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means. but officers resisted as the massacre played out. meantime, vigils and memorials are giving families and the community a chance to grieve and of course, begin healing. but nothing will bring back the 21 people they ve lost. and we re now hearing for the first time from the mother of the gunman, salvador ramos. translator: i have no words. i have no words to say. i don t know what he was thinking. he had his reasons for doing what did he and please don t judge him. i only want the innocent children who died to forgive me. what do you tell their families? translator: forgive me. forgive my son. i know he had his reasons. what reasons could he have had in. translator: to get closer to those children instead of paying attention to the other bad things. i have no words. i don t know. cnn s ed lavandera begins our coverage. reporter: two days after the mass shooting at robb elementary, the story of what happened when the gunman arrived on the campus has f ....
The massacre at columbine high school in april 1999. when two students killed 12 fellow students and a team offer. federal legislation was proposed to close loopholes for background check at gun shows. it failed in congress. for president after president since bill clinton, there are tragedies. there s a call to action. there are efforts of legislation. and that legislation falls short. reporter: the sandy hook elementary school shooting in newtown, connecticut in 2012 when children were gunned down with adults, it was a most so horrifying that people said something had to be done. many believe tighter gun laws had a real chance of passing. they didn t pass. not a proposed assault weapons ban. not background checks. president barack obama was still upset years later. every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. ....
House and recently the vice president called for this to be wrapped up, it seems that isn t happening. certainly we will find out if it comes to damage to the president, we will find out likely with the mid terms coming up in november. one thing is happening, some people around him have been ensnared in criminal indictments and that s damaging enough. where this goes after that, we have to find out. in terms of how this is being viewed by the public, there s a new poll showing just 13% of republicans view the investigation as legitimate, a full 75% of republicans agree with the president saying this is a witch-hunt. should robert mueller s team offer something to the public at this point to validate continuing the investigation or at least stop getting trump l loyists room to attack? it is unlikely they would see anything from robert mueller and his team. his hallmark is to stay silent, ....
probably nicer than my opinion. i might take you up on it. thanks for watching. i m jacob soboroff at msnbc world headquarters. president trump is clarifying his comments about pressing putin on election interference. president putin really feels, and he feels strongly that he did not meddle in our election. what he believes is what he believes. facing fallout from his criticism of u.s. intelligence, the president again took to twitter to defend a relationship with russia. his tweet storm included shots at north korean leader kim jong-un while suggesting they could one day be friends. we ve got team offer couldage this afternoon as the president enters his final leg of his asian tour but we begin in the philippines the fifth and final stop on president trump s trip to asia. the president attending a gala earlier today before arriving, he walked back earlier comments in which he called the former heads of three intelligence agencies political hacks, and ....