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. >>> and let's discuss this with jeremy diamond, seung min kim and tamara keith and rack etch ponnuruf the national review. this is not an uncommon thing on any given day in this country tor us to be sitting around a table and having to react to a mass shooting. just to refresh folks on the numbers here, since 2016, what we're talking about is an doubling in mass shootings in america. this week it at a mall. and last week it was a man with a ar-15 shooting his neighbors in a small texas town. >> i was at the white house as this was happening and one of the things i con stop but think about it was this routine nature. covering the white house, has the president been briefed yet. is there a statement yet? and you go through the same emotions over and ore again and from a variety of perspectives. i think in terms of the policy and what could be done, we know the dynamics in congress have not changed. house are republicans will not allow my gun reform to go through. and president biden we get a statement from him but he quickly calls for an assault weapons ban and et cetera. but we've hea

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