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Anderson Cooper 360

El Paso Death Rises To 22; Children Of El Paso Victim Remember Man Who Shielded Wife, Granddaughter; Soccer Mom, 2 Coaches Wounded; Biden On Mass Shootings

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

El Paso Mayor: President To Visit Wednesday; Biden On Mass Shootings: We Should Be About Honesty, Decency And Hope; We Should Be Giving Hate No Safe Harbor; Children Of El Paso Victim David Johnson Remember Father Who Shielded Wife, Granddaughter From Gunfire; Soccer Mom, 2 Coaches Wounded As Gunman Opened Fire Outside El Paso Walmart; Biden On Mass Shootings; Biden: "White Supremacists Are Winning The Battle"; Biden: "This Is Domestic Terrorism"; Biden: The President's Rhetoric "Legitimates People Coming Out From Under Rocks"; Biden To Pres. Trump "From This Point On Show Me Something; Biden On Pres. Trump: "Clearly His Actions Have Done Nothing to Do Anything Other Than Encourage This Kind Of Behavior"; Biden On Pres. Trump: "This Is A President Who Has Said Things No Other President Has Said Since Andrew Jackson"; Biden On Pres. Trump: "This Is About Separating People And The Good And The Bad In His Mind"; Biden On Pres. Trump: Dividing People Is A Trait "Used By Charlatans All Over The World"; Biden: Immigrants Didn't Commit The Shootings In El Paso And Dayton American Citizens Did; Biden: "Let's Eliminate The Ability To Have An Assault Weapon"; Biden: "Background Checks Should Be Universal. Period."; Biden: "Who The Hell Needs 200 Rounds In A Gun?"; Biden: "Hatred Is Not A Mental Illness"; Biden: "White Nationalism Is Wrong, It Is Not A Mental Illness, It is Hateful Behavior"; Biden: There Have Been More Acts By Domestic Terrorists In Past Years Than by Foreign Terrorists; Biden: Assault Weapons Should Be Illegal; Biden: I Would Institute A National Buy Back Program For Assault Weapons; Biden: "We Have Two Problems: The NRA And The Gun Manufacturers"; Biden: Video Games Are Not The Reason Why We Have This Carnage; Biden On Coping With Tragedy And Loss; Biden: "You Can't Define What An American Is Based On Ethnicity"; Biden: "What A President Says Matters"; Biden: "You Shouldn't Be Able To Buy Certain Weapons"; Biden On Grief: The Person You Lost Is Still With You; Biden On Grief: Find A Purpose; Biden On Grief: There Is Hope; Biden: "Hate Can Have No Safe Harbor"; Biden: "We Chose Hope Over Fear ... Unity Over Division And Maybe Most Importantly Truth Over Lies"; Chris Cuomo Interview With Beto O'RourkeTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening we're coming to you tonight from El Paso, one of two cities

0:06.2

tonight where the pain of loss is raw and fresh as it is in day no

0:11.1

high as well. People here are just starting out on a journey through darkness

0:16.2

and the best that can be said is that they are not alone. They are not walking

0:21.4

alone on this road. We've seen this before and it's happening here whether in a

0:25.3

small town or big city people coming together to form a kind of extended

0:28.9

family to do the things even little things that can help light the darkness

0:33.1

if only just a bit which is not in any way to diminish the hurt that is all

0:37.3

around us tonight. In order to welcome presence here of kindness to meet that

0:41.2

hurt erase the need for answers to why this happened on all levels including

0:45.9

at the very top. President Trump tweeted this morning then in prepare remarks

0:50.2

spoke from the White House his words comforting to some no doubt to others

0:53.9

parts of reconcile with the kind of statements we've heard from him time to

0:57.5

time again. Former President Barack Obama weighed in as well as of all the

1:01.4

Democratic candidates I spoke exclusively with former Vice President Joe Biden

1:05.3

and tonight we're gonna play that interview for you. He spoke about the

1:09.0

president about his views on what to do and he spoke about the people here in

1:13.0

El Paso and Dayton who have died and those who are grieving tonight.

1:19.2

It matters the stories of these people from the public to understand that this

1:26.7

is not just a statistic this is this is who we are who they are I mean it's a

1:37.0

and it really is about you know sort of reweaving that social fabric that holds

1:42.7

the society together honesty decency hope even nobody behind giving hate no

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