and all of us tonight being open to a conversation we know we need to have. >> and so that's -- who are you talking to tonight. >> we have people who have survived. we have an audience full of survivors. i wanted them around me because i want to be surrounded by their strength and them putting pain to purpose is one of the most beautiful gifts of humanity. we'll have people who have lived through it, people who deal with the issues on different sides. this is not about how do we get rid of guns. i don't think that that's where this country is, frankly. so we'll look at it from different ways with one obvious cause, we can't stay where we are, anymore. this is killing us. and i think that that has to be a point of consensus. >> we'll see you in about six minutes from that. breaking news just ahead, lawyers for the el paso suspect's family says his mother called police weeks before the shooting. what he told them, next.