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11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. uhle starts♪ ♪ ♪ right now >> tonight, kicking off a critical week for this country, this from the first january 6th hearing, the primetime plan, and what a brand-new indictment reveals about the investigation. bluff, after another deadly weekend, more than a dozen mass shootings in multiple cities. are we any closer to actually ending the violence? and yet, another threat from elon musk, as he in his bid to take over twitter. as ...

tonights last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. starts right now ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tonight, kicking off a critical week for this country, this from the first january 6th hearing, the primetime plan, and what a brand-new indictment reveals about the investigation. plus, after another deadly weekend, more than a dozen mass shootings in multiple cities. are we any closer to actually ending the violence? and yet, another threat from elon musk, in his bid to take over ...

thats what beto overwork said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally p...

Nation. the columbine school shooting, the aurora school shooting. other shooting, they all happened in my district. people tell me, when balloons pop at a pep rally, soon jump out of their seats. they are scared. this is the america that [inaudible] >> there is a pew poll showing that 81% support background checks, 63% support banning assault style weapons and 64% support banning high capacity ammunition magazines. congressman crow, when you see this killer going into the school with, i believe...

Entire proposal and his continued digging a hole is complete fantasy. its not achievable, not actionable and hes living in a world that, its doublespeak. for his shouting about the need those lives sacrificed in syria, what would that do? whose lives would he be sacrificing? to me would be uniformed men and women who are going to these places and is he said, your fellow americans would volunteer their arms back. no they wouldnt. we also are dealing with the atatiana jefferson situation. its turn...

Background checks, meaningful background checks. universal background checks would include private sales. they dont want to include private sales because thats something nra is very much against. so the president is trying to thread this political need needle havent been able to get through and for 2020 its the moderate women su busuburban voters. theyre trying to figure out what to do now. >> thats quite a balance. youre balancing 90% versus 80%. 89% of republicans support expanded universal ba...

We had come together in a bipartisan way to put together what we thought would save the most lives. and that is to have background checks. gun violence prevention, background checks. and to have them be effective. i believe that when the surveys are taken about this, dan, overwhelmingly members of the national rifle association support background checks. gun owners, the person whos the head of our task force, mike thompson, congressman mike thompson of california, he is a vietnam vet, wounded in...

94% support background checks, 93% of republicans support background checks. 57% of people say that guns are too easy to buy. only 35% agree with the nras argument that more guns will make america safer. the bump stocks is only part of it, its clear that americans support some form of tighter gun laws. why dont we have them? >> theres really no other issue like this and you laid out the case pretty well. youve got 90% of the american public that supports, you know, probably the most important in...

Support having a background check for every gun sale. the nra leadership wont tell you that. they dont reflect the views of even their own members. >> julian, a study after the aurora shooting found much support for specific gun control measures. nearly all support background checks. a majority back a ban on semiautomatics and high capacity magazines. and yet the gun lobby screams that this is the beginning of some kind of governmental reign of terror when the people are expressing their views, ...