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mentioned the freshman at michigan state, her name is emma riddle. she was in oxford. she was hiding under her desk, called her parents and said i can t believe this is happening again. there s a senior named jackie matthews. she s from connecticut. she was at sandy hook elementary school. now we have a generation of kids who are surviving school shootings at their elementary and high schools and going through them again at their college. what do you say to emma and jackie and all the kids who are worried that it could happen to me? well, it is a tragedy and that s why we have to take action on this and when you think about what students go through, they train for this. when i was a kid, we used to have tornado drills. plan for a tornado. and now children have shooter drills. which is insane that s happening
whole life now what do die? ainsley: can you believe kids have active shooting drills now? we had tornado drills. brian: let s go over to ashley who has other news. we will start with the latest in the murdaugh double murder trial. maggie murdaugh takes the stand and takes a strange comment alex murdaugh made of his wife and 22-year-old son. alec, do you have any idea whose could do this? we have got find out who could do this? and he said that he did not know who it was but he felt like whoever did it had thought about it for a really long time. maggie s sister is the first family member to testify. she says she knew about alex s opioid addiction and despite the couple s problems. she felt like alex and maggie had a good relationship. scottish first minister storm surge just announced plans to
almost every week. you mentioned the ongoing debate in congress about potential gun safety legislation and we heard from senator chris murphy of connecticut earlier in the show and he acknowledged it might not be much more than incremental. and what is your reaction to so far how it s gone? what you are hoping to see and hear? well, things that are so dramatic and impressive? i mean, it s astonishing to me. i only graduated from high school 20 years ago, which seems longer and longer away. then, doors were open and things we worried about were fire drills and, many my part of the country, tornado drills. now you have active shooter training. i talked to a teacher the other day, talking about the challenges with the active shooter drills and all the changes after each tragedy. it is imperative real action be taken. i think something myself and the united states conference of mayors is trying to do is make sure we put pressure on the senators in swing states, even some of whom are re
overmatched. that s what happened in buffalo anyway. also, this idea of a single point of entry. just one way in, one way out. thinking that would be easier to safeguard. but aren t there actually an extraordinary amount of dangers to that proposal? yes. it is incredibly dangerous. as a teacher myself, a former fbi agent, i mean, part of why i am no longer a law enforcement officer is that, as a law enforcement officer, you have an ethical obligation to engage a target and proceed to where violence is occurring and try to stop it. i wasn t willing to do that any longer. you know, as a teacher, if you have one egress point out of a school, you are dealing with, if it is at a high school, you could potentially have 1,200 kids trying to enter and exit from the same point. we have to remember, you know, i m here in texas. we have tornado drills. we had a tornado not far from