The latest on the situation in Maine. 18 people so far have been confirmed killed and at least 13 were injured in mass shootings at a restaurant and a bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night. [00:00:15] Now, as of now, the suspect has not been apprehended. However, his vehicle has been found. There is a massive manhunt underway. So again, we have limited information coming out at this time. It's still relatively breaking news and the manhunt is still underway, so [00:00:32] not everything has been confirmed yet. But here is what we can say we know right now. From Associated Press the shooting appears to have unfolded in multiple locations, including a bowling alley where a children's league was taking place, and a local bar official said. [00:00:48] The death toll may be revised up or down due to the level of carnage, a senior federal law enforcement official said. Police bulletin identified Robert Card, 40 years old, as a person of interest in the attack that sent panicked bowlers scrambling behind pins when shots rang out around 07:00 P.M. Wednesday. [00:01:07] Card was described as a firearms instructor believed to be in the Army Reserve and assigned to a trading facility in Saco, Maine. Now, usually we would not show you a picture of a mass shooter, but because he is a person of interest and there is a massive manhunt [00:01:22] underway currently, we are gonna show his picture here. It is just for the safety of our audience to be careful if you see this man and alert law enforcement if you have any information on his potential whereabouts. A little bit more from Associated Press. [00:01:38] The document circulated to law enforcement officials said Card had been committed to a mental health facility for two weeks in the summer of 2023. It did not provide details about his treatment or condition, but said Card had reported, quote, hearing voices and threats to shoot up the military base. [00:01:54] Telephone number listed for Card and public records was not in service. So Sharon, I've covered so many of these stories now, it's just in the short time I've been working for TYT because this country refuses to take any sort of meaningful action to curtail gun violence. [00:02:12] And every time one of these stories breaks, the right wing reaction always seems to be, now is not the time to talk about politics. But we then see the families of these victims say, no, now is the time. Because my relative might still be alive if we actually took meaningful action [00:02:30] to ensure that guns don't get in the hands of dangerous people. And now we know that this is someone who has made threats in the past to carry out shootings. Clearly someone who should not have had access to a firearm, but was still able to, in fact, he was still able to be a firearms instructor. [00:02:48] >> Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think that we often focus on the morally corrupt side, the side that lacks integrity. We all know the right thing to do here, but you're pretending that you don't. That side all in on it. They're not gonna do anything, even when children lay dying in the street. [00:03:06] It just is that simple. So I like to sometimes focus on the other side, who could do something here, and that includes the American people who are being held hostage by these tiny, tiny groups with some money checkbooks that they're willing to just throw it around to get their way. [00:03:23] And their way is about bloodshed and carnage. If we really wanted to do something here, the White House, the Democrats, and I'm not saying that they don't, but they don't have good political gain. [00:03:39] There's a fiery preacher who just like, maybe you don't feel like going to church. I haven't been in years, but anyway, but they get you going and they energize you. It's a movement, a political figure, someone, something that you rally behind because you just a dance move, something, but they just stay flat footed. [00:03:58] I'm tired of the slow singing and flower bringing. I saw where Vice President Harris reacted. She's done nothing wrong, and I'm not calling her out as someone who did something wrong and being human in that moment. I don't wanna hear about the healer in chief and his grief and [00:04:16] how this is what he does best, it's all true. But if we wanna end this thing and make some sense and not have there be more guns than people so that our kids can live, we can live, we can go bowling, if that's what you're into, or [00:04:32] go to a nightclub in Orlando, then we really could do it. We actually could do it. It would just take concentration, a strategy, a will to not drop it. We're into what the next day, and it already feels like it's been three. [00:04:48] You can't drop it. You have to say, I can't have another meal, I can't breathe until this gets done, and there's a price to pay if it doesn't. And I just don't see that commitment. It's like give in to evil because they're never gonna help us now. [00:05:06] >> Speaker 1: That is an excellent point because we have right now information. We know that gun violence has become the leading cause of death of children in this country. And if that isn't something that makes the Democrats angry, [00:05:23] the ones in power angry enough to be leading the charge against gun violence, for gun control, for gun reform in our laws, I don't know what could. And of course, it's not just children who are being murdered by guns, [00:05:41] but the image of a dead child is something that I think really is powerful in moving people towards demanding change. And we know how many kids in this country are getting murdered by guns, and it's still not enough for them to champion this issue. [00:05:59] I mean, of course there are Democrats who have been fighting on this issue, there's organizations, parents of people who've lost their children to gun control, who are fighting for gun violence, excuse me. Who are fighting and championing this issue. [00:06:16] But it hasn't come top down, right? This isn't something I've seen Joe Biden particularly impassioned about. You're right on the healer in chief language. But they can't heal if they know that in a couple days they're gonna see another news [00:06:32] story about another mass shooting that's happening. That healing can't occur until we change our laws. But that's all we have. Sorry, go ahead. >> Speaker 2: I'm sorry, and I think you're right and [00:06:48] I hate to bring her up again because can this woman rest? >> Okay, she refused to give up her seat on the bus all those years ago and there were boycotts and it almost brought an industry in a city too broke. [00:07:03] Okay, you needed people to ride buses, okay? When sanitation workers said I'm done. But they didn't just do it for a day or two. And it was an incredible sacrifice. How many miles are you walking to work today, okay? [00:07:21] And so I don't wanna oversimplify it, but this is just a feeling I get. Poles aren't everything, okay? And when you can look someone in the eye and they know you mean it and you're not going away, sometimes things happen, okay? [00:07:40] Even the sinister side had resolve and commitment and they said, we're doing this, okay? They wore hats and had that stupid slogan about making America great. It's a commitment. [00:07:56] Whether you're on the side of evil or semi good, it's a commitment. And I remember I was on a ladder decorating a tree in St. Louis before I went to work when the news was on, as it always is. [00:08:13] I heard, I think it was John Miller, the law enforcement guy on one of the networks, CBS, I think. And I'll never forget hearing his voice and realizing what was coming. It was like he had to prepare us so I wouldn't fall off that ladder. [00:08:29] And he said things like, now it's just preliminary. This is what he's a law enforcement source. So you knew it was coming when he said there are children. And every year around this time and other times, I think about it, [00:08:45] like when that big mouth was ordered to pay a billion and some dollars and he's still doing this trash. Do people care when kids are dead? Do they really care? It doesn't feel like they do. I can't imagine what those parents are still going through if I can't [00:09:04] forget the horror of hearing those words. >> Speaker 1: It's a nightmare that they can't wake up from because they have to continue to fight to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else's children, and it's sad. [00:09:19] And I think you're right. It feels like every time that there is no action on this, it feels like nobody cares. [MUSIC]