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before getting to where it all stands tonight, i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with this 11-year-old talking about the gunman coming into her classroom. it's graphic and difficult to hear, but it's important to hear it unfiltered. no matter where you stand on the issue of guns, this shouldn't be happening. >> we were just watching, and then she got -- and she went to lock the door. and he was in the hallway, and they made eye contact. and then she went back in the room and told us, go hide. and then we went to go hide behind my teacher's desk and behind the backpack...

for life. a doctor recounts wounds that are inflicted in movie theaters, synagogues, supermarkets, and most recently, fourth grade classrooms. john berman here in for anderson. today, members of the house oversight committee heard from people whose lives were changed forever in the mass shootings in uvalde and buffalo. i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with miah, 11 years old, talking about the moment the gunman came into her fourth grade classroom at robb elementary school and her teacher tried her best to keep everyone safe. we do want to warn you that it's graphic ...

two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. the only clue of their i decent is cartoons clinging to them and finding none. >> i thought he would come back to the room, so i put blood on me and -- >> what did you do when you put the blood on yourself? >> to stay quiet. >> what did you tell 911? >> i told them we needed help. >> because i could have lost my baby girl. she's not the same little girl i used to play with, hang around with and do everything. because she was daddy's little girl. >> some part of me m...

now the people at the center of them are begging and pleading with their elected leaders to do something and do something now. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has been trying to strike a narrow, modest deal on gun reforms, one of the lead negotiators telling me in the last hour he is cautiously optimistic that they can get something done. despite ongoing talks on capitol hill today, it is still legal in most states for an 18-year-old to buy a semiautomatic weapon. josh campbell went to a gun range to show us just what such a weapon can do. >> they are known as assault style weapo...

primaries today including california. >> bill: topping voters' concerns is the price of gasoline. another day and all-time high. $4.91. we hit 28 new highs. the number more than doubling since biden took office. >> dana: 6 in 10 people are pessimistic on achieving the american dream. we begin at the white house with peter doocy. imagine, peter, the white house is -- you would think they're feeling some pressure. are you seeing any evidence of that? >> if they are feeling pressure, that's not exactly what they are saying at the microphone because as many americans including those poll...