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Leaders come together and mouth words and do nothing. it's too late to prevent the last shooting. we're already failed those victims and families. we need to act to prevent the next shooting. we need to identify the risks and threats and finally do something. >> joining us now is senator dick durbin of illinois, the democratic whip and chair of the judiciary committee as well f. you can tells e tell us these bipartisan conversations going on between senators? >> we've issued an invitation, a good faith invitation for republicans to join ug in a conversation. the big question is this, is uvalde...

For this community. we thank you for the work you're doing, appreciate it. >> thank you. and appreciate you giving me the opportunity this morning and just like to thank all my staff for their work in this as well. and condolences to the people out there that lost loved ones. thank you. >> all right. thank you. and, again, 21 families near uvalde are broken, struggling to make sense of the loss they are suffering. this morning we do want to remember them. jose garcia loved everything on wheels and video games. his grandfather said he was the sweetest little boy he had ever known. he had two si...

Employees time to mourn, to grieve as well. i talked to one woman who was holding a sign here that said uvalde strong and she says that she just could not be at home anymore. she ned to come out into this community and feel that she was doing something. take a listen. >> it's just really hard. like i do have some victims, i, you know, i know of them. i know their mom, a cousin, a zampbt cousin, first countries or cousin to them. but everyone has just come together this morning. >>. >> reporter: and in this town, everybody really does know everybody else. everyone that i talked to here say that...

Prior to the pandemic and during covid he just dropped out. karl, it took a while for people to find people who knew him in that small town of uvalde. >> yeah. and look, as a society -- family matters. having a stable family helps make for stable individuals. and, you know, shuttled between his mother and grandmother, god knows where his father was in all of this. his father lived in uvalde but was, you know, his parents were clearly at odds with each other and the father doesn't appear to have played a significant role. god bless the law enforcement as this started to happen, rushed to the so...

Sufficient resources for mental health issues. think about this. this is a young man who had an absent father, shuttled between the homes of his mother and grandmother. there was an absence of a family that surrounded this young man and would be able to detect these kind of impulses and deal with them. the local mayor, don mclaughlin, who has been a long time fixture in uvalde. one of the problems was the county doesn't have enough mental health resources. both of the answers that were given in the poll are traditional but we need to do something to find a way to identify people who are at ris...