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>> i don't know whether to be excited or bummed out. >> no one wants a snowless streak in new york city. >> and i'm surprised by the favorite movie. thanks so much. it's the top of the hour on "cnn newsroom." i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're waiting for a news conference from monterey park, california. that's where ten people were killed. at least ten others hurt in this massacre inside a dance hall saturday night. now this is the deadliest mass shooting in the u.s. since the uvalde massacre last may, and 1 of 36 mass shootings in the u.s. this year. police say the shooter is a 72-year-old man who had visited the ballroom before. >> after the rampage, police say the gunman headed to another dance hall about ten minutes away north where he was confronted by brandon tsay. that's the hero who fought off the gunman and he told gm"good

morning america," he did not know the shooter. >> i lunged at him with both my hands, grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby, trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head. i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him, creating some distance. >> police said the gunman later shot himself in his van in torrance, california. >> just into the news room, you are learning this gunman visited police a couple of weeks before his rampage. what do you know about that visit? >> yeah, that's right, and this is a very strange occurrence. we're hearing this from the police in the city of hemmet, which is about 70 miles from where we are in monterey park, but police issued a statement. it says, tran, the suspect here, visited the police department

lobby on january 7, 2023, alleging fraud, theft and poisoning allegations involving his family in the los angeles area 10 to 20 years ago. tran stated he would return to the station with documentation regarding his allegations, but never returned. that from the police. a couple of peculiar things, and in addition to fraud, he's saying his family attempted to poison him, and looking at the time period, decades ago, apparently. hearing from the suspect's ex-wife that he was described as someone who could be very hot-tempered, that could get angry very easy. of course, we don't know yet exactly why he chose to come here to this dance studio where natasha and i are standing, but that's something law enforcement officers are trying to determine. he, of course, is deceased. he was found about 30 miles from here in the city of torrance, california. that after police officers saw a white van that matched the

description of suspects that police were looking for. they executed a traffic stop and as they went toward the van, they heard one shot, gunfire. they backed you, brought in the s.w.a.t. team and as you saw yesterday on our air, those dramatic images of the s.w.a.t. team surrounding that vehicle, and a stack of s.w.a.t. officers lined up and mewent to make visl confirmation, and they found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. so much we're wanting to know and waiting to hear from authorities about on the suspect and we do know they are working to interview people who knew the suspect. they're also conducting a search warrant at his residence, trying to gain any possible clue they can to get to the bottom of the motive here, guys. >> natasha, tell us what you have learned about the people who were killed. >> reporter: yeah, alisyn and victor, we're actually getting an update as we speak from the los angeles county usc hospital and our team is trying to work that out and i'm looking at

these notes as we're going here, but we do know from the l.a. coroner's office this morning they released two of the names of the people who died at this ballroom, and they are 65-year-old mai na, and 63-year-old lillian lee. we don't know the names of the other people, the five women and five men in total who were pronounced dead at this scene. we've seen a lot of people come up to the gate here and leave flowers, and just hold each other and pray. i want to show you a little clip from a conversation i had with two people who came by. they're locals in the region, and they talked to us about just this sense of overall tension and hesitation to go out in public spaces because of such violence happening. here they are. take a listen. >> there's no words really to describe how i'm feeling. i'm very sad.

there's too much hate. >> i hate to say this, but i'm really happy that it wasn't a racial, you know, asian hate. >> yeah. >> that is, for me, a relief, because i would have hated to see more violence because of this. >> reporter: and he did say that, you know, when i asked as a follow-up, how do his feelings change knowing that the suspect is a person within the asian american community, and he really just talked about his sadness and disappointment about the overall gun violence, and i do want to mention now -- i said in the beginning that we were going through notes as we speak about an update from the hospital. we've now confirmed that the death toll is at 11 people. 11 people have died from this shooting that happened on saturday night at this dance hall where people were cel celebrating, having fun, really enjoying themselves for the line you -- lunar new year, and this

11th person has ksuccumbed to their injury. i want to read a little bit of the quote. they say the heroic staff have worked tirelessly to care for the four victims that were entrusted to their care, four people initially brought to that location. unfortunately, quote, despite our best efforts, we are saddened to share that one of the victims has succumbed to their injuries and we want to express our deepest sympathies to their families and loved ones. as of last night, there were seven people still at hospitals. it looks like this one person has passed now. so we do not know the extent of the conditions of these people who are still in hospitals trying to recover. this is still a fluid situation, and especially for these families looking for answers, standing by their loved ones. just a lot of pain in this community right now, victor and alisyn. >> yes. understood, natasha. we appreciate how careful you and the team always are with this fluid, breaking news, and

confirming tragic news like that. thank you very much for your reporting, and josh. let's bring in cnn contributor and the lead reporter for "the guardian guns and lies in america project." let's talk about guns. california has one of the strictest gun laws in the nation, and yet, of course, no place can be immune from guns. borders are porous. what do we know, if anything, at this hour about how this guy got the gun, where, when, et cetera? >> yeah. those are some primary questions that we just don't have the answers to yet, but we do know for sure that the gun that was pulled away from him, it had an illegal magazine. in california, you're only allowed to have about ten rounds. ten rounds period, in a firearm, and of

and according to the sheriff, this man had far more than that, and that is -- it's illegal, you know? everyone wants to know how in california where it's incredibly difficult to get a gun, let alone a concealed carry permit, how this could happen, but we just don't have those answers just yet. >> yeah, i understand. i mean, this heinous crime exposes the limits of gun laws and gun control because as you say, in california, you're only allowed to have a magazine with ten rounds. this one had 30. we don't know if this was re retrofitted or what year he bought it. we also understand that criminals always have a workaround and so do gun manufacturers. this was in "the washington post" yesterday, that said manufacturers produce a range of, quote, california-compliant ar-15-style firearms that mix and match features to avoid violating the law. so even in places with stringent gun control, that, you know, manufacturers are working loopholes to get around this.

>> absolutely, and i think another important part is the role that neighboring states like nevada and arizona where gun laws are looser are primary hubs, you know, they call them iron pipelines where people will go buy a kind of cache of guns and bring them back. usually we see those come up in incidents of community violence that i usually cover, but there are so many ways that folks get guns into communities, and it feels like even with every well-intentioned gun law in the state, there's always a loophole. there's always someone that falls through the cracks, and it's incredibly frustrating given how much time this state has put into kind of making airtight gun laws to make sure it's difficult to get a gun, to make sure that if someone does get one, they know who that person is, you know, the state tries to milwake it clear to fo that if you see somebody who may be a danger to themselves or to somebody else, there are red flag laws.

there are petitions you can do to courts. there are so many ways that the state tries to avoid this, and yet and still we see it continue to happen. some of the most deadly shootings in our nation have happened in this state, whether it be a school campus or as we have most recently seen at a dance hall after an incredibly celebratory day. >> and let's talk about community of monterey park because as you pointed out, it is routinely voted one of the best and most peaceful places to live in the entire united states. as we say, of course, no place is immune. there have been already just this year in just the three weeks of this year, there have been 36 mass shootings across the united states. this one feels a little bit different only because he doesn't fit the profile we normally think of with mass shooters. he was a 72-year-old man and part of the asian community. he frequented this dance studio. do you have any thoughts on what we know about this so far?

>> a couple of things come to mind. one is we don't know -- a kind of common marker among people who commit high-profile di incidents of violence and mass shooting is a history of domestic violence, a history of violence against either their children, wife, parents, somebody. so that's one thing we don't know that can kind of be more in line with our understanding of mass shooters if you will, and that has yet to come out, and if it does, then the question of how he got the gun with the history of domestic violence will certainly be examined, and one thing i certainly wanted to talk about in terms of the community, you know, i met a teacher who works with a lot of kids who live in monterey park. he talked about how much reverence the community has for their older citizens, you know. this was the lunar new year's eve festival that happened on

saturday. it was one of the first time since the covid lockdown that this community have been able to come out and enjoy each other, put on performances and see each other at least comfortably in years, and that context is something we have to keep in mind while we continue to mull over how this happened, how this gun got into this person's hands, how two guns that got into this person's hands. the one that had the illegal magazine and the one he ultimately used to take his life. while we think about that, we have to remember that this community came out to celebrate something joyous for the first time in three years, and now they have to figure out how they're going to put the pieces back together. >> just when we thought they could let their guard down. thank you so much for this important information. this is the ceo of advancing justice in southern california. connie, thank you for being with us. there was something that struck me from one of the interviews that natasha chen just brought us, and it was a man who said that he was -- and he acknowledged it's awkward,

relieved that this was not another example of anti-asian violence, anti-asian hate. what's the relevance of this coming from within the community, of a man who had frequented this dance studio, that he was in his own space in a way? >> yeah. well, i think that that comment speaks to the head space that a lot of asian americans are in right now, and you have to look at this mass shooting in the context of everything that's happened to our community. you know, for the last three years, we have been dealing with the rise in anti-asian hate as our community is a scapegoat. so the community has felt like we have had a bull's-eye on our back and we have had these massacres and attacks all over this country against us. so when i woke up on sunday morning and i heard about this, immediately that was my concern as well. is this atlanta? even him being an asian american does not stop it from

potentially being a hate crime because we saw the laguna woods church mass shooting where it wasn't asian on asian crime, but it was hate-related. there was that feeling, but i think what's important is regardless of the intent of the shooter, it's looking at the impact that this mass shooting has had on our asian american community. as was mentioned, this was a lunar new year celebration, and lunar new year for many of our asian american communities is the most important and celebrated holiday we have. it's where we come tooktgether h families. we eat well and have parades, it is like having someone gunned down during a christmas day parade in many ways. in san gabriel valley, this is one of the largest asian american communities in this country.

i live just ten minutes away from monterey park, and my husband and in-laws grew up there, and this is my community. when we hear that ten community members are killed, now 11, and another nine living are injured, the amount of fear and pain and how triggering this mass shooting was. it's hard to describe what's going on right now for our community. >> yeah. it's awful. connie chung joe, we really appreciate you sharing even your family perspective of what this community is. thank you for being here. okay, now this is just into cnn. yet another shooting that we're following. this time in des moines, iowa. at least three people were injured. we are told two of them are in critical condition at this hour. this is according to the des moines police department. >> police and firefighters are there as you see at the scene. multiple possible suspects are in custody, and we'll bring you more as soon as we get new details. okay. now to this.

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"saturday night live" was back at it this weekend and they wasted no time in spoofing embattled congressman george santos. >> why don't you walk us through what happened on the field tonight? >> with pleasure. you see, philadelphia was in trouble until they turned to their secret weapon, george santos. just look at the stats. i completed 36 of 25 passes for 300 yards and 600 yards. i had 12 touchdowns, 17

rebounds, and 10 rbis. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy gave me an oscar all at the age of 18, incredible. >> okay. so it's funny, but this really is not a laughing matter for certainly his constituents, but some top republicans who backed santos, one of his biggest cheerleaders during his campaign was elise stefanik. she's the number four house republican and the most influential in the house gop. she said she did not know about santos' pattern of deception until "the new york times" revealed his falsified background. several people who donated to his campaign including one man who gave tens of thousands of dollars, he said stefanik's endorsement influenced him to donate. >> she later tweeted that a lunch event, quote, raised over $100,000 to help george santos flip new york district 3. one donor who was at that lunch told cnn, the only reason that

they donated was because of ste stefanik, and santos understood the power of stefanik's endorsement as well. he used a photo of the two of them as a banner issue on his twitter page up until last week. it's unclear how so many pros in the political arena let santos slip through the cracks. even mccarthy did an event to help santos and when we asked stefanik for a comment, her spokesperson said, stefanik supported all republican nominees just like every other republican-elected official and the entire republican leadership team. >> margaret talib is here, and cnn commentator, scott jennings. scott, let me start with you. this donor who gave $1,500 to the campaign for santos and other said, i would have never donated without elise.

how much of her advocacy for and promotion of santos is a problem for her? >> i don't really think any. i mean, she supported all republicans, especially in new york. she's one of the party's most prolific campaigners, and prolific fundraisers. that's why she's been so successful in climbing up into the conference. i really don't think it's an issue for her. i think for the republican conference, what they need to do is treat this guy with all the respect that he deserves, which is none, and they need to support the ethics committee process, and they need to support whatever outcomes come from the criminal investigations that are going on, and they need to act accordingly. at a minimum, if none of those investigations get finished before next year, they ought to support someone else in the primary and get rid of this guy. >> margaret, let's remind viewers of elise stefanik's own track record and relationship with the truth where she was -- she tried to get the outcome of the 2020 election overturned. on january 6th, even after the

insurrection, she voted not to certify joe biden's win. she made flagrant and frequent false claims about major irregularities which were false in terms of the election. so either she's, herself, very gullible and easily duped or she has no problem with serial liars and lying. so does this -- will this hurt her at all politically? >> you know, i think elise stefanik's political transformation has sort of unfolded before all of our eyes. you'll remember she sort of entered politics and congress as this harvard graduate where people in both parties felt like she was someone they could work with. liz cheney was one of her closest political friends, and a lot of that -- well, virtually all of that has changed as she has moved quickly and successfully up the leadership ladder in the party. i think it's reflective of trends that are much larger than elise stefanik and have a lot to do with donald trump, and his

legacy here, but, you know, look. i think a lot of republicans are looking for someone in their party to blame for george santos rather than take the blame themselves. cnn has been reporting on the 18, this group of 18 vulnerable gop house members around the country because they are in districts that biden won even though they won. about a third of those are in new york. so there are several new york republicans who are, you know, a little bit concerned that george santos and his legacy is going to be used against them when they try to seek re-election, you know, a year and a half, two years from now. will it hurt elise stefanik in the party? there's certainly no signs of that yet. i just think santos, the criminal investigation, the legal investigations, they're going to play out. they have not really taken full hold yet, and until they do, it's still a political issue, but once the investigative part of this really enters the public realm, it's going to be a

decision point for kevin mccarthy, for stefanik and everyone on leadership whether to continue to receive them even as much as they have or whether to try to minimize him further. >> scott, six additional items with classified markings discovered by the fbi, part of this 13-hour search at president bi biden's wilmington home. karine jean-pierre taking questions, and not really saying much. you don't want biden re-elected or trump re-elected. this could be an answer from y. do you think people outside of washington care? >> it's the kind of noise voters hate from trump, and the kind of noise voters are now going to hate from joe biden. it's a reminder that most of the country doesn't want either of these guys renominated by their parties.

there's no doubt his numbers have taken a dip, and it's totally neutralized this political attack that's been going on against trump since he did what he did last year and acted the way he acted. so i think once again, victor, what we're getting is a reminder that most of the country would just prefer a clean slate in the 2024 election. i don't know if our political parties are smart enough to give them one, but that's what this exemplifies is a clean slate here in the next presidential election. >> let's talk about the changes that are coming to the white house, margaret. there's a new chief of staff. what will change? what's his style, and what will we see out of the white house? >> well, i've watched jeff zients' work around the white house and he's best known as a manager of complex projects rather than a personality who clashes heads, and breaks people of his political will.

i think you'll try to see him two do two things, try to keep the white house organized through a barrage of investigations and they have a separate legal structure set up for that, but it is disruptive, and he has a deep background in economics, in budgeting, in health care companies and deficit reduction. these are all issues that the white house is going to contend with, whether there is a recession or no recession, but just a complex economic re recovery. these are areas and i know it's not ads sexy as an investigatio, but what do most voters care about? they care about the economy. democrats and republicans will be butting heads about lifting the debt ceiling, and all sorts of other, you know, things when it comes to cost cutting versus spending. these are the areas where he has a lot of strength and i think if it were up to him, the areas he would like to focus his attention. we'll see how that goes, but i think the first issue he's going to have to deal with is managing the the white house through the investigations, including the

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week after a an investigation found they failed to render aid. what's the family saying now that they've seen this video? >> reporter: we have not yet heard from the family. we're listening to this press conference, that family attorneys have spoken, and they're not holding back in their characterization of what they saw on that police video of the arrest of tyre nichols, that it was savage, and that for three minutes, he was like a human pinata they said, suffering an often adultered and unabashed beating. it was said it reminded them of the beating of rodney king. listen to this characterization of what he saw with the family today. >> we can tell you about the video. it is appalling. it is deplorable.

it is heinous. what was your word? violent? >> violent. >> violent. it is very troublesome on every level. >> attorney crump went on to say that nichols' mother couldn't get through the first minute of the video. she was too emotional watching it. they said that sometime during the video, you hear him saying, what did i do? they did, though, make the point that they couldn't get into the details of what they saw because this is an active investigation. not only are the police department investigating, but the u.s. attorneys as well as the civil rights division for the department of justice and the tennessee bureau of investigation. all of them involved in this. i was on the phone earlier with the district attorney's office asking them, what's the hold up why, guys? why not release this video? they wanted the family to see it first, but there is a plan, but

they did not say, when or if, they will release this video. it could be later this week or next week, is the plan. there are charges against the five officers that have since been fired. those officers have been named. those charges, if any, are announced the district attorney's office tells me they would come later this week, but clearly a lot to get through, and the family processing what they saw earlier today. that press conference still happening right now, alisyn and victor. >> nick valencia for us. thank you, nick. new today, a former senior fbi official has been charged in an alleged scheme to help a sanctioned russian oligarch. we have more on that just had. that performance was legendary.

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missouri is the latest state now to consider new laws that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in its public schools, k through 12. the bill states among other things that no school employee can teach, quote, that individuals by virtue of their race, ethnicity, color, or national origin, their collective guilts and are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by others. we'll take a pause here and go to monterey park, california for an update on the massacre investigation. across the country, access to those weapons, even when it's lawful, we cannot let mass s

shootings be the norm. not here in monterey park, not in california, not anywhere in the united states of america, and with that, let me introduce my friend and colleague, los angeles county supervisor. >> thank you for coming here this afternoon. i want to thank the city of monterey park, and expresley g -- expressley give my thanks to the sb safety personnel, the management including the government's office as well as our friends in the federal government, fbi, and everyone that's been helping us go through this in the last couple of days, but i also want to be reminded that there are some special things to be thankful for. the community has come together. many people are coming forward to provide initial support to many of our aapi residents. many who are right now in solace and witnessing things that are

unheard of, we know that we have a lot of healing to do. the l.a. county will be here, our mental health services are here on the ground, the office of emergency management as well as our red cross as well as our other secondary agencies, and again, i want to thank the city of monterey park. this senior center stands as a symbol of welcoming for all immigrants. that's how i came to learn this community, welcoming everyone, and it continues to be resilient. it continually will be doing that as we begin to heal, and we have much more to do. we also have some heroes. the young man that now many of us know helped to stop further shootings from occurring, that young man is a hero in the san gabriel valley. those are things that we should also reflect on. in spite of someone's senseless motivations to try to kill people or shoot people, this individual did what many would

probably never be able to do or imagine, but he saved so many more lives. let's also think about that as we go through this process. let us also through the next few days, remember the families that have lost loved ones as well as those that are recovering right now, and i thank all our emergency medical staff, our teams, our hospitals, everyone that has played a big role in this whole -- this whole activity that has been occurring right before our very own eyes. so thank you with that. i'll bring it back to -- >> do you want to do it in spanish? >> anybody in our group here? i know this is kind of impromptu, so -- >> you can say it in spanish. >> okay. then i'll have matt talk about the center itself. there you go. just briefly in spanish, and then he'll hear more from the experts here on the center behind. [ speaking non-english ] >> there to the officials in monterey park, talking in their first press conference after

this tragedy there, and we just heard from the l.a. county board of supervisors, hilda solis that while there was tragedy, there were bright lights. there was a hero, and he needs to be celebrated. >> certainly what he did, to very likely save lives there at this second location. it's nothing short of heroic. let's go to washington now. attorney general merrick garland taking questions. let's listen. >> the justice department ap applies the facts and law in each case to make the appropriate decisions in a nonpartisan and full way without regard to the subjects. that is what we've done in each of these cases and that is what we'll continue to do. >> all right. we have harry litman back with us. harry, you have been a player throughout this show. harry, we heard from the former national security adviser, john

bolton, this morning on krbcnn s morning who said the biden mishandling of the documents makes it less likely there will be charges filed against former president trump. what's your view of that, how these may play into or against one another, and what you hear from the ag garland? >> yeah. so it's a really big and vexing question. i know how it should play out, and i know how garland wants it to play, and he is the boss of the department which is, zero impact, and you can imagine, victor, the way this should actually unroll is smith will provide a recommendation to garland. probably garland will take it. hur will provide a recommendation to garland and as my last utility appearance, i was suggesting there's no criminal there there, and unless we find out more, and probably garland will take it. they are in separate offices.

they are separate people, so i think there's a kind of political sort of cloud that maybe brings them together in the public mind, the media's mind, the house republican conference's mind. i don't see though, that it's necessary and indeed, i think garland will try very hard to make it not the case that they somehow bleed together, and the process in place now for these separate special counsels really should facilitate that separate inquiry. >> all right. harry litman, thank you. we're learning more about the victims of saturday night's mass shooting at a dance hall in california, now 11 dead from that shooting. more on that and the latest on the investigations next. out hyd. neutrogena® hydro boost lightweight. clclinically proven. 48-hour hydration. for that healthyhy skin glow. neutrogena®. for people with h skin.

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latest state to consider new laws that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. phil murray is the president of the missouri education department. critical race theory is not being taught in grade schools across the country. your group opposes the bill. explain why. >> i think the first thing you have to understand is that educators go into help kids grow and be the best they can be. i think it's very important that you understand that educators are working for our kids and their best interests. when i was an educator, one of

the first things i told my students is that history is a series of stories told by different people. it's important to take the time to understand the different perspectives. so i think that we've got to the point where that's gotten away from what we're supposed to be doing. it's important to understand our kids come from diverse background, with lots of different perspectives. they should be having the freedom to ask the freedoms they want to ask and educators should be able to give truthful answers. >> it's interesting that you come to history from that perspective. i want you to listen in to florida governor ron desantis who's at the forefront of this anti-critical race theory which again is not being taught in public schools. this is his answer about the decision to block a new advanced placement african american

studies course. >> we want to do history. that's what our standards for black history are. it's just cut and dry history. you learn the basics and learn about the great figures. i view it as american history. i don't view it as separate history. we have history in a lot of different shapes and sizes, people who have participated to make the country great. people who stood up when it wasn't easy. they all deserve to be taught. abolishing prisons, being taught to high school kids, that's not appropriate. >> abolishing prisons part of the discussion, part of the course. what's your reaction to what you heard there? >> history is a series of stories, individuals -- how history affects individuals is different. i think it's important to be honest. doesn't have to be judgmental.

it's perspectives about events that have happened. it's important to -- excuse me -- not to repeat the mistakes we made in the past to make this world an inclusive place for our students. >> this bill also calls on the state to develop a training program to, quote, prepare teachers to teach the principles of american civics and patriotism and the teachers who complete that training receive a one-time bonus of $3,000. bonuses for teachers, sounds like a great thing. what's your thought? >> i think the best use for resources right now is to make sure our schools are fully funded and make sure all our kids get the resources they need. don't need to be relying on gimmicks. a lot of times these programs come along to distract us. our kids deserve the best we can give them. doesn't matter where they're at, whether they're in st. louis or

popular bluff. they all should have the resources they need to be successful. >> phil murray, president of the missouri national education association, thank you. three members of the oath keepers and a fourth were just convicted of seditious conspiracy. a washington, d.c. jury found all four defendants guilty for their role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. >> defense attorneys argued the four men were innocent because they were following oath keepers founder stewart rhodes. all four defendants will be placed on house arrest until they're sentenced. a former top fbi official has been indicted in an alleged scheme to help a russian o oli oligarch. he was arrested on saturday. he's accused of working with

this man. >> the putin ally has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 presidential election. he's accused of concealing payments. he plead not guilty. the fda wants to streamline the process of protecting you from covid-19. >> most people would get one vaccine a year, much like the annual flu shot, regardless of whether they were previously vaccinated. the young and elderly would get two shots. it would be based on the latest strains. fda independent vaccine advisers are scheduled to meet thursday to discuss. now to one of our favorite stories. this cloud has the internet talking. what are your thoughts? >> continue.

>> okay. this video captured it hovering in the sky in turkey last week. some say it looks like a ufo. i think you likened it to a geo georgia o'keefe painting. >> i did not do that. i'm no expert in the field, but maybe not a ufo. >> maybe it's a rose. >> sure. this phenomenon is called lens cloud. it generally forms when air blows across tall structures such as mountains and causes water vapor to condense. >> there you have. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. ♪ 36 mass shootings already in 2023 in the united states.