can the press help get to the truth? and a dismissive response to senator chuck schumer s plea for change. and, later, why afghanistan needs to stay in the news. two afghan news anchors are going to join us live from kabul with another oppressive taliban ruling. breaking news this hour. president biden about to land in texas. it is his second trip to the site of a mass killing in as many weeks. the president and first lady will be landing in san antonio this hour. then they re going to board those helicopters and fly to the memorial site in uvalde. they will attend mass at the sacred heart catholic church. they will meet with victims families. cnn will have live coverage throughout the day. we ll be watching to see if president biden makes any remarks as he lands there in the next few minutes. in uvalde and beyond, people are searching for answers. people like kimberly rubio, a reporter at the local paper the uvalde leader news. the paper s front page this morning
particularly for self-defense, but restricts an 18-year-old from buying a murderous weapon after one of his late night video game binges and the answer is, it may not be possible to have that moderate conversation. brian, i think you re absolutely right and that is so depressing that someone who s covered media for 40 years and thought i was working in the direction of helping to facilitate the conversation of american life, the civic conversation of american life. we have so hopelessly lost any semblance of a conversation. we just have people screaming at each other in a way and i don t think we re going to get it back. i think technology took off. we didn t think about it. we don t care about philosophy and ethics anymore in the school, in the colleges. we have to learn the technical trade to make money. we didn t think about the technology, brian, before it