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of a vigil outside city hall in monterey park, california. people have been stopping by throughout the evening there in remembrance of 11 murdered over the weekend by a gunman at a dance studio as they were celebrating the lunar new year. one of three mass shootings since saturday leaving 19 dead and californias governor with harsh words for washington and republican lawmakers. >> federal government needs to do its job. lets call it out. we have one party that are obstructionists. im d...

lawmakim sick and tired of the, im sick of it. i dont ever see this again. i dont ever want to see you again, in this condition, im serious! im not making this up about all of these notes. how many of these governors have we seen this doing the same dance that weve seen today? >> chinas house chris murphy, connecticut who has been with governor newsom, tonight, in the wake of the mass murder at sandy hook elementary school, ten years ago. senator hug, thank you joining. as you what gov...

we begin with the latest developments in the mass shooting in illinois. six killed, 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park. that is an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing as people begin to run. other footage caught the jarring sound of gunfire. ♪♪ [ gunfire ] >> imagine the shock and confusion. maybe it was fireworks, they could rightly think. no, those were gunshots. the series of shots you heard followed by a seco...

in her video today, congresswoman cheney played a longer version of testimony we first heard some of yesterday from eric herschman, one of the white house lawyers, that eastman spoke with. >> it was the day after eastman -- i dont remember why, he called me or texted me, wanted to talk with me and said he couldnt reach others. and he started to ask me something about georgia and revealing something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your f-ing mind? i said, i on...

parkland, el paso, pittsburgh, brooklyn. i ask the question so many of you are asking, why are we not protecting our kids? why is nothing changing? as a journalist, ive had to cover too many of these mass shootings. perhaps were becoming desensitized. as an american, a parent, you send your kids to school on an average day and never see him or her again. its unspeakable yet thats what happened in uvalde, texas. i know this gets into background checks and red flag laws and other measure...

country, the humanitarian outpouring towards ukrainians in need. i cant help be believe they born the brunt of the holocaust communism, they see themselves if the ukrainians. >> michael, welcome to warsaw and thank you for coming to poland. thank you for coming here to bare witness. for poland, this is 1939, this is an invasion by a foreign occupier, a cruel represser. what you are seeing here is the polls doing what they wish they had done in 1939 and fight back. thats why you see the...

initially. so from the grandmothers house to the school, into the school, he was not confronted by anybody. to clear the record on that. >> judge jeanine: shocking developments in the tragedy in texas the left 19 children into teachers dead. authorities updating the timeline on what happened and changing key facts. they now say that the gunman was not confronted by a school safety officer and instead was able to walk into what police think was a unlocked door at the school without any ...

we dont need to. lets pass these laws, and thats my good frustration. a sitting here, knowing, maybe not the next shooter, the shooter after that, we are forced to cover. like the rest of the american media. unlike any other industrialized country that has as many problems, but not as many guns. they dont cover the stuff, chris. the problem is, we have more guns sold without the appropriate infrastructure, and we know the answers. so lets fix it. and chris murphy have said to you, toni...

Whether it is a copycat effect or not? >> well, what we know, anderson, is several mass shooters have drawn inspiration from mass shooters before them. we know that with the columbine shooters, of course, reached like mythical status in that community. we know that the shooters at the el paso shooting, walmart shooter, several others took inspiration from the christchurch mosque shooter in new zealand. so this kind of reputational predecessor is a significant factor in that community. whether or...

At anything he has written in his electronic devices, texts, emails, conversations with friends to see if he has any the sorts of references. but its a good question. its not one that were quite ready to answer with respect to these two shooters. >> you worked on this groundbreaking report in the wake of the columbine shooting that focused on the ripple effect of violence. what were some of the key findings? >> there was a copycat effect, which meant after one shooting occurred, then the level o...