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about his efforts to get sober before buying the gun at the center of the case. the outrage in israel. the u.n. adding it and hamas to a blacklist of those who harm children in war zones. new body cam video from the arrest of the world's number one golfer, scottie scheffler. what it reveals. and team usa stunning the world with a historic win. is america catching cricket fever? >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. in this season of extremes and heightened weather danger we've witnessed these last several weeks, it's now the cri...

>> i want to be careful not to publicly attach myself to a position before receiving a -- the basin agreement appears to be the very definition of a compromise. a compromise that either side wants, but both sides can live with. i think the majority of democrats and republicans, and both the house and senate, will pass the compromise, and we will avert to default. >> we have seen how some a house freedom caucus members have whole help things up, do you think that they will make noise about this and draw this process out as well? >> it's not clear to me that there was ever going to be an agreeme...

I appreciate that. thank you. we have this news just in to cnn. the donna independent school district in donna, texas, east of mcallen near the mexican border canceled classes throughout the district after receiving a, quote, credible threat of violence, this is currently under investigation. in a letter officials say in light of recent events and in an abundance of caution, we will be canceling school district wide and staff will work from home. the safety and security of our students and staff is our first priority. they say classes are expected to resume tuesday morning. but an alarming w...

Under which it would be the right decision to wait? >> that's a tough question, jim. like, you can always, you know, you can always kind of back seat driver come up with circumstances that might call for some sort of a delay. so in this case we have heard some theories that the responding officers who were there during that gap in time when the children were in the room, with the gunman, and any period from 30 to 60 minutes elapsed before those officers who were on scene went in, they may have thought that they had him kind of, quote, unquote pinned down to one location and that was better whi...

Association have called it, quote, unfounded to blame mass shootings on mental illness, saying, quote, research has shown that only a very small percentage of violent acts are committed by people who are diagnosed with or in treatment for mental illness. mental health does, however, play a role in shootings. just not mass shootings. cdc numbers show that within the total number of deaths, 53% of all suicides in the year 2020 involved firearms. joining me now to discuss the gun issue, what congress may do, congressman mike thompson, democrat from california, he's also the chairman of the house ...