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Homeland security adviser to president obama. At this event hosted by the Texas Tribune festival. Thank you, evan. I thank all of you for being here. This is at the university of texas. A couple of quick reminders. This will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. We already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, allstar panel here. Secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. We would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. Please remember to silence your phones. If you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, tribfest19 is how youll do that. Well take questions at the end. The microphone will be passed around. If you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. Quickly, im david priess, chief operating of ....
Were killed in Mass Shootings in this country while we were on the august recess when we should have been here doing our job. 100 americans are killed every day from gun violence. There are 100 desks in this room. There are 100 chairs behind each one of those desks. And if these were the americans killed by gun violence, they would add up to every single desk thats in this room. And yet the majority leader didnt bring us back during the august recess, didnt say we should cancel our vacation and come back to work for the American People, hasnt put a bill on the floor or given the opportunity for anybody else to put a bill on the floor now that weve been back in session for the last two months. In colorado alone in the last 1 months weve 18 months weve lost 882 people to gun violence. Thats a record in my state, madam president. Ifthe house of representatives s done their job. ....
[background noise] [gavel] committeese judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, poway, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of a gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities shattered by Mass Violence perpetrated by a gunman old with armed with assault weapons. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and in our neighborhood. Simply put civilian assault , w ....