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hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york and we begin today as we have done so many times, too many times, on this show with a crisis that is uniquely ours, uniquely american. today our country witnessed the 129th mass shooting of this year alone, this one, like so many these days, took place at a school. three young students and three staff members were killed today. they were killed at covenant school a private school in nashville, tennessee, after a shooter walked in and opened fire. after law enforcement engaged with the suspect, the shooter was killed, according to law enforcem...

There are at least three republican members of congress who celebrate these weapons mary's talking about, who wear ar-15 style pins on their lapels. we have something more than inaction. it's not a gridlock problem. it's an enthusiasm for the gun culture on the right. >> you're right. it's not -- it's worse than doing nothing. it's worse than being neutral on the issue. they actually fight to see these things happen. that's the bottom line. and look, you know, states have tried individually to do the right thing, but until we have a national law that impacts the ability to access assault-style...

Shut down by the police department. is that to allow the rescue crews into the city in is that part of a plan that's already there or is it made up as it goes along? >> the city has a huge gridlock problem as you are probably aware. so to have this many cars on the streets without any type of traffic signaling is a huge problem. so the first thing the police are going to do is start moving traffic out of the area that's affects. leland: if you look back at the blackout of 1977, this is different in that it's a lot more isolated. this was -- this was a transformer that was burned. people are st...

>> from a professional reserve i have sort of admired how sophisticated the russian understanding of our political system and our political players is. i've read thousands of tweets and posts on instagram and all that stuff, they know us in many ways better than we know ourselves. the people who put this campaign together if they move to the united states they could get jobs as cal consultants here. >> these reports, do you have the sense that the u.s. congress is looking at these and taking them seriously? what has been the internal reaction? >> the senate intelligence committee definitely is...

7:00 in the east. i'm chris cuomo >> i'm kate bolduan here with news anchor michaela pereira. >> good morning. >> coming up this hour an exclusive interview with president obama, what he says about gop threats to shut down the government. what is his own role in the gridlock problem? we'll ask him that. plus the world may hang on the president's every word but what happens when he gets home? some touching insight from the president about raising his two girls. a powerful reunion only on cnn, the brave school clerk who was face to face with a gunman and talked him in to surrendering, reunit...