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unclear. there were at least 13 mass shootings in the country since friday evening as 13 incidents in which four or more people were shot. a map where they occurred from phoenix to philadelphia, also a look at locations of all the mass shootings so far this year. at least 246 and that's just so far. according to the gun violence archive which compiles these statistics, it puts the country on pace to match or exceed the worst year on record. now, in a moment, we'll have the latest from congress, first, though, cnn's bryan tod on the weekend. >> reporter: a physical altercation escalat...

Gates' jeobjections in hearing last week that they infringe on the right of do you process. >> spare me the bull shit of cu constitutional right, you know who doesn't have due process, their rights respected, the kids at sandy hook, buffalo, rob elementary and son and on. >> how likely are you to get this offer the senate to the f finish line. >> >> good evening, i don't have a lot of confidence about the senate deliberations. i hope i'm wrong. what i can tell you is we passed really two important pieces of legislation already, one to strengthen criminal background checks. we know criminal bac...

You do that is by putting in lots of witnesses and lots of evidence. senate hearings in my view are not a search for the truth. they are an attempt to advance a political interest. now, that's not a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a different thing, but if what we really want to do here is find the truth, then you would do it as exhaustively and thoroughly as is possible. does that mean 22 witnesses? i don't know, but it certainly means more than two, and it certainly means, ali, that you don't start at the end. you don't start with the two most important witnesses. you start with other p...