shoo shootings. near a shelter for migrants sunday, and the day before, eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an outlet mall on the other side of the state. investigators are looking at whether the gunman was motivated by far-right extremism. an image of the shooter s body shows him wearing all black tactical gear and he had a patch on his clothing with the letters, rwds, which police believe stands for right wing death squad. he also apparently had a lot of neo-nazi and white supremacist social media posts. we re now hearing from a survivor who hid inside a bathroom closet with 12 other people. the gunshots, just, it sounded like a war zone. if it was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream. like, just shock, but we were in a bathroom closet. and we were just in the closet trying not to be heard, crying, praying, people were trying to call 911. we couldn t dial out. i just remembered thinking, oh, god, he s coming in here next. and when i was crouching d
america s gun violence epidemic. plus, ruben gallego joins me here in the studio as he launches his bid to evict conservative former democrat kyrsten sinema from the senate. and the latest from the devolder files. george santos claims to have been mugged on one of the busiest and fanciest avenues. when it comes to the january 6th assault on the capitol and the attempt to subvert our democracy, the wheels of justice are indeed actually turning. in the two years since the insurrection, the department of justice has made more than 950 arrests. nearly 500 of those people have pleaded guilty to a variety of federal charges. at least 40 have been found guilty at contested trials. just yesterday, four members of the extremist group the oath keepers were found guilty of the most serious charge lobbed in the attack, seditious conspiracy. this follows november s conviction of two other oath keepers including the group s leader, elmer stewart rhodes under the same charge. and righ
widening war as the u.s. strikes back at iranian-linked targets after u.s. forces in the mideast come under multiple attacks. plus mr. speaker. the house finally elects a speaker. louisiana s mike johnson ending weeks of chaos. the people s house is back in business. and just hours later, the deadliest mass shooting this year where 18 were killed in lewiston, maine. the speaker s response, guns are not to blame. the problem is the human heart. it s not guns. it s not the weapon. and trail mix. president biden has a new primary challenger, minnesota congressman dean philips. i m running because america s demanding it. while former vice president mike pence drops out of the 2024 race. it s become clear to me, this is not my time. my guest this morning, florida governor and 2024 republican presidential candidate ron desantis. democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal of washington state, and former california governor arnold schwarzenegger. joining me for insigh
i don t know the circumstances. but that s part of it. and the response to the nashville shooting, the governor of tennessee has called for state action. that s right. and look at what rick scott did in florida after the parkland shootings there. you talk about states, so let s end on your state. the cdc data shows that louisiana had the second highest firearm mortality rate by state as 2021. 21.9%. over 1,300 firearm deaths in your state. do you want to see more done on this in your state? absolutely. and in the uvalde response bill, we created funds for the states, such as mine, to have more resources to enforce restraining orders, for example. the husband, who s estranged who walks in and kills his family. now, he s already got a restrainrestrain i i order. there s resources in that bill to address that. by the way, i ll point out, the administration was slow to put
california to a place like mississippi or louisiana or wyoming or alabama, the states with the highest gun deaths per capita, the states where people are really dying, it s all these red states. it s missouri, mississippi, louisiana. california actually has the seventh lowest firearm mortality rate in the country. hawaii is number one. it s like you literally it s like with whether you re as a woman have the right over your own body. we live in two americas. even in california in the america that s trying, they re basically subject to the law of the gun in all of the neighboring states. they are, and so that s why we need a national solution. and we cannot break this logjam, this deadlock in washington that goes against public opinion, that goes against the nation s obvious needs. and that permits this carnage, this carnage day after day, year after year. mass shooting, 40 mass shootings in the first month of the year.