but to honor those 20 lives and six more in newtown, we're going to get it done. >> murphy didn't makeomise today or yesterday or last week. that video you saw came from 2013, only weeks after he took office and barely a month after the newtown killings. back to this day, that return of the assault weapons ban and many other gun violence prevention bills have not become reality. senator murphy joins us now. senator, thank you so much for being with us. you looked a lot younger back then, as i imagine i did as well. you know the obvious and distressing question. if congress didn't do anything to address gun violence after newtown where children were massacred, do you think it will ever take action? >> thanks a lot for noticing how i've aged in this job, anderson. >> i added myself in as well. >> i know. it was a good save at the last minute there. listen, i think what i learned in 2013 is that, you know, we had won the argument in the american public for universal background checks. we were just badly outmanned politically. the nra spent years building up a political juggernaut and the

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if you look down the map, you can see newtown would be located right about there. so as he entered those northern outskirts of what is steven city today, he started to see the signs of a battle lost. he saw union soldiers streaming north. he saw ambulances that were loaded with casualties, he saw wagons that were moving north toward winch esther. and it was for a staff officers who are within, it was a very disheartening scene. this was an army that had just wrapped up victory after victory and now, you have this catastrophic moment. a member of sheridan staff were called at the scene in those northern outskirts of stephen city, who is a gruesome sight to meet the eyes of a commanding, who three four days before had left with a triumphant host win quietly in camp resting securely on his victories and confident in its own strength. now, as philippe sheridan began to ride those remain being several mine south toward middle town, he was already running through on his mind, the scenarios, what was he going to do? and his initial impulse was actually the pulled a comman

finally a president and a congress that supports gun reform, no more newtowns, no more parklands and boulders. now we make our stand. ashley, full disclosure, you were going to be on with us to talk about politics and the challenges being faced right now by the biden administration. and sometimes life and tragedies have a way of presenting new urgent, urgent issues to our presidents. in the middle of the pandemic and the massive relief bill, the discussion started today on the next effort on infrastructure. tell us where joe biden, who has spoken openly and often about this issue, where he perhaps ranked this before we suffered two mass shootings in one week's time? >> well, this was an issue where people were actually not that optimistic on gun control for progress for a number of reasons. one is just generally when you with would talk to lawmakers and activists. there was a sense that after sandyhook, if you know, elementary school, kindergarteners, children getting murdered did not prompt change, nothing would. and there was a sense that under former president trump, he might have

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the well-being of children to live in a dangerous atmosphere and we all know about the children in newtown and we thought we would get gun violence prevention legislation passed then, but they said no. time and time again. florida, nevada, you name it, all over the country. so, here we are with this legislation and we are very optimistic. 90% of support in the public and with the public awareness, again the drumbeat created by the people out there, the survivors of gun violence and said we aren't resting until this job gets done and today we are taking a giant step in that direction for the children. as i say about the members of congress, if you are afraid to vote for gun violence prevention because of your political survival understand this. the political survival of none of us is more important than the survival of our children and the fear that they have of this. as i said about the rescue package, how great it was. we sent it over to the senate and a package that had been negotiated. there were some changes. not much. so we could receive it back, in terms of the essence of the bill. b

the worst moment i would say that i had in the senate was after newtown when the background check bill failed after parents and brothers and sisters of the kids who had been killed had all come to lobby the congress. i feel very personally about this because -- not because i have had a gun tragedy in my family, but because columbine happened right before my oldest daughter was born. caroline bennet is now 21 years old. i am extremely proud of her, but i am ashamed of us, political leadership in washington, d.c. that her entire generation has grown up in the shadow of gun violence with the reasonable fear they could be killed at their school, their synagogue, their church or a movie theater. i can see it in their eyes every time something like this happens, or the call us get from them. my generation didn't have to grow up with that level of fear. none of us were afraid, as afraid as the children that i've worked with in the denver public schools or caroline's generation. i also said on the floor tonight that i was remembering the time when the gunman in las vegas had take then lives of

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paso, dayton, virginia beach, thousand oaks, pittsburgh, santa fe, parkland, las vegas, orlando, newtown, aurora, charleston, virginia tech. the list of places and names goes on and on since the columbine massacre in 1999 there have been at least 114 mass shootings, 1,300 victims. today former president obama wrote, we should be able to live our lives without wondering if the next trip outside our home could be our last. we should, but in america, we can't. while hate and mental problems occur in every country, america is unique with more guns than there are people >> the effort has always been through american history to protect everyone's rights under the constitution, but at the same time we all have the right to public safety. >> reporter: the country has suffered through so many mass murders, many americans now feel a personal connection to one or even more the same hometowns, the same school, the same grocery store, the same bar or concert. just as the country begins to emerge from the covid darkness, the question many are asking tonight, is america's new normal just the old normal

>> i'm thinking a lot about the families in newtown today because what i know is that every single time there is another mass shooting, they relive the experiences of december 2012. and, frankly, that is the case for almost every victim of gun violence, that when these images flash across the screen, they go through another set of traumas, so my thoughts are back in connecticut today. but i also know that colorado has seen its share of mass shootings, between columbine and aurora and now boulder. these are communities ever changed when you go through this. everybody in that store is going to have to deal with a level of trauma that may never, ever leave them. what i know from researching mass violence is that it's not a coincidence, maybe, that these incidents bunch together. mass shooters tend to study other mass shooters. my hope is this is not the second in a string of shootings that we're going to see. >> yeah, i think that we all in the media have to be very careful about our coverage of that, and best practices have been developing recently. we are awaiting word from the boulder p

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the parent of a newtown survivor joins us, in a bit. >>> and.tney spears' fight over her conservatorship. 1.5 million people are in situations like hers. fighting an almost-unwinnable battle for their legal rights. now, california lawmakers are advancing bills for reform. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i'm joshua johnson. welcome to "the week." >>> this week, three major stories dominated the news cycle. all of them are putting pressure on the biden administration, and democrats to rethink the filibuster. tonight, three people are in custody, in virginia beach, over shootings that have killed at least two people. that incident comes, after two gunmen in two cities have taken 18 lives, in less than a week. and all of this is reigniting the gun-control debate. >>> also, the situation on the southern border remains dire. we're learning more about a 9-year-old girl, who died while trying to cross the rio grande. 9 years old. her death comes, as border-patrol agents announced they are on pace to break recent records for monthly cro

and so after the newtown shooting, when biden was then vice president, president biden put him in charge of a task force at the white house to look at legislative and executive actions he could take. we have not seen any thus far from this president now that he's in the white house. significantly, as you mentioned, kasie, it was eight years ago the manchin/toomey debate really was in full swing on capitol hill. it got that manchin-toomey amendment more than 50 votes but not enough to overcome the filibuster and that remains that obstacle at this point. i believe we have sound, i asked then-candidate biden specifically if he would support abolishing it before the legislation. what he said at that time. >> i think we have to make that call, ending the filibuster is a very dangerous thing to do because it's been used by progressives our whole time to make sure we did not get rolled over when republicans said, you know, you start off and say let's get rid of the filibuster, it sounds great until they own it all. it sounds great. >> as we see that chaotic scene from the iowa state fair in wha

but i remember as one of the darkest moments of my senate career the votes that we took after newtown when that elementary school, sandy hook, was shot up and 20 students were killed. and this senate couldn't even pass universal background checks. and they're here tonight to continue to make the case that we need to act, and i want to again thank them for their resilience and for caring about the people that lived and died in colorado. i'm extremely grateful for their example. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. mr. murphy: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. murphy: thank you, mr. president. i thank my friend, senator bennet, for those remarks for honoring the memories of those that we have lost and commanding us to action. i remember getting a phone call from michael bennet that friday morning as senator blumenthal and i were sitting at a firehouse in sandy hook, connecticut, learning what had happened just around the corner at a schoolhouse. i remember getting advice from michael bennet about what you do if you're an elected official in

have seen this weekend, chris murphy, a leader on these issues, someone who has been a leader since newtown and before, has -- sees a path forward. we have even seen openness from republicans on having a discussion. we will take that. while there are discussions on that front and the president will be engaged in those, we are also continuing to review and consider what the options are for executive action. we hope to have an update on that soon and do not have an exact day at this point in time. >> i follow up on that and one other matter. on guns, does the department still plan to go to colorado after the mass shootings there? and if so, when? >> i don't have an update on the trip to colorado. that would be done in coordination with the leaders in the state, community impacted by this type of terrible tragedy, but i do not have any plans to preview for a trip to colorado at this point. >> on another letter battle, it is obviously the presidential tradition to throw out first pitch on first day. at which i'm happy to report is thursday. but the nationals have said the president declined the

no more newtowns, no more parklands, no more boulders. now, we make our stand.tion's fight for gun reform is where we start this hour. matt viser, reporter for the "washington post" is here, also with us, eugene robinson, and a.b. stoddard, real clear politics associated editor and columnist. thank you all for joining me. matt, let me start with you. you know, we know from reporting that the biden administration was prepared for a full-throated push on infrastructure. how much do you think those priorities are getting reshuffled in the wake of these shootings? >> significantly. it's notable, alex, that this is the second week in a row where the biden white house has tried to embark on the help is here tour and just like last week, it was derailed on a trip to atlanta by the shootings there. today, it's overshadowed by the shootings in colorado. so, i do think it's reshuffling things a little bit. you heard biden before he left talk more aggressively and frankly, for those who want to see action on gun control, it was a biden that has been missing in the first pa

not newtown, not charleston, not parkland, not las vegas. not southerland springs, would not have stopped the shooting of our former colleague, gabriel giffords, because her shooter passed a background check. h.r. 8 fails to recognize the fact theaver commercial gun sale in america requires a background check today. h.r. 1446 create december lays for law--abiding citizens could be indefinite and would not have closed the charleston loophole. if you want to close the charleston loophole i direct you to tom rice's bill, h.r. 1518. the problem with the charleston shooting was information sharing by law enforce. . this bill allows the information sharing. republicans have meaningful alternatives, we have six bills introduced last week and this week. we will be pushing to end gun violence. our legislation will actually address this problem. the democrats are concerned about taking away our second amendment rights and the two bill this is week will simply erode those rights. so we're urging a no vote. thank you. ms. cheney: thank you, richard. now

but they're going to honor newtown and the time honored neutron star and began to talk about cooperation you're saying return. to plan. b. . if you thought the hot weather was bad this weekend just wait until tomorrow the 5th day of our heat wave is expected to be incredibly uncomfortable and potentially dangerous and the really very hot today it's moving in from the midwest where they've been dealing with the sweltering aids but now it's moving here to the east coast secret stick around for several. it's becoming. a way to make water a commodity listed on the stock exchange bet on its price what if wall street copied the australian model. ever since the subprime mortgage crisis when bundles of bad debt destroyed lives and countries finance giants have been looking for new investment opportunities. in june 2008 the investment bank goldman sachs began wondering is water the new oil the firm as the bank is known encourages top clients to take a gamble on the future. goldman sachs the conference that was me i used to work at goldman sachs and in 2008 that was a conference that i held there'

he's the senator who represents newtown. we showed a picture of senator durbin. he's the senator who represents the city of chicago. there's so much, there's so much killing from guns. and there is, there is, if people of good faith on both sides decide they want to work together, and i've seen absolutely no evidence of that. especially from people on the far right. but, if people of good faith decide to work together, there's a way to get an expanded background check in place that makes sure that people who buy guns can actually handle those guns. again, we do the same with cars. thank you so much for bringing that up, senator kennedy. >> as he thought he was deflecting. >> we make sure that people actually know how to use the guns, have an expanded background check. i mean, i know gun shop owners, they don't want people buying guns that don't know how to use guns. certainly not the people i bought guns from before. they want to make sure you know the gun. >> they don't want them in the wrong hands. >> they don't want them in the wrong hands. that's the other th

children die in newtown. high schoolers in parkland, college students at virginia tech.have the same conversations. the extremists in this conversation say no to universal background checks. 90% of americans, including gun owners say yes. let's have universal background checks. let's have a waiting period for gun purchases. let's have red flag lost so we know who is mentally ill, who was involved with spousal abuse, who is a convicted felon. let's do things within the parameters of the fact that we are a country that affirms gun ownership as a right. that's all president biden and the democrats are aft cargo asking for. to belittle it, caricature it. it's not about partisan politics pure and going after the american people and you are going after people. all of us are in danger from these kinds of facts, the countries and awash in guns. >> kennedy: it's interesting that juan is talking about using mental illness, if you are saying the blanket term mental illness will be the metric by which you ban people from owning guns, that only further stigmatizes mental illness. if

. >> surrounded by newtown families to talk about today's break-through on background checks but only a whisper could come forth. >>> i'm a parent. i'm a grandparent. >> manchin, a democrat partnered with pat toomey, a republican, to forge a compromise today. >> i think the substance of the bill makes a lot of sense. to me, this isn't gun controll. this is common sense. >> just like those already required when buying from licensed dealers. the law would not affect individuals who buy, sell, or give weapons to families, friends, or even strangers. >> it will prevent people who shouldn't have a gun from having it. >> he could not get that done. something that's so right, it does so much good, he couldn't get that done. and now he is insisting that he is the one who has to be trusted with this task again, because he will not allow anybody else's ideas to move forward. the alleged shooter in the boulder, colorado, massacre yesterday was released from the hospital after receiving medical treatment and is now at the boulder county jail charged with ten counts of murder. he is 21 years old.

the stories from newtown, connecticut, were as heart breaking as they can get and they didn't move the needle in congress, and even with the number of democratic senators who oppose gun legislation in the obama administration, the failure to act on gun control is probably one of the most enduring pieces of unfinished business from the obama years and biden knows it well. this was part of his portfolio. we will see if he puts the muscle behind it in the weeks to come. i don't know what the math is going to be for the senators and what it's going to convince them other wise. i remember back in 2014, i spent a week on the road with gabby giffords, and her husband, a senator from arizona, as they are going from one rural state to another to build public support where democrats couldn't get it over the finish line, and they oppose background checks back in the obama years. i'm not sure it's going to be different this time around. >> chief, during our coverage last night, i made the point of -- for a civilian audience that police officers are a tight bunch. if anything, the attention and neg

but they're going to honor newtown and the time. constant. talk about covering the topic you're very very. easy. to write. if you thought the hot weather was bad this weekend just wait until tomorrow the 5th day of our heat wave is expected to be incredibly uncomfortable and potentially dangerous and the really very hot today it's moving it in from the midwest where they've been dealing with this well 3 eights but now it's moving here to the east coast secret stick around for several days becoming one way to make water a commodity listed on the stock exchange. on its price what if wall street copied the australian model. ever since the subprime mortgage crisis when bundles of bad debt destroyed lives and countries finance giants have been looking for new investment opportunities. in june 2008 the investment bank goldman sachs began wondering is. water the new oil the firm as the bank is known encourages top clients to take a gamble on the future. goldman sachs the conference that was me i used to work at goldman sachs in 2008 that was a confe

newtown massacre. i remember being in the halls of the senate, watching the vice president trying to lobby for this bill, meeting with family members. that crime, it is hard to imagine a more horrific crime and that did not, was not enough to get senators to come together on a universal background check. it is one thing, the white house is certainly committed to it. what he is saying is look, i won't allow to it disrupt my program. he is still laser focused on the economy. that's what the infrastructure, physical infrastructure, technological infrastructure, is all about. that bill is next up. he said the white house can do many things at once. so he is looking at executive actions. something he can do with the stroke of a pen on guns as well as pushing congress. but it is very much an open question, whether anything will sort of change the gun debate in manager. so far for decades, it really hasn't. >> our man in washington. thank you very much. appreciate that. a georgia state representative arrested

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school children in parkland and newtown, concertgoers in las vegas. >> eva, in atlanta this week of course the horrific shootings force a nation to address questions of racism, sexism and, the destructive power of words along the way. we begin tonight back at the scene in atlanta, and juju. >> david, this nightmare chain of events began unfolding in the atlanta area on tuesday night. the gunman opening fire at one bsiness, driving 30 miles to target victims at two other businesses, including here at gold spa behind me. authorities say he had been to these establishments before, and for police it was a race against time to catch the shooter before he could kill again. on a damp and dreary afternoon, terror and horror seizes the atlanta area as a lone assailant launches an hours long shooting rampage against multiple asian-owned spas. >> some guy came in and shoot the gun, so everybody heard the gunshots. >> we do not have a witness who's alive right now. >> 20-year-old robert aaron long arrives at the spa. he allegedly sits in his car for almost an hour. around 4:50 he enters young's and op

. >> i remember the newtown massacre and feeling if not now, when? and those efforts largely came to not at least federally. what can you do now to make a difference this time around? >> countries around the world say what is wrong with you, united states of america. >> i feel like a hostage of the selfish people that feel like owning these types of weapons. that is not freedom in this country. you are not a patriot because you think you have the right to own these types of weapons. >> there laughing at us, they think we are crazy in this country which we are and now that we have democrats in control, they need to do something about it. >> sean: okay, i know that hard-hitting news show the view. let me ask you a question, whatever american supposed to do for an armed intruder enters their home? just sit around, call 911, wait for the police that may likely be defunded where they live and do nothing to protect their families? god forbid i never want this to happen to anybody but what if somebody god forbid broke into your house, wants to bring harm to

it felt like there was a different moment after newtown, and it wasn't.there was a different moment after las vegas, when bump stock, something that most of us had never heard of, were used and congress couldn't even ban that. that took executive action. so, it's hard to think that this is different, particularly when guns are one of the issues that falls so in line with the cultural wars that we are talking about. we're not talking about guns logically. we're talking about the second amendment as if it is a biblical verse that is under attack any time someone talks about a background check. it is nonsensical. no one's trying to take anyone's guns away, but the republican party and the nra for a long time before it lost its power, but it's lingering, did a very good job of pushing forward that narrative so now whenever you see anything, even during the pandemic, gun sales jumped because people were afraid and they thought they needed a gun to protect themselves and it actually is what is making america more dangerous. it's tough. i can't see legislation p