legislation after another series of deadly mass shootings of force the issue back to the top of its agenda. on wednesday, family and survivors from the racially motivated attack at a supermarket in buffalo, new york, as well as the robb elementary shooting in uvalde, texas, will participate in a hearing held by the committee on oversight and reform. among the speakers will be maya surrey oh, a robb elementary fourth grader who was trapped in one of the adjoining classrooms of the gunman attacked. she told cnn that she covered herself in her classmates blood and play dead for an hour until law enforcement finally brought an end to the attack. now, she will tell her story to the entire country. think about this for just a second, think about the trauma that has been inflicted on school children because of our inaction. think about how much we ve been active asking of young people across this country as the united states senate has continued to stall on passing any kind of legis
ammunition as well. so, that is raising a lot of questions. ceo marty daniel, ali, pulled forbes in 2017 that their gun sales skyrocketed after sandy hook. liz, thank you for your reporting there. liz maclachlan, live in uvalde, texas. join me now as richard feldman, a former lobbyist for the nra, he s a president of the independent firearms owners association. he s the author of ricochet, confessions of a gun lobbyist. richard, it is good to see you again. you and i do have a habit of talking not just after shootings, and i was appreciate that, because i don t think we re entirely on the same side of this issue. we are in the same side of not having mass shootings. there is a pattern that has developed over the last couple of decades about how the school shootings go, who commits them, or kind of weaponry they use. given the increase in information that you and i get literally weekly, but do you think the solution is to this? i m always taken aback when we discuss this issue.
with regards to saudi arabia. and we need to shine a light on it. and we need to probably strengthen the laws surrounding the accident transparency of the finances of our foreign policy officials and others, with regard to their conduct of policy while they are in office. in connection with their own personal finances. congressman, good to see this morning. thank you for taking time to join. as democratic representative roger of illinois. straight, ahead the gun debate with an actual gun rights proponent who is willing to come to the negotiating table. plus, bestselling author jodi picoult joins us for this week s meeting of the banned book club. a new hour of velshi, begins right now. good morning at a sunday, june the 5th. if my name and the, east examine the west. i m ali. velshi congress returns to capitol hill this week and will resume its work on gun control
board to ban transition related medical care for minors. some emails across the country target transgender get specifically. to discuss this i m joined by jonathan capehart, host of the sunday show. jonathan, these pieces of legislation a horrible. but one of your guest today is hoping to fight back against these interests are discriminatory laws. we are going to see stephenson on, she is the ceo of family equality. this is an organization that its sole purpose an entire purpose is to fight for lgbtq+ family these lgbtq laws that are proliferating, more than 300, ali, across the country, and not only targeting families but also targeting specifically children. which is what makes with this happening around the country so pernicious, to the point where there is one law, ali banning trans women and girls from competing in sports.
former congresswoman jane hartman, 17 years in congress on many important committees. she s a distinguished fellow and the president emeritus at the wilson center. she s the author of insanity defense, why our failure to confront hard national security problems makes us less safe. for the first time in person in almost three years, we meet again. thank you for being on with us as regularly as you are. well, thank you for your authentic, voice ali. thank you for spending a month in poland, thank you to poland for taking in about half of the 8 million refugees from ukraine. a real act of heroism. and thank you for covering this topic at a time when most people are talking about other important issues, and they are important like inflation and guns and choice. your book wasn t written about this particular issue but it might as well have been. ukraine is actually an example of where our foreign policy needs to be cogent and important. because, if ukraine falls, it does sort of speak t