palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of andrea mitchell reports with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history, the 2019 walmart shooting, where the shooter pleaded guilty to federal murder and hate crime charges for targeting hispanic migrants. family members of his 23 victims are making impact statements in court later today. the gunman is likely to be sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. in philadelphia, a 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder after allegedly opening fire
judge jeanine pirro, charlie hurt, kennedy, and tyrus. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. was the five before christmas, the studio was set for the table to discuss the big topics. the stockings were hung by the cameras with care in hopes that the five would soon be on air. when out in the greenroom us rose such a clatter, it was just judge jeanine stealing a cookie from the platter. okay, that is enough of that. we are going to get to the news in a few minutes but now it is time for a christmas fastest. first up. think of secret santa gifts. one man is vowing to never participate in his office exchange ever again after only receiving a box full of a assorted mini candy bars as is present. judge, i feel like this would be a dream gift for you, actually, to get candy. jeanine: it is a dream gift. here is the problem. this guy is very upset because he spent all this time getting a present for someone, and in exchange, he got left over candy. he assume
government circles, to overturn the election. one witness we are expecting to hear from is a former spokesman for the oathkeepers. that is the group that we now know brought explosives to the dc area ahead of january 6th, according to the justice department. one person we won t hear from tomorrow, trump allies steve bannon. days before he goes on trial for stonewalling the select committee, bannon now says he will testify. prosecutors say this last minute 180 won t get him out of next week s trial. we will have the latest on that case in just a moment. first, let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill. how is the committee planning to show links between trans allies and the 60 myst groups tomorrow? that is a great bastion. it will probably come through closed-door witness testimony which we have already seen the committee display over the past few weeks in these public hearings. we know the committee has spoken to a lot of people inside and outside the white house who knew a
memorial, takes pictures, and talks. i just want to confront this demon of carnage, if you want to call it that. and for me to do it i have to come here. reporter: he s lived in highland park for 26 years, and on july 4th went to the parade with his wife and grandchildren. we re 50 feet from the shooter and the easiest targets possible. and why we weren t shot i can t figure out. reporter: he heard the shots and ran, then saw the injuries and one of the dead. here he is on surveillance video. i just couldn t wrap my head around what had just happened. i kept trying to figure it out. and i guess i m still trying to figure out what makes somebody this evil. reporter: it s the question this entire community is trying to answer. for the first two days i would say am i still sleeping? is this a nightmare? wake me up because it cannot feel real. and you go through these waves where you re numb for a little bit and then you get angry and then you feel guilty and overwh
focused on violent military tactics. i want to bring in national security analyst, julia, a former department of homeland security assistant secretary and she is also the author of the devil never sleeps, learning to live in an age of disaster. thank you for coming on. as terrifying as the attack on the capital was, with this new information, do you get the sense that it could ve been much, much worse? absolutely. the amount of weaponry that the proud boys alone had, as well as the oath keepers, just suggests that they were ready for some sort of activity that would ve been much more violent than what we saw. then, the question is, why did that happen? and in some of the filings we have seen so far in particular, in the cases against the oath keepers, because remember, a number of the oath keepers have now pled, they have turned against leadership, so we are learning a lot about what the planning was, they were waiting for some moments, some triggers, some activation from t