you ll swallow your pride if hakeem jeffries came at you because you ll work together. there s stuff you want. if there s nothing you want in a governing sense there s nothing you can be given in a deal. michelle and nick, thank you. that is all in. alex wagner tonight starts now. happy new year. we re talking about the unity on display, we have congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez at the top of the hour. she will have a lot to say. thank you for a great show as always. thanks to you at home for joining us. if you took a high school history class in the united states, you probably spent at least a day discussing this image. this is the iconic political cartoon of the caning of senator charles sumner in may of 1856. preston brooks entered the senate and he entered the chamber carrying a metal tipped cane then he walked over to the anti-slavery senator and beat him unconscious and then he walked out without anyone stopping him. it is one of the most famous instance
texas, and tulsa, oklahoma and congress debating what if anything to do, president biden spoke to the country, calling for a restoration of the ban on assault weapons or failing that, raising the age for purchasing such weapons. also, banning high capacity magazines, instituting tighter red flag laws and repeal of liability shield protecting gun manufacturers from prosecution or being sued following mass shootings. it must end. lit there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in ub auld, who smeared blood off her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in the classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive. imagine what it would be for her to walk down the hallway of any school again. imagine what it s like for children who experience this kind of trauma everyday in school and streets and communities all across america. imagine what it s li
that s a case of five mass shootings a day, upwards of 10 every week, after three especially deadly acts of gun violence, buffalo, uvalde, texas, and tulsa, oklahoma, and congress debating what if anything to do, president biden spoke to the country, calling for a restoration of the ban on assault weapons or failing that, raising the age for purchasing such weapons. also, banning high capacity magazines, instituting tighter red flag laws and repeal of liability shield protecting gun manufacturers from prosecution or being sued following mass shootings. it must end. let there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl, that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in the classroom and pretend she was dead in order to stay alive. imagine what it would be for her to walk down the hallway of any school again. imagine what it s l
chamber carrying a metal tipped cane then he walked over to the anti-slavery senator and beat him unconscious and then he walked out without anyone stopping him. it is one of the most famous instances of political violence by one member of congress against another. it wasn t unique. in the lead up to the civil war there were at least 70 instances of political violence by elected representatives against elected representatives. and what you might not have learned in history class is that the very same year that pro-slavery congressman preston brooks beat anti-slavery senator sumner on the floor, the house of representatives was already in an unprecedented amount of disarray. the house was so divided over the issue of slavery that it could not elect a speaker. the normally ceremonial vote to pick a leader for the majority party in the house typically takes one vote and a matter of
coffee shop and he often times, employees would come to him for surgery and he was very good surgeon. and one of the employees in the coffee shop had just recently had surgery and he called her out by name and she just smiled because she felt so important because he remembered her and was reaching out to her but that was just him. it wasn t unique. you know, we all see this on television, we ve seen this, you know, for years now, happening in cities and elementary schools and churches and super market and see now medical building. to actually live through it, to know a person who was there, having lunch with you one day and several days later is killed, i mean how do you deal with this? there i i don t have any words. i don t know how we deal with it. you watch other people go through this, you know, i have