florists shaped casket sprays. the head of the texas funeral director s association brought in an extra funeral coach along with other morticians. some experts at the art of facial reconstruction to assist. all of this happening against the backdrop of persisting questions around the police response to the shooting and deep anger and confusion over why it took law enforcement well over an hour to confront the shooter. on sunday the justice department announced that it is launching a probe into the police response, what s known as a critical incident review. new york times reports out the history of this type of investigation saying, quote, other mass shootings that the justice department has looked at in its review of law enforcement agency responses have included the 2015 domestic terrorist attack in san bernardino, california, and the 2016 attack on the pulse nightclub in orlando, florida, with an eye toward understanding how officers could have been better prepared and r
straight-up, racially motivated hate crime. now, the justice department is investigating. we ll have the latest. the january six committee slapped five congressman with subpoenas, and more could be coming. former impeachment manager joe neguse joins me live to discuss. a new nbc news poll is that with the latest snapshot of voter sentiment in this midterm election here. senator chris murphy joins me live on set to discuss the democrats agenda. also here, former attorney general eric holder to talk about the fight for voting rights and our democracy. i m jonathan capehart, this is the sunday show. this sunday, we begin with that mass shooting at a grocery store in buffalo, new york, that left ten people dead and three people injured overnight. law enforcement officials have flat out called that racially motivated. the 18 year old white suspect is in custody and appeared at a hearing overnight. according to the erie county da, he is scheduled for a felony hearing on thursday.
of unrestricted gun access. the other thing i ll mention, which takes up on the last conversation is part of what happens, i think, i m a gun owner. i ve told you that before. i m a gun owner. i ve taken my children hunting. we ve enjoyed it. all of that. i ve gone hunting with people from uvalde, with them and their kids from uvalde, years ago, people that hunted in this. and i think the debate needs to understand that better as mr. salazar said. it doesn t when it goes into no guns or all guns, if it s a debate where gun owners who support all of these things as i do, they support all of these things, where there s an acknowledgment that guns are a part of people that grew up with it, but there s a rational reasonable approach that they re for. i think part of what happens in washington and part of what happens in the new york media especially is i don t think there s an understanding of that, of the importance of hunting, the importance of all of those things when the debate
unfolds. but absolutely, i think what the debate ought to be about is just do the things 80% of the country wants. just start there. just do the things 80% of the country wants. we can debate whether all the other things, but just do the three things or four things that 80% of the country wants. my fear is the republican party is so consumed by unrestricted gun access, they are not going to move an inch on it. yeah, well, matt, i think, you know, in some cases on some of those matters like universal background checks, i think the number s actually closer to 90 than it is to 80. people at 86, 87% in some of these cases. and melissa, when we hear some discussion right now about the possibility that maybe this time is different, i ll focus back on washington, d.c., again, where joe biden has been in the middle of this fight for a very long time. he was asked by a reporter about mitch mcconnell and john cornyn, one of the two senators from texas, and he s asked about the prospect for gun
the world this is the fundamental problem, which is why i think this points to a much bigger issue, which is the health of our democracy if you go around the world, i think about the same percentage of people in every country and all these major democracies want sort of unrestricted gun access, including the united states. so it s about equal around the world. the problem is those people that want unrestricted gun access and no impingement on freedom are completely part of one political party, completely part of one political party who refuses to budge. that s the difference, and so when you have these issues where 70% or 80% of the country want something done, they want universal background checks. they want the age raised to 21. they want red flag laws, 80% of the country wants that, and it s not happening. you have to ask why. it s because we have a very unhealthy democracy where the super majority can t rule because we have a republican party that s been completely taken over b