this nation, democrat and republican. allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of our democracy. president biden last week addressing thursday s primetime hearing of the january 6th committee investigating the attack on the capitol. and we re hours away from the committee s second public hearing. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the house panel will lay out how the big lie got started. also ahead, a compromise on capitol hill. senators from both sides of the aisle agree to what could be the most significant gun safety legislation in decades. we ll tell you what s in the deal and how soon it could get to the president s desk. one of the leading negotiators, senator chris murphy, will join us live right here on morning joe. we re also keeping an eye on wall street, as the markets are tanking ahead of the opening bell. looks like a bad day ahead. good day to go to the track. we ll get some insight on what is fueling this latest sell-off. plus, the average price of gas hi
victims of recent mass shottings testifying before congress today. we heard from the mother of 21-year-old zaire goodman who was wounded and survived the mass shooting at a buffalo grocery store last month which was motivated by racist hate. she described her son as pure joy and calling the person who shot him a domestic terrorism and says domestic terrorism occurs is because america is inherently violent. my son has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg caused by an exploding bullet from an ar-15. if after hearing from me and the other people testifying today does not move to you act on gun laws i invite you to my home to help clean my son s wounds so that you may see up close the damage that has been caused to my son and to my community. we then heard from dr. roy guerrero, the only pediatrician in uvalde who described the horror that he witnessed two weeks ago in the city s emergency room. two children whose bodies had been
this hour one day after police say a gunman killed four in a hospital building before turning the gun on himself. investigators are warning to determine the motive and believe the shooter entered the building with a specific target in mind. in texas, the uvalde community holding more funeral services for loved ones killed in last week s mass shooting. as a bipartisan group of senators led by democrat chris murphy of connecticut say they are making progress on potential gun safety legislation. our hope is we re going to be able to produce something for our colleagues next week. i think everyone in the senate, even a few exceptions, have been moved by what has happened in the last week, and feel a real political imperative to get something done. and this hour, president biden will be meeting with nato secretary-general stoltenberg to discuss the upcoming nato summit in spain and the war in ukraine as president zelenskyy says russian forces now occupy fully 20% of his coun
just a few hours. his remarks coming after a harrowing 24 hours in america yesterday when one gunman shot and killed four people inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, before turning the gun on himself. the shooter whom officials say purchased his ar-15-style rifle just hours before he barged into the facility looking for a doctor he blamed for ongoing pain after back surgery. the tragic attack in tulsa was not the only one to take place. a prison inmate in dayton, ohio grabbed a security guard and fatally shot him. outside in los angeles, a student was shot outside a high school. that incident now among the two dozen acts of gun violence near schools that have taken place since the start of 2022. according to one count there have been 20 mass shootings just since the rampage in uvalde, texas, last week, which of course, became the country s deadliest mass shooting this year, just ten days after a white supremacist murdered ten people and wounded three others in a supermarket
next. the war in ukraine fighting intensifies, as russia steps up its offensive in the eastern part of the country. strawberry recall the f.d.a. warning of a multi-state outbreak of hepatitis a infections linked to the fruit. ( playing taps ) and a memorial day tradition, honoring our fallen heroes one note at a time. t this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. cordes: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this memorial day. i m nancy cordes in for norah. tonight, the nation pauses to remember the heroes, veterans and gold star families who served and sacrificed for our freedoms. this afternoon, the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. less than 24 hours earlier, president biden was in texas, visiting families of the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in an elementary school shooting last week. tonight, the community of uvalde