right now on andrea mitchell reports, the monterey park california community devastated by a weekend mass shooting leaving ten dead, ten others injured and the 72-year-old alleged gunman dead while investigators search for motive. i ll speak to the district s congresswoman about the tragedy as well as top law enforcement experts. and a pulse nightclub survivor of that 2016 orlando mass shooting about continuing scourge of guns and high capacity magazines. also this hour, an unprecedented fbi search the private home of a sitting american president, uncovering more classified documents. how the drip by drip of this controversy is eroding support even among leading democrats. should be held accountable and responsible is what we all are and for those in unsecured spaces is irresponsible. at its heart of the issue is the same. those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either joe biden or donald trump. good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in
rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
the way now for massive amounts of aid to begin flowing including direct payments of up to $1,400 that could land in some people s bank accounts as soon as this weekend. this comes exactly one year after the kworldworld health organization declared a coronavirus pandemic that so far has claimed more than 530,000 american lives and infected almost 30 million people in the u.s. alone. by contrast, a year ago today, there were just 1,100 known cases here in the united states, underscoring the virus s devastating spread across the country and, indeed, around the world. and the cdc has just confirmed to cnn that data suggests 2020 was the deadliest year in u.s. history, with a 15% increase in the death rate due to the pandemic. let s go to the whoite house, or chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us now. we re told that the president has been working on this speech for a week. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, wolf, top aides say he s been editing it line
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you heard it there from those interviews, you are hearing it from joyce. this is not just another one of america s mass shootings. it is, indeed, part of our shameful history and present around gun violence, but these are lives. these are ten people who were killed. they re ten people who went to celebrate the lunar new year. they re ten people whose families now have to figure out how to move on without them, who will be empty seats at dinner tables and missing faces at birthday parties. you know, there is so much that can be done. it is worth saying that california has among the lowest death rate due to guns in the country, in part because they have some of the strongest laws in the country, but this patchwork hodgepodge of state-by-state legislation around gun policy is you know, it is chaotic. it is ineffective and, quite frankly, it should be embarrassing. we have, you know, right-wing politicians in this country telling us the biggest crises we have are hunter biden s laptop or