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That all of these things have happened. >> congressman mark veasey, thank you so much for your time. back with me in uvalde, julián castro. julián, i was struck by something that senator murphy said from this morning. you're talking through specific policies, but the landing point is we have to break the logjam. there is value in and of itself in proving to americans of all political stripes that washington can deliver on this issue regardless of how minimal that delivery is. >> i know we said it a lot, but what you hear here and i'm sure across the country's people want something to change....

I mean this, my word as a biden. i mean it. because of you, this generation. your generation. makes me more optimistic. >> reporter: one of the big questions now facing this white house is, what more can be done to try to prevent tragedies like this from happening again? the president has said he wants to see stricter gun control, but says there's not much more he can do on his own on the executive level. so the white house has pushed for congress to take action. there is that bipartisan group of senators who are holding preliminary discussions about possible new gun safety laws, but it's uncl...

Back live with julián castro. we were talking about the history of this town, which of course is so much more than the moment that we were living -- we didn't talk about the role that this town played in the mexican american civil rights movements. huge. >> it played a huge role. five decades ago uvalde, which is overwhelmingly mexican american today, over 70%, had one of the longest walk out in texas history. students at the high school walked out in protest and discrimination against the mexican american community here. the dismissal of a mexican american teachers. to the treatment of the f...

Freedom. it feels like however long this might be, there is a need for that cultural change. >> yes, it does not happen overnight. it's generational. certainly there are changes that need to be made on gun policy immediately. there's also a cultural shift that needs to happen. who better to lead that then young people who have had to live with the consequences of this in so many ways in their schools, churches, shopping malls? here in uvalde, who have to do these drills of what would happen if the school got shot again? we never would have fathom that in my time. to have that kind of drill. >>...

(driver) conventional thinking would say verizon has the largest and fastest 5g network. but, they don't. they only cover select cities with 5g. and with coverage of over 96% of interstate highway miles, they've got us covered. wearing harrowing stories from the doctors who treated the young victims, to uvalde dr. aurora guerrero, the only pediatrician in town he attended robb elementary as a kid. he found himself on tuesday treating wounded kids from his alma mater. five the kids killed in last week shooting where his patients. he described the scene at the hospital like this, saying quote, d...