with primary races under way in seven states. california, iowa, mississippi, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota. polls are just opening now in california. one of the races closely watched is the los angeles mayoral race in which democratic congresswoman karen bass is facing off developer rick caruso. in montana, ryan zing ki who left congress to become the terror secretary is trying to return to the house representing the state s congressional district there. a top gop target this fall, iowa s third congressional district, the three candidates facing off in the republican primary hoping to flip that house seat this fall. joining us are national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board and steve patterson in los angeles. let s start with steve kornacki, good morning. what are you keeping an eye on this morning? a lot to watch today, jose. there are seven states holding primaries. you can see this is actually kind of a super tuesday. this is the b
senate judiciary doing their hearing today. they re going to hear from the son of one of the women who was killed at the tops market in buffalo, and then we re also going to see victims families speak tomorrow in front of the house oversight committee. they re doing their own hearing focused on buffalo and uvalde trying to keep the focus on these gun violence deaths and the ways the house and senate both are trying to tackle this problem. just in the last few minutes as you were talking to the congressman, senate majority leader chuck schumer went to the floor and said democrats are aware they re not going to get everything they want in these senate negotiations around gun violence prevention legislation, but schumer said that he s giving senator chris murphy, one of the lead democratic negotiators on this, the space to figure out what can garner enough votes to actually pass the senate. because amid all of this flurry of action we re seeing on the house side with the package of gun l
mental health as well as coming up with common sense gun ownership laws. congressman, lou core rear ra, let s continue our conversation and come back soon. thank you very much. to capitol hill and the growing urge stoi tackle gun violence. the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism and we should be hearing from the son of a victim of the buffalo grocery store mass shooting and correspondent ali vitali is with us this morning. what are we going to be hearing this morning? jose, this is a hearing they re billing on the threat of domestic terror in the united states. it comes, of course, after that shooting in buffalo which, unfortunately, was the starting point then for many, many more mass shootings that we ve seen since then, including in uvalde, texas. that s the backdrop here for this hearing and others that we re going to see like it appear on capitol hill.
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