friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
arrow in this conversation. he can t leave me with that, but arrow in this conversation. he can t leave me with that, but we - arrow in this conversation. he can t leave me with that, but we are - arrow in this conversation. he can t i leave me with that, but we are going to have to leave it there anyway. we are out. thank you both very much indeed for being with us and we will be back, of course, at the same time tomorrow. join us for that. good night. hello there. the cold weather is being pushed away for the time being. on monday, we saw temperatures reaching for teams and excesses, even the snow and the ice in scotland has been melting and it s led to high levels as well. the mile there that we started the week with is ahead of this by the frontier which is bringing some rain. as that moves through, the air gets a bit cooler but fallows i m behind. some rain left over i think early in the morning across eastern england. that should move away. the cloud breaks up should move away.
senate testimony and i ve been talking about this atlantic article that fallows wrote in 81. had nothing to do with slaughter. had everything to do with after vietnam. they were saying, why were the guns jamming? why were they heavy and horrible to use? m-16s were absolute disasters. so they had, i think, stoner who designed the ar-15 testify. the ar-15s are killing machines, smaller caliber. when it hits flesh, it goes apart. it destroys. it s just a killing machine. it s lighter. it s easier to use. it is easier to carry. it is designed to be the most effective killing machine to kill human beings, tom. this is what this is what greg abbott and ron desantis and, i guess, mitch mcconnell
question. the country has always been a land of strives but there is been effort to bring people together. what we would like people to know is how vast a source of tested ideas and willing participants and new approaches to institutional life and community life and cultural life that exists through the 50 states of america that now had a chance to be applied nationally and including the central role of america becoming more inclusive diverse version of itself as it has been the saga of our century. the new documentary our towns is beautiful and important, it debuts tomorrow on hbo and hbo max. james and deb fallows. thank you for being us. up next n the role of the
here to discuss that with me new york times columnist msnbc political analyst michelle goldberg. economist at the intercept and host of up front with al jazeera, manny hasan and finally, the author of the man who sold america the trump and the unraveling story and the host of a.m. joy, my colleague joy reid. the fallows, pete, i ve heard this a million times and he just did a good job at making the point. if someone on my staff said that, you re done. yeah. you re done. in any environment. he violated eoc guidelines. like, literally guidelines. of what constitutes racism in the workplace has those exact words. send her back. and if you just take the two first examples that fallows mentioned, imagine you re on the