on november 5th, 2017, a tightknit community in texas called sutherland springs was the target of a shootingan opened fire at a small baptist church killing 26 people. we quicklyt learned that the shooter had a long record of violence, school suspension,or comments about wanting to kill superiors in the military, animal abuse, violence against those closest to him, felony, domestic violence convictions. he fractured theon school of his stepson in a fit of anger. and he even spent time in military prison. yet under the criminal background check system, the air force hadn't uploaded that information. under existing federal law, the shooter was prohibited from ever purchasing or possessing a firearm. so how didis he get his hands oa semi automatic weapon that he used to take 26 innocent lives? because of a broken system. he was able to purchase for firearms because the information about his critical history had never been uploaded into the national instant criminal background system. in that case it was clear the answer was how do we stop this again it was obvious, get the background check syst

and no limitation on their right is going to prevent shootings like uvalde sutherland springs so keeping people with mental health problems from purchasing firearms under existing law i believe is the right formula to build consensus and get a bill on the president's desk. we are still working through a lot of the details but i am encouraged about things right now. my goal all along is the art of the possible. it's not everything you want and nothing i want. that is how not to get a deal or accomplish anything. we work with our colleagues to help them understand these principles that we've agreed to, the 20 of us. super majority support here in the united states senate. i want to personally thank our colleagues, senator cinema and cinema senator tillis for getting us to this point as well as another of them thirsted matters that contributed to this bipartisan proposal. we still have a lot of work ahead of us. thenen we need to get it on the senate floor, get it passed, get it passed in the house

for example, the fix nics bill after this tragic sutherland, spring shooting where an individual who should not even able to get a firearm because of his record of felonies and domestic violence and mental health o commitments was able to do so because the air force had not uploaded that information into the background check system. i'm proud of the fact from a bipartisan basis that we passed that legislation which compelled federal agenciesse to post derogatory information, which disqualifies people under current law in the national criminal background check system. since 2018 when that bill was signed into law, the big 11 and a half million new records uploaded into the background check system. as i i said our agreement on e background check system in this particular legislation is an attempt to try to make sure that existing law works the way that congress intended. i am very proud of the bipartisan work that led to this framework and i'm eagerer to she more with my republican colleagues this week. the various portions of this proposal can be grouped into three broad categories, o

following sutherland springs we came of the targeted bill to address specific circumstances. i hope we can do so again. i will not settle on inadequate or downright legislation for the sakein of doing something, that is not productive for anyone and is one of the things i have most, do something, well we can agree that something needs to be done but with that somethinguc is, it's much harder to achieve its oh targetedfo reforms i thank you so a way to get to where we need to go. i understand the desire for quick action about help democratic leader will allow bipartisan discussionso to continue funding concluded before polls appointed schedules shall wasn't something that he knows cannot pass. he has threatened to do it but i don't believe we have to try to have artificial deadlines to be met we know how to do this and i think up giving the senate adequate time over the next week or so to try to reach out consensus is eminently reasonable. finally the senate will be putting thiss week, because good consensus legislation takes time sort of the senator schumer will as members wo

following sutherland springs we came up with a targeted bill to address specific circumstances. i hope we can do so again. i will not settle on inadequate or down right harmful legislation for the sake of doing something. that's not productive for anyone. that's one of the things i hear the most. people say do something. well, we can agree something needs to be done, but what that something is is much harder to achieve, and so targeted reforms, i think is the way to get to where we need to go. i understand the desire for quick action, but i hope the democratic leader will allow bipartisan discussions to continue and then conclude before he pulls the plug and schedules show votes on something he knows can't pass. he's threatened to do it, but i don't believe we ought to try to meet artificial deadlines. we know how to do this, and i think giving the senate adequate time over the next week or so to try to reach that consensus is imminently reasonable. i don't believe the senate will be voting this week because good consensus legislation takes time. so i hope senator schumer will l

for example, 2017, the shooting of sutherland springs, what happened there highlighted the gaping hole in the background check system. despite the fact that the shooter had a long and disturbing history of violence that should have been prohibitee from purchasing a gun, he was able to do so because the air force in this instance had not uploaded his felony convinced chin, domestic violence conviction or mental health. in response to sutherland springs, senator murphy and i heensured that all federal agencies accurately and correctly upload the required conviction records on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy who i am working with now to try to achieve a success here. wee have done it before and i believe that we can do it again the our bill was signed into law in march of 2018 and in the first three years, 11 and a half million more records where uploaded into the three national databases that the fbi checks. the number of records in one of those databases increased by more than 30% alone. so, i think that i can say with assurance that what we did together in 20

in response to sutherland springs, senator murphy and i introduced the fix nix ni -- the fix nics act to ensure all federal agencies accurately and entirely upload the conviction records on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy i'm working with now to try to achieve a success here. we've done it before, and i believe we can do it again. our bill was signed into law in march of 2018, and in the first three years 11 1/2 million more records were uploaded into the three national databases that the f.b.i. checks. the number of records in one of those databases increased by more than 30% alone. so i think i can say with assurance that what we did together in 2018 has saved lives, because if it kept a gun out of the hands of somebody who was already prohibited from getting a gun under current law, we will have saved a life, maybe even the life of the shooter. 60% of the gun deaths in america are suicides. but i know we've saved at least those lives, and i think many others as well. but as the uvalde shooting demonstrated, there's another hole in the background check sys

for example, 2017 the shooting at sutherland springs, a little town outside of san antonio, texas myometown, what happen there highly big gaping hole in the background check system. despite the fact the shooter had a long and disturbing history of violence that should have kept them from producing gun. he was able to do so. because the air force in this instance had not a blood's felony convictions, his domestic violence conviction or mental health commitment. in response to set the current spring senator murphy and i introduced the picnics act to ensure all federal agencies accurately and correctly upload the required a conviction recors on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy i am working with now to try to achieve success here. we have done it before and i believe we can do it again. our bill was signed into law of march 2, 2018. in the first three years 11 and a half a million more records were uploaded into three national databases that the fbi checks. number of records of where those databases more than 30% alone. so i think i can say with assurance that w

we helped with the sutherland spring shooting victims, you know.rst thing when he started talking to me i was just thinking to myself not again. you know, this was -- i get emotional when i talk about this because we become part of the families. and, you know, this is something that's very dear to my heart. and how we help these families, you know, i can't describe it to you unless you've actually seen one of my caskets in a service. but he asked me if anybody can do it, you can do it, so are you in? and i'm like, yes, 100%. so i jumped in the truck and told them i'm going down there and was going to let the funeral directors know i was coming and we were offering every casket for every child and teacher that passed away. >> amazing. so i understand you were able to speak to the families of these victims because you need to customize them. do you mind telling me about the conversations? what were they like? >> well, the first conversation i had was with an officer that his wife was a teacher there. we went straight to their house, and to sit in the

for example, 2017, the shooting at sutherland springs, a little town outside of san antonio, texas, my hometown, what happened there highlighted the gaping hole in the background check system. despite the fact that the shooter had a long and disturbing history of violence that should have been -- should have prohibited him from purchasing a gun, he was able to do so, because the air force, in this instance, had not uploaded his felony convictions, his domestic violence conviction, nor his mental health commitment. in response to sutherland springs, senator murphy and i introduced the fix nix ni -- the fix nics act to ensure all federal agencies accurately and entirely upload the conviction records on a timely basis. yes, this is the same senator chris murphy i'm working with now to try to achieve a success here. we've done it before, and i believe we can do it again. our bill was signed into law in march of 2018, and in the first three years 11 1/2 million more records were uploaded into the three national databases that the f.b.i. checks. the number of records in one of those database

for example the fixed nix bill after the sutherland springs shooting where an individual who should not have been able to get a firearm because of his record of felonies and domestic violence and mental health commitments was able to do so because the air force had not uploaded that information into the background check system. i'm proud of the fact that on a bipartisan basis that we passed that legislation which compelled federal agencies to post this derogatory information which disqualifies people under current law into the national instant criminal background checksystem . 2018 when that bill was signed into law there had been 11 and a half million new records uploaded into the background checks gas prices relief act, which would bar any federal agency from finalizing any rule regulation that would make it harder to produce american fuels. my legislation would send the right signal to american producers and investors. it would show them that the congress sees the problem understand that we're ready to address it. it would sit set us -- it would set success on a course not with more

in researching the parkland and sutherland springs mass shootings, times square attack in 2017 and the boston marathon bombing, his study found recurring consequences of marijuana-induced paranoia and marijuana induced psychosis. found more potent marijuana resulted in a greater risk for psychosis. so the reaction to our angle last night about this was so massive that this follow-up was in order. there's still much to learn about the uvalde shooter. we haven't gotten his toxicology report yet but it's worth exploring, is it not, give what we've already learned. the daily mail reports his father spent time in jail for multiple assaults and possession of marijuana. "the washington post" reports multiple team told them about his mother's drug use and a neighbor even reported she was about to be evicted over it. independent journalist ali bradley told "the ingraham angle" ramos' grandfather served time in prison for drug trafficking. so given his family history, it stands to reason that someone surrounded by elicit drugs could have potentially had access to them as well. so considering the

we did the same thing at sutherland springs.ntually. we'll be able to build trust within the community. right now it's been really difficult and reporters are nervous. they're scared. they've never seen anything like this before. i've spoken to several reporters, including reporters from some of the spanish language media, who say this is unprec unprecedented. we've never seen anything like this before. >> let's hope we get the truth some day. nora lopez, thanks for being here. >>> after the break, can the media be honest about what's really, truly breaking news? and front and rear electronic locking differentials. dude, this is awesome... but we should get back to work.. ♪ ♪ this good? perfect. if you're gonna work remote... work remote. find new workspaces. find new roads. chevrolet. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this. your mover, rob, 's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we cut to downtown, your s

make sure in the background check system, that could have stopped the horrific shooting in sutherland springsas. the church shooting because the obama air force never reported that shooters conviction to the database but also part of the legislation, the grassley cruz legislation was $300,000 for school safety which could have prevented this crime in uvalde and joe biden and the democrats filibustered that legislation, 52 senators voted for it, nine democrats voted for it, we had beep agreement and the democrats sinically said, if we can't disarm law abiden citizens, we, the democrats, are not willing to do anything to secure schools just this week joe biden says he doesn't believe in hardening schools and making them safer. well, that is cynical and it's wrong. and, unfortunately, it is a set of policies proposals what the democrats are putting forward would not stop these horrible crimes. instead, it's their political objectives. >> sean: why don't we start with this? why don't we refund police, stop dismantling the police and keep the criminals in jail and abandon these no bail laws that l

this isn't going to be sandy hook this is not going to be sutherland spring. you can go as far backing a the colorado shooting. no, this stops now >> reporter: and amery jo garza, the little girl laid to rest was honored by arizona bronze cross, one of the highest honors in girl scouting and awarded for saving or attempting to save a life at the risk of her own life she was shot when she tried to call 911 the bronze cross presented to her family earlier today there are more funerals throughout the week. tomorrow of the one of the teachers and her husband joe will be laid to rest joe died two days after the shooting of a heart attack but his family believes he died of a broken heart shep. >> valerie castro, live. uvalde, texas. >>> as families burr were loved ones the legal experts discuss who could face legal action. they say families could potentially take action against police or the government even the gun maker cnbc's perry russom lays out possibilities and why cases could be difficult to prove. >> does what investigators call a wrong decision by the polic

he did this, this is the same deal he did after santa fe and el paso and sutherland springs.tables, recommendations, and nothing led to any meaningful legislation. the only thing that can get us into that building is a special session called for a date certain that only he can call, and that is yet to forebeen done. >> let's see if he does that. senator, thank you for joining us. thanks for all you're doing. we're appreciative. appreciate it. thanks for joining us. >> let's turn now to the war in ukraine where there are major developments unfolding right now. the united states has just agreed to send ukraine more powerful rocket systems. the move comes as russian forces make steady gains on the eastern battlefield while ukrainian defenders warn they'll need much more to push putin's troops back. let's discuss with the state department spokesperson, ned price. thanks for joining us. this new rocket system can strike within a nearly 50-mile range. but that's far short of what ukraine has been asking for, as you well know. they wanted a range of about 200 miles. why isn't the u.

. >> if i list some of the shootings, sutherland springs, el paso, oh december la midland.s in texas. all in the last five years while gregg abbott has been governor, and the day after the uvalde shooting, governor abbott argued tougher gun laws aren't a, quote, real solution. i'm curious how governor abbott's leadership is being received right now. >> well, yeah. it's true that he's basically taken sort of this hard line. you get -- i attended a town hall meeting with his opponent, and you can kind of sense in the room that even if people weren't really on board with o'roarke, they wanted to hear somebody basically trying to change these gun laws. and basically heading the opposite direction, because kind of in the wake of each of these mass shootings in texas, you've seen republicans try to enact looser restrictions on gun laws. you have a political shift going on. perhaps texans may be looking for something else. they might want to see those be tightened. but at the same time, you have republican dominated legislature that is probably not going to be too i menable to tha

what makes this more challenging than, for example, the fix nics bill after sutherland springs is that was a single point of failure. here we see multiple points of failure. and i think we need to address as many as we can. so as i mentioned, the mental health issue is -- looms large. we know that during the two years where many students were isolated at home trying to keep up with their studies virtually, many of them have languished, many of them have fallen behind. and because they've been isolated from their peers at a time when their social development has -- is the most important, many of them have fallen into despair exacerbating underlying problems that they may have in the first place. so trying to figure out how to support our schools and our communities with resources needed to address the mental and emotional health of people who are struggling, particularly young students. that seems like an objection area that we could work on together. obviously school security is important. the initial reports in uvalde were that the door was propped open, that salvador ramos entered. l

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goal, just like the legislation we passed in 2018 to fix the background checks system after sutherland springs. i believe the principles we've articulated if carried out in legislative text which i expect them to be will save lives. that's our goal. but we also understand we are operating here in the senate with the 60-vote threshold. 59 votes won't get it. and any lesser number will not allow us to vote off -- to close debate and then to pass a bill. and so i want to just talk about ideas that were left out of this deal because we knew they would jeopardize our ability to get to 60 votes. there's a lot of desire on both sides to include additional things but they were excluded in large part because of our necessity of getting to 60 votes in order to get a bill. for example, proposals on universal background checks, assault weapon bans for 18 to 21-year-olds, mandatory waiting periods, 21-day waiting period for purchases of all firearms for 18 to 21 -- 21-year-olds, high capacity magazine bans, unconstitutional mandatory safe storage requirements, licensing requirement for purchasing an assaul

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i was in sutherland springs, the worst church shooting in u.s. history. i stood in that sanctuary the day after the shooting, a beautiful, small country church. the pews had been flung aside in the chaos. there was shattered glass, there was a cell phone with a shattered screen covered in blood. and i saw the pool of blood where an 18-month-old child was systemically murdered by that psychopath. i was in el paso, i was in midland, odessa; ifs -- i was in dallas. over and over again we have seen the face of evil. we have seen horrific crimes. and let me be the first to say there are too damned many of these, and we need to stop them. unfortunately i've also seen what inevitably follows these horrific crimes, which is a political debate that breaks out within seconds of the crime occurring. there are two principal approaches one can take to try to prevent crimes like this. one is to target the bad guys, to focus on criminals, to focus on felons, to focus on fugitives, to focus on those trial to illegally buy guns, to put them in jail, to lock them up, to ge

following sutherland springs we came up with a targeted bill to address specific circumstances. i hope we can do so again. i will not settle on inadequate or down right harmful legislation for the sake of doing something. that's not productive for anyone. that's one of the things i hear the most. people say do something. well, we can agree something needs to be done, but what that something is is much harder to achieve, and so targeted reforms, i think is the way to get to where we need to go. i understand the desire for quick action, but i hope the democratic leader will allow bipartisan discussions to continue and then conclude before he pulls the plug and schedules show votes on something he knows can't pass. he's threatened to do it, but i don't believe we ought to try to meet artificial deadlines. we know how to do this, and i think giving the senate adequate time over the next week or so to try to reach that consensus is imminently reasonable. i don't believe the senate will be voting this week because good consensus legislation takes time. so i hope senator schumer will l

based on not only having represented uvalde before two redistrictings ago and representing sutherland springs and in addition to that being on campus during the whitman shootings. i have vivid memories of that. having experienced something like that is something that stays with you always and i feel deeply for everyone who has been impacted in a too many shootings we've had in the nation and specifically in our state. the people of texas want us to make decisive decisions, the people of texas in some cases are demanding we take action and i hope that all of us will have the courage and the inspiration to do the right thing. thank you, mister chairman and members. >> senator west. >> i too want to thank the governor and lieutenant governor for serving on this committee. many of you know this has been an issue for the state for a long time. the fact is our history in this state has been one of fearlessly supportive of second amendment rights and i note most texans are supportive of those rights, but without having a discussion about those rights and limits associated therewith, this will be an

after santa fe, round tables and sutherland springs and he sat with groups together and prayed about once did he call a special session in any of those instances and when we came back in the regular sessions, not once were any of those recommendations followed. he's so proud of his school hardening bill that he had in 2019 when he passed 17 bills on school hardening bill. we spent $100 million, a lot of good that did this community, by the way and by the way, he's spent $4 billion on a trumped-up border crisis that doesn't exist on that scale, 40 times more than he has spent on securing our schools. >> kurt, we now, we see here that this is not governor abbott not asking for a special session and asking for a special committee and it doesn't sound very special to me. what it does sound like is a fig leaf or a fog machine. the things on the list that he says they can talk about on the special committee that they can't get anything done, school safety and not anything on gun control. the governor of west virginia yesterday who talked about porn, profanity and video games, as far as i k

either was in sutherland springs the day after that horrific shooting. i stood in the beautiful sanctuary law and saw the chaos, saw the pews thrown to the side, saw the blood still pooled. we are innocent people had been murdered. innocent people down to an 18 month toddler. shot and killed. i saw shattered cell phones covered in blood. i was in el paso, i was in midland, odessa, i was in dallas. over and over again, we have seen these horrific crimes. whenever they happen there is a call that predictably comes out. a call of do something. listen, i agree with that call. i agree we need to do something. but i also believe we need to do something that actually will work. that will stop the next mass murder. that will keep people safe. i don't want to have to see another parent, like mr. schachter who lost his son,. and far too many others have experience. it is the worst nightmare for any parent. if we want to stop these murders, we know the approach that actually works. the approach that actually works is twofold. number one, focus on the bad guys. focu

seconds or so to get his weapon out of his gun safe to go over and engage the demonic gunman at sutherland springs. he believed, had he been able to get there even 30 seconds sooner, he would have saved four or five lives. that is important, to put these things in context. the reality is we know that people with guns and the presence deters bad actors. does a all bad actors, no. but it does deter bad actors and it deters angry, malevolent people with murderers intent. that is why the amendment is so important. it adds to and expands the pool of people who are qualified to come in and help defend our schools. if the crux of this is to deter people who will shoot up schools and provide safety, and i believe that is what we are talking about here today, this amendment is wholesale and hold on and should be adopted. but if the crux of the hearing is something different, the way the gentleman from new york was talking about, and several others have talked about, it is ultimately to lay the predicate for taking away the second amendment and taking away guns, whether they be in ar-15 or a nine millimeter

seconds or so to get his weapon out of his gun safe to go over and engage the demonic gunman at sutherland springs. he believed, had he been able to get there even 30 seconds sooner, he would have saved four or five lives. that is important, to put these things in context. the reality is we know that people with guns and the presence deters bad actors. does a all bad actors, no. but it does deter bad actors and it deters angry, malevolent people with murderers intent. that is why the amendment is so important. it adds to and expands the pool of people who are qualified to come in and help defend our schools. if the crux of this is to deter people who will shoot up schools and provide safety, and i believe that is what we are talking about here today, this amendment is wholesale and hold on and should be adopted. but if the crux of the hearing is something different, the way the gentleman from new york was talking about, and several others have talked about, it is ultimately to lay the predicate for taking away the second amendment and taking away guns, whether they be in ar-15 or a nine millimeter

in response to sutherland springs, senator murph