i'm here and i'm in it, and this is what i'm supposed to be doing. i'm supposed to be telling these stories. he did this incredible work, but it took an incredible toll on himself and on his family. >> an extraordinary moment. ernie pyle who set the template for war correspondents going forward who play such important roles, telling the stories of conflicts up to this present day. we should note he was killed which a japanese sniper in april of 1985, a few months before the war ended. the book goes on sale tomorrow. david chrisinger, thank you for joining us today. that does it for us on this memorial day. joe, mika and willie join metro at 6:00 a.m. you can join me at 5:30 a.m.

with "way too early." yasmin vossoughian picks up our coverage now. >> good morning. on this memorial day, i'm yasmin vossoughian. at this hour we're breaking down everything we know about tentative deal between the white house and the republicans on capitol hill to raise the debt ceiling, avoiding what would have been a cats trovg debt default. in iowa, crews are frantically searching for survivors when a six-story apartment building partially collapsed after residents reportedly complained about the state of the structure. over in ukraine, new explosions in the capital city after another brutal round of russian drone attacks. we'll bring you a live report from the capital city of kyiv. also, on this memorial day, tens of millions of americans returning home as the long weekend comes to a close. we'll bring you what you can expect on the roads on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

hey, everybody. good to see you. we're going to begin with a critical breakthrough in the showdown of the nation's debt limit. after days of tense back and forth negotiations, will they, won't they, the president and house speaker kevin mccarthy reach a deal that would avert a default. the big task now for the speaker and the president, to sell this compromise to their respective parties. >> the agreement also represents a compromise which means no one got everything they want. but that's the responsibility of governing. this deal is good news, i believe you'll see, for the american people. >> it's not 100% what everybody wants. when you look, the country is going to be stronger. this is going to be transformational, where congress is literally going to vote to spend less money this year than we spent last year. >> the plan is going to suspend

the debt ceiling until 2025. it's going to increase spending on defense and veterans health care while holding non-defense spending fairly flat. it will claw back $30 billion in unspent covid fans and cut $20 billion in funding for the irs. it's going to expand the age at which adults would be required to work to receive food stamps. right now it's 49. it will expand to 54. with us to start our coverage off, nbc news capitol hill correspondent julie tsirkin and nbc white house news correspondent allie raffa as well. you've been following this for the last couple days. you've got the inside take. julie, let me start with this one. the overarching question whichever one wants to know does mccarthy and hakeem jeffries have the votes to get everything over the finish line? >> they say they do. happy memorial day to you, yasmin and our viewers, of course. the real work begins. the speaker, speaker mccarthy

scheduling many meetings not just yesterday with house democrats, but topical meetings in the days before the vote which we expect to take place on wednesday night. on the flip side, you have speaker mccarthy talking to members trying to get them on board, but also briefing senate republicans, many of whom are already embracing this deal after being a little bit cautious about it. since that text has been released, you heard mccarthy and biden say neither side got exactly what they wanted. we asked the speaker yesterday during the press conference that you see on your screen there, how he's going to keep his conference together, how many members he can afford to lose. he said this bill will cut spending and that's why it's historic. on the flip side, the president said he didn't negotiate over the debt ceiling. he negotiated over the budget. but we'll see if democrats, mainly progressives led by

camilla jayapal will embrace that as well. this deal includes work requirements. changes were made to food stamps raising the age from 49 to 54 for able-bodied americans, those without dependents. that's something progressives aren't happy with. they made that clear to the president. will they ultimately get on board with it? it remains to be seen. this bill will have votes from democrats and republicans in the house and senate in order to pass. we'll see as the members start coming back tomorrow. i'm told the caucus members will come back today and see if they can accept this. tomorrow the rules committee will start taking up this bill. remember who sits on that committee, two republicans, conservatives who didn't want mccarthy to have the gavel, ralph norman and chip roy. with democratic support, we expect it to move forward. >> allie, how is the president

selling this to his party? >> reporter: that's where the messaging comes in. we know that can be the most difficult part of the process. you heard julie talking about the spinning and selling of this deal already started. it started before this deal was officially agreed to yesterday before the president and speaker mccarthy. white house officials are saying, look, at the end of the day, the president may have said he didn't want to negotiate on the debt ceiling, and obviously this deal is the result of negotiations, but they're making the argument that that was needed, that there was no other option that the president put his pride aside and was able to get this done for the american people, not just for the u.s. economy, but for the global economy. to julie's point on congressman jayapal who said yesterday that the white house should be worried ae support for this deal, we've seen that criticism from progressives expand. what the house is responding is they're saying, look, read this deal, understand it in all of

its details. you will see it's more modest as you think. it's not as much of a gut punch as democrats may think. there are still things the president and the white house were able to protect as far as the president's priorities. that's a sentiment we heard echoed on the "today" show by omb director shawanda young who played a critical role in these negotiations. take a listen to what she had to say. >> on balance, this deal strikes a responsibility tone. deal with the debt ceiling and void devastating cuts to programs working families depend on. we ended in a place where we should have always been, we're avoiding default, getting to 2025 with the debt ceiling. i hope americans can breathe a sigh of relief. it would have hurt millions of americans if we had defaulted for the first time in history. washington came together and avoided that. >> reporter: the reality check, yasmin, is most democrats will

stand behind the president and support this deal. many have already pledged to do that. it's not specifically necessary to get every single member of the progressive part of this party on board. they do have enough democratic votes to get it passed. this isn't as much of a challenge, per se, for the white house as it is for republicans and speaker mccarthy. at the end of the day it may take house democrats to get this across the finish line in the house. >> exactly right. julie tsirkin, allie raffa, thank you very much. coming to this agreement may have been the easy part, if you the can believe that. now comes the hard part, selling it to two parties with members who seem to be skeptical. with us to talk more about it is tia mitchell, washington correspondent for the "atlanta journal constitution" and former florida congressman david jolly who is now an msnbc political analyst. tia, i've been speaking to sources inside the congressional progressive caucus, high-level

sources there. i'm looking at the schedule for today. they'll be getting briefings around 12:00 noon from the white house on the language in this thing to figure out whether or not they're going to be voting in favor of it to help mccarthy get this across the finish line. the congressional progressive caucus is also going to be meeting at 3:00 p.m. later on today as well. what are you hearing from your sources when it comes to how this thing is being sold and whether or not enough dems are going to be able to get on board? >> well, a lot of the democratic lawmakers that i checked in with are saying they want to give themselves a chance to attend these briefings, go over the bill language. but i do think president biden is going to have less trouble with democrats than speaker mccarthy is going to have with republicans. i think that there will be --

but where the problem may be with democrats is, if they see a lot of republican defections, democrats are going to start asking their leadership why should we be the ones to bail out speaker mccarthy when we don't really like a lot of provisions that he insisted on putting in this bill. i think that's the concern. i think democrats are inclined to help president biden, no, they don't like some of the provisions, particularly the work requirement for people on food assistance or temporary assistance for families, those changes, but it doesn't go as far as the republicans had hoped. so it does give democrats enough to say, hey, maybe i can hold my nose. but if too many republicans start falling off, i think that is what is going to give democrats even more hesitation. >> david jolly, weigh in on this. you had mccarthy saying

yesterday, look, 95% of my caucus is on board with this thing, they're happy about it. it seems to be there's a larger uphill battle than he is sharing with folks. what does that look like? >> 95% before they knew the details. kevin mccarthy is someone always guilding the lilly with his own caucus. i think tia's comments are very insightful. first of all, it's a win for the nation if we stave off a debt default. it's politically a ridiculous win for joe biden in an effort to protect democratic priorities and to not have to take a lot of hurt when it comes to few your budget cuts. politically i think all the politics today are going to focus on the republican caucus. we know the real hardliners won't go along with this. kevin mccarthy has known that all along as well. you've already lost 15-20 votes of the hardliners which says you

have to get democratic votes. the second group to look for, yasmin, among republicans is what we call the vote not/hope yes caucus. it's the republicans who refuse to take a hard vote. it's the coward discaucus, the ted cruz caucus, this is awful, this is terrible, i'll never go along with it. they hope enough republicans do because they don't want to deal with the reality of the issue either. to tia's point, the question is how large is that vote no/hope yes members of the caucus? is it 100? it could be. the final point becomes what does this mean for kevin mccarthy's future as the speaker. he cannot have a debt deal that has to rely on a majority of democrats because then he's basically built a coalition with democrats and those hardliners, those 15 to 20 will smell blood in the water and go for the speaker's gavel if we get to that point. >> david, i found it interesting

that republicans came to the negotiating table wanting ten years of spending cuts. they got two. mccarthy is trying to spin that as success for them. two years lines up pretty conveniently with the president election. is his thinking and the way he's selling this thing, we got spending cuts for two years, we get a republican president back in the white house, we have to renegotiate a debt ceiling at that point and we'll get everything we want then? >> that's certainly what they think. democrats would think two years we went everything and get to revisit this. the hurdle there is always 60 votes in the u.s. senate. the calculation is right. yasmin, i've been going through these debt limit hikes since 1995. republicans started with a one-year position just as a negotiating posture. again, we've got to revisit how joe biden beat back all these republican priorities, to protect medicaid, infrastructure, student loan debt, irs priorities, environmental priorities and only accept two years of

tightening which actually is still going to be about level funding. after those two years, you're talking about soft targets. an incredible political win for joe biden. more importantly, a fiscal win for the nation. >> tia, talk to us about the details here. we have been talking around what was the red line for so many progressives in the democratic party. that was a work requirement, especially for those on food stamps. give us the details of what was negotiated here when it comes to work requirements and other social programs the progressive caucus was concerned about. >> yes. so republicans initially wanted work requirements not just for people on food assistance. they were looking at work requirements, for example, for medicaid which is health care for people who are needy or disabled. so what ended up in the final compromise between biden and mccarthy is increasing the age

where that work requirement applies. right now, if you're in your early 50s, for example, you're not required to meet that 20 hours per week work requirement. this lists that maximum age up to 54, 55. so now you, in theory, might be if you're 52, 53, 54, be required to work 20 hours a week if you're an able bodied childless adult. what the white house is saying to offset that is, yes, we did increase that maximum age for the work requirement. we know progressives don't want that. they did not want that. but we also are expanding the definition of veterans and definition of the disabled to get more people eligible for some of these programs. they also point out that we did not allow republicans to add work requirements for the

medicaid program, for example. so what the white house is trying to sell is that there is compromise. it's not nearly as bad as what republicans had tried to do when it comes to work requirements in these safety networks, and, therefore, hey say progressives, we need you to support it. >> i can imagine the president will be touting this kind of bipartisan compromise as part of his election strategy come 2024. tia mitchell, thank you. david jolly, thank you as well. coming up everybody, an update after authorities spent the night in iowa desperately searching for survivors amidst the rubble of a collapsed apartment building. we'll take you there live to davenport. texas attorney general ken paxton impeached by his fellow republicans. what's next for him? we're back in just 60 sections. you're watching "msnbc reports." we'll be right back. reports." we'll be right back. wants, and save on every perk.

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welcome back. at this hour officials saying no known individuals remained trapped following the six-story apartment building collapse in davenport, iowa, on sunday. the stability of the remaining structure continues to be a major concern. joining us is shaq brewster. give us an update with the latest on recovery efforts. >> reporter: good morning. i had a conversation with the mayor saying this is no longer a search and rescue mission. it has shifted to a search and recovery mission. when you look at the damage, it's almost surprising to hear it's moving as quickly as they're suggesting. look at the damage you see there. this is a six-story building. you see a bible of rubble on the ground. rescue crews were here working this scene throughout the night. overnight they're no longer going through this building with the canines, over six canines helping to assist this self

fort. officials say about eight people were rescued after the initial collapse in terms of actually needing help to get out of the building. that includes one person who was rescued last night and was hospitalized. we don't know his exact condition. there's some suggestions from the mayor that that person is requiring surgery. one thing we continue to hear is it was because of the quick action of rescue workers that the numbers we're talking about are not worse. listen to what we heard from the mayor during a press conference earlier today. >> we're hoping and praying that that's how it's going to stand. again, because of the response and because of the concern for life by our first responders to get in the building knowing that that building was unsafe, to help folks, i can't stress how, because of that they saved lives. they saved lives.

>> reporter: you mentioned it, but i think it bears repeating. there are no known fatalities at this point. there's no one that they're aware of who is trapped underneath that rubble. of course, they're asking for prayers hoping that doesn't change. but that is the current situation. one other thing i want to point out, and this is something i've been hearing increasingly from residents is the complaints about the building and how it was run. as recently as last week there were complaints logged about bricks falling from this building. there are complaints that, if you look at city records, if you look at residents at this building, people who have lived here, complaining about the condition of it, lack of heating or lack of water. the mayor saying that will be part of the investigation. the city has responded to many of those complaints over the past couple years. the focus right now is making sure that there's no one left behind here. they will be looking into that as the investigation continues as we try to find out the cause

of what led to this partial collapse of this historic building here in davenport. >> wow. when you're looking at those numbers, it's a real miracle. no other way to put it on this memorial day holiday. shaq brewster for us, we thank you. speaking of memorial day, later today millions of americans are set to head back home after the long holiday weekend. this is expected to be the third busiest memorial day weekend since 2000 according to aaa. joining us is nbc's emilie ikeda. so if folks are watching, wondering when they should be getting back on the roads to head home after the holiday weekend, what should they be expecting and what hours should they avoid? >> reporter: well, yasmin, the answer is now, get on the road now, because the traffic will only pick up throughout the day. right now we have the jersey turnpike behind me. traffic is moving along smoothly

at the moment. some of the worst logjams according to aaa will build up between noon and 3:00. that's going to be a hot spot throughout the day, especially drivers returning to metropolitan areas like new york, boston, tampa, seattle. they could see travel times nearly double later today. the traffic is expected to continue until tomorrow. so you want to avoid the roads between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. tomorrow on tuesday. like you said, this memorial day weekend, the travel rush, the third busiest on record according to aaa with tens of millions of people potentially returning home today. the national average for a gallon of gas has actually come down compared to last year, about more than a dollar compared to this time last year that's fueling some folks hitting the road. now, we're talking about the skies. so far it's been a pretty smooth sailing weekend. the transportation secretary praising the airlines thus far,

the first couple days seeing less than 1% of flights canceled. that's in sharp contrast to the airport armageddon we saw last year tsa reporting nearly 7.6 million people passing through checkpoints between thursday and saturday. some of those are record numbers since 2019. seeing a roaring start to the weekend. you want to pack your patience because you should expect lines whether on the roadways or in the airports, yasmin. >> the problem with being here in the northeast and leaving now, the weather is just too darn good. so you have to weigh what you're actually wanting to or willing to endure on this memorial day holiday. coming up next, with the special counsel wrapping up his classified documents investigation, how soon could potential criminal charges against donald trump be announced? russia pounds kyiv with the

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impeached on allegations including bribery and obstruction of justice, an extraordinary development for a top republican official in a very red state. a significant showdown this morning in deep red texas. a republican-led effort against a prominent conservative and key ally of donald trump the state attorney general ken paxton impeached and now suspended by the texas statehouse over allegations of bribery, unfit ngs for office and ab bups of public trust. >> he's being attacked by his own employees. >> reporter: some conservative supporters defending paxton including former president donald trump, a key ally in texas. >> he's done more for the american people than any president in our lifetime. >> reporter: mr. trump also calling out texas republican governor greg abbott who has been silent on the decision. paxton tweeting sunday night he's been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support after calling the historic vote a politically motivated sham.

>> the fact that i was prohibited from preventing evidence to defend myself reveals this shameful process was curate friday the start -- >> reporter: no strange tore controversy, separately indicted eight years ago on securities fraud charges in a case that's yet to go to trial. a texas house committee led by republicans in march began investigating years' long investigations paxton misused his office which he denies. this year lawmakers filed 20 articles of impeachment against him. >> the evidence is substantial. >> reporter: among allegations he took bribes from a political donor who helped remodel his house, he used his influence to look into a fed val ration of that donor and fired staff members who reported his misconduct. paxton asking for state money to pay the settlement. paxton stayed popular enough to win re-election for a third term

in november. he was endorsed by mr. trump. it's the state senate that could determine his future as attorney general with a trial in the days to come and a new political fight now just beginning. >> a couple of questions outstanding here. we still don't know when the state senate might hold a trial on a vote. we still don't know what paxton's wife should be, she's a senate senator who would be a juror here. no word on whether she'd recuse herself from a vote. >> thank you to nbc's hallie jackson. the very latest on a legal batting surrounding former president donald trump. any day now special counsel jack smith could finish his investigation into trump's handling of classified documents found at mar-a-lago. that's according to bloomberg. smith could announce criminal charges in the days or weeks after the memorial day holiday according to people familiar with the matter. joining us with more on this is former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, also an msnbc legal

analyst. glenn, as always, it's a pleasure to have you on, especially on this memorial day holiday. i'll start with what do you think of this, what do you make of this? the first is "the washington post" reporting that trump employees were moving these bachs around the day before fbi shoepd up at mar-a-lagoment you couple that with the appeal made by trump's attorneys to attorney general garland. what does that say to you about what's in the pipeline and how long it could be until we hear about a decision? >> yasmin, the reporting about dress rehearsals involving moving boxes of classified documents around coupled with the fact that there's reporting that the day before fbi and doj officials travel to mar-a-lago last june infrengsally to collect some of the documents donald trump should not have had, criminal trials are

exercises in asking jurors to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence. evidence like that is potentially devastating. the dress rehearsals seem to be designed to prevent the federal government, the doj and fbi from recover the documents. we know they put that dress rehearsal into action the day before fbi and doj officials went down inferentially to recover the documents. we know they were successful in hiding the documents. two months later in august, a federal judge issued a search warrant finding probable cause that there was evidence of crime that remained at mar-a-lago. lo and behold, another hundred classified documents or so were recovered from the fbi including from donald trump's own desk drawers. i have to tell you, this old prosecutor would love to argue that circumstantial evidence to the jury and ask them to draw the reasonable inference that

donald trump is guilty of obstructing justice. >> "the washington post" also reporting the grand jury has not met since may 5th, marking their longest hiatus since december. is there something we should be reading into there? >> here is what i make of that. after we present the lion's share of the evidence and the witnesses to the grand jury, we hunker down and we put together what we call a case impression memo which is a soup-to-nuts memorandum that records all of the evidence in writing, applies all the law to that evidence and we reach a conclusion about whether we think we should ask the grand jury to indict. of course, there's an additional step here because jack smith as special counsel would have to present that to merrick garland, make his recommendation on whether to indict or decline to indict and then merrick garland would have to act on that recommendation. it feels to me like that is kind of the prosecutors being in the

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moments ago air raid sirens activated in kyiv, the third time in 24 hours. overnight the capital city was targeted by missile attacks. thousands of residents ran for shelter. on sunday ukraine says russia launched its largest drone attack yet hours before the country celebrated the anniversary of the founding of the capital city. joining us from kyiv is nbc's molly hunter. molly, if you will, bring us up to date on what's happening there this afternoon after the latest attacks. >> reporter: yasmin, i want to second what you just said. we're in the middle of an air raid alert siren, the fourth in

just 48 hours. i want you to notice one of the key indicators to us, how local residents are taking us. people are still waiting for the bus. there's tons of traffic. people are walking around. that was not the case this morning or last night. we've seen three major waves of attacks, yasmin, in the last 48 hours, the 16th major wave this month. i'll run you through a few numbers. on sunday, as you just mentioned, the largest drone attack this country has seen, nearly 60 drones. monday night, 67 attacks, 37 cruise missiles, 30 drones. monday during the day, 11. at least one person was killed over the weekend. the injuries and damage are coming not from impacts because the air force is really knocking most of them out of the sky, but coming from fragments. when we hear explosions, that means fragments and debris comes down starting fires, damaging houses and injuring several people over the weekend, yasmin. >> molly hunter for us. thank you. want to bring in david ignatius,

former columnist and associate editor at "the washington post," also an msnbc contributor. david, as always, it's great to talk to you about this. molly just said the largest drone attack on ukraine ever this past saturday. pointedly, i guess, is this russia's attempt to deplete ukraine's air defense system, and can they do it? >> i think they're trying to get the ukrainians to fire as much air defense munitions as they can. it's been a weakness, the shortage came out in the documents that were leaked by the airman in massachusetts. i also think this is a period in which both russia and ukraine are trying to say the basic message, as long as it takes we're in this war. russia is pounding kyiv, as your excellent reporter molly just made clear, but ukraine is withstanding and is preparing at this moment for significant counteroffensive. we don't know where. we don't know exactly what it

will involve. the signals are that it's going to be significant. i know u.s. commanders have been anticipating this, going over detailed plans to the extent they've been brought into them. so we're on the edge of a new phase in the war. i think russia is trying to soften up kyiv as much as they can, frighten the population, intimidate people, part of the russian way of war. it's clear that ukrainians are withstanding that. i'm also struck, yasmin, that the degree of disorganization at home in moscow, the degree to which putin has pulled back has become almost a passive figure as its generals and the militia commander prigozhin attack each other. it's quite extraordinary. on the ground we're seeing this message, as long as it takes. the decisive ukrainian blow is about to begin.

it's not going to be drones. >> i'm glad you brought up moscow because they are now issuing this arrest want for senator lindsey graham after meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy and making remarks after that meeting about the war in ukraine. is this still moscow's effort to retain domestic support? are they still fighting that, and this is an effort to do that? >> so the russians are in an increasingly sharp debate about the value of this war. one of the things that prig goes sin said was we fought this war to demille tearize ukraine, and in the process we created a military superpower, which is right, ukraine is now the strongest military in europe. that's the result of this war. russia sees it and inevitably what putin and the security

agencies are having to do is crack down on pub ligs discussion. as they try to do that, russians who ask, does this make sense, i think they'll be increasingly vocal and angry. but the key issue will be what gains can ukraine make on the battlefield. a lot of this stuff is just talk. if they can significantly punch through russian lines, we'll have a different situation in a couple month. >> david ignatius, as always, it's great to talk to you about this stuff. what was supposed to be a relaxing beach day quickly turned scary when an alleged drunk driver plowed down a florida beach and into the water. how witnesses describe those harrowing moments after the break. plus this. the rise of gun violence. now the top public health concern amongst americans. have mass shootings become the new normal? you're watching "msnbc reports." we'll be right back. l be right . .

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in florida an alleged drunk driver is faces charges accuse of speeding down a busy beach over the holiday weekend. authorities saying the driver was going as fast as 50 miles an hour and nearly hit several families. police footage of the moments they questioned the driver. nbc's guad venegas is live for us from miami with more on this. this story, it's terrifying, especially on memorial day weekend when people are out enjoying the beaches.

you have a woman, allegedly, a driver allegedly drunk going down the beach. what more do we know about this? >> reporter: yasmin, you're right. fortunately for everyone no one was hurt. it was just very, very scary. this happened near daytona beach in florida. so we know according to authorities that her blood alcohol concentration was 0.15, which is double or almost double the state's legal limit. that's from authorities, and authorities were able to arrive right after this happened, which you can see in the images when she drove the car on the beach and was stuck in partially submerged underwater. the moment authorities began speaking to her is record instead that body cam video, and in the conversation she told officers that she was made aware by people that she almost hit a child, but she herself said she wasn't aware she almost hit a child. part of that conversation also made it look like she was confused, and she tried to

communicate with the officers. and of course you have all the witnesses that were there that gave the account of what happened. here's one of the witnesses speaking. >> yeah, i was just like yelling at them from the window, you almost hit my child firstly, many other kids, dogs, and she was like, well, i didn't. >> she could have easily just ran over a kid, and she -- the only reason that she even stopped was because she got stuck. >> reporter: and the driver had a passenger, which is why they were saying -- they were yelling at them. in the conversation that the driver had with the officers, she also explained that she decided to drive through the beach because there was no way to make a u-turn. ultimately authorities arrested her. she's been charged with a dui and reckless driving. now, as of this morning, according to court records she has posted a $1,500 bail, and has been released by authorities. we did try contacting the driver but have not heard back as of this morning, yasmin. >> wow. unbelievable. and really, really scary.

guad venegas for us, thank you. so this country, as we all well know, is no stranger to gun violence, and this holiday weekend was no exception. there were deadly shootings across the country, including in our nation's capital, washington, d.c., on sunday when a man was killed after a shooting on the d.c. metro. and then in chicago police say eight people were killed and at least 32 wounded in shootings across the city over the weekend. a growing number of americans list gun violence as a top public health concern according to a new poll, ahead of opioids, obesity, and cancer. joining us is the executive director of moms demand action for gun sense in america. memorial day weekend this time last year, angela, i was in uvalde, texas, covering the mass shooting there, and i remember it so distinctly as i think back on that time and yet not much

has changed really since then. i want to talk about this polling because we know americans recognize this as a problem, right? 26% of respondents said access to guns or firearms is the number one threat to american public health, and that is up from 17% back in february, a huge jump followed by opioids, fentanyl, obesity and cancer number four. what do you make of this? >> well, this is no surprise at all. as you stated at the top of this, look, this was another weekend in america where gun violence rocked many communities. this is a time particularly a holiday weekend when you're going out to enjoy yourself or spend time with your family, and you have to contemplate places that you think would be safe or potentially battlegrounds. this is not an act of nature, this is not an inevitability. in fact, this is part of inaction from lawmakers, extremist lawmakers that are beholden to a gun lobby.

120 people are shot and killed every day in this country, and 200 plus more are wounded and disturbing the leading cause of death for children in this nation are guns, not cancer, not car accidents but guns. but again, this is not an inevitability. while this might seem pretty bleak, what i would say is that there is a lot of progress being made across the country and states, i'm thinking about colorado, minnesota, michigan, illinois, maryland, washington state just to name a few. there are people that are rolling up their sleeves, and they're sick and tired of turning on the news or seeing headlines and knowing that inaction is literally killing members of their community. so we're going to continue doing everything we can here at moms demand action and students demand action to ensure that senseless gun violence ends. >> we don't have a ton of time left, angela, and i could talk to you about this all hour because it needs to be talked about. quickly here, how do you make

guns an election issue within a presidential election. how do you make people vote with guns in mind? >> look, we saw in the last midterms that this was a winning issue. not only did people vote on the ballot for gun safety, there were many candidates that ran on gun safety and won. so we're going to continue to push and make sure we're educating american public about the fact that, again, this is something that's not an inevitability and there are things that we can do about it. until we have a bench of people, gun sense champions that are pushing and making sure they're putting forward policies and laws that save lives, this is where we are. >> thank you so much for joining us today. >> of course. after the break, everybody, i'm going to be joined by congresswoman jen sha cow ski, a member of the debt progressive caucus. and you're looking live at arlington national cemetery where in just a couple of minutes the president and first lady will lay a wreath at the

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