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Hello everyone, I am Kimberly Adams. Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense.

I'm Cara Rizdal. Thanks for joining us on this Thursday. We're back to what we usually do a little bit of news. Make me smiles at the end.

And then we will be on our merry way. How about that? That's on all right? Good.

Yeah, yeah. I don't you go first today. I went on. I'll go first.

Quite a bit yesterday.

I want to point out a couple of things in some news coverage of the day. And then I've got a more substance if thing I want to talk about.

So I don't know if all you all have seen it. I'm assuming you have at least on your social feeds by now or by the time you listen to this thing.

But the mess outside Rob Elementary on, I would say Thursday on Tuesday, where law enforcement was not only not going in to take on the government, but was actively preventing parents up to and including handcuffing them and tackling them and putting them on the ground and preventing the parents from going in because law enforcement wasn't

going to take on the ground. And then the next thing is number one, incredible.

Number two, I can't wait to see the investigations on what exactly happened. And then number three, some of the anecdotal stories in some of these articles, specifically the journal in New York Times about about this woman throwing off a security guard or a law enforcement guy who would tackle

the law. While the soul thing was going on and walking out carrying two kids is just incredible. It's incredible. It's it's a mess. It's amazing and incredible. All at once. Just man.

Which is wild because we're already hearing calls from some quarters that we need more armed guards in schools or the teachers need to have guns and you need more of what was already there, but was ineffective here.

I have to say yesterday, I mentioned that I limited my consumption of this and this morning I got up and I was like, you know what? I gave myself yesterday to have some space, but now I'm going to be solutions oriented and I'm going to face it.

And that was one of the first videos I watched and I cried so much. I just I was like at my desk just sobbing this morning and like I'm ready to think about solutions and strategies moving forward and what we can all do to make this country better, but that listening to those families screaming as the gunshots, you could hear the gunshots in the background.

And I was like, is there begging to try to go save their own kids? It was devastating. It's unbelievable. Unbelievable. And there will be many investigations. And I'm very curious to see what what finally becomes the chronology.

Who was there? What decisions were made? Because some wrong decisions were made. I think we can say. Okay. More substantively.

Yeah. I'm an acquaintance of James Fowlos, who used to write for the Atlantic now writes his own substack. Jim is a is a private aviator. He's a magazine journalist of longstanding.

And he is to my mind one of the most insightful observers of the American political and national scene in the last 35 or 40 years.

Jim as opposed up to day building on some things that were around on social the last couple of days about what happened inside that school.

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