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of her eyes, she is not sleeping much. as you might imagine, her dad says she's not doing too well. so it would be an extraordinary act of courage for anyone, let alone a little girl who should be enjoying summer break right now, to put aside her own struggles and relive what she went through. but that's exactly what miah did, videotaping testimony for a house hearing on gun violence today. here's miah and her dad. >> there is a door between our classrooms, and he went there and shot my teacher and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the -- he shot my fri...

struggling with. as the 11th hour gets underway on a tuesday night. good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, exactly one week after a teenage gunman took 21 lives at an elementary school in uvalde, texas. the very first funerals are getting underway. the murder victims are being laid to rest, the investigation into the shooting, and the police response at the school is only intensifying. there are reports that uvalde police are no longer cooperating with texas authorities. nbc news reporting the school district police chief initially did cooperate. but has yet to resp...

California, where the president is signing a new executive order related to guns. what can you tell us about it? >> at the center of what the president is going to be signing today, is an effort to expand and strengthen the background checks system. the president is able to do that by building upon that bipartisan gun compromise he signed into law last year. the president will be directing the attorney general to clarify what it means to be engaged in the business of selling firearms it will expand the number of sellers who fall under the requirements to conduct background checks and close som...

Storage, ethan's law named after ethan song who perished at a friend's house as a result of playing with a firearm, and a variety of other measures including the background checks system, maybe repealing the sweetheart deal with the manufacturers that give them absolute immunity. >> is any of that going to fly with republicans? >> i'm certainly, you know, i'm not going to do anything to gun manufacturers, playing them for an action of somebody who commits their crime. so that's off the table. ar-15, i'm not going to ban ar-15s. but sandy hook looms larger. happened in connecticut. so uvalde, t...

Quote, an open heart, and the reason for that is because a lot of the items that you heard lexi's parents arguing that they want from congress. they're just simply not part of the negotiations that we have been covering in the u.s. senate, and that's not because there aren't democrats who want a ban on assault weapons, but because that's the kind of move republicans will not support in the u.s. senate, and you need at least ten republican votes to pass that kind of legislation. what is on the table is so much more narrow than that, and we have discussed this in the past, but if you remember, t...