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as the midterms approach. i'm ayman mohyeldin. let's get started. s get started. all right, some republicans aren't playing by the same senate rules that democrats are. we establish that already, you know when it comes to judicial nominations, not when it comes to gun control legislation, and definitely not when it comes to our elections. this week the new york times reported that at least 357 sitting republican legislators and closely contested battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. that ...

where they met with the families of the 19 children and two teachers in the school shooting which came ten days after buffalo. as biden left a church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting "do something." he responding by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a similar note in the commencement speech at the university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. >> let's be clear. evil came to that elementary school in texas, to that grocery store in new york, far too many places where innocents have died. the face of suc...

>> this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. >> the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. they touched the photos of the 19 dead children and two teachers who lost the...

do something. >> president biden responding to the shouts of "do something" with quote, we will, we will. of course, we are covering all the angles, lucy cavanaugh is focusing on a country seeking answers. let's begin with you, lucy, at that memorial, uvalde's town square so many families are suffering with trauma and heart break. how did the community respond to the president and governor? >> reporter: well, the focus, people la, is really on the victims, the 19 little boys and girls who lost their lives alongside the two teachers. you mentioned the word trauma. i have been thinking...

is sadly not the first, they responded to. and speaking of calls for action, that's because someone who solving gun crime once could start by convincing a new generation that they're safer without guns. welcome to a new hour of american voices. this sunday the city of uvalde remains in shock struggling to find a way forward after 19 students, and two teachers were killed inside robb elementary behind me on tuesday. the president, just warning remain -- first responders. he's now heading back to san antonio before heading back to delaware, earlier today president biden and the first l...