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day. also cops describing black citizens as monkeys, animals, boy. officials calling out police in a overnight u.s. city for racist abuses and practices. tesla under fire. questions about the self-driving feature about another crash. and an investigation into tesla steering wheels on one model, steering wheels that can potentially fall off. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we start with new heart breaking details about the kidnapping of four americans in mexico. we're learning that the two were immediately shot when gunmen approached their car, she watched them die. the au...

The grand jury was recalled and then let go, do you have any view of what this might mean? big picture for the case. >> big picture is this. a grand jury is 23 people. you need 12 votes to return a true bill, the charging document. what this means is one of two things. one, they couldn't get 12 votes to return an indictment. if that's the case, and that could be very rare, then they have a duty to inform mccabe that he's not going to be charged. if they are still gathering evidence, which is a possibility, then they will use that grand jury or get a new one and continue the investigation. thos...

Which is owners of ar-15s have a responsibility, too. o'rourke saying that actually some of them are getting in on this and saying we've got to make changes. there was, of course, a viral video that went around of a man destroying his own ar-15. this was after the parkland shooting. >> it's a gun like this one that takes away the lives. so i've decided today i'm going to make sure this weapon will never be able to take a life. people have always said there's so many of them out there. well, now there's one less. >> former congressman steve israel has been in this fight. he's been calling for m...

Bill. we vitally need to take these guns off the streets. but here's the political problem. the problem is how you frame the argument, and it's a nuanced argume argument. 90% of the american people support universe background checks, 90% of people say if you can't get on an airplane because the federal government says you're too dangerous, you shouldn't be able to get a gun. but when you talk about confiscating weapons, when you talk about people manndatorily give up those weapons, the support drops. >> politically he's decided to say, screw it. >> that's exactly right. and i commend him for i...

Background checks, even though the majority of america wants up to take a vote on these bills. >> he also wrote a satirical bill called "big guns: engaging the topic." thanks for joining me. >> thank you. i had fewer gray hairs back in 2016. >> it wasn't that long ago. >> no, it wasn't. >> i'll start with that comparison. on the one hand, we've seen the rising tide on the issue. on the other, the joe biden sound from '07 is pretty striking because you had a debate where you got submitted questions from the public, you get all kinds of questions. one had somebody waving at ar and the future vic...