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with primary races under way in seven states. california, iowa, mississippi, montana, new jersey, new mexico and south dakota. polls are just opening now in california. one of the races closely watched is the los angeles mayoral race in which democratic congresswoman karen bass is facing off developer rick caruso. in montana, ryan zing ki who left congress to become the terror secretary is trying to return to the house representing the state's congressional district there. a top gop target this fall, iowa's third congressional district, the three candidates facing off in the republican primary hoping to flip that house seat this fall. joining us are national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board and steve patterson in los angeles. let's start with steve kornacki, good morning. what are you keeping an eye on this morning? >> a lot to watch today, jose. there are seven states holding

primaries. you can see this is actually kind of a super tuesday. this is the biggest collection of states we're going to see on one day here. you mentioned a few in montana n iowa. congressional races we'll keep an eye on throughout the night, some potentials for surprises in those earlier primaries. i think a lot of the attention tonight is really going to be about the country's largest state, about california. there are a number of things in particular we're keeping an eye on there. number one, there is that l.a. mayor's race. we'll get to that in a second. first in the bay area, in san francisco, here is chesa budin, one of a number of progressive prosecutors around the country. he said decar serration is one of his points of emphasis and brought congressers have, san francisco an overwhelmingly democratic city, joe biden won close to 90% of the vote here in 2020 and yet there are deep

concerns about crime and about quality of life. it has brought about this recall election tonight and we're going to see does one of the country's most liberal electorates recall one of the country's most liberal prosecutors. again, the way the votes work in california, a lot of voting by mail, a lot of ballots have been coming in between 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight and 12:30. we're probably going to get a lot of results. we may know chesa boudin's fate early on. if this is a razor thin race it could take weeks to count the ballots. there's a wide range of possibilities here. national implications certainly in that san francisco d.a. recall race. then you mentioned the other big one in california. the los angeles mayor's race here. open race here with garcetti leaving the office after two terms. karen bass, democratic congresswoman, you may remember a couple years ago, joe biden considered her for a spot on his ticket as his vice president. went to kamala harris instead.

now karen bass running for mayor of los angeles in a close race here with rick caruso, a developer, he's been a republican, he's been independent, he became a democrat this year. the way it works here in this primary, if nobody gets 50%, the top two advance to november and they have it in a one-on-one race. caruso's success has surprised some. he spent a ton of money in this race. it's like what we're talking about in san francisco. crime, homelessness, quality of life. these have been major points of em fa this? this race. caruso has run on that platform and remember maybe about 30 years ago, about three decades ago in los angeles, there was a republican businessman who ran on similar issues and did get elected mayor of that overwhelmingly democratic city. his name richard reardon. could rick caruso pull something similar off 30 years later. couple other races keeping an eye on in california. some congressional primaries.

they do these differently in california. the congressional primaries. democrats and republicans on the same ballot and then the top two, regardless of party, advance to november. here's an interesting one in the central valley. david val day yo republican incumbent, very democratic district he won by a razor thin margin in 2020 and then one of his first votes in the new congress was to vote to impeach donald trump after january 6th. there's another republican on the ball lat here. chris mathys making that valadao vote the centerpiece of his campaign. he said it's why he's running. how does this republican congressman who voted to impeach donald trump do with the republican on the ballot who says you shouldn't have done that, and i'm running because of it. another republican incumbent who may be in some trouble tonight and national republicans, young kim, one of several asian-american women elected to

congress in 2020. national republicans would like to keep her there. she is being challenged again. a republican greg ras, who aligned himself with the pro-trum right. these are two. there are a whole bunch tonight but yes, california of all the seven states, california, is what we're going to be paying the closest attention. >> interesting, steve, on the valadao race. it is mostly a democratic district, right. but he has been there for a number of terms, but this is always a razor thin difference, you always say. >> and it's a heavily hispanic district. he was originally elected a decade ago. he did lose in 2018, get the seat back in 2020. his formula has always been to have crossover appeal in a district like this. i think joe biden won this district by 12 points in 2020. his strategy has always been to

sort of present himself as a moderate, he's won over democratic votes, won over independent votes. if he is in danger tonight, given the nature of how they dot california primaries that would be the danger for valadao. the democrats all get behind rudy salas who is running here. does he consolidate the democratic vote and potentially deny valadao some of the democratic votes he's gotten in the past and open a path for the pro trump mathys to clean up among republicans, pro trump republicans. if there's low turnout here, and salas can consolidate the democratic vote, maybe, we'll see tonight, there is a scenario where valadao gets in trouble. >> let's talk about the mayoral race in los angeles. why is it being watched so closely? >> you know, for all the reasons kornacki listed this is one of

those battles for the soul of the democratic party and the referendum on the party's ability to rule. the race started out with full throated support behind karen bass, six-term congresswoman seen as the do-gooder in the city with a political insider connections from sacramento to d.c. to the oval office, that sees government as the foot of effective rulership, versus now rick caruso, who just stormed into this race, who was -- spent his life essentially as a republican, then moved to an independent and then moved right before this race started as a democrat to enter the race and has barnstormed his way to the top of this race by spending. he has spent nearly $40 million of his own fortune, blanketing the entire city with rick caruso ads. you can't go anywhere without seeing him. it has become a battle and he's alleged to use more of a centrist valueship to tackle some of the issues facing los

angeles and they're numerous, violent crime rate which is up, affordable housing, hard to find, and homelessness which has become as much of a brand to l.a. as the movie business or the sunshine itself. karen bass will be voting where i'm standing in a few hours, but i caught up with boat about what they see is the top issue which is homelessness. >> there is no question about what the biggest issue is. there's 50,000 people who are on our streets in tents. there's no bigger issue than that. crime, of course, is running neck and neck with that. some of it is associated with homelessness, most of it not. >> the fact that we got so many people living on the streets literally in their own waste, without any services for mental health or drug addiction, we've got rampant drugs being sold on the street, and our leadership, including those running against me have allowed it to happen, that's what this campaign is all about. >> shouldn't be afraid to say that so far the voters turnout

has been abysmal. maybe 14% of the ballots that came to angel lin nos have been returned. neither is expected to get to the 50% needed to avoid a runoff election so this will be a preview for november. as far as the ideology of the party it is a huge race to watch right now. >> steve patterson and steve kornacki, thank you very much. with today being the biggest primary day of the year, you can get important information on the voting rules where you live and much more at nbcnews.com/plan your vote. joining me now, democratic congressman lou core rear ra of california. it's always a pleasure to see you. i want to start our conversation with a conversation nbc news correspondent sam brock had with a driver in miami. sam asked a driver if the gooipsz are having an impact on people's wallets and would that

influence how he votes. here's what he had to say? >> definitely. i know that one administration had cheaper gas and this administration has more expensive gas. >> you have been speaking about this for some time. you're warning that this issue is of paramount importance to americans coast to coast. in your state, particularly, has some of the highest prices of gasoline. >> yes, we have, and let me tell you, i'm hearing more and more of people saying i drove up to the gas station, i put down $100, $100 and i could not fill up my gas tank. i've been hearing this story for weeks, if not months now. in my community, we're blue collar, hardworking, honest folks, now we have to choose between paying rent, buying more expensive food and filling up the gas tanks to go to work. this is definitely a challenge. jose, remember, twice a week, maybe once a week, maybe twice a week, when you go to the gas station, and you see those high

prices, people remember what's going on. people remember that there's a big problem. >> and congressman, the biden administration has put the blame squarely, the rising gas prices on putin's invasion of ukraine. what do you see as the issues that might have led to this increase in prices that we're seeing? >> jose, it's a perfect storm. putin absolutely, one of the top 10 producers of oil in the world, russia number two, we're emerging out of covid, high demand, summertime, prices go up anyway, but the issue isn't what caused it. the issue is what are the solutions and number one, double down on green energy, but number two, diversify. diversify on our sources of energy. saudi arabia, okay. but domestically we have to make sure that we are able to supply

our own energy as well as food. you know that's the next shortage, food supply in the world. finally i would ask, other places, venezuela, the biggest sources of oil reserves in the world, and we're not looking at that issue. my question is, do we want the chinese in venezuela or do we want chevron? again, let's focus on the solution. more green, more technology to come up with that disruptive solution to our energy, and make sure that we don't have to pay such high prices for gasoline. we can't afford it. >> that's interesting. diversify is a word that is very interesting because it's not only the diversification, for example, as you say saudi arabia or even venezuela, but then there is the oil that exists under our united states territory and -- >> absolutely. >> is that something that you think that we should be looking at? >> i fully support energy independence in the united

states. look, i grew up in the '70s. two, three opec embargoes on the united states. the result was, two or three recessions in the u.s. i remember having to wait at 5:00 in the morning at the gas station. camping out overnight to get four or five gallons into my pinto. i don't want to see that happen again. i don't want america's economy to be dependent on an oil weapon from a foreign land. let's supply our own energy needs. >> congressman, i kind of want to take you back to something also you've been speaking about, that if democrats are not able to make movement on immigration after two years controlling the white house and both houses in congress, democrats might pay for it at the ballot box. what do you mean by that? >> energy. promise. delivery. right now, jose, turnout in my district is about 10 to 15%.

10 to 15% turnout. there's no energy. there's no reason for people to vote. we've got to have people have a reason to vote. we promised them immigration reform. not something like open the border. we said, 10 million people working in the u.s. should be allowed to work here legally. let's make that promise happen. >> how do you do that, though, congressman? it seems as though you all on capitol hill have the most difficult time in reaching the other aisle's -- even establishing communication. i know you're one of the folks that does reach out and say let's get this done, but how is that the most difficult thing you have in congress? >> jose, great question. i have my republican colleagues saying we need to do immigration reform, and need the workers.

our processing plants in the deep south, our farmers across the midwest need the workers, but we can't do that because we will lose our elections. what i think needs to happen some of us have to say, we need to do what's good for america. we need to bring in that workforce to keep our economy going. and we hope that we continue to do something legislatively, if not, option b, executive orders, make sure we can move forward. we have to get this done. >> congressman, i spoke with a judge yesterday on our hour and she is asking for movement on capitol hill on proposals that would help guarantee the safety of judges in our country. violence is up so much, we saw the former judge killed over the weekend, how do you and the house deal with issues like safety for judges and public servants and for people throughout our country?

>> safety for judges, our schoolchildren, individuals elected officials, all of us are now concerned about our safety. two things, number one, we have to address common sense legislation. common sense gun ownership. background checks. 21 years before you can buy an assault weapon. red flag laws which means if you know somebody is under a lot of stress, duress, don't sell them a gun. basic common sense laws. no assault weapons. these are not perfect laws, but jose, if we can pass these laws and if we can save one, two, three lives, then they're well worth passing these laws. number two, let's not forget, mental health. our children are watching these violent video games that are desensitizing them to violence. the internet is full of this stuff that's poisoning their minds. we have to reach out and work on

mental health as well as coming up with common sense gun ownership laws. >> congressman, lou core rear ra, let's continue our conversation and come back soon. >> thank you very much. to capitol hill and the growing urge stoi tackle gun violence. the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism and we should be hearing from the son of a victim of the buffalo grocery store mass shooting and correspondent ali vitali is with us this morning. what are we going to be hearing this morning? >> jose, this is a hearing they're billing on the threat of domestic terror in the united states. it comes, of course, after that shooting in buffalo which, unfortunately, was the starting point then for many, many more mass shootings that we've seen since then, including in uvalde, texas. that's the backdrop here for this hearing and others that we're going to see like it appear on capitol hill.

senate judiciary doing their hearing today. they're going to hear from the son of one of the women who was killed at the tops market in buffalo, and then we're also going to see victims' families speak tomorrow in front of the house oversight committee. they're doing their own hearing focused on buffalo and uvalde trying to keep the focus on these gun violence deaths and the ways the house and senate both are trying to tackle this problem. just in the last few minutes as you were talking to the congressman, senate majority leader chuck schumer went to the floor and said democrats are aware they're not going to get everything they want in these senate negotiations around gun violence prevention legislation, but schumer said that he's giving senator chris murphy, one of the lead democratic negotiators on this, the space to figure out what can garner enough votes to actually pass the senate. because amid all of this flurry of action we're seeing on the house side with the package of gun legislation, the question is, what can actually pass the

senate? as i've been talking to lawmakers here over the course of yesterday and now again we'll continue talking to them today, there is some cautious optimism about these talks, but at the same time they're not or at least they're trying not to apply arbitrary deadlines to when these negotiations need to bear fruit. in talking yesterday with people like murphy and the main republican on this, senator john cornyn, there seems to be the same key buckets of policy that we've been talking about, things like mental health and school safety, but also, red flag laws and narrow changes to the background check system, those are still very much on the table here and i think the key word here is that they're being given space to figure out what compromise looks like even as some of these key negotiators hope to have something, jose, by the end of the week. >> yeah. just listening to congressman core rear ra, there's some things, some basic things we should all be willing and able to agree on and yet, it seems

like that is really difficult. >> well, i'm really struck, jose, but a conversation that you and i were having yesterday with quad ven ne gas in texas he's talking about the disconnect on policy from people in that community and frankly i hear this all the time when i get out on the road there's a clamoring for bipartisan action and generally consensus in the country around certain bipartisan things that can happen. look no further than things like background checks which garner the majority of positive support from americans, and yet, there's no consensus on action on it. this is the building where all of that disconnect we often find between washington and the people we talk to out in the rest of the country, this is where it is embodied and resides. now, though, we're at a moment where many of these lawmakers are talking about channeling anger over recent mass shootings into action although i have to say this is a building steeped in cynicism here because we have been at this moment so many

times before, i do think the thing that's spurring positivity and a little bit of optimism in this moment, though, is the fact that there's not a lot of leaking and not a lot of sources coming out of these negotiations and then giving leaks to the press about what's going on. that might be frustrating tore people like us who like to know what's happening at every twist and turn, but it's a mile-marker there could be progress because the negotiations are being taken so seriously by the people who are a part of them. >> no one knows more about what is happening on capitol hill than ali vitali who also is, of course -- >> i would love that to be true. >> a book author as well. that is true too. ali, thank you very much. we're going to take a short break and be right back. we're monitoring this hearing that is going on on capitol hill right now. they're introducing some of the people that are going to be speaking specifically about the issue of gun violence including victims of the terrorist attack which is what it was in new york. a racist terrorist attack. we'll be right back with much

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let's go to the senate judiciary committee holding a hearing. garnle whitfield jr. speaking moments ago. let's listen in. >> she was literally and figuratively the heartbeat of our family and my father's soulmate for 68 years. she was the person who held us together, probably just like your mothers did for your families. what i loved most about her was the way she loved her family unconditionally. sacrificing everything for us, she visited my father at the nursing home where he lived for the past eight years almost every day, including on the day she was murdered, to ensure that he got the care that he needed from the nursing home and to

supplement that care with their own personal and loving touch. our lives are forever changed. forever damaged by a profound hate and evil and nothing will ever take away the hurt, the pain, or hole in our hearts. for her to be murdered, taken away from us by someone so full of hate is impossible to understand and even harder to live with. but we're more than hurt. we're angry. we're mad as hell because this should have never happened. we're good citizens, good people. we believe in god, we trust in god, but this wasn't an act of god. this was an act of a person, and he did not act alone. he was radicalized by white

supremacists with anger and hatred were metastasized like a cancer by people with big microphones in high place, screaming that black people were going to take away their jobs and opportunities. every enforcement agency charged with protecting the homeland has conducted risk and threat analysis and determined that white supremacy is the number one threat to the homeland. and yet, nothing has been done to mitigate or eradicate it. we're people of decency. we're taught to love even our enemies. but our enemies don't love us. so what are we supposed do with all our anger and all of our pain? do you expect us to continue to just forgive and forget over and over again? and what are you doing? you're elected to protect us, protect our way of life.

i ask everyone the faces of your mothers as you look at mine and ask yourselves, is there nothing that we can do? is there nothing you personally are willing to do to stop the cancer of white supremacy and the domestic terrorism that inspires? because if there is nothing, then respectfully, senators, you should yield your position of authority of others that are willing to lead on this issue. the urgency of the moment demands no less. my mother's life mattered. my mother's life mattered. and your actions here today will tell us how much it matters to you. thank you. >> thank you, mr. whitfield.

>> well, the words of a son, right. her life mattered. certainly to hear about how she led her life with such dignity and passion and care, right. and that's what's going on in that hearing. let's see what comes from that. we are also in other news following the summit of the americas that is getting under way in los angeles. with us now is juan gonzalez, senior director for the western hemisphere at the national security council. it's always good to see you, juan. thank you for being with us. talk to us about what the summit of the americas is and what is it supposed to be? >> yeah. i mean it was launched in 1994 right after the cold war. president bill clinton launched a vision for the americas that i think still holds true today, the need for us to work in

partnership to integrate economically, to ensure that we're defending democratic freedoms and human rights. certainly the context today, the reality today to your question, has changed dramatically. the president is going to be hosting leaders against the backdrop of russia's invasion of ukraine, the region still reeling from the covid-19 pandemic caused once in a century economic crisis and that is prompting unprecedented levels of migration, not just to the united states but throughout the hemisphere. colombia is hosting 2 million migrants and it's impacting others as well. >> what is the summit about to do regarding these issues? >> the president is going to put forward a very ambitious economic agenda, one that builds on the work that started in 1994 in a chain of free trade agreements that connected canada

to chile, but address the inequalities the region has continued to experience to renew the social contract so democracies can deliver for their people and we can prove that democracies are really what the hemisphere needs to prosper and to be stable, but also, we need to update our institution. the interamerican development bank and other institutions really are focused on poverty reduction and latin america on infrastructure. we need to make sure that bank and that our economic cooperation looks at addressing issues of equity, of climate transition, of health and health security, and so that's what president is going to focus on. he's being to put ambitious core proposals on the table including an economic partnership with the region. he's going to announce an ambitious commitments on health and food security. just really put forward what we think is an ambitious

affirmative vision for the region. i'll say participation wise, there's been debate about that, we're going to have right now 31 countries that are going to be represented from the region. 68 if you include the international organizations and observers. there are going to be 23 heads of state that will be there. it's going to be a very, very ambitious agenda today. the vice president there is and she's going to announce new steps in her call to action for central america, which is already secured over a billion dollars in commitments from the private sector to the region. going to announce a women's empowerment initiative. you're going to see the cabinet and subcabinet principals going to the president's speech on wednesday at the inauguration ceremony where he will roll out these initiatives. >> for example, the -- we just put up a list of some of the heads of state attending and it's an impressive list of some of the folks that are going to be there. none of the presidents from the golden triangle, northern triangle, so el salvador not

going to be there, guatemala is not going to be there, castro of honduras is not going to be there. then it seems like the president of mexico was holding hostage his decision whether he would go to this meeting, whether the biden administration recognized cuba and nicaragua and venezuela, the three dictatorships that are still in latin america, and don't respect human right, why did it take the administration so long to just clearly say, we are part of those that respect democratic freedom and institutions and those three countries are not representative of those principles? >> well, first, these countries will be represented. mexico and the northern triangel will have their administrators there. they've signed up for a commitment announced on friday with their leaders. participation and the

conversation with mexico, the president has had a clear view on this issue, but here at the same time, following a record 16 visits to the region as vice president, understand that really need to be able to engage and list tonight diversity of views from the hemisphere and talk to everybody and explain our rationale and ultimately he stood by his principle commitment given the democratic base, the poor human rights situation in countries that it was untenable to invite them here. they've been some of the countries that disagree with our decision not to invite cuba and we welcome that discussion because the free and open debate is something that currently is not available to the people of cuba, nicaragua and venezuela. >> juan, great to see you. thank you very much for being with us. i'm going to be heading to los angeles soon to be witnessing and reporting on the summit of the americas. i thank you for your time. >> look forward to seeing you. >> thanks. up next, brand new details

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40 past the hour. in two days we'll see the first ever public hearing for the january 6th committee in congress. this morning nbc news confirms one of the witnesses will be capitol police officer caroline edwards. another one of the key witnesses, a british documentary film maker who followed the proud boys as they stormed the capitol. captured footage like this being used as government evidence showing the proud boys and oath keepers meeting in a parking garage blocks from the hill the day before the insurrection. this as five members of the proud boys face charges of seditious conspiracy for their role in the riot. joining us is jake sherman. how big of a deal is thursday's

hearing? >> huge. it is the first -- this committee has been working behind the scenes, investigating, issuing subpoenas, taking depositions, and now they're bringing their work to light and that's the big moment for this committee, and quite frankly, it only has one chance for a first impression, how the saying goes. they are going to be -- they're holding this in prime time for a reason. it will be on 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 on the west coast. gives a lot of people an opportunity to watch, and quite frankly, there's just an amazing amount of interest. republicans, quite honestly, don't have any good answers here, right. their answers are that this committee is illegitimate, it's not -- it shouldn't be issuing subpoenas, it doesn't have any republican buy-in, but none of that matters if the committee has the goods. if the committee has been able to create and display an honest and truthful and well thought out and received narrative about what happened on january 6th,

and who was behind it and what they were aiming to do. >> yeah. and then these issues, the charges of se dish shun, these are the most severe ones we've seen, night. >> absolutely. no question about that. part of the committee's role here will be creating some sort of story line around that, right, that these folks were looking to overthrow or to thwart the free and fair election and a legal and constitutional process of counting votes in the capitol. these two parallel tracks, the department of justice investigation and the capitol hill investigation, have not really fully crossed yet, but i think you're going to see that in plain view in front of this committee on thursday night. >> jake sherman on capitol hill, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. up next, i'm joined by a former congressman who

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47 past the hour. this morning fighting remains tense along ukraine's eastern front. according to british intelligence ukrainian forces have recaptured a key city in the luhansk region but russia occupation areas and likely plans to cut the city off from the north and south. the fighting continues, russia and ukraine exchanged the remains of soldiers including some of those who died defending mariupol's steel plant. joining us is nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter. what do things look like where you are today? >> nice to be with you. we are in a market. this is hit by the russians in early march. you can see the wreckage. we are driving by it and i had to come in to take a look at it, completely destroyed. we're walking through and taking a look at what was formerly cafes, a cooking shop. you see big ceramic pieces, a plate shop or something. it's extraordinary. no one really has come in to clean this up. we're in the northeast of

kharkiv and we can hear active, outgoing from the city and we can hear in the distance loud booms still. we were just talking to a soldier who came back from the front line. the villages northeast of this city are still really contested. there are still villages closer to the russian border which russia occupied, fierce fighting because russia really wants to take those villages back that they gave up in early april when ukrainian forces pushed that front line back. russian forces are really trying to push the front lines closer to kharkiv. i want to give you an update on what is happening down in severo donsk. he said it is frightening and people are changing their minds and want to get out. an estimated 10 to 11,000 people are still inside the city. he says to stay in the city at this point is to play with destiny. more residents are willing to leave. he said that the humanitarian

aid was able to get into the city. now the mayor has also given an update, street fights are taking place, people deported, so the russians deported people from the ukrainian held site into russian held territory. he says people deport tell their side of the story. in the town just down the road that we've been talking about, where president zelenskyy visited the front line over the weekend, 16 people were able to evacuate. that doesn't sound like much, but a lot more than the last week. the statement from the mayor, the city has been under constant heavy fire and say aircraft are hitting that city every single day. no civilians have any communication or any ability to get word out to their families in the rest of the country, jose. back to you. >> molly, thank you very much. turning back to our other big story, the gun violence

plaguing america and what to do about it. talks on capitol hill are intensifying today. in uvalde, texas, people are grieving the 19 children, two teachers murdered two weeks ago at a mass shooting at robb elementary school. a former republican congressman who once represented uvalde wrote an op-ed saying, quote, we're not helpless. and if the people we elect to address our country's top challenges nothing should be done beyond our thoughts, prayers and complaining about the filibuster, it's time for them to find a new job. will hurd is joining us. always a pleasure to see you. i want to focus on those 19 lives lost in uvalde, 19 former constituents of yours. there was 21 people. what more is it going to take to see action do you think?

>> i hope these 21 lives in uvalde are the catalyst to see something done in washington. i'm hopeful that senators murphy and cornyn are able to get something done. yes, the far left is not going to like what they do. the far right is not going to like what they do, and it is not going to be enough, but this is a multifactorial problem that requires us to do many things. we should applaud the senators if they're able to get that bipartisan piece of work. that could be able to begin a process where they can do more things. that's the first step. than, god school is out and we're able to have a breather in this. however, parents are having to have tough conversations across the united states of america with their children to tell them

what to do if there is a school shooter. we shouldn't be -- we shouldn't have to be having those kinds of conversations. it requires us to deal with this problem at multiple levels. we know the metamorphosis of a mass murderer. there's a group called the violence project that's reviewed all the mass shootings since 1966. we know there's something that deals with childhood trauma. we have to address mental health. why is mental health different -- paying for mental health different than other kinds of health care. mental health is health. we have to address access to weapons. an 18, 19, 20-year-old should not be able to get access to a semi-automatic rifle. this is not removing somebody's rights. that doesn't prevent them from going with their parents to shoot birds or go hunting or something like that.

if we want 18, 19, 20-year-olds to have this, then go through a little bit of training like you have to do if you're going hunting. these are some of the things we can be working on. it's going to require us to put down our swords and talk about the fact that children should not be afraid to go to school, and parents should not be prematurely burying their children. >> will, you have intelligence experience and so much more. i'm just wondering, when you see these reports that keep coming out of the children in there calling 911, and for one hour that monster was able to be in there, pretty much uninterrupted doing what he wanted to do, how do you explain that? >> you can't explain that. that is what the department of

justice is doing a review to understand what every individual did that had some role in this. you had a number of different kinds of law enforcement on the scene for a long time. we need to understand not only to bring some closure for the families, but so we can learn from this in the future. i hope every mayor across the united states of america has sat down with their chiefs of police with the heads of the police departments at their school districts and ask what is your tactics, techniques and procedures in dealing with something like this. i hope we're doing this as a reason to white-glove the operations across america so that we don't see some of the holes that we saw that seem to have been there in the uvalde massacre. >> that video of the parents asking the officers to go in

during that hour -- i saw ars, i saw m 4s, m 5s, fully vested police officers that were doing crowd control and not in there when they could have handled it. >> the current tactics of dealing with a school shooter is everybody goes in, right? you do not treat this as a hostage negotiation. voitd goes in to neutralize the shooter because doing that saves lives in the end. and why that didn't happen, that is going to be reviewed. there needs to be consequences, and we also -- cities around the country need to learn from this so that we don't have a similar thing happen because unfortunately, jose, this is not the last time we've seen a

shooting like this, and we need to be prepared, if we're not able to prevent another mass murderer from doing these terrible deeds. >> terrifying indeed. will hurd, thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. that wraps up the hour for me, i'm jose diaz-balart. garrett haake picks up with more news after a quick break. reak reason, or fun. daring, or thoughtful. sensitive, or strong. progress isn't either or progress is everything. if you have copd, ask your doctor about breztri. breztri gives me better breathing and helps prevent flare-ups.

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and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. good tuesday morning, i'm garrett haake in washington where capitol hill is the center of a lot of action this morning. right now we've got our eyes on a senate hearing on domestic terrorism. the son of one of the victims of the buffalo shooting just testified. >> my mother's life mattered. my mother's life mattered. your actions here today would tell us how much it matters to you. >> plus, as that hearing un