And let the great debate begin.

Welcome to Mass Ave. We are here bringing you conservative news, policy, and insights from the steps of Capitol Hill. I'm your host Emily Vanderbush. And I'm Tommy Binion.

Thanks for joining us today. We have an interesting show lined up. Following on the heels of the New York terrorist attack last week, Jim Carapano is going to be joining us.

He's from our Davis Center, our national security expert, and he's going to be giving us an insight into what happened, what can be done to prevent it.

Really interesting interview.

It is an interesting interview.

It's a tough week.

There was the attack in New York.

There was the shooting in Texas, which

broke all of our hearts over the weekend, you know, some really, some nasty stuff in the news

last week. Hey, but New York held their marathon. Yesterday morning, we had an American woman

win the marathon for the first time an American woman had done so in 40 years.

So, you know, as we always do, we found a bright side, didn't we?

Yeah.

New York did a great job of really rallying together to pull off that marathon.

Always makes you proud to be an American.

And as you said, yeah, prayers are with Texas today. A horrible shooting happened yesterday.

You know, it isn't trite to say that you're offering your prayers to these folks because, you know, as people of faith, that's probably what they would really appreciate.

No, of course not. This is a community devastated. You know, in that church service, the First Baptist Church, there would have been about 50 people.

And of course, almost all of that number of 50 was shot or injured.

And some of the stories about who was victimized by this attack, the pastor's 14-year-old

daughter, a family of eight.

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