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person who has kids in schools that are being locked down in reaction to the shooting today is also responsible for reporting on that shooting. it's uncanny, right? you feel for the anchor in that moment, both responsible for covering it and conveying to the public what's going on and also experiencing in her own life, in her own family's life in that moment what it means for them to be in the midst of that same crisis. all right? what are the odds that something like that could happen? that the people who are covering the news will end up having a personal connection to the very ...

night. thanks to you at home for joining us. happy to have you with us here tonight. this is how the news unfolded today, in nashville. how the news unfolded on live tv in that city as it was happening. this was on the channel 4 local news in nashville. >> we anticipate this news conference starting at any moment. first official news conference where we can hear where investigators are in their investigation. some personal perspective on this as well. >> yeah, there's absolutely no words for what's going on today. i'm actually at school, a shooting survivor myself, happened years...

Of 15 months. gun murders, mass gun murders are so common in this country that it's entirely possible that you might survive a mass shooting only to endure another one. that is a thing that happens now in our country. it is statistically possible. gun murders are, in fact, so common in this country that the shooter in one attack could shoot and kill 11 people, drive to a nearby parking lot to kill himself at the site of where another mass shooting had occurred just a few years prior. that literally happened earlier this year. the shooter in the monterey park, california, mass shooting, you rem...

Have a potential court order against secretary mattis to hold him in contempt if the pentagon doesn't get in compliance with the law. david. >> hans, i just want to ask you about what precipitated this. you mentioned devin kelley, the shooter responsible for that horrible shooting in sutherland springs. to what degree was a catalyst for all of this? >> it was a major catalyst. in the past the pentagon has done reviews, but the idea that an individual who should not have access to a gun, should have been prevented by a national gun database, the idea that that paperwork wasn't filed properly, t...

Catalysts for congress to do more? how dispirited are you on the prospects of there being action on capitol hill? >> we have long since passed the time we should be looking for catalysts. the clear point is that we have a reporting system that exists. but if you can't get the data into the reporting system, then these cases fall through the cracks, whether domestic violence concerns or other prohibitions where people who actually should be in the system under the existing law. and so congress both needs to close the loopholes that exist in the existing law but the agencies need to enforce this...