thank you so much for letting us in your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts right now. happy monday. happy monday, thanks, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. the civil case against donald trump over defamation and battery, nicole was discussing that earlier. we have that later in the hour here on the beat. our top story tonight is a topic that could be the top national story on most nights by many metrics. america s gun epidemic and the ongoing threat and reality of a highly armed nation with easy access to some of the most dangerous guns in the world and a gun-related death toll that exceeds every other country per capita in the world. that can look like this. [gun shots] that was the harrowing scene at a recent little league baseball game in south carolina. you can imagine and feel how all the kids and parents felt and that is the kind of story that may not even make what we call national news, that you may not have
years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight, my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and school staffers are replaced tonight by cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans to seek the expulsion of three democratic members for their roles in a gun safety protest on the house floor last week. all day angry supporters and gun safety advocates crowding the statehouse where the gop majority was putting the resolutions up to a vote one by one, declaring the three participated in disorderly behavior when they led supporters in chants demanding stricter gun safety measures. expulsion a rarely exercised right of the tennessee house that critics on the left tonight are c
the identity and other details about this killer, except to mention one unusual fact. wn what s unusual about this? this was a 28 year old woman pro apparentlyfi, that s an uncommon profile for these kinds of shooters. s just. be i mean, it is the the massmale. shooters tend to be male almosto in all instances. the more than 90% of these shootings are carried out by men. well, it turns out the killer s identity didn t quite match the preferred criteria of the media, whicherrr is usually a white male.e an they like it when they re angry at immigrants and others ore someone who is mentallyst unstable, perhaps, but stillil had access to an ar-15 style weapon. but this shooter wasn t just any old former female student at the school. she referrede referr to herselfn shot him and was t reportedly in the midst of a so-called transition process. now, whaw whatt treatments this individual was receiving or had received is still unknown. but all day long, authorities o went out ou
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