President and later today on to the last inaugural event, the staff ball, the reaction to the president s inaugural address thats the headline and the question of how he will make the vision a reality. With the Republican Party already critical of what they heard yesterday. We have always understood that when times change, so must we. The commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our nation. They strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers. They free us to take the risks that make this country great. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to unanother must be equal, as well. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see america as a land of opportunity. Until bright, Young Students and engineers are listed in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. We know that america thrives when every person can find independence and pride in their work. When the wages of honest labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born in to the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else. And joining me now with his reaction to the president s speech yesterday, democratic congressman from maryland, Chris Van Hollen. Thank you so much for your time. Its great to be with you, tamron. As have perhaps read yourself or heard the New York Times is calling the president s unapologetic, evolved. We ask the question, is this the liberal reagan . What is your thoughts on this speech yesterday . Well, i thought the president captured the american character and the moment beautifully. He talked about two very important strains of the character. One is initiative and individual responsibility and a core value we have got and also pointed out that some of the best moments have been when we were able to work together. We are one country. That we should not pit people against each other. Whether its on race, whether its on Sexual Orientation or whether its on age. We need to make sure we invest in our Younger Generation and in the competitiveness of our country. But we should not do that at the expense of an important commitments we have made to seniors to make sure that they have a secure retirement and secure health. So i thought the president really built on the theme that begins in our declaration of independence that was repeated by dr. King in his i have a dream speech that this country is one country and that were best when were working together as a team. And how do we get done then . You already now have seen some opposition from those within the Republican Party. For example, congressman paul ryan, a man you know very well closely and you work with him. He says regarding the takers remark from the president s address, i understand the president will continue to use straw man arguments, affix views to your political adversaries. They do not have in order to try and win an argument by default. Thats the reaction to the president saying people are not takers in this country. Mccain said the president should have reached out in the speech saying this is the eight inauguration i have been to and always theres been a portion of the speech where the president says i reach out my hand because we need to work together. That wasnt in this speech. So from immigration to the rights of those who are gay in our communities and in our neighborhood, in this country, to the other issues, as far as income inequality that the president said need to be addressed, how do you get this done . Well, tamron, i must have heard a different speech than senator mccain and paul ryan. I thought the president was very clear that were all in this together. That we have to put aside the petty political differences and focus on these core issues. It wasnt president obama who said that americans were takers. That was, of course, the position taken by republicans in the last campaign and the president s trying to overcome that whole idea by saying we are in this together. Lets take Immigration Reform. Remember, it wasnt that long ago that president bush and mccain and kennedy teamed up to try to do comprehensive Immigration Reform. That was stopped by the hard right and so what the president is saying now is really lets focus on the common interest. Lets try to put together put aside some of those differences. Not allow a small minority on the extreme right to sabotage important efforts for the country as a whole, whether its on Immigration Reform or common sense gun safety issues where the overwhelming majority of the American People recommends it simply makes sense for universal background checks. Congressman, i apologize for interrupting you. You mentioned gun control legislation. I have to bring the audience breaking news of multiple people having been shot at a Harris County college in texas. According to the Harris County precinct deputies there, investigators say the shooting happened at the Lone Star College north harris campus. Officials did not say exactly how many people are shot or extent of injuries. Hospital in that area said that life flight was being sent to the university or to the college to pick up at least one patient. Deputy constables, authorities on the scene said that they have at least one person detained but have not said if that person is the suspected shooter. Investigators have not said if they believe theres more than one shooter involved this. Multiple people have been shot and Harris County college in Harris County. That is near the houston area if im not mistaken. But investigators say the shooting happened at the Lone Star College on the north harris campus there. Earlier, during Andrea Mitchells last few minutes of the hour the news was developing and at this time the report was that there have been shots fired. But now, heres six minutes latter we have this update and there are reports that multiple shots have been fired at this college and that at least four people have been shot at this college. We can get some more information, hopefully logistically on what this college or where its located but i do know that Harris County includes houston, texas. Getting more on the population or the size of this college but right now waiting to get more information. This is at latest school shooting, university shooting, College Shooting that we have seen. I dont have to give you the short recent history of the most traumatic being newtown in connecticut. But we have seen Virginia Tech and other schools go in lockdown and as a result of a gunman on campus but right now what we know regarding this situation multiple people according to authorities shot at a texas college. This is near houston, texas. North harris is under a shelter in place. I imagine this means that the students have been placed in lockdown. They say shelter in place. Im not sure what that means but im assuming that that is referring to the students and the faculty being told to take shelter immediately there. We dont know if this university or this college has in place a system, for example, like Virginia Tech after the massacre on the campus of that university where they have an alert system, where students receive Text Messages and even emails to alert them to a situation happening on campus. We are not sure how the word is getting out to the students and faculty at this college in Harris County in houston, texas. But what we know at this point is that four people, multiple people i should say, multiple people have been shot at a Harris County college. Ive got fbi profiler Clint Van Zant standing by. Clint, this is the second time that we have been on air since newtown where literally we have had breaking news during a conversation on Gun Legislation. I was just talking to congressman Chris Van Hollen and we break in with news regarding this shooting and waiting to get information in texas and it was, i believe, just last week or maybe two weeks ago, again, in the middle of a conversation on Gun Legislation and there was a shooting in california. Right now, we dont know much about whats happening here. Whens happened i should say here but police are saying, clint, multiple people have been shot. Yeah. You know, what im afraid were seeing is there are a number of people who because of pending Gun Legislation for one thing are buying guns. I was at a local Sporting Goods store where i live in virginia, and people were stacked up two deep at a gun counter buying guns and the ammunition had almost been cleaned this is a large store. And the ammunition had been cleaned off almost all of those shelves. So number one, you have a paranoid belief on the part of some people that the Current Administration wants to take their guns or wants to take their ammunition. Realize theres 300 million guns in america. If they think the fbi and atf lined up at the front door to get the guns, you know, thats just not going to take place. The other i want to point our audience to what were seeing on the screen. At least one person at the top of the screen lying on his or her back it appears and an emt and gloves and i dont want forgive me for making an assumption whether this is a suspect or victim. We cannot tell but you see a number of people hovering over this individual on that little patch of grass there. Emt workers and authorities on the scene there and there appears to be and the tree is blocking our view but there appears to be another person on the ground, as well. At this point, clint, we have been told multiple people, obviously, not a specific number there. But we see at least activity over two individuals on this portion of grass there in our screen here, clint. Yeah. I think what were finding out, what we have seen the last few years is when we see these shootings, mass shootings, campus shootings, these theater shootings, they almost to a person theres some Significant Mental Health issue thats ongoing that allows them to take whatever frame of reference they have and then act out against a community which may well be what were seeing right now at this north harris campus. And clint, i know that texas has a concealed handgun law. Yeah. Youre able to carry in that state. I reported extensively on when the law passed and great concern whether or not the crime rate would go up. Meaning not in the sense of burglaries but people getting in to confrontations, for example, in vehicles and going out and shooting someone over a petty argument over traffic. Great concerns but the conceal handgun weapons law passed in the state. I do not know and we can work to get the information if you can carry gun tons campuses of universities or not. We have had that conversation in the past where governors have even said that they would support people carrying guns on School Campuses and sporting events in places that would seem unusual to some. But again, pointing the audience back to what we see here on screen. This is Harris County college. Thats in Harris County, obviously. In texas. The university or the college is called Lone Star College. Thats near harris campus. So were trying to get the breakdown here and sounds like a campus thats part of Lone Star College. And this is their north harris campus about 12 to 14 minutes ago. Word came in that several shots were heard on this campus. A few minutes later, multiple people according to authorities confirmed shot. We do not have an exact number. Clint, back to the conversation of the law in the state, they have a concealed handguns weapon law in place in texas and been in place im going to calculate about 15, maybe 20 years now. Maybe around that. Yeah. It has. And we have seen few shootings like this. Mass shootings that have ever been attributed to someone who legally has the right to carry a gun. The shootings that we have seen in the last year, for example, not only have been individuals by and large with Mental Health issues but people who have stolen guns or taken guns from their parents or something elsewhere there was no legal aspect to them having guns, carrying guns or deploying a weapon in that regard anyway. So you know, we may well be talking apples to oranges with the exception of what youre saying many people will say, well, that at least if they had someone carrying a gun on campus, that may have given them the ability to respond to the shooter. Obviously, at this point, we dont know that to be the case at all. We do not but we know, clint, that this will be an incident depending on how it shakes out that perhaps will be used in the conversation over what to do regarding gun control. We do not know if there was a semiautomatic, an assault weapon. Multiple people shot and a person in custody and going to be added sadly to the list of School Shootings. Let me show you. I want to point the audience to the leftside of the screen a. Number of people rushing under this building or rushing away. We know that theres whats described interestingly enough as a shelter in place. Im assuming this is where students and faculty, staff people there advised to go immediately for their protection. We do not know if this college has an alert system in place. Such as text messaging and emailing and universities started to do that since Virginia Tech to get the proper information out as soon as possible to the students who unbeknownst to them sitting in the classrooms and unaware of a shooting that could be very near where they are at the time. So we at least know that some parts of this university, some portion of the students attending have been alerted and told to take immediate shelter where they are. Clint, we see this activity. So likely, what do you believe the authorities are doing . One person were told is in custody and looking for at least another individual. How do you manage that when youre trying to treat multiple people who have been shot as well as secure this campus and we can assume its a college and a pretty large campus. Not a small school. Yeah. They have a number of things going on. Nurm ber one, of course, they have to treat the wounded but as important they have to make sure they found the shooter, that they have stopped this person from carrying this anymore shootings. You used a term, shelter in place and this is important. This is something that we learned, unfortunately, at Virginia Tech is that many of the doors in the classrooms did not have the ability to be locked from the inside. A little thing like that can make the difference between life and death. So when the message goes out, shelter in place, that by and large is telling the instructors, faculty, the students, get inside of a room, lock the door and hunker down until its clear to come out. Looking at video coming in to msnbc right now. One individual you see there being taken im assuming to an ambulance nearby. Theyre not rushing so we can see that the person is not critically injured but this is all going down at the Lone Star College. Thats in north Harris County. Their campus about 20 miles north of houston. Its in an unincorporated area of Harris County. South of the woodlands. People familiar with texas. Considered affluent. Beautiful area in houston or near houston. Im familiar with it because i worked in Brian College station which is just outside of this area. Where texas a m is located, for example. A point of reference. Heres where the incident is taking place. Near houston. One person in custody. Multiple people shot at this texas college. Im also being told that theres a day care on this College Campus. All of the children were told are safe at this point. The campus has roughly 18,000 students. In texas right now, texas is one of the state that is has a concealed carry weapons law. Currently there are 21 states that ban carrying concealed weapons but on College Campuses and texas seems to be one of those according to the information that i have that 21 states that ban carrying a concealed weapon on a College Campus, texas is included in that and the state has a concealed carries weapon law in effect for nearly 20 years now. Now kprc out of houston, texas, listening to the information they have for their local audience. Continue to check in with you as soon as you get some more information and as soon as we get some new information, as well. Again, as phil pointed out, a perimeter set up north of campus. A second suspect seen fleeing from an Academic Building in a red shirt and falcons baseball cap. He was seen running towards a subdivision thats in that area and looking at this map here on your screen, thats a huge area, a huge perimeter they have to set up there. And other accounts that we are seeing, you know, i told you that multiple people are saying that it happened in the library. Were seeing posts that those people being treated that you see right there, this is right outside the l