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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The suspect in Saturday night’s Colorado Springs shooting was charged by police with five counts of first degree murder and five counts of bias-motivated crime. Colorado District Attorney Michael Allen shares the latest from the ongoing investigation. State Representative Leslie Herod (D-Colo.), the first gay African American woman to be elected to Colorado’s state legislature, discusses the importance of the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs. Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), the first Gen Z candidate to be elected to Congress, joins to discuss gun violence and what he has planned for his first term in office. Former President Trump hoped to clear the field by announcing a presidential run early, but it has not saved him from criticism from other GOP leaders. Eugene Scott, Stephanie Schriock and Danny Diaz join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable. Protests in Iran continue into their third month, as Iran’s men’s World Cup squad refuse to sing their national anthem on the global stage.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Kristen Welker. We do begin with the latest breaking news out of Colorado Springs following this weekend's mass shooting at a prominent LGBTQ nightclub that killed five and injured dozens more.
0:23.6	We expect an update from authorities next hour.
0:27.0	It comes, as earlier today the suspect, Anderson Lee Aldridge, was charged with five counts of murder and five hate crime-related counts as well.
0:35.1	Now, I just spoke with the area's district attorney just a few
0:37.6	moments ago who told us that these charges are essentially preliminary and were filed by police,
0:42.5	which means they could be amended or added to. We're going to show you that entire interview in
0:46.8	just a moment. But first, investigators have not yet definitively said what they believe the
0:51.3	motive for the shooting was. But here's what he heard from the Colorado
0:54.7	Springs mayor this morning. The motive is still under investigation. It has all the trappings of a hate
1:00.8	crime, but we need to look at social media. We need to look at all kinds of other information that
1:07.8	were gathering from people that knew the individual before we make any definitive
1:12.3	conclusions about a motivation. But it certainly, as I say, has the trappings of hate crime.
1:18.7	Now, investigators say the gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle late Saturday night
1:23.5	inside Club Q. Remarkably, they say two patrons at the club were able to heroically subdue
1:29.8	the suspect until help arrived. Colorado Governor Jared Polis has ordered all flags at public
1:36.1	buildings in the state to be lowered for five days in memory of the five lives lost. But all of this
1:42.6	comes amid what LGBTQ rights groups warn is a rise in
1:46.0	hate crimes in recent weeks and months, including an incident just this past weekend in New York's
1:51.2	Hell's Kitchen in which someone threw a brick at the front window of a gay bar.
1:56.3	Here's what Glad's president and CEO had to say this morning, listen.
2:00.7	We don't feel safe as a community
2:02.4	and we don't have any reason to feel safe as a community. We're under attack and the rhetoric
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