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is. welcome to you. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for christian sing live at msnbc headquarters. today authorities in a pair of texas towns are grappling with a ton of unanswered questions as they investigate the deaths of 16 people, half guild in a hail of gunfire in the city of allen, the other half killed when a vehicle drove into a crowd in brownsville. we got an update on the second incident near the border. we'll bring you that in just a moment. meanwhile, the attack at a mall in a dallas suburb underscoring this chilling reality, that we're seeing more americans every single d...

Trying to have this meeting be in a calm setting, and with the president trying to emphasize his history of working with republicans for these sort of crisis points. he certainly did a lot of that with mitch mcconnell, the republican senate leader when he was vice president under barack obama. so that's sort of the mood here. optimism might be too far of a stretch, but certainly the view this is a critical data point. >> let's talk, ali, about the unification of republicans. we're hearing from senator mike lee, 43 republican senators signing on essentially saying they're not going to pass a cl...

Put it this way. that would put countless construction workers out of jobs and leave materials and equipment suppliers across the country holding the bag on orders they are ready to fill but won't be paid for. republicans are sorely disappointed by this and want evidence to pass this bill separately to get it done. house speaker nancy pelosi she has promised her caucus she will only move infrastructure through along with the president's multi-trillion dollar tax spending plan and she has got to be feeling a lot of pressure on capitol hill to deliver today. >> you will you be having -- >> yes, ...

Set a deadline. anyway, seems like there is calm setting in on the markets at least for now. the way they've been behaving lately. >> bill: also in a new segment that sandra and i christened this week called i'm going to say. at the beginning of the facebook hearings i told you i'm going to say facebook's market cap is less at the end of two days than it is now and i was wrong. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: it went up. i'm going to say i was wrong. >> sandra: it did climb steadily. >> bill: 33 past the hour now. california governor jerry brown will deploy 400 national guard troops at the requ...