minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterday s attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this year alone. 213 incident where is four or more people have been shot. to put that into perspective, today is the 145th day of the year, which to do the basic comparison, mean there is have been more mass shootings than days in the year 2022. and there have been at least 30 shootings at k-12 schools already this year. this is unacceptable. but we must say it, it is the reality. and because there s been no action time after time after time again, it actually is accepted. and today, we heard from tex
and the senate democrats and republicans will now work together with the president and come up with some new gun control regulations in. obviously you have the senators senators toomey and manchin being publicly optimistic but i spent my day calling the aides who have been working through the issues with their bosses and who have previously worked on these issues through all of the other mass shootings and as one of them told me, potentially rather cynically, said that i saw 20 babies murdered, referring to newtown and nothing happened there. it is unclear what changes the president actually wants in the toomey/manchin legislation. a few of the aides questions whether or not the president really understands how much how much he understands. he understands exactly what background checks are. we do know there is going to be the white house legislative team that will go to bedminster and brief the president on what they could potentially do here. and we also know that ivanka trump h
people don t like to hear it, but the republican legislative leaders was party above country. when there was a crisis under george bush with two months to go before an election and a crisis of financial stability, we put country in front of party. up next, a tragic day for america and the white house. long-time obama friend and adviser valerie jarrett talks about the shootings in newtown and obama s determined gun control fight. (man) my dad and i have the same eyes. same nose. same toughness.
do you remember newtown, the day, and the president s reaction? i certainly do. how do you remember? i remember being in the oval office when he was delivered a note that said the number of people who perished and he said 20 children and i thought he said two and i said two? and he said, no, i said 20. and i just remember neither my brain nor my heart could process that. and it was just every parents nightmare, of course. and i traveled with the president to newtown and we ended up having to drive about an hour and ten minutes because it was a cloudy day and he couldn t take a helicopter and he read his speech that had been prepared for him in the car and i remember watching him read it and then he put it on the other chair in the car and he pulled out a yellow pad and a pen and he started writing from scratch. and i remember being conscious of my breathing because i didn t want to disturb him in any way and he wrote solidly for an hour and ten minutes and he walked in
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