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part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republ ....
where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down at robb elementary school, the president address the nation about guns and mass shootings. pleading with congress to do something. more kids than soldiers killed by guns, for god s sake. how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. the president took to the page of the wall street journal to outline his plan for tackling inflation and rising prices. in a new york times op-ed, he announced his approval of advanced rocket systems and munitions for ukraine as it battles russia s invasion. russia s war as contributing to high gas prices here at home. and then there is the baby formula shortage, which the president said he did not personally know about until april. now, despite good jobs numbers and low unemployment numbers, his job approval rating remains low. on friday, the president reminded the country that finding a solution to rising p ....
that s correct, this is a memorial near the town square in uvalde, where people have gathered around a fountain. and as you can see, they have laid out candles and balloons and messages to those that were lost in last week s tragic shooting and to their families as well. we actually moved away from the elementary school in part because the president is visiting uvalde, today, and preparations are under way right now for his arrival. that s where we begin this morning. the president once again taking on the role of consoler in chief. in a few hours, president biden is set to visit this area and the memorial that has been set up at robb elementary school. the scene of only the latest mass shooting in the united states. president biden is scheduled to attend church here, and meet with family members of those who were killed. the president meeting with 21 families, 21 people killed, 2 teachers, 19 students, most of them third and fourth graders. 21 families forever marked ....
parkland, el paso, pittsburgh, brooklyn. i ask the question so many of you are asking, why are we not protecting our kids? why is nothing changing? as a journalist, i ve had to cover too many of these mass shootings. perhaps we re becoming desensitized. as an american, a parent, you send your kids to school on an average day and never see him or her again. it s unspeakable yet that s what happened in uvalde, texas. i know this gets into background checks and red flag laws and other measures that advocates call common sense gun reform and opponents call a breach of the second amendment. there are also questions about how the texas police misled journal withists about school journalists about school security, about mental health, about social media radicalization and whether there s a way to stop sick, twisted men who just turned 18 as in texas and buffalo from legally buying guns. but the bottom line is that washington is paralyzed. it s highly unlikely that anythi ....
now they are waiting to head off to the robb elementary school. a scene that we have all witnessed over the last four or five days. the makeshift memorial, 21 crosses there. however, we should note, there are now 22, as of today, a 22nd cross was added to that memorial. the husband of teacher irma garcia. who, two days after her shocking death, died himself of a heart attack. in some cases people are calling it a broken heart. after laying flowers at his wife s memorial there. that senior, white that is where the president and first lady will be heading shortly. they are, speaking of course, with the dignitaries who are making them at the airfield airstrip. in uvalde. but they will make their way by motorcade to the central of town, that memorial is makeshift. a gunman opened fire inside a classroom, that is why this is happening. there is also what about rated of the late police response to this shooting. which is only adding to significant agony in that small communit ....