politicsnation. tonight s lead, enough is enough. right now, at least nine people, including two children are dead after a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas on saturday. the authorities have identified the gunman as 33-year-old mauricio garcia. two senior law officials are telling nbc news today that he interacted heavily with white supremacist content online. nbc news has not yet seen any of the suspects. investigators say it is still too early to determine a motive for the shootings. at least seven people ages 5 to 61 remain hospitalized for injuries tonight. some of them are still in critical condition. president biden weighed in earlier today, offering condolences. but also calling on congress to deliver a bill that bans assault weapons and enacts universal background checks. while americans real from yet another bloodbath caught on video, the response from most republican politicians have been their usual call for thoughts and prayers. and the insist
officers plead not guilty in the beating death of tyre nichols. and ukrainian president pleading to get the tools they need to end the war with russia. and the epa is talking to cnn after that toxic train disaster in ohio. that is what we are watching this hour. thank you for joining us. i m kristen in for kate bolduan. we start with the police officers who have been charged with the beating death of tyre nichols have plead not guilty to second-degree murder and assault. after they beat him, he died three days later. cnn did speak with tie ryre nic mother when she came into the courthouse. it is important for you to be here today? yes. they need to see my face. and shimon prokupiez has been there all morning. what exactly happened in court today? right. so this is the officers, the five former officers, and it was their initial appearance before the judge here in memphis, and behind me in court here, and they were out on bond, and they walked in. it is essentia
a dozen republicans in both chambers. but that was then. now the gop house majority is largely in thrall to its maga wave, and with another election cycle looming, it seems unlikely that we will see another bipartisan breakthrough on guns. joining me now, congressman stephen oxford. democrat from nevada, and chair of the congressional black caucus. congressman, thank you for being with us tonight. as we find ourselves mourning more innocent people lost to a mass shooting, and i admit, i m finding it harder every day to not surrender to cynicism on this issue. it seems it is every day that we have a mass shooting somewhere in america. and then we gauge in the circular conversation about what can be done at the federal
results are that that drinking water, testing those five wells, that go into the community system, those five wells have all come back clean. the water is safe to drink. you do not need reporter: what is interesting is right after that a local state senator from ohio, republican michael rooly went on fox news and blew holes in everything his governor just said from the republican administration. says he doesn t trust them. that he gets a sore throat every time he goes back to east palestine. not only are they dealing with the uncertainty of this, norfolk southern s mismanagement of this, but we live in this age of political mistrust, where telling people not to believe safety officials especially after covid and the maga wave is now part of our normal here. so governor dewine not only has to stay on top of what is polluted but convince people in the areas that are safe to go on
she s telling the truth when she tells that story. it seems like she s just trying to get some, like, terrible, terrible laughs. and she didn t even get that many to be clear. this is the brand of outrage politics that was ushered in among the maga candidates in 2020. lauren boebert, marjorie taylor greene, madison cawthorn, in 2010, the tea party wave of constitutional conservatives coming to office, in 2020 you had the maga wave of candidates whose brand of politics is to be as controversial as possible. and they are enabled as mel said by a leader of a party who does nothing to impose consequences on them when they do behave this way. and, melanie, you just brought up marjorie taylor greene. she is someone who kevin mccarthy said maybe he would put her back on committee if republicans take control of the house next fall. she has some demands for mccarthy to get her vote to make him house speaker. what are those demands? the two things that she has already laid out, she wants l