MTP NOW July 5 — Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering, Guns on the ballot in November

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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After a July 4th shooting kills 7 and wounds 30, Mayor Nancy Rotering joins Meet the Press NOW to talk about the impact on a Chicago suburb. Pete Williams shares the latest on the investigation. Betsy Woodruff Swan, Rick Tyler, Xochitl Hinojosa join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable.

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0:00.0	If it's Tuesday, a 4th of July parade becomes the side of the country's latest mass shooting.
0:07.2	What we're learning about the victims, the investigation, and the weapon that killed
0:11.6	seven people in Wounded Dozensmore just days after President Biden signed the first major
0:16.8	gun legislation, gun safety law.
0:19.5	In decades, we're expecting to hear from officials there in Illinois at any moment.
0:24.4	Plus, the suburban swing vote, have a nationwide fight on abortion rights and gun control,
0:29.9	are reshaping the midterm elections.
0:32.2	What it means for both parties, that these contentious cultural issues will likely keep
0:37.0	heating up throughout this summer.
0:39.4	And later as Russia intensifies its attacks in Ukraine and American basketball star, jailed
0:44.2	in Moscow, sending a personal plea for help to President Biden to intervene in her case.
1:02.4	Welcome to Beath a Press Now on Peter Alexander in today for Chuck.
1:05.5	We expect another update from authorities in Illinois at any moment on the deadly mass
1:09.8	shooting at a 4th of July parade in suburban Chicago.
1:13.4	We're going to bring that to you just as soon as it begins.
1:15.9	In the last hour, sadly, we learned that a 7th victim has died.
1:19.9	At least 30 other people were injured.
1:22.4	And earlier today, police revealed new information about the person of interest, now in custody,
1:27.1	21-year-old Robert Krimo III.
1:30.3	And they said that he had planned the shooting for weeks.
1:33.7	He brought a high-powered rifle to this parade.
1:37.7	He accessed the roof of a business via a fire escape ladder and began opening fire on
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