saw a couple of my colleagues voting with us. this is not an impeachment vote. this is really procedural. it just takes us to the next phase of the investigation. and it will allow the president to have his white house counsel question the witnesses. i think that we need to find the truth. the american people need to see for themselves everything that house intelligence committee, the oversight committee, they have been listening from witnesses. so i think it s an important vote this morning, but a very difficult one for all of us. we didn t come here to impeach the president, jim. i didn t come here to do this and to focus on impeachment. we focused on reducing health care costs. i ve been working on gun violence issues, on the environment. i represent the florida keys. we re like 0.0 for the effects of climate change in the florida keys. but it s a difficult time but it s necessary to protect our democracy. you make a point there that leaves you vulnerable. leaves the party vulnera
been shot standing nearby, begging them for help. so all of that kind of trauma. and i talked to mayor whaley again just a couple of hours ago, mayor of dayton. and people have really rallied around the whole community, the dayton community foundation is people are giving money to them. that s important to help these families that have survived and the families who have lost people and those who are injured to get some kind of help. but i don t know that there are state or federal resources there the way there should be. i have not been at all thrilled with the way state government and the federal government have responded to this from the president to the state legislature. when you say that, what do you mean? well, i mean first of all, that the president the first things the state legislature in ohio has been absolutely terrible on gun violence issues. there is the governor is now
and people have really rallied around the whole community, the dayton community foundation is people are giving money to them. that s important to help these families that have survived and the families who have lost people and those who are injured to get some kind of help. but i don t know that there are state or federal resources there the way there should be. i have not been at all thrilled with the way state government and the federal government have responded to this from the president to the state legislature. when you say that, what do you mean? well, i mean first of all, that the president the first things the state legislature in ohio has been absolutely terrible on gun violence issues. there is the governor is now proposing some things that who know what s the state legislature will do. we know what mitch mcconnell hasn t done. we know what the racist, divisive rhetoric from this president.
staff members return friday morning. a voluntary campus orientation for students and parents set for sunday. the goal is to resume on a modified schedule on tuesday. the support services will be available to students and staff during the reopening process. funerals for five of the victims are set for today. they are students peter wang and cara loughran and carmen schentrup along with with chris hixon and aaron feis. and suspected russian bot accounts are flooding twitter. with hundreds of posts on various sides of the gun violence issues. the tweets starting one hour after the high school shooting. before then, the same accounts focused on the mueller investigation. experts say these automated
young life short. the president and first lady s prayers are with the family in these trying times. to weigh in, john avalon and hln contributor and hiram college political science professor jason johnson. welcome to you both. good morning. good morning. jason, i ll start with you. why hasn t president obama come out and condemned the killing? you know, to american newspapers, to americans? because people get killed in this country all the time. that s sad to say, but it happens. we have gun violence issues. we have crime issues. i think a lot of the conservatives this is a disingenuous cry on their behalf to even compare this to trayvon martin. and so the president really doesn t have anything to say. it s a local law enforcement issue. it s not a national security issue. it s just a tragedy, and unfortunately we have to move on because this happens all too often in america. but john, the former prime minister of australia came out and had a warning for his fellow countryme