Newtown

Kids, kids, kids.

Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords heads to Newtown, Connecticut today to meet with the families of the victims of the deadly school shooting there.

Pia, the idea that she would become this forceful advocate on behalf of gun legislation, was that a delicate conversation? Obviously, you know, continues to be a hot button issue politically.

So Mark had retired from NASA and the Navy.

He's written a new book, It's called, Why? The question that never goes away.

And in this interview, he was talking about how he received a phone call to go back to the East Coast to speak to the parents of Newtown, Connecticut, after the Sandy Hook shooting, where 26 people were gunned down, 20 children, six adults.

They wanted him to come and talk to them about pain and suffering and God and And something dawned on him because he had been researching for his new book and he had been reading some of the books of the new atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, all those New York Times best-selling atheistic authors.

And so here he is on the phone being asked to speak to the Sandy Hook school parents.

Natural disasters, a crumbling economy.

Terrorist attacks, violence increasing in unprecedented numbers in our schools, the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, and it seems that you turn on the news today and there's one disaster after another.

You look at the uncertainty in Northern Africa today, and Northern Africa is becoming the new home for Al-Qaeda.

And the recent, uh, kidnappings and terrorist attack at the Algeria oil refinery indicates that Northern Africa's becoming incredibly unstable.

This one is the latest in a string of shootings that have stricken the nation and rattled communities across the United States for the last three decades.

It adds Bend, Oregon to a grim list of places where elementary schools have come under fire, including Newtown, Connecticut and Uvalde, Texas, guys.

It's just hard to imagine how anyone could do that to these innocent little children.

Okay, Erin, thank you.

So it's not if there will be a terrorist attack, it's when there will be a terrorist attack.

natural disasters, a crumbling economy, terrorist attacks, violence increasing in unprecedented numbers in our schools, the Newtown, Connecticut shooting.

And it seems that you turn on the news today and there's one disaster after another.

You look at the uncertainty in Northern Africa today.

It's kind of like, you know, this is a terrible, extreme example.

But, you know, that the mother of that that that young man who shot all those people at the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, back in 2012.

Oh, yeah.

She to connect with her son, because I guess they were both kind of into it.

June 5th in New London, Connecticut at the Gard Arts Center.

On June 10th in Newtown, Connecticut at Edmontown Hall.

June 12th in Riverhead, New York at the Suffolk Theater.

I'm super excited.

We are playing March 13th in Phoenix, Arizona, April 3rd in Skokie, Illinois, April 8th in Kent, Ohio, April 10th in Franklin, Tennessee, and June 3rd, Derry, New Hampshire, June 5th.

In New London, Connecticut, June 10th.

Newtown, Connecticut, June 12th.

Riverhead, New York, June 17th.