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good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 7th. we have important new reporting this morning on the status of the gun safety talks in washington. negotiators met late into the night, and it seems there are areas of possible agreement. narrow agreement, but agreement. word of a measure that might change how people younger than 21 buy semiautomatic weapons. both the killers in buffalo and uvalde were 18, they used semiautomatic ar-15-style weapons. this would not be a ban on sales to those under 21, which the president and others have called for, but something of an adjustment and we will have details on that in just a moment. since friday, gun violence has killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens more in 13 mass shootings in the united states. awful scenes at graduation pop particulars, night club, tainment district and strip mall. let s go to lauren fox on capitol hill to get the latest on what is bein ....
Night because we were talking about the proud boys, this person who did a documentary on the proud boys will be a witness thursday night, we re told, as will a capitol police officer. james goldstin, who i worked for when he was ep of gma and night line, has been brought in to help produce these hearings. what does that tell you? it shows you they want to make this compelling. they know that a certain segment of the american public has a tin ear to this, sadly, and shouldn t, but has seen that video of them storming the capitol so many times now it may not have the same impact, so i think that they brought in essentially an expert, a show runner, to try to package it in a way that breaks through. it is worth remembering that most congressional hearings are absolutely awful to watch on television. they are, you know, when they give each member of congress five minutes to ask questions when they blow veeate for five minutes and don t ask questions ....