School. That day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, its a shooting and its at our school. It was the day after thanksgiving i was in my familys home in chicago. My son was with his father in florid florida. I picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan . What happened to jordan . And thats when Jordans Dad said jordan has been shot. Youre 25 times more likely to die from Gun Violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. What does this say about us as americans . Were just willing to let people die because were afraid of The Nra . There is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. Gun Vie Lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. Its only getting worse and worse and were focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. The nra had managed to convince millions of America
murders. those are events in which four or more people are killed. and nearly 9500 gun violence deaths already this year. the president is using this moment to announce new executive action to tamp down, to try to tamp down gun crime. he s also once again calling on congress to act on gun legislation. let s begin this hour at the white house. our jeremy diamond joins us. what is to come from biden today? reporter: listen, we re going to see the president layout a comprehensive gun prevention violence strategy to address the surge in violent crime that happened over 2020 and appears to be continuing into 2021, with experts warning of a potentially dangerous and violent summer. we re going to hear the president sign some new executive actions on gun reforms. he s also going to push congress once again to enact gun control laws. press for the confirmation of his atf director. this will all follow a meeting between the president, his attorney general, and several mayors and chi
politicians do, as has been noted, i think by you, dana, they re excited to see each other. there is the house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, and liz cheney, who has been feuding with him because he has been telling lies about the election. and the continued pageantry of the night still going on even though they are masked, even though their numbers are limited. i think usually that room sits about 1,600. tonight it s only going to seat 200. it is certainly a cautious approach given that most of them, if not all of them, have been vaccinated. but we re going to soon hear the introduction of the president of the united states. so let s take a moment and just listen and hear some of the senior leaders of the u.s. senate walking in, the senate president pro tem, and senator dick durbin, senator bernie sanders and others. people happy to see each other. there s not a lot of interaction on capitol hill these days given covid. amy klobuchar. there s the senate majority leader a
we re going to look at why this country appears to be helpless in the face of this level of violence and hear more from the victim s family in the latest mass shooting. how can a 19-year-old kid have access to the gun and we are most strong country in this world? we call united states of america, and we call ourselves that we re the most safest country, but we re not. i have two guests coming up to talk about what s not getting done in congress and what could be done outside of washington, d.c. we re also keeping an eye on what s shaping up as another night of protests against police in two cities where tensions are running very high after two more young black men died at the end of an officer s gun. but we do want to begin with a fire storm on capitol hill that has one of the hill s most controversial members firing back. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene lashing out after media reports on her plans for an america first congressional caucus. just a couple of hours a
and still signs of progress, and the fda is now considering whether to allow pfizer to move aware for vaccines for kids ages 12 through 15. and we have new developments across the country, and we have polo sandoval and paul vercammen, and officials, polo, they are saying that they are seeing high positivity rates. one of the big telltale numbers here, fred, is that the hospitalization rates, and we have heard from the officials here in the state of michigan saying that they have noticed a increase in that specifically among the pediatric patients and increase of 257% in the last couple of months, and that is going to go towards the big message here that health officials have been sharing with the younger people in michigan to head to these kinds of mass vaccination sites if they are eligible to do so and get that vaccination if eligible to do, so and with multiple health systems throughout the state of michigan and one group reports that they have more than doubled in the l