Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is on top of this, that he is taking steps to address the spike in Violent Crime that youve seen happening in several cities across the u. S. So thats why hes sitting down with the attorney general, with those Law Enforcement agencies and mayors to talk about this. Whats important, though, is what were going to hear from President Biden is he is viewing all of this through the lens of gun violence. That is primarily going to be his focus when he comes out a few moments from now to address this. One
Remember what you put but many of you focused on what historians would call the American Revolutionary era rather than the colonial era writ large. People like george washington, Thomas Jefferson, alexander hamilton, issues like taxation without representation, other founders and historical highlights and the imperial crisis in the war all popped up. A few mentioned paces, historic james town, plymouth plantation. A few mentioned slavery. What i thought was interesting was because it was because of either the 1619 project and the summer black lives matter protests. There were a few omissions. No one mentioned individual women or m Indigenous People by name. No one mentioned anything west of the appalachian mountains, much less west of the rockies or the west coast. Technically speaking this course runs from before contact of europeans with Indigenous People in the 15th century to 1763, the end of the 7 years war, french and indian war in what is now the territory called the United Stat
3, 2, 1. This hearing will now come to order. Is in a hybrid format and the hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between senators, witnesses and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. , a those joining remotely few videoconferencing reminders which you should be familiar with at this point. Once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your display on the screen. To minimize background noise, click the mute button until it is returned to speak or ask questions. Issue,e is a technology we will move to the next senator until it is resolved. I remind senators and our witnesses the fiveminute clock still applies. Those remote should have on your screen one of the boxes labeled clock which will show how much time is remaining. Weve had some trouble getting those boxes to everyone screen or at least getting everybody to be able to find them and follow them. We are going
The committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting partic
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the cs authorized to declare a recess at the committee at any time. I want to remind members of a few matters including some required by the regulations accompanying the House Resolution line 65 which established the frameworks were removed committee proceedings. I dont know if we have gone through this already but i would ask all members on the platform to keep themselves muted when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of the witnesses. Members on the platform are responsible for muting and on muting themselves. The staff has been instructed not to mute members except where a member is being recognized and theres inadvertent background noise members on the platform are reminded that they may only attend one hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing and members should try to avoid coming in and out of the meeting particularly