katy tur. we re learning more about the shooting attack at the star ballroom dance studio in monterey park, california, including two of the victims identities. we ll bring you the latest from our own jose diaz balart there on the scene. today the community is mourning the massive loss of life, seven survivors remain hospitalized and a second possible shooting was stopped bay bystander. more on that in a minute. police have not released a motive for the shooting. nbc s kate snow spoke with the mayor of monterey park who had this to say. he may have come because his ex-wife was reveling, celebrating the new year, and you know, just sounded like a history of domestic violence, which is unfortunate, and he essentially, you know, committed to violence, and it cast a fog on a celebratory evening. was it your understanding his ex-wife was here that night? i believe so. so perhaps he was targeting her? possibly, yes. that suspect fled in a white van leading police on a
of psychological issue, in addition to a stressor, we see these kind of attacks, and they get directed not only against an initially-spended intended target but across a wide geography. and one other quick point, the attack last decade, a person going against his ex-wife killed everyone in the orbit he could get. so we see that with people undergoing psychological distress or sociopaths shall,, experiencing anger and a scatter shot approach and much easier now with the firearms that are available, in these states like california, that i m in, which have restricted gun laws, we have a much lower homicide rate than what we see in states that don t, but the guns come across the border often times, as we
the head of the intelligence committee, ranking member of the intelligence committee, really doing the most to try and tear down the democrats case against the president. and it was sort of a scatter shot approach. and i think when you re reflecting on that and thinking about what s happened since then, that makes a little more sense now. i mean, it really was a kitchen sink defense, perhaps purposefully designed to divert attention away from what was lying in plain sight. we have with a little luck located what we were looking for, and this is nunes being asked about calls with parnas. maybe they have the recordings of my phone calls with rudy giuliani. they re welcome to play them, because everything i spoke with rudy giuliani about is nothing that i wouldn t care if the american people found out. did you ever talk to this guy, les parnas or whatever his name is. it s possible, but i haven t gone through my phone records. i don t recall that name. i know the name now because
they didn t speak to the president personally. they re not firsthand witnesses to any of this. well, next week we are going to hear from people who spoke to the president personally. ambassador gordon sondland. we re going to hear from colonel vinman who listened to a call. laura cooper, a firsthand witness to the issue of funding here. so there are people we are going to hear from who are directly involved. indeed. and i think sondland so far is going to be the most interesting witness. because he had a lot of personal interactions not just with the president but with rudy giuliani. i think it s not so much sort of setting a bar as kind of pulling out pieces of the jenga tower that the democrats are trying to build here. it s going to be sort of a scatter shot approach. so far the republicans haven t had a cohesive narrative. we haven t heard from the republicans. look, relax, everybody. here s what actually happened. here s what the president was actually doing. here s why it was o
congress because there isn t much there. i think jonathan would agree if you try to get an answer out of this white house, there is no answer to be had. so jonathan, let s expand the question, what about over the next year between now and the next election, what are the president s legislative goals, what does he want to pass? it s a scatter shot approach. he muses about drug pricing and gun control and it s largely right now about the economy, about the trade deals, it s about the usmca, and trying to hammer out an agreement with china. will he get the new nafta done? it s unclear how this will go forward. i don t think it s a guarantee that it will happen and china situation looms over this. that s a major part of dragging down this economy and there s no sign of the progress, the two teams can t agree on the next steps for meetings. despite the president suggesting there are phone calls between the leadership groups which it turns out there were not. if that continues, if th