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old audrey hale hale had just gunned down 39 year old children and three staff members. a warning. what you're about to see is disturbing. it begins with officers, injuring the covenant school after receiving the first call at 10 13 am. three happening. one more. let's go. metro police. mm. i mean, you know me. i don't know where he is. police door. bathroom, bathroom, small bathroom. next. let's go. door door with me with
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it's upstairs. sounds like something. i don't know. right? personnel, pbs. that is chilling video. cnn's amber walker is in nashville and emma emma, before we talk about this heart stopping footage. we know that national police just gave an update in the last hour. what did we learn? we just heard from the chief of police from the metro nashville police department. look we learned that
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that they investigators sat down with the parents of the shooter audrey hill, and they revealed that audrey hale excuse me. i should say ah had some kind of emotional disorder. they didn't specify and the parents told police that they didn't believe audrey hale should have had possession of any kind of weapon . in fact, they didn't think audrey hill was in possession of any weapons because they were told by their daughter as the chief refers to audrey hale. that that audrey hale no longer owned any weapons, but we also learned that audrey hale legally and locally purchased seven firearms at several different gun stores here in the nashville area. three of those seven guns firearms, i should say were used yesterday during this mass shooting here at covenant christian school. we didn't learn much, though about the motive. a lot of people want to know. why would anyone do this?
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we do know, however, from the writings that were left behind many of those pages of writings found in the honda fit that audrey hale drove to the school on the day of the shooting that this was a very thought through calculated plan. these writings had the plans on the maps of the school where audrey hale would enter the school. how the killing would play out, but all these writings. so far, no motive is being revealed. we don't know that. i know that at this time. we're also hearing from a former classmate of audrey hale from middle school who said she got a message from other hill on monday, indicating that something bad was gonna happen. um and you know, intimating that she might die by suicide. and this is what that friend avery an said about this whole thing. listen. i just i
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just couldn't believe it like i'm in effect. you know that. i the, you know, i tried to reach out, you know, not even knowing that it was her. i didn't i just i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. wish where she was. you know what? what she was dealing with. i just i don't know. like. boris and beyond. i have to tell you, you know, just having been on the ground here for several hours now. i mean, this is a community that has really been shattered, and people are still grappling with their grief coming here to this makeshift memorial in tears, just continually asking why back to you. you've done some incredible reporting there on the ground, emerald walker and we should also note you're questioning their of the police
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chief and asking what the head of the school what they believed had happened in those final few seconds of her life, and he pieced together what he believed was perhaps the head of the school running towards the shooter and who knows, possibly saving many other lives as well. by doing so, camera. thank you. moments ago, we showed some of the body camera footage here is the video this time from officer michael collazo. move i'm with you. go where? better right? right here. right here. right here. right here. it's locked. mar-a-lago i don't know that stare at the stairs. go downstairs. go stairs. go go, go
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, go! no ready. woman. keep pushing. moments later, officers confronted audrey hale and ultimately killed the shooter. with us now is add davis. he was the police commissioner of boston and also with us is former fbi agent catherine sh. white she actually created and ran the bureau's active shooter program after the 2012 mass shooting and sandy hook elementary and wrote the book, stop the killing, how to end the mass shooting crisis. catherine first to you. i want to get your immediate response to seeing that footage. and how officers entered that scene, not knowing what they were about to confront and went room by room chasing danger. yeah i've seen a lot of
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body footage and i've seen a lot of internal video footage of shootings like this. and i have always said ah, geez, i hate to. i hate to have anybody see those, but i think right now we're in a spot where it's good that that americans can see what the officers go through their brave they go in there, and i heard so many positive things about the way they responded, um, you can hear that allowance alarm going over their heads. that is deafening. for them is they're running through the school trying to communicate. and you can hear that. there's an officer running and in charge and you can hear them communicating with each other saying go, go push push. that's not because the others aren't responding. it's because they're communicating to make sure that they all know exactly what they're doing that they stay there, all carrying live weapons , right? they want to make sure that they stay they in case in pace with each other and i hear the breathing and the alarms that are going off and i'm thinking it takes time to clear a building. it's not like you. see on television. it takes time to find a shooter in a big
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building. and i'd be remiss not to note what we were seeing there as well. as you see, these trained officers go in with their rifles. um you also see a school that was housing children as young as four years of age, you see their backpacks and their little cubbies in the drawings on the wall and signs that read hope. i believe i saw one that said, really a gut punch, given the reality that we are facing in school children are facing across the country. commissioner it is night and day when you look at that video and how the officers responded compared to what we saw in you, baldy, but there was something you said yesterday on our air that really stood out to me and it was the response time you said while it fit into the window of what you deem appropriate, it was rather long in your view. that was about 14 to 15 minutes. can you go into more detail about that? and if you think perhaps perhaps more lives could have been saved by these these brave officers if they had arrived sooner. well
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let me clarify that when, uh, when i had first heard those numbers, i was under the impression that it took 14 to 15 minutes for the officers to arrive on scene and that's what i was commenting on. that's clearly not the case. it was 14 to 15 minutes until the incident was over. that is record time. incredibly courageous and effective response on the part of the police. i can tell you that, as catherine said, the complexity of searching a large building when you're clearing it room by room. with any door that you're about to open, possibly hiding a shooter is very difficult. so um, in in 15 minutes. uh this was an incredibly quick response. neutralizing a suspect like this . these officers used exemplary room clearing techniques, exemplar communication techniques, as was already stated, um, the tactics of shoot
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and move or employed. um these are exactly the types of training and the types of responses that we hope for in in any police department that's responding to an incident like this, and an officer's engelbert and, uh collazo, uh, have just did just showed incredible courage. incredible uh, efficiency and effectiveness in their tactics and techniques, and they saved lives there. there is no way that this could have been done faster than than the 15 minute time career. catherine i'm curious to get your perspective on that middle school classmate who received that instagram message, apparently from the shooter, saying that they were contemplating suicide and that it would be something that that high school classmate would see on the news. classmates try to contact authorities. but if you're in that situation was
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there anything else she could have done? or i hate to victim. shame right? you've got to be so careful. and i know of course, you're not doing that. but i mean, that's the challenge right now is that when we look for better ways to help people out better ways to respond, people say well, they should have, and we're not saying they should have but what i'm but but to answer your question, boris. i think one of the challenges is it is such an urgent situation because so often when someone leaks that last intent and says they're going to do something, it may be just minutes before more and that's why i very much urge people to make a call to the police. make a call to 911. they're not going to create a fuss. if a fuss it shouldn't be created. but it gets might give them the extra moments to look for somebody or to look for a car or to be prepared. in case somebody's going to shoot, but we do know 30 to 40% of these types of shooters. um intend to
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and often do commit suicide or suicide by cop as we saw here, so the challenges that if they're going to kill themselves anyway, um if we can get to them before they do that, maybe we can interrupt that violence for their own death, and we can also interrupt the violence to others. so if you if you get an information like this, you have to call so many people have have said to me. well i thought i'd wait for the weekend. i waited until later after i got off of work. don't wait. don't wait. don't wait. you could see and just that video in the interview this morning just how how pained that friend was and having to deal with this and to see how this ultimately all played out. commissioner tennessee is one of 25 states that allows for anyone over the age of 21 to open carry without a permit. they are contemplating just legislation that would even loosen those laws to 18 years of age. when you hear from the police chief that this individual had bought seven firearms from five different stores legally. talk
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about the pressure it puts on police officers, particularly these types of states that allow open carry to do their jobs and protect citizens, given that if they had just seen her walking down the street, there was nothing they could have done. theoretically, until she did open fire. write it. this situation sets up and almost impossible world for police to effectively do their job. um we have people who are running down to the store. and buying firearms that police don't have access to officer collazo just had a sign on when he went into that encounter, and he went up against a person with a military style rifle. uh the other officer had had a, uh, rifle. but not everybody has those things and we don't want to have a world where police are walking around with the rifle slung over their shoulder. those are the kind of things you see in other
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third world countries. we have to think very carefully. when we start to argue that the second amendment just gives everybody the right to carry firearms everywhere at all times. it is it's a dangerous proposition, and it's mostly dangerous for the officers who have to try to do their job in that environment , to say nothing of poor, innocent children like this that are being just horrendously. murdered it is it's just in my mind unconscionable that anybody would consider this. it is indeed an unfair position to put these officers in. they can train and train and train, but nothing prepares you for actually experiencing a day like they did yesterday. and as you said, courageously, likely saved other lives as well. catherine sh white and davis. thank you. what? we're learning more about the people who were killed yesterday. this is nine year old halle scruggs. her father is the
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lead pastor at covenant church. evelyn dick house was also just nine years old. her family released this statement. our hearts are completely broken. we cannot believe this has happened . evelyn was a shining light in the world. we appreciate all the love and support but asked for space as we grieve. nine year old william kenny was also killed. among the adults murdered was 60 year old katherine coons. as we were discussing a moment ago with amorous she was the head of the school and in 2021, the school posted this video that is taking on some new meaning today. god himself is timeless. his love is timeless. we're also learning about 61 year old mike hill. he was a custodian at the school who also helped in the cafeteria. and also a substitute teacher who is filling in for the day. cynthia peak was killed
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. she was 61 years old. in the last 24 hours. we've heard of the same sentiment over and over again. nashville is a small world. it's a city that's family. and this morning, the mayor john cooper, is vowing to change his community, his family for the better. i think the public is gonna go back to understand our questioning why we have so few restrictions on guns, particularly assault level type guns that guns and gunfire . the number one cause of death with children, and we really can't tolerate that anymore. we owe it to the parents, everybody that's attending every vigil in nashville. feels that there needs to be a public response to this kind of tragedy and to say enough is enough.
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trump. in the days leading up to january. 6th. that is, according to sources familiar with the recent court ruling that remains under seal. cnn's katelyn polantz joins us now she's part of the team that helped break the story. just a couple of hours ago. katelyn polantz through the details of this new order. well, we're still getting some details because this order is under seal , as all of these have been in recent weeks, but this is something that puts wind in the sails of the special counsel investigation. jack smith has been seeking vice president, former vice president mike pence's testimony sent him a subpoena calling him in before the grand jury. they went to court to try and fight over whether he was going to have to go whether he was going to have to answer questions and ultimately judged jeb boasberg of the d. c district court. he said. yes, pen. it's must testify. pence is going to have to testify specifically about conversations he had with donald trump. and we're hearing from our sources that one of the key
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findings the judge boasberg made here is that pence must testify about interactions where donald trump may have been acting corruptly. and so if you work all those conversations he was having with the president at the time, trump was pressuring him to block the election results. he was calling him names, some of the witnesses have said. hence himself has talked a little bit about this in a book. he's written and publicly, but he hasn't testified before about exactly what happened and what was said in phone calls only between he and donald trump. and so that is what the investigators are seeking here. also i should note that pence did have a bit of a win in this in that he seems to have expanded some of the powers of the vice presidency. convincing the judge that he should have some protections of congress constitutional protections around him on january 6th whenever he was president of the senate, and ultimately beyond. and boris. i should really note that donald trump did argue to close off some of the answers of
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pence, citing executive privilege, and the judge said no to that, as he did in several other cases, or that this court has done in several cases in this investigation. katelyn polantz go in front of the grand jury. could he appeal this ruling as well? yeah well, he can appeal. of course, we don't have any indication that there was an appeal yet. this just came down yesterday. but evan perez here at cnn. he just did hear from a source that there isn't a date set yet for pence to go in to testify and also exactly how this would play out before the grand jury what questions they would ask and exactly what he would answer that still could be determined as well back to you. alright katelyn polantz. thank you so much for breaking this news for us. we appreciate it. we want to turn to developments on capitol hill today, where there was a tough grilling for some of the nation's top banking regulators on the sudden collapse and rescue of two banks, top
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officials from treasury, the federal reserve and the f d i c testified before the senate banking committee on what led to those failures and what the fallout means for the u. s financial system. this is a textbook case of bank mismanagement. the risk the bank face interest rate risk and liquidity risk. those are bread and butter banking issues. the firm was quite aware of those issues they had been told by regulators, investors we're talking about problems with interest rate and liquidity risk publicly, and they didn't take the action necessary. cnn's madigan is here with some of the key points discussed at this hearing today. you watched it all for us so that we didn't have to at home. matt talk to us about the finger pointing really by regulators. boris bianna. you know the blame game is in full effect here. nobody does it better than washington. um big debate. here is what's this just bad management. was it bad
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oversight? was it bad regulation or i don't know. maybe all of the above. as you heard in that opening clip of regulators. they're pointing the finger at bank management at silicon valley bank. i'm saying that you know they failed to get this bank ready for spiking interest rates. some lawmakers, they kind of accused regulators of basically being asleep at the wheel and then progressives like senator elizabeth warren. they blamed the 2018 rollback of dodd frank. that rollback, which i should note was bipartisan. meant that silicon valley bank didn't have to get stress tested , even though it was a big, large regional bank. and there was an interesting moment where republican senator john kennedy he pointed out that the feds stress test didn't even model for the spike in interest rates. listen to that exchange. you stress tested for the wrong thing. as i said, senator, i agree with you that it would be useful to test for higher rising interest rates. that's why, in our alternative scenario multiple scenario that we put in
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place for this year's stress test. we do that. these decisions were made before i arrived, but i agree with you that it's like somebody going in for a test for covid and getting a test for cholera. isn't it? i don't know enough about either of those tests to know. well, they're different. so i would note that senator elizabeth warren. she did get all three banking regulators that testified today to agree that these large regional banks, they need tougher regulation to avoid problems in the future. the fed is supposed to have this review of potential regulatory missteps will look forward to that report is due may 1st. but in the meantime matt despite all this turmoil in the banking industry , consumer confidence is actually up. this was a pretty big surprise, because yeah, we have the biggest bank failures since 2008 turmoil on wall
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street and these major emergency interventions by regulators. and yet we learned today that consumer confidence in march did tick higher. now you can see on that screen. consumer confidence is not necessarily at healthy levels is still well below where it was before covid, but it has bounced back off the lows from last year when americans were dealing with four and $5 gasoline prices. this is an encouraging sign. find and it's probably in large part because the jobs market has held up in inflation has cooled off now. consumer confidence is up, but home prices were learning. they actually dipped. new numbers from s and p. k shiller showed that home prices they dipped between december and january by 0.2% that is the seventh month in a row of falling home prices . your every year, home prices were up by almost 4% but that is a big slowdown. when you dig into this report, you can see that just about just like everything else in real estate. it's all about location because some housing markets like miami and tampa, they're still seeing double digit year over your home. press increases. other
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housing markets like san diego, seattle, san francisco. they've seen home prices drop, you know, going forward in the housing market, so much depends on what happens with mortgage rates if the fed is able to pause its interest rate hiking campaign, maybe mortgage rates can actually start to come down a bit. and that would, of course, boost demand for housing and you could see home prices start to go back up. inflation of course , complicating that process of freezing the mortgage rate hikes. matt eagan appreciate that update, as always. thanks, matt. we're following a developing story along the us mexico border. at least 39 people are dead after a fire rips through a migrant detention center. but investigators are learning about the cause that's ahead. plus a senior u. s. military intelligence official admits that america's new drone routes over the black sea will definitely limit intelligence gathering. the fallout from the incident that took place over the black sea when we come back
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up against the doors of this compound. yeah but despite all of this, we're getting a sense of some skepticism about this official line that the mexican government is saying about what happened. the mexican president you mentioned, saying that it was migrants who were being detained at this migration institute and set fire to these mattresses after being told that they were going to be deported. 39 people at least have died. dozens more injured, but from what we are hearing from activists who have been in juarez and speaking with migrants around that area, they're saying that there's real questions just about wondering how exactly these migrants could have started the fire and one of the activists that we spoke to from the l paso area, said. you know a lot of times when migrants are taken into custody . many of their belongings are taken away from them. so there's great quino concerned about whether or not this official line is actually accurate, so activists are calling for a full and transparent investigation,
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not just by mexican authorities . but they also want us authorities to get involved as well. but it was a harrowing scene on one of activists we spoke with said as they crossed the international bridge into juarez. they could hear screaming as the flames were shooting. out of the building there. and there's questions also about why exactly these migrants were locked into this into this area. why they couldn't have been, uh the doors unlocked and allowed allowing these people to escape. so a lot of questions really swirling around today about exactly how all of this unfolded last night in juarez. just horrific details as we're getting more and more information as to what actually transpired at lavender. i know you'll stay on this story for us. thank you. which are now to the fallout from that collision between a russian fighter jet and a u. s surveillance drone over the black sea earlier this month. yes cnn has learned that this incident prompted the united states to alter its
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surveillance routes further to the south and at higher altitudes. a senior u. s military official tells cnn. that decision quote definitely limits our ability to gather intelligence related to the war in ukraine. cnn's oren lieberman has been tracking the latest details, and he joins us now live from the pentagon. or in walk us through the reasoning behind these changes. well bars and beyond about two weeks ago following the collision between a russian fighter jet and a us mq nine reaper drone. the video you saw just a moment ago there. the us conducted an assessment, according to officials to just take a look at drone operations over the black sea in international airspace over international waters, but it was a question to look at the roots. the altitudes, the missions, the intelligence gained versus the risk of escalation with russia. following that the u. s made the decision to move the drone flights further south over the black sea or farther south and to a higher altitude. those drone flights did continue. we
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know there was a reaper flight. that same drone you're seeing now a short time after the flight that was down and we've seen rq four global hawk flights on flight tracking websites. but according to a senior u. s military official, the decision to move the drone flights farther south limits the ability of those drones to do what they're supposed to do. they are spying and surveillance drones. and they're designed to gather intelligence, which is difficult to do at simply a farther away distance from crimea there and from ukraine as well. the question now is how to move forward here. the pentagon press secretary said it it would not talk about specific drone missions and operations and that there are other ways of gathering intelligence such as spy satellites. but according to one official who we spoke with at the time of the decision, there is already an appetite to get back to those previous routes to get back to flying northern south further north in the black sea. the risk their bars in bianna is that if you don't do it soon, it may become more difficult as russian habits become more entrenched over the black sea. yeah part of the
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reporting indicates that the us government wanted to avoid being too provocative in that area and perhaps leading to more escalation. so oren liebermann, thank you so much for that. coming up. we'll have much more out of nashville as police released bodycam footage from the shooting yesterday. and as we head to break local reporter who was on the scene yesterday reveals that she too. is a school shooting survivor. school shooting survivor myself, and this is bringing back a lot of emotions and memories from my school shooting that experience whenever i was in middle schools foformer president trump faces a possible indictment in the stormy d daniels case developmes in the investigation that could put him in legal jeopardy. what happens next inside the trump investigations live tonight at ni believe this is how you kids talk to your friends. this
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now president biden is expected to speak and durham, north carolina. he's there for an event dedicated to investing in america unrelated to what we saw unfold yesterday in nashville, but we anticipate the president. we'll make some remarks on the covenant school shooting. we're going to bring those to you live as soon as he starts. meantime back in nashville officials are searching for answers on why an assailant carried out a mass shooting on this school, killing three teachers and 39 year old students. just nine years old. now their parents have to grieve knowing that they lost their child to the number one cause of death in the country for kids gun violence. let's say that again, the number one cause of death for children in this country is gun violence. unacceptable. in this reality is haunting parents. today you do everything in your power to protect your child. that's your priority number one job, but on
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days like today, it feels as if nowhere really is safe. our next guest has dedicated his life to helping change that he lost his son, joaquin oliver in the 2018 parkland school shooting. he was 17 years old. manuel oliver is now the founder of the nonprofit change the ref, which aims to empower activism among young people against gun violence. manuel thank you so much for being here. i can't imagine the strength and the courage it takes to continue to keep this fight going, especially knowing that it was five years ago that your son was killed and since then there have been 151 additional school shootings in this country. what goes through your mind every time you hear about another one. well thank you for having me here, um my mind goes everywhere from apartment to what happened yesterday. through all paso
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through yeah. yeah, santa clarita like there's nobody, so many places that we have seen software and pain from communities and apparently, um, that is not enough to make a representatives do something that really makes things different. so a lot of frustration, uh, but but not quitting. um a lot needs to be done. so always so a lot of power. manuel i want to get to your efforts on that front in a moment. but first, i'm wondering what your messages to those families that lost loved ones yesterday to those parents that um, went to bed as you did back in 2018, knowing that your life would forever be altered because you lost the child. you know what he's very hard and i don't
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feel i'm qualified. um or i have , um, skills to send a message to these families. they are going through the wars moment. um that anyone could go through . um they lost their kids. some lost their parents and loved ones and there's nothing that i can say that would make them feel better. uh it's a process is going to take time and they will make their own decisions. hopefully there will be okay. it's a horrifying club to be to be in and i can't even begin to imagine the pain that you and all of these families have to live with. all these years later, it never really goes away. but as you said, you have a new mission, and that mission is to change the way this country operates. in terms of guns. i appreciate and respect that optimism. i just want to get you to respond to what we're hearing now from many lawmakers predominantly republican who are saying there is just no appetite right now for more gun laws. legislation i'm just going to
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give you a few quotes from some of them, senator josh hawley said that semiautomatic weapons should not be banned in this country because quote a lot of people use a rs and a ks for sporting purposes. another local representative from tennessee, said. this is a mental health issue and not a gun issue. what is your response to that? well, my response is not i think that we need to ignore and start ignoring these, um people that are, obviously, um part of the problem. so uh, responding is expanding more time and giving them more platform to say there is stupid thoughts. um so i like to move forward with this at the same time. there is a lot of people very concerned. uh like we need to be concerned. this is this is our country and we're talking about our kids. so if we make jokes or or or judgments that are not going to find a
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solution, then we matters will be quiet and not say anything. as you know, i was in d. c a week ago, i ended up arrested by complaining. to exactly this. uh so it's time to listen to other people, and they tend to put more pressure on these idiots. manually as you noted, you were arrested when you were protesting, actually, manual. we have to stop the conversation and interrupt because we're going to hear from president biden. he is expected to speak about what happened in nashville at any moment. we've seen the initial footage of the attack. three children. three children dead. all just nine years old, including the daughter of the pastor. three members of the staff school custodian substitute teacher and the head of school. i spoke with one of the like actually was the governor's wife, governor who's telling me his wife is about to have dinner that night with her.
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there's still more to learn about what happened. but there's plenty we do know. we know that this family's worst nightmare family's worst nightmares occurred. i've lost the child. not to that lost a childhood accident and cancer. but i tell you, there's nothing like losing a child. particularly more senseless. it is more devastating the impact on you. it's absolutely heartbreaking. in a senseless, you know those children? should all be with us still have a seat if you have one. they should still be with us. as a nation. it's not hyperbole. as a nation, we all these families more than our prayers. we owe them actions. you know, we have to do more to stop this gun violence of ripping communities apart, ripping apart the soul of this nation to protect our children, so they learn how to read writes that duck and cover in the classroom. you know, we need to act. these are weapons of war. on the second amendment, a guy i have two shotguns. my sons have shotguns. you know what are
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states. you know, everybody thinks somehow the second amendment is absolute. you're not allowed to go out on her. an automatic weapon you're not allowed to machine gun flamethrower. you're not allowed to own so many other things. why in god's name do we allow these weapons of war on our streets? and at our schools. according to law enforcement, the shooter. this horror had to assault weapons and a pistol. what in god's name are we doing? these guns are the number of gun this is hard to believe. i never thought when i started my public life guns will be the number one killer of children in america. guns. number one. it's sick. and overwhelmingly, a majority of gun owners agree. we have to do something. not just everybody. gun owners agree. this. there's a moral price to pay for an action. last year. came together to pass most significant gun safety legislation in 30 years. it was bipartisan. we got it done. and don't tell me we can't
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do more together, so i again call on congress to pass the salt woman's man. passive. they should not be a partisan issue. it's a common sense issue. we have to act now. and people say, why do i keep saying this if we're not happening? because i want you to know who isn't doing it. who isn't helping to put pressure on them. you know, i know you see on television. it's not just merely though the weapon in terms of its that it's semiautomatic in effect. but the velocity with which it comes out of that. muzzle. what it does when it hits the body. most bullets would go just straight through and out, leaving, but it blows up once it's inside your body. what in god's name. what in god's name. does anyone need that for in america. folks look . i mean, come to speak to what i can to talk about. i want to thank chicks introduction. arellano neil. thank you for the passport in the city. there we
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heard the president take a few moments to speak to the shooting yesterday in nashville as he is speaking there in durham, north carolina, and just to repeat some of the words that that, he said. he said those children should all be with us and we owe these families more than our prayers. we owe them actions. he also bore us reiterated that he is the second amendment guy that he has two shotguns, but but he also highlighted his call continued call to pass the assault weapons ban, he said. it's not a part of is an issue and he also went on to say the reason he keeps reiterating this is because, he said, i want you to know who isn't helping. and of course, you can go ahead and fill in that blank in terms of who he's referring to. and what in god's name are we doing? why in god's name do we allow weapons of war in our streets and in our schools? you can hear the president's frustration there as he makes remarks in durham, north carolina. we're
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destructive and, unfortunately deadly tornadoes that tore through the south this weekend. let me set the scene for you here. you're looking at a power pole that was literally snapped like a toothpick. and then this vehicle that you see over my right shoulder that was literally in a garage that no longer exists. let's take you to the skies. so you can see a bird's eye perspective of the damage that is ravaged this trump troop county and it's incredible. the national weather service, saying the tornado was on the ground for 30 minutes and over 20 miles and winds sustained at 150 mph listen to the owner of this house behind me, sarah sheri bennett. about how she endured the storm. i was right there. that window came in. you wrote out the tornado here? yes, i was there when it when it hit and, uh, the glass. just what woke me up with glass , just flying everywhere. everything falling.