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Deadline: White House

“A remarkably callous reaction”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the shooting of five people in Texas as polls show Americans broadly support gun control legislation, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into the former president’s potential wire fraud violations by fundraising using the Big Lie, updates from E. Jean Carroll’s civil lawsuit as she is forced to explain why she did not come forward with the alleged assault by the ex-president sooner, federal pushback on hospitals who refuse emergency abortions, the ongoing ethics crisis at the Supreme Court, and more. Joined by: David Jolly, Claire McCaskill, Fred Guttenberg, Thomas Gabor, Katie Benner, Glenn Kirschner, Erica Orden, Katie Phang, Donna Edwards, Dahlia Lithwick, and Cornell Belcher.

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Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It is a horrific crime, even by the standards

0:11.8

of a nation that has become all too familiar with horrific crimes and gun violence, a nation

0:17.7

that often bears witness to more than one mass shooting a day. Five people were brutally

0:22.9

murdered Friday night in Cleveland, Texas by a gunman with an AR-15 rifle. The spark,

0:28.9

if you will, for the shooting, a complaint from a neighbor. Here's how the New York Times

0:33.2

reports what happened. Quote, Francisco Oropeza was firing his gun in his yard, again on Friday

0:38.9

night, rattling off loud bangs that were keeping Wilson Garcia's baby awake. So Mr. Garcia

0:45.0

said he went over to his neighbor and asked if he could stop. Mr. Oropeza, who the authority

0:50.3

said had been drinking, said no. His yard, he said, his rules. Mr. Garcia, 30, warned

0:56.7

that he would call the police. But after Mr. Oropeza, 38, walked back to his house, he

1:01.9

re-emerged with an AR-15. He walked toward Mr. Garcia's cream-colored home where he shot

1:07.7

and killed Mr. Garcia's wife, who had called the police and was standing near the entrance.

1:13.3

The rampage continued inside Mr. Garcia's home, where the authority said Mr. Oropeza

1:18.5

fatally shot for other people, almost execution style. One of the victims is a nine-year-old

1:25.5

little boy. His name is Daniel Enrique Lazo. The other victims are all members of one family.

1:31.8

They are new to this country, all of them, helling from Honduras, including Garcia's

1:36.1

wife, Sonia Guzman, 25 years old, Diana Velasquez, Alvarado, 21 years old, Julissa Molina Rivera,

1:44.6

31, and Jose Jonathan Casar is 18. Authorities say that three children survived the shooting,

1:52.0

and they survived because they were underneath or shielded by two of the women who were killed.

1:57.7

A manhunt is underway for the gunmen who's believed to be armed in dangerous. More than

2:02.7

250 officers are on the search as the FBI warns that they have, quote, zero leads and are

2:09.0

quote, running into dead ends. Meanwhile, a family, an entire family, a community is grappling

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