and hopefully from time to time we will make you smile as well i hope you will tune in again tomorrow here at 10:00 a.m. eastern. until then, reporting from new york, i am anna cabrera. josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now good morning it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. eastern. i am josé diaz-balart we are minutes away from a live briefing about the louisville mass shooting that left five people dead, as we learn more about the victims and the police officer fighting for his life this morning new developments in the investigations surrounding classified documents that were found at offices and homes of former president trump and former vice president pence and president biden. new details about the massive leak of other top secret documents as a top national security official makes a stunning admission about what could happen next, and some of

the documents including sensitive information about ukraine, and we will talk to ukraine's former president, next we begin this hour with the latest out of louisville, kentucky in 30 minutes we expect an update from authorities, and we will bring that to you when it happens. overnight a fifth victim died from her injuries. she was 57-year-old. she was an executive administrative officer at that bank the other four victims were identified as james tutt, who was 64 years old he was a commercial real estate market executive and a county executive described tutt as a high quality individual. the 40-year-old joshua barrick

just started working there and thomas elliott was a good friend who helped launched a law career, and he's being remembered as somebody that lifted people up and then the 45-year-old giuliana farmer just posted on facebook that she was expecting a new grandchild in september. eight people were also injured in the attack, including three police officers. among them is 26-year-old louisville officer, nicholas wills, who just graduated from the police academy just over a week ago, and he underwent emergency brain surgery. police identified the shooter as a 25-year-old employee at the bank who live streamed the attack he was killed in an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement joining us now is nbc's morgan

chess key. morgan, how are the victims being remembered today >> reporter: josé, the impact that this loss is having on this community is widespread and important to note here that we have heard from numerous community leaders, the governor and mayor who made clear the five lives lost inside the bank behind me were not strangers, many of them well known in this community, particularly one of those individuals, as you mentioned, helped the governor with his law career. we know a vigil is expected to be held later today. another potentially tomorrow there will no doubt, be hundreds, if not more people attending as a result of what one man with a gun did inside this bank yesterday morning.

i did have a chance to speak to the mayor. this tragedy hitting incredibly close to home for him, josé, because he is a survivor of an incident of workplace violence when a gunman opened fire at his own campaign headquarters just last year. here is what he had to say about processing this tragedy and moving forward take a listen. >> my heart is very heavy tonight having lost a very close friend in this evil, horrific mass shooting, having lost other victims to this tragedy. my thoughts and my love with everybody who has been impacted by this, their families, and i am very thankful to the police officers that heroically and quickly responded and saved lives with their heroic acts the doctors and the nurses at

the hospital, who, without a doubt, saved lives >> reporter: regarding those nine individuals taken to area hospitals, we know several have already been discharged, josé, and two remain in critical condition, and one of those, as you mentioned, officer wilts as for the status of the investigation, it remains ongoing. they pulled the crime scene down within the last few hours. police still calling on the public to help provide them with any potential information that could provide more insight into the shooter's motive that they are still trying to learn more about. you mentioned he live streamed a portion of this on social media. whenever this press conference takes place today in just a few minutes, josé, a lot of eyes will be going to the release of body cam video and video from the screen the staff plans on using that video to cooperate what

witnesses already said, these officers upon hearing the gunfire ran immediately to the gunman to engage him and neutralize that threat we heard the response time here, josé, three minutes. they were on scene in three minutes and when the smoke cleared there's still four lives lost and a fifth victim confirmed killed overnight josé >> just a horrible tragedy what more do we know about the investigation? the whole thing -- i am not giving his name, this monster live streamed parts of it? >> josé, police and the fbi today are trying to answer the same question we have, which is how did this 25-year-old former high school basketball star that dad coached his team who had an advanced degree from the university of alabama and apparently a promising start to a career in finance, how did this person become america's latest mass murderer they will ask the question about how he got this weapon, whether

it was purchased legally, this ar-15 style rifle. the police served a warrant on his residence yesterday, and the s.w.a.t. team carried out boxes of evidence. there are reports he left a note and he left a voicemail right before he did this they will want to know were there any warnings before that those things were not able to be acted on did anybody know anything was seriously amiss that suggested maybe he should not have been able to buy a gun, and so those are all the questions and they probably know the answers to these questions already, and we may hear some of the answers at the upcoming briefing, josé feels like we are doing this every other week now, and still don't have a motive in the nashville shooting it's an awful situation. >> yes mary ellen, take us back towards the law enforcement side

how do you get a better understanding of how and why this took place? you are looking at this case, somebody who was employed at a bank, and as ken was saying, his father taught at school, a coach, and how does law enforcement go about finding who and how? >> i hope, and i think they will, one of the first things they will be doing to find out was this an unusual meeting that occurred, in other words, was it a regular monday meeting seems like there were prominent people in that bank that day, and so was that held for a special reason and then why did he choose that day to go in for that meeting, and there are indications he was going to be fired, and that may have been part of the reason is the thinking goes something like

this, and i don't mean to over simplify it, but it could go something like this, suicidal idealation, i am losing my job and if i am going to lose my job others will lose their jobs as well and it's going to be on live stream. we did not see this motivation prior to columbine i think that's one of the things they will look at, because we can't get into his head but we can get into his behavior. >> that's fascinating. what is it you think that columbine -- there's a before and after columbine you are saying what is that after columbine what changed >> when we saw columbine, we saw two young men, one in particular, eric harris, who was walking through the high school,

and they were like predators walking through strategically choosing and selecting their victims, and really enjoying the time that they had as they were killing people, and they extended it over a period of time we did not see that in the prior 18 cases we had in the united states since the 1970s, that's how many i found in the first fbi report was 18 over the '70s, '80s and '90s, and now we are up to 148 that tells us something about our society, and it's not just about the guns, either >> thank you all very much for being with us this morning we will, of course, continue to stay on the story and bring you the live briefing scheduled a couple minutes from now. the podium is set up when that conference begins, you

will see it here on msnbc. we will also talk to kentucky state senator, david yates, who represents louisville and lost a close friend in this shooting and then we are back with what could be the biggest u.s. intel breach in years. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. you're doing business in an app driven, multi-cloud world. that's why you choose vmware. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation

and enterprise control, vmware helps you keep your cloud options open. 12 past the hour now to the growing fallout from the leak of dozens and dozens of documents. the pentagon says they are working around the clock to determine the scope and scale of the leak, but the white house says the threat posed from the documents could be far from over >> at this point do you believe the leak is contained or do you believe there are more documents that have not been released publicly is this an ongoing threat? >> we don't know

we truly don't know. >> the documents reveal secrets including ukraine's military capabilities officials fear it has exposed vulnerabilities in the u.s thank you for being with us. dan, what are the documents telling us ukraine is specifically facing right now? >> it's a candid and frank assessment saying that basically ukraine's air defenses are being worn down steadily, there's a daily barrage of russian missiles and drones and ukraine is using up and depleting its air defense missiles, and many are soviet made missiles, and they are not keeping up with the burn rate ukraine is using these. these two documents we obtained

indicates that ukraine could actually run out of these air defense missiles by may without either different tactics or more expedited deliveries from nato countries of these systems and i should put out one more point here, and there's a question looming over all of this, which is the white house and pentagon did not learn about the leak until last week, and that poses a question, you know, did the u.s. intelligence community fail here to spot these documents that were kind of looking in the more obscure corners of the internet. some experts say it's understandable, and others say it's a real feeling, but i think that will be a question moving forward. >> yeah, and general, just how widespread is this who do you think did this? how would they have been able to do it? >> clearly it's a devastating impact on u.s. national security and our allies as dan points out, one of the

immediate impacts is on the ukrainian armed forces they are preparing a spring offensive and some of the documents outline the state of readiness of the nine attack bg ukrainian brigades and what they and and et cetera. just unbelievable. these documents are from the satellite intelligence agency, and briefings at the highest levels looks like they were photographed, meaning a person inside the pentagon in all likelihood, very unlikely we know the extent the damage yet they are downplaying the significance of what happened and downplaying how it impacts the ukrainians it showed how totally we penetrated the russian armed forces and their political

system with their own intelligence, and that will have the russians, the gru and other security agencies scrambling to turn off the sources so it was a major blow to u.s. national security. >> so general, this is fascinating. i am glad you are giving us this perspective. so you think it was not, for example, i don't know, russian penetrating some kind of intelligence wall into the united states or the chinese with the spy balloon you think this was an inside job in the pentagon? >> yeah, no question if the russian had been able to get an agent inside the ajs, the pentagon, to take photographs of the materials, they would have protected it with every capability they had, and it would have been a gold mine going forward, and some of these were stamped no foreign, and

with the five eyes, we share information with canada, and my guess is they will find the source of the leak quickly, and it seems like an action by a contractor or somebody who had access to print out materials, take them home or someplace and photograph them. it's an askatonishing blow to t u.s. national security >> it's the cia, and you are talking aboutthe jcs, and it's from different agencies. also, it's physical, they would have to get something physical to be able to photograph them? it seems like it's unlikely this

one person doing all of that, if there's so many different agencies that have been subject to this? >> well, good point. we don't know the extent of it yet. to include, as dan pointed out, there could be hundreds of additional documents that are about to be released or have been out on the internet normally when we get penetrated it's some sort of signals or intelligence or intrusion into our computer systems, or it's a phishing attack where we allow access by foreign agents, and this was photographed like out of the 1940s my guess is it's a lone actor, and more likely to be a contractor or somebody of that nature it looks as if probably it's inside the pentagon or one of the intelligence agencies where this material was leaked

>> this material was leaked for sometime before the dod or the white house had any kind of knowledge of it? >> that's right. i think that's one of the more alarming revelations here. according to billing cat, the open source investigative agency, they think these documents were surfacing on the internet as early as january, and certainly became more widespread in march. so that is a major question now, was this a major failing here? >> thank you both for being with us with us now to continue our conversation, is former ukrainian president. always a pleasure to see you thank you for your time. i would just like to know your reaction to this incredible amounts of sensitive information is out there now about ukraine's capabilities what is your reaction about

that >> thank you very much for the invitation, and giving information to the whole world about the disaster we have in ukraine because of the russian aggression number two, this is not a crisis, this is not a conflict, this is a full-fledged war, including the hybrid hecknism of this war i just want to remind you putin is a kgb agency and state. maybe they tried to avoid attention from the supply, the new amount of weapons for the ukrainian counter offense? maybe this tried to attack by information war, the ability of ukraine to provide a counter attack i just want to assure you, every

single week i am now on the front line every single week we try to deliver the maximum we can to make our forces stronger every single week, we receive new weapons from the west. this is delivered the very great expectation for ukraine counter offense. with this situation, i think it must not divert u.s., and it must not divert us from the u.s. military weapons >> what do the ukrainians need now? >> first of all, the message is not from me, but the soldiers from the front line, we need ammunition, artillery, 155

artillery, and we need a significant amount because russia has three or four times bigger artillery than we have. number two, we need a long-range missile. number three, we need air defense because we need to stop russian air dominance. point four, we need drones this is a new type of wars this is not a war of infiantry. i am proud we create the ukrainian armed forces together with our partners from nato. this is just a battle between the soviet-style russian army, second biggest in the world, and the significantly less but nato

standard army. last but not least, please, we need f-16s, not to attack anybody but to protect ukrainian soil from the russian attacks. at the end of the day, we will use f-16s against russians >> thank you for your time appreciate you coming on and speaking with us we're, of course, keeping our eye on louisville where you can see at the bottom of the screen, and he's setting there a piece of paper so they can white balance the cameras. we will, of course, bring that to you live on that deadly bank shooting plus, we have new comments from

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27 past the hour this morning nbc news learned lawmakers from both parties responsible for reviewing sensitive information known as the gang of eight is getting the classified documents found at the former president donald trump and former vice president pence, and president biden this comes after lawmakers are pushing for the access to the materials, and what questions do they want answered >> the leaders of the intelligence committees told us time and time again there's only so much oversight they can conduct as it relates to the

incident and information without seeing the documents themselves. they have been in negotiations with leaders of the department of justice to find a way to get access to the material without it getting in the way of the ongoing investigation through a variety of special counsels and department of justice into the classified documents get into the homes of former president donald trump and president biden and former vice president pence. they are seeing if there's some sort of strengthening of the laws linked to the care and storage of the documents that should be in place, and if there are other reforms that should be necessary. the department of justice long thought if there was a way for them to help congressional

leaders, but theymade it clear that they have an oversight responsibility here that they need to see the information and ultimately the department of justice agreed, so now they are getting the opportunity to begin looking at the documents as their oversight responsibilities continue >> thank you so very much. new this morning, new developments in the legal showdown over the widely used abortion pill. the judge ruled the fda used improper protocols to get the abortion drug approved >> my thoughts are it's completely out-of-bounds what the judge did. >> joining us is our senior

legal correspondent, laura jarrett. we are expecting that news conference to start in louisville, but if it does i will apologize and i will ask to take a pause so we could go to that >> no problem. >> what do these filings mean when the -- where do things stand? >> bottom line, access is still open for mifepristone in this moment right now, josé, but the justice department wants to try and get that texas decision put on hold to maintain the status quo so this case can play out and they are not under the looming saturday deadline when the texas decision is expected to go into effect. the fifth circuit court of appeals want to hear from the plaintiffs that filed a lawsuit to hear what they have to say about this they want the texas decision to go into effect and the court wants to hear from them before issuing a ruling on the stay

request. as you mentioned, you have this case out of washington state, a judge with the exact same authority as the texas essentially telling the fda they have to maintain the status quo and cannot do anything to disrupt the availability of mifepristone they are asking how are we w reconciling the two orders >> why is it, if they are the same level judges, why is it the texas case seems to be going national versus the washington one that is just for a number of states >> that's a great question in the washington case, that was brought by a group of democratic attorneys general brought on the suit limited to several states, and in texas it was a nationwide

request to take it off the market, and the judge didn't go that far, but he said the effectiveness of the drug would have a nationwide implications the texas one would cover everyone woman in new york would be governed by the texas ruling, and woman in illinois would be governed by the washington ruling >> thank you for explaining. president biden announced the 2024 national convention will be held in chicago. the decision came after deliberations and site visits from dnc members other finalists includednew york and atlanta republicans will also head to the midwest for their convention with the rnc set to take place in milwaukee we are keeping our eyes on

louisville, and we are told in about 30 seconds from now they are going to have the press conference where they will give the latest on the investigation, and everything that has been going on as we await this press conference to begin. we will be talking to -- let's speak actually to the kentucky state senator, david yates thank you for being with us, senator. as we wait for the press conference to begin, and i will ask you when that does to take a pause for a second and we can all watch it what -- how are you all doing today? >> well, it's a hard question, you know there's definitely a lot of grief here this is personal to a lot of people, and this is down the street from my office. as a community, kentucky has been through a lot, natural

disasters and now the mass shooting it's hard to get your mind wrapped around it, but we are resilient and coming together. we have a srevigil planned tomorrow, and we have an officer right now still fighting for his life it's not good, but i will tell you one of the positive things is the way that louisville and kentucky responds to horrific events is we come together as a family >> i just can't stop looking -- as a matter of fact, here in my studio, we have a graphic up of the five people that lost their lives. i am thinking, senator, you knew one of them very, very well these are people that went to work yesterday with the same dreams, hopes and aspirations you and i and everybody else has in this country. i am wondering when you know

somebody so closely as you did, tell me a little bit about them. >> it's senseless violence didn't have to happen. in the position i am in, i constantly think what could we have done different, what could we have mitigated the occurrence of the these events, and then you see somebody that you love and care about taken, and you want to fight and make sure you do something to honor them, and you grieve at the same time. i don't know how to explain it you know, we want to make sensible regulations and sensible oversight we want to address mental illness here, and ultimately there's no way to make sense of what happened to these individuals. you have five individuals who lost their life for no reason. we have another officer fighting for his life now at this point, all we can do

right now is pray and mourn, and then we will start looking in the future what we might be able to do. >> tell me a little bit about that person that you knew and loved so much. >> i will tell you that tom elliott was a friend before i ever got into politics i am a nerd and was interested in policy, and he invited me on a trip we rode in the back of a greyhound bus, and he encouraged me to run for a local office, and from there he helped me with policies and was a mentor in many ways. introduced me to some of my best friends, including the governor of kentucky right now. he was really good -- >> senator, i thank you. the news conference is beginning. let's listen in.

thank you all for joining us yesterday was an incredibly difficult day for all of us in louisville i want to start by saying thanks again to everybody who pulled together to get through yesterday and to continue on today and the days ahead first, that starts with our police officers. chief, to you and your entire team, thank you all very much. in particular, thank you to officer wilt, officer galloway, two of the first officers to arrive on the street, on the scene, to confront the assailant and to save lives. you and all of the colleagues at

lmpd were true heroes yesterday and every day. to our other first responders, ems, louisville fire department, and the sheriff's department, and the state and federal partners, thank you. also, a special thanks to dr. smith. to you and all of your colleagues at the kwruniversity louisville hospital, thank you for saving lives yesterday and for saving lives every day i want to acknowledge the rest of our metro government team who dealt with the challenges, adapted to the circumstances and did what was asked of them yesterday to help others in our community. thank you for embodying the best of public service. as we talk about what's happened since yesterday, i have to

acknowledge the painful fact that this awful act of violence at old national yesterday has taken another life late yesterday we learned that deanna ekert passed. he was 57 years old and an employee of old national bank. i knew deanna also deanna was a very kind and very thoughtful person. she was a wonderful woman who will be missed her death means another family in mourning and adds yet another layer of tragedy to this moment. i want to briefly read a statement from old national bank's ceo, jim ryan, who asked me to read this on behalf of him and his colleagues at old national quote, there are no words to adequately describe the sadness and devastation that our old

national family is experiencing as we grieve the tragic loss of our team members and pray for the recovery of all those who were injured obviously this is an incredible difficult situation and our entire focus is on making sure that everyone affected has the support and assistance they need on behalf of everyone at old national, i also want to acknowledge and thank louisville law enforcement, the medical community, and state and local officials for their incredible response to this tragedy finally, we ask you to please continue to pray for all those affected again, that was old national ceo, jim ryan. our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones and we are also thinking and praying for the people who were injured in this attack. including our police officers. for an update on their

condition, i first would like to welcome dr. jason smith, chief medical officer at u of l health dr. smith? >> thank you, thank you, mayor i want to send my prayers and thoughts out to all the families affected yesterday, those we treated and those, unfortunately, we did not. we still have four patients in the hospital two remain in the icu, and officer wilkes still remains in critical condition, and we have been able to upgrade the other patient in icu to stable condition. the other three remain in the hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries i want to thank my emergency department, doctors and nurses and the team at the trauma health that helped yesterday we used 170 units of blood

yesterday to treat these victims, and the red cross, t their ability to get us that blood helped save lives. i will be happy to take questions at the end of the press conference thank you. >> thank you, dr. smith. now for a brief update on information, about things we learned, about the events and the assailant yesterday. i would like to call on the chief of police. >> to the mayor and everybody in attendance today, we have learned the suspect in this incident was a current employee with old national bank we have also learned that he purchased the weapon used in this tragic incident yesterday on april 4th he purchased the weapon legally from one of the local dealerships here in louisville

we have executed a search warrant on his residence and have recovered items that we cannot get into specific detailed on what we recovered at this time because, again, the investigation is ongoing and we want to make sure we are providing accurate information the families and community deserves that. we would also like to share that later on this afternoon we will be releasing body-worn camera footage of the incident. so that information at the time will be released to you, and the location, so everybody will be privy to that information. thank you. >> thank you, chief. we need to acknowledge that a tragedy like this affects everyone i've already talked about some of our first responders and colleagues in metro government thanks also to the faith leaders and social workers and mental

health professionals that provided comfort and counsel to people in understandable distress i also want to acknowledge the teachers and parents who had to have difficult conversations with our children throughout our community about this inexplicable act of violence and cruelty. we're all feeling shaken by this and scared and angry, and a lot of other things, too it's important that we come together as a community to process this tragedy, in particular, but not just this tragedy, because the reality is that we have already lost 40 people to gun violence in louisville this year including another young man yesterday, just a few blocks away from old national bank, shortly after this tragic

incident happened. that was a separate targeted incident, but the result was the same needless tragedy needless loss of life. in order to help the people of our community of our great city come together and deal with the outbreak of tragedies, to grieve, to pray, to unite, i would like to announce that we will be hosting a vigil tomorrow, wednesday, at 5:00 p.m., at the muhammad ali plaza. this will be to acknowledge the wounds, emotional and physical, the gun violence leaves behind it will be an interfaith opportunity for our entire community to begin to move forward.

we know wednesday is a night of worship for many across our city, and so working with paul and his colleagues at the office of safe and healthy neighborhood, we will have grief counsellors over a dozen churches throughout our city who have regular wednesday worship in our community as well, and we invite the entire community to join us at the muhammad ali center if you decide to worship on your own, we will have grief counsellors, and we will have a list where they will be located by midafternoon today. i want to thank the muhammad ali center for hosting this vigil on such short notice.

one thing in the midst of the tragedy is the number of people locally and around the world that has shown such love and support for our city it means a lot to my wife, rachel, and i. we are deeply grateful on behalf of everyone in louisville for those that reached out from beyond and within our city borders. there are so many people that want to do something, who have offered to help, who see this nightmare unfold and want to make it better somehow we love and appreciate that so much for those of you who are looking to take action right now and show your support for the first responders who are trying to save lives and for the victims of gun violence, one great way to do that is to donate blood. according to johns hopkins university, gunshot wounds require much more blood than other types of injuries.

you just heard dr. smith talk about the amount of blood that was needed and used yesterday. he mentioned his thanks to the red cross. we are very thankful to the american red cross we encourage people to make an appointment to donate at redcrossblood.org. that's redcrossblood.org we encourage everybody to donate blood, and if you can't there are other ways to support the american red cross with donations or your time next i would like to call steve, the ceo of the local red cross steve? >> thank you our thoughts and our deepest sympathies are with the people of louisville and those impacted by monday's tragic shooting. they request of local emergency management on monday, the louisville chapter and its

volunteers helped support a family reunification center. the red cross continues to work with local authorities and their community partners and is helping to provide aid and assistance to those people affected by this tragedy at this time the american red cross is working closely with the university of louisville hospital and dr. smith mentioned, it has provided -- we have provided more than 170 units of blood products to the hospital to treat those that have been affected by this the red cross stands ready to provide additional blood and blood products upon the request. as the mayor mentioned, volunteer blood donors are needed each and every day to help save lives. this tragedy illustrates that it's the blood that's already on hand and on the shelves that helps during an emergency. type o negative is universal blood type these what the emergency room

personnel reach for when they don't have time to determine a blood type that's one of the types needed most the american red cross is grateful to all those donors who gen generously give blood throughout this country thank you. >> thank you, steve, to you and all of your colleagues at the red cross. there's one more topic that we need to talk about today that's guns. yesterday's tragedy brings us to 40 people who have been shot to death this year in our city. that level of gun violence is beyond horrific and it's beyond anything we can and will accept in our community our police did a heroic job yesterday and every day. and we are already doing a lot

to reduce the amount of gun violence in our city and make louisville safer we are investing in neighborhoods and in people who have been overlooked for generations, so every child has an opportunity to succeed and pursue their hopes and dreams. we're going to invest more in mental health care we are working to make universal pre-k a reality, workforce development initiatives for young and older adults like. these are all important. these are all also long-term solutions. we have to take action now we need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets and in our banks and in our schools and in our churches. for that, we need help we need help from our friends in

fran frankford and help from our friends in washington, d.c this isn't about partisan politics this is about life and death this is about preventing tragedies. you may think this will never happen to you. never happen to any of your friends or loved ones. i used to think that the sad truth is that now no one in our city, no one in our state, no one in our country has that luxury anymore. last year, i survived a workplace shooting and now yesterday, i have lost a very close friend in another workplace shooting five more families have lost a loved one. it has happened louisville

it could happen in paducah, in pikeville or in covington. this is happening in america everywhere and will keep happening until we say enough and take meaningful action congresswoman mcgarvey will talk about things at the federal level. i will address what we can do at the state level. i have two requests today for every kentucky state senator and every kentucky state representative who wants to skroijoin me in reducing the amount of gun violence louisville. first, if you support police officers, like officer wilt and officer galloway who her oicall ran into the bank, if you support local decision making to

address local issues, if you want to help our state's largest city thrive, please, give louisville the autonomy to deal with our unique gun violence epidemic let us, the people of louisville, make our own choices about how we reduce gun violence in our city. other communities should be able to make the policies that work for them let us implement policies that work for us. please, change our state law to let louisville make its own decisions about reducing the amount of illegal guns on our streets. and gun violence that is killing far too many people in mass shootings, in individual shootings, in any shootings. let me be clear. i don't care about finger pointing i don't care about blame i don't care about politics.

i'm only interested in working together with our state legislators to take meaningful action to save lives, to prevent more tragic injuries and more death. arguing is not a strategy. doing nothing is not a strategy. it's not a solution. the second thing -- to those in the national media that are joining us here today, this may be even more shocking than it is to those of us locally who know this and are dealing with this under current kentucky law, the assault rifle that was used to murder five of our neighbors and shoot at rescuing police officers will one day be auctioned off. think about that

that murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under kentucky's current law my administration has already taken action to remove the firing pin before turning confiscated guns over to the state. because that's all that the current law allows us to do. that's not enough. it's time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors i know every member of the state legis legislature, like everyone else in our state and in our country, is horrified by what we saw yesterday, by what we see in other cities around the country. none of us wants this to happen again. none of us wants this to happen in our neighborhood. but it will keep happening

that's why we have to do more than what we have already done let's change the state laws. that would make me a criminal for trying too hard to stop the real evil criminals who are taking other people's lives and who are eager to make a spectacle of mass murder the laws we have now are enabling violence and murder it's time to change those laws, to save lives and keep our people safe. to those in the kentucky state legislature, let's work together i look forward to working with you on this. now, i with like to welcome congressman morgan mcgarvey.

>> good morning. thank you to mayor greenburg and your team, rachel for your leadership through this. i'm not here today simply as a congressman. i'm a life long louisville man, born and raised here my heart hurts i got the call yesterday when i was in washington, d.c we didn't know exactly what had happened yet but you got that feeling of dread, that something is wrong, that this isn't normal and then more information starts coming out the heartbreak begins. the names start coming out and we know them and they're friends. because this is louisville louisville, kentucky, the

biggest small town in america. we call it luis-village. everybody knows everybody. we are not seven degrees of separation from people louisville we are one degree of separation from people louisville when we ask what school you went to, we mean high school. i went to manuel high school my mom went to wagner high school louisville is my home. we are hurting this is an unimaginable tragedy for our xhupty as the mayor mentioned, dajim tt is no longer with us josh barrick is no longer with us the woman who was the maid of honor in our wedding, for whom we are the god par