dresses his wounds as well as the pediatrician of the town of uvalde and he was there with the families at the moment they learned their child would not come home. he will never, ever get those mother s screams out of his head. i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children s names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. those mothers cries i will never get out of my head, but what i did find was something no prayer would ever relieve. two children whose bodies were pulvarized, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart that the only clue was the blood-spattered cartoon clothes clinging to life and finding none. i can only hope these two bodies were a tragic exception to the list of survivors and as i waited there with my fellow uvalde doctors, nurses, first responders and hospital staff for other casualties we hope to save, they never arrived. all that remained was the bodies of 17 more children, the two teacher
it s where we begin the hour with white house chief of staff ron klain. ron, i know that everything from baby formula to inflation to weapons for ukraine to the first prime time hearing of the 1/6 committee to guns lands on your desk before it lands on the president s desk. i wonder if you can just take me inside this moment for all of you at the white house. reporter: yeah, nicolle, the agenda is full and complete. a lot going on, but i think this gun issue has really hit everyone at the white house, starting with the president, of course, as you said, two-time prime time addresses in less than two weeks, and then that powerful statement yesterday at the white house by matthew mcconaughey, who s a native of uvalde, and came to talk about his work with the families there, and so i think this is a very emotional time for us. the president s encouraged by the progress being made on capitol hill. he got a briefing yesterday from senator chris murphy here at the white house, but this is
all need to have that understanding, but it s actually more important to say what s ahead because january 6th was, in my view, was a test run for what could happen to our democracy, and those pillars that were in place that helped protect us, respirators are systematically going out of their way in this election cycle to remove those pillars, whether it s secretary of states, governors, state legislatures, attorney generals, all of that including congress because congress ultimately had to make the decision in this is, yes, let s understand and explain to the american public what happened behind us, but we have to explain really what is ahead of us and why that matters more. i ll say one thing about california. i know, nicolle, you re from california, and it is hard sometimes to extrapolate things. i did arnold schwarzenegger s campaign. california really is like six states. los angeles is very different from where you re from, which is orange county and san diego.
suggesting don t just think of our daughter as one of 19. her name was lexi and she got straight as, and she was a victim, and if you combine that with the testimony of the doctor who responded who described the physical carnage created by that moment, the power of the words, the testimony that congressman connelly and his colleagues received today in many ways was one of the most sacred acts that an american, an american family, a couple can do which is go before their representatives in the united states congress, petition them with their grievances, tell the story about the violence that occurred in our nation s schools and beg, beg for action, and i think congressman connelly paints a perfect picture for us. you had one side of the aisle who received that message and said we ve got to do something, and you had another who said we re not going to do anything,
the moments that are captured on camera where, you know, someone is testifying about, you know, a major thing, the information that they re testifying about actually didn t come out at that time. it came out before, but it was that moment where human beings stood up, went under oath on national television before congress that they were able to capture the attention of the information that they did. for example, when jim comey went up and testified before congress in, you know, the summer of 2017 about his relationship with trump, the details, many of the details about that had already come out, but it was the dramatic nature of comey going and testifying. that repeats itself throughout history. so can the committee there s a lot of disclosures out there. there s more disclosures about this event than about any event in recent his tor cal times. can they take one of those