he said, buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn t mind losing your life, there s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it. that is republican congressman tim burchett of tennessee reacting to the deadly school shooting in his state,
sides. yes, one side is rights, and a lot of american history is all about rights. lincoln s unfinished work in closing the gap between the declaration of independence and our day-to-day reality. obviously, that is central. but there is a big, big but, and you re on it. there s got to be obligations. obligations of everybody on this set and everybody watching this show to one another, and everybody watching this show and on this set to this country of ours. it just can t be a one directional thing of what we re owed. it s also got to be, again, our commitment to one another. yeah, there s gun rights, but what about the obligation to the common good? it s basic to religious scripture, about being one s brother and one s sister s keeper. what happened to that? what we have to do, and claire was getting at this, we have to change the conversation in this country. politicians may not be responsible, but they are
mika, 131, i think, mass shootings already this year in the first three months of the year. and. we ll go to the scene of yesterday s deadly shooting in nashville, tennessee. msnbc host and reporter yasmin vossoughian is there. what s the latest? reporter: so, claire was talking about car seats, mika and joe. i thought a lot about putting your kid to bed at night and how, last night, those parents weren t able to put their three 9-year-olds to bed. when you put your kid to bed, that s when you know they re safe and sound back at your house. they weren t able to do that. we re learning more about the victims. hallie scruggs, the daughter of the pastor at the covenant church behind me attached to the school. evelyn dieckhaus along with william kinney, all just 9 years old. an entire life ahead of them. the custodian, mike hill.
been eroding into israeli society. listen to what the white house press secretary had to say yesterday following the prime minister s announcement. we welcome this announcement as an opportunity to create additional time and space for compromise. compromise is precisely what we have been calling for. we continue to strongly urge israeli leaders to find a compromise as soon as possible. reporter: mika, there were some warm words from the white house yesterday, but there s a lot of concern, both in washington and here in tel-aviv, about the concessions that netanyahu has had to make to the far right of his coalition in order to get them to agree to this delay. one of these is he is allowing for the creation of a national guard, something that israel has not had before, under the national security ministry. in charge of that national guard will be bengavere, one of the most far right members of netanyahu s cabinet, a man with criminal conditions for inciting racism and supporting a
the country s main trade union also went on strike but ended it after netanyahu s announcement. his overhaul plan would allow the government to select judges and overturn supreme court decisions. joining us live from tel-aviv is nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. raf, what s the latest at this point? reporter: well, mika, good morning. there is a sense of weary calm here in tel-aviv today. i will tell you, it felt for a lot of israelis sunday into monday like their country was going off a cliff after netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister. you saw these enormous protests blocking main roads like this one in tel-aviv. then this unprecedented general strike yesterday which paralyzed the economy. it shut the country s airport. it closed banks and businesses all over israel. today, following netanyahu s announcement that he is at least putting on pause his plan to weaken the supreme court, that