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Walmart or the side of a street or a church or a synagogue or in a mosque at the hospital we met a family that just lost a 15-year-old daughter who was supposed to be going to school tomorrow morning. and now will not. so yes. lets act now. or lets accept that this is our fate and our future and we will only see more of this. >> authorities are disclosing some new details about saturdays mass shooting in odessa, texas. seven people were killed. more than 20 injured in this latest else of gun vio...

His instinct was to say, yeah, were going to do something on background checks. whats he doing? come on. this is disgraceful. >> meanwhile, former texas congressman beto orourke made an unscheduled visit to odessa to meet with victims and described their anguish. >> i walked in that door and met a woman in tears. we hugged each other before i ever knew what had happened to her. at the hospital, we met a family who just lost a 15-year-old daughter, you know, who was supposed to be going to school...

About. its coming about right now, and a lot of people are talking about it. and thats irrespective of what happened yesterday in texas. i will say that for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five, going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks they would not have stopped any of it. >> well, several of the democratic presidential candidates tend to disagree. theyre blasting lawmakers and the president for inaction. >...

>> is there any vision from kim jong-un looking at the united states and saying that the united states, the white house specifically, is going through some turmoil, lets act now? >> im sure it is. thats been the playbook of the kim family. any time theres a problem anywhere in the world, they try to take advantage of it. now, of course, theyve got this disorganization in washington, so much infighting. its just sort of an open play book for them to go out and do these things. >> gordon chang, th...

Event for the ages its something that is a big, important moment for us as a country. i mean, if you care about the kinds of things that you probably care about if you watch this show its not all that unreasonable to look at this event tonight, to look at jon stewart ending "the daily show" and ask who are we actually going to be as a country after tonights last "daily show"? who are we going to be when we dont have this to turn to anymore to make sense of our news? >> well, if you remember in t...

Frost, you spent like a quarter century shall we say in that world, and what is your response to that? >> well, the republicans have taken an incredible position that they dont want to do anything, and it is irresponsible, and there is a gap, and it is clearly, and i would hope that members of congress understand that, and that they want to take some steps. look, unemployment has come down, and we have created jobs in the obama administration, but there is a lot more left to do, and i think that...

Lightning rod now. >> this is shady. >> [ bleep ] im not shady. >> do you think maybe there is a trap set here for republicans kind of hoping that republicans are going to go out there and attack susan rice and samantha powers and hoping that they say something thats over the top. >> that was pretty much the flip of a certain finger in the face of the american people. >> theyre upset they may pass bad intel. remember these two from a while back? >> lets act now to get rid of a tyrant whos procur...

Restraint and theyd like to see it include tax increases. some of this gets complicated and a thousand ways to look at it. the emotional sense i get on the hill, people are fully expecting this will go as close to the brink as possible. boehner saying lets act now and do it now to avoid what pat is talking about, the appearance of not getting any action done. many people think this will be a long hot summer. >> i hear pat. >> what about boehner and mcconnell, what do you sense between daylight b...

The bipartisanship commission responsible for debt reduction warned against immediate deep cuts. >> you mentioned the bipartisan commission. i was looking at the guiding principles of the bipartisan commission and the second point is sort of first do no harm. basically it says dont disrupt the fragile economic recovery. whats going to disrupt the recovery or not? some people are going to say if you dont cut taxes and spending youre disrupting the recovery. others say if government stops investin...

I mean, if you care about the kinds of things that you probably care about if you watch this show, its not all that unreasonable to look at this event tonight, to look at jon stewart ending "the daily show" and ask who are we actually going to be as a country after tonights last "daily show"? who are we going to be when we dont have this to turn to anymore to make sense of our news? >> well, if you remember in the original rush to war, diligently planned, internationally sanctioned, i mean, free...