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stuff that might be more present here. so all of that s going on behind the scenes, but i m always intrigued by the decision making to shelter in place, release people and how confident you can be when you re releasing citizens into a safe area. tough decisions. for anybody just joining us, the top of the hour, we are following report of an active shooter in the midtown atlanta area. we have one person who has died at the scene. four people injured and taken to the hospital. the suspect still on the run. let s go ahead and listen to our local affiliate there, wxia. they are conducting an interview right now with sate senator josh mclauren who was having lunch in the area at the time. before i took this call, i was downstairs, there was an atlanta police officer who came through and reminded everyone we re still on lockdown. i m glad some people were able to be evacuated. we have seen cars leave the area. confusion, it s uncertainty, it s fear, and we re going to wai ....
I think there s parents out there who are frustrated. there are americans out there who are frustrated and who want to see an assault weapons ban, which would reduce mass shootings. when something that the president led on in 1994. we want to see common sense gun law reform, whether it s requiring background checks on all gun sales, requiring safe storage of guns, eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war, again, on our streets. these are the things that we want to see congress act on, and so we re going continue to call on them to do so. go ahead. we have been listening to the white house daily press briefing with press secretary karine jean-pierre talking about how the president is frustrated about the epidemic of gun violence after taking the historic action he has taken in his administration, and essentially further saying his hands are tied for any more action. there will be much much much ....
Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas reintroduced the TRUST in Congress Act on Thursday, which would require members of Congress to put certain ....
And president trump is apparently planning to give congress six months to come up with legislation to replace the daca program. what are you expecting will come from that legislation. could that, in essence, save the program, do you think? i think, you know, that one of the things we need to see congress act on recently the senate introduced a new version of the dream act, the 2017 dream act and we believe that that is definitely a bipartisan piece of legislation that has been introduced by republican and democrat senators in the senate. so we believe that moving on that plan will be one of the steps that would need to be taken if daca was to be ended, that would be a way to protect not only those 800,000 undocumented immigrants but perhaps that s a pool that could enlargened to include people ....