julie: thank you. again, we will not stop until we find those cowards who decided to just shoot dozens of people causing two people to lose their lives and we are going to be here until we find them and hold them accountable. rich: brandon scott after police say at least two suspects opened fire at a block party in south baltimore killing two and injuring dozens more. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m rich edson. julie: i m julie banderas. thank you very much for joining us today. so it was part of a violent poll day weekend across the nation. in chicago at least 18 people were shot, two of them killed. mike tobin is live in chicago with more. mike. actually in chicago you saw 30 people shot can including baltimore as well. we aren t through the holiday weekend yet. in chicago multiple shootings. sad, familiar pattern. the first murder came just after 8:00 p.m. friday in a neighborhood called chicago. a dodge charger opened fire. is areas like river
commissioner came out and gave fluff. we ll deploy the peace mobile in response to this. nobody wants to hear about a peace mobile. they want to hear about people getting locked up for running guns. julie: what s the solution? the mass shootings will happen more and more like you said. we re in summer and when crime goes up. people have too much time on their hands. what do we do about the shootings? according to the pew research center 3% of murders, gun murders in this country are from assault weapons. all we ever hear from washington is assault weapons. that s the defall position. the dirty secret. the vast majority of murders by guns are handguns and that means in our inner cities. we have to go back i m sorry to say we have to go back to incarceration. nobody is saying that reform isn t possible and desirable, okay? the problem is you need both carrot and stick. we have left too much of the carrot out there and removed the
his sole job is to count votes. his sole job is to tell the speaker, mr. speaker, we have enough votes to bring this bill to the floor, let s do it. not to embarrass the speaker. either kevin mccarthy can t count, or he doesn t have the speaker s best interests at heart or both. i m siding with both. right, so we can t take all three? so to go back to the original question, what does this say for immigration, i m extraordinarily pessimistic about the future of this immigration reform bill. i don t think the house republicans are going to support it. this is a body that just passed a measure making it a federal crime to be an undocumented person in america, going against the ruling that being undocumented in america performing work is not illegal, even in your status is. really, what we re talking about is a group of people who the basis of their opposition to this reform isn t really pragmatic, it s emotional. they re afraid of how the country will change and is
rick: kevin, i know that saying this is a single biggest tax increase in u.s. history probably makes for very good talk on your radio show. i don t know what you call this. rick: it s not true, though, according to a number of independent analyses that this is not, not, in fact, the single greatest tax increase. that aside, i want to ask you this, for mitt romney, and for republicans who are going to be campaigning for this november, at what point do they have to go from talking about repeal and replace to talk being what they would replace this health care law with? talking about specifics for those with preexisting conditions, for folks who have all of these other sorts of problems who will be covered under the health care act, but would not be covered under it if it were to be repealed. nobody is arguing the reform isn t necessary senator tom cobd the most well balanced approach, common sense reform while president obama was seeking to reform this. rick: when do we need to