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Country, they were galvanized, they were determined to end gun violence. they were forced to see the same horrors over and over and over again since that shooting. today's going to mark the five year anniversary of the shooting, former student gun control activists david hogg is join me now. dave, it is great to talk to you. thank you so much for joining us. -- when you see that footage of yourself speaking one day after that shooting, what do you remember? what was going through your mind? >> how angry i was that this had happened to us. i had argued on both sides of the gun issue at speech a...

The internet. the backdrop, kate, it is that hunter biden is under criminal investigation by the justice department, and focused on the potential tax violations and a gun issue that also he has. and of course, republicans are now taking aim at hunter biden, you know, doing the investigations and they are trying to use a lot of his personal issues against the president, mr. biden. >> absolutely. much more to come on this, evan. thank you for looking at it. appreciate it. turning to capitol hill, the house is expected to vote very soon to removing congresswoman ilhan omar from her committee. a...

Was more targeted? how do we make sense of that? >> yes. yes. i mean, look, he has the softest of targets just literally next to this building in terms of a parade, which we know did not -- could not have the kind of security this building would have. there were 100,000 people. you simply can't monitor an event like that perfectly. and he decides this facility, the facility -- i thought what was interesting, it sounds like all the victims were elderly or at least in their 60s and 70s. you're looking at -- and he's elderly. this is rare. we often talk about these mass shootings being 18, 19, 20...

The lame-duck session? >> i'm going to try. i'm going to try to get rid of assault weapons. >> republicans blame the issue of mental health, not guns. we see again in the commonwealth, in colorado, and in idaho, these just stark reminders of senseless violent crime. so much of it is really a moment to reflect on the state of mind of america and virginia, and this mental health crisis we know we're in the middle of. the fact is we do have a mental health crisis in this country. out of the 40,000 deaths from gun violence this year, over half of them were due to suicide. that doesn't mean that ...

This message of crime so aggressively. take a listen to one of his ads that seems to sum up his entire. take a listen. >> kathy hochul failed you. i won't. my first day as governor, i'll declare a crime emergency, i'll stop the cashless bail and fire weak prosecutors. vote like your life depends on it, because it does. >> reporter: hochul has been pushing back in a number of ways, emphasizing the gun issue. remember, we had that awful shooting in buffalo here some months ago and she has been pushing for gun safety legislation and she's done some things here that her challenger is not a propone...