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Last week, just as the airplane door shut on my United Airlines flight home from Honduras, a woman stood and began speaking to us in Spanish.

“Lord, deliver our senators from the paralysis of analysis that waits for the miraculous,” Senate chaplain Barry C. Black said Tuesday in an unusually pointed call for action.

Words of the british statesman edmond burke. all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. >> this morning the chaplain of the united states senate opened the days session with a pointed message, that it is not acceptable to shrug your shoulders at the murder of children. which has become the kind of go-to move for most republicans, not just in this one, in the wake of mass shooting after mass shooting in this country. the reaction has been no different after six pe...

>> great to have you here, ali. im going to show the audience something that happened in the senate today that ive never seen before. the senate chaplain who begins every day in the senate with a prayer, the senate chaplain gave up today on thoughts and prayers. the senate chaplain said that thoughts and prayers are not enough after that mass murder that we saw in nashville yesterday in that school. and it was quite a challenge that he issued to senators, especially republican senators. well hav...

Day. then came chaplain barry black. opened the senate session today with these words. >> lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. remind our lawmakers of the words of the british statesman edmond burke, all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. lord, deliver our senators from

Amen. >> a prayer from the senate chaplain on behalf of a grieving nation. on that very solemn note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from washington, d.c. and from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. ill see you tomorrow. thank you for joining us this hour and for alex tonight, the national metropolitan police department release body camera footage that left three children, three adults in the shooter, themselves, dead in the melamine ...

Reporter lawrence jones in nashville and has a guest with us, chaplain coordinator, andrew for the nashville police, guys. >> hey, good morning, family. you never know what you will see out here. i was just talking to the chaplain, one of the victim moms laying flowers behind us on one of the crosses. we presume the cross of her child. chaplain, you had a tough job a couple of days ago. you had to notify three of the parents, three victims but what was that like? >> that is part of our regular j...

Shootings at such a young age from not hearing from top republicans, the most powerful republican here in washington and other republicans who said theres just nothing they can do on this issue. >> i look forward to hearing the answer to those questions, julie, and it goes to the bill lee point from the beginning of the show. it was too early to talk about the shootings the days after and were already months after the shooting in michigan. thats part of the challenge for lawmakers trying to move...

>> is that hard now, a difficult thing to do to remove politics from three 9-year-olds and three staff were murder instead a school, and you cant stop and say thoughts and prayers. the gears are turning if i criticize, are the crazies in my party going to come after me. am i going to lose money for people who fund my campaign. its insane. >> its how politicized its become. ive been there. its not worth it. thats what i dont understand. every day these people who are willing to sell their souls, ...

His g.o.p. colleague tim burchett said this after the nashville shooting. >> we are not going to fix it, criminals are going to be criminals. >> reporter: today, the senate chaplain prayed for senators to end what he called paralysis on the issue. >> lord, when babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. >> reporter: president biden was asked today why he continues to call for an assault weapons ban. he said, to expose the people who refuse to take actio...