Citywide Gun Trauma, Sweden's NATO Pitch, GOP's Tech Lawsuit
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Once again, gun violence in amErica showered four days of celebrations.

Experts say survivors and even entire cities will keep living with the pain.

The community is changed forever.

I'm smith. That's Michelle Martin, and this is up first from mp. r. news. SAT once admissions ed in nato with an iron russian aggression. President biden talks to the swedish prime minister today about joining the alliance, what's behind stockmen application for membership and what stands in their way.

Plus a federal judge hands republicans a partial Victory in a lawsuit over social media. But why do republicans want to bite and administration to stop talking to tech firms? Stay with us will give you the news. You need to start your day.

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Experts say the gun violence that ruined the july worth holiday in many cities will have long lasting effects on survivors and even on whole communities.

About pills. Li a. In fort worth, the total of eleven people were killed in mass shootings. At least thirty eight were wounded by gunmen who fired on crowds, cars, kids in sidewalks.

Joining us to talk about this is M P S health correspondant r chaotic re too. Good morning. Thank you for joining us.

Good morning. My hell.

So rid of these shootings just seem to keep on happening. Would you just give us a sense of the scale of this problem?

This year? Already, we've had nearly three hundred and fifty mass shootings. And if you want to get a sense of the scale for all kinds of gun violence, we've already lost more than twenty one thousand people just since generally one of this year, and more than half of those deaths were, in fact, suicide.

And you know, obviously, we're not counting those were injured who have to live with those injuries for the rest of their lives. And to give you a sense of just how many people in amErica gun violence touches, a recent poll by the car founding foundation found that nearly one in five americans say they would ve lost a family member to gun violence, and a similar number say they've witnessed someone getting shot. And those numbers are even higher in communities of color.

So just to pick up on something that you just said, when we talk about the total of gun violence, we're not just talking about the people who have died, and we're not just talking about the people who are injured sometimes grivet sly. We're also talking about people who have to live with this, who witnessed this, or who are caring for family members who have been injured, sometimes with lifelong injury. So, so, so what do we know about the mental health toll of all this?

There's a tremendous mental health toll of gun violence. Now let's start with my shootings. For example, I spoke with psychologist Robin garwood at duke university.

and here is what he told me. Anytime a community is impacted by large scale mass violence, the community is changed forever. The names of those communities are now linked with mass violent events, whether IT is saying the hook, whether IT is oklahoma city colombine, there are so many.

Gw says that the people who are closed to the act of violence those witnessed, maybe they have injuries, people who have lost loved ones, they are at highest risk of long term mental health issues. And in the immediate aftermarket of these incidents, people can into having symptoms like feeling hypervigilant ah, having trouble sleeping, maybe they don't feel less comfortable going on about their daily lives because their overall sense of safety is just shattered red.

Do we know whether people continue to experience these the symptoms of trauma over time?

So the good news, Michelle, is that most people will recover in time, but a significant minority, about twenty five percent will continue to struggle in the long run.

Um there a higher risk of ptsd, of developing other issues like substance abuse and suicidal thoughts and children can be vulnerable to the sentence too, especially if their parents and keg vers are struggling, which is what happens when people don't get the mental health care support, the social support, not just in the needed aftermath but in the long run. Because what we see is that once there's a more shooting or active violence, communities will get support right away, but those supports tend to wind over time. But experts I spoke to said it's really important to keep those supports and services going so that communities have a chance at healing in the long run.

That is in paris. Re two charity. We too. Thank you.

Thank you. so.

The leaders of the nato countries head to their annual meeting is being held in with uae an next week, with the focus once again on russia's war on ukraine.

Swe wants to join the alliance whose nations promise to defend each other against outside attacks of the nato allies. Turkey has blocked that application for more than a year.

President biden meets with sweden's prime minister earth Crystal son to talk about that today, an White house reporter tip show around will will be watching type of good morning.

Hey, good morning.

So let's start with why sweden wants to join nato and why it's taking so long to get that application ratified.

Ah yeah, this all started a little over a year ago. Sweden has long been a neutral country, but that changed after russia invaded ukraine. And that's when both sweden and finland applied for membership to nato.

The war essentially made public opinion in sweden change to support joining this military. Liance in all countries that belonged tomato have to ratify any new members. Finland was approved earlier this year.

But for sweeten, turkey is a big hold up. They claim that sweden is harboring kurdish separatists, whom turkey is designated as terrorists. Turkish president retta tap artavan want sweden to extra ite more than one hundred people over this.

And on top of all of that, there was an incident last week in stock home, an iraqi man living in sweden burned the koran, which is the muslim holy book outside of a mosque. The man reportedly had a permit for the demonstration because swedish courts have said that denying that would be infringing ing freedom of speech. But there have been massive protests and backlash since this happened, and the swedish foreign ministry has condemned the burning. But of course, when any muslim countries are seeing this as religious hatred, and that includes turkey, Edwin has also condemned this. And it's all been complicated and already long standing conflict.

So for president and and know for of other western leaders, there has been a priority to try to keep me to strong and unified in the face of russian aggressive. So what has the White house been doing to try to accelerate a sweeten's ratification?

The administration has been in talks with turkey trying to sway them for months that included national security advisor jack Sullivan travelling to istanbul, secretary of state anthy blink and meeting with his turkish counterpart. And other nato countries have been putting pressure on turkey as well. And there's also been talks over these f sixteen fighter jets.

Turkey has been trying to get them from the us. For years. May president bitten talk to Edwin and later, after that conversation, bite publicly connected the two issues, providing the sixteenth and sweden's approval in tanna ado.

John heard, a former U. S. Ambassador to ukraine, told reporters last week that he thinks the jets should be in play.

Now I think the administration could do more to be able to offer older one. Yes, sixteenth is part of a deal, and that might well be the same.

But in order to move forward, congress would need to approve and democratic senator bob andas, who leads the foreign relations committee, has said he is concerned about turkey's human rights record. So the path forward on this whole thing is a little bit unclear.

So that brings us to this meeting today. What are biden and Crystals and expected to talk about?

The focus today is definitely gona be on nato and trying to exploit this ongoing process of getting sweet and ratified. The White house says we'll be talking about russia, relations with china and climate change as well. And then on sunday, the president's travels kick off. He's first headed to london, where he's meeting with king Charles, then that nato summer, and then after that summer, biden will end his trip in finland, the newest nato member, to meet with nor tic leaders.

That is deeper shift. deepa.

Thank you. Thank you.

A federal judge has blocked some government agencies and by administration officials from communicating with ted companies.

Government officials say they work with social media companies to stop criminal activity like child abuse and and terrorism in years. The agencies also asked for Better policing of misinformation on COVID vaccines and election in interference, republican attorney general in lausanne and missouri suit over that, arguing the government was suppressing conservative viewpoints.

The risky is a tech policy reporter with the washington post. She's with us now to till us more about the market morning. Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me on the show.

This just seems like an extraordinary development. I just can't think of another instance where government officials were told they could not talk to key players in an industry. So just tell us what's the basis for IT.

For years, republicans have argued that social media companies policies to address this information related to elections and public health have resulted in unfair censorship of their views. The republican ages brought those arguments to court sup ini thousands of emails between biden officials and tech companies that they say showed illegal collusion between the administration and the tech industry. But the biden administration disputes these claims. A neighbor argued that those communications actually reflect the government, using its bully pulled to promote accurate information in the face of foreign interference in elections and a deadly pandemic.

What do we know about what this ruling means for how the government Operates now?

So this order puts limits on executive agencies across the government. This affects the department of stice, the state department, the department of health and human services, the cdc. IT also affects more than a dozen individual officials with a lot of power over various institutions related to elections and public health, including the department of homeland security secretary janez ley, who leads the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency.

And in addition to limiting the government's communications with tech companies, the judge also prohibited um agencies and officials from collaborating with key academic groups that focus on social media. These are groups like the election integrity partnership, academics who work out of stanford and university washington on issues like voter suppression and public health disinformation. And I just want to point out that the judge did make some exceptions for communications in this order, including to allow government officials to warn the tech companies of potential nationals, current threats, criminal activity or voter suppression.

Why are the planet of going after government officials and government agencies and these academic researchers? Why not to sue the social media companies directly?

Well, they've tried that before and IT didn't work. The tech companies effectively argued that they have a first moment right to decide what appears on their sites. So we've really seen a new twist and republicans complaints now focusing instead on the federal government's role in that process.

There would seem to be profound implications for the first of m, and free speech will have to talk more about that in the future that as the critics use a tech policy reporter with the washington post cat, thank you so much.

Thank you.

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