::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

CAN OBAMA AND TRUMP PUT THEIR DIFFERENCES ASIDE TO UNIFY AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE AND HEAL THE NATION? Dep. Press Sec. Hogan Gidley gaggles with press at the White  House in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, TX  and Dayton, OH. (CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE GAGGLE.) Reporters grilled Gidley on whether Pres. Donald Trump's racist rhetoric led to the deadly massacres. Leaders in El Paso did not want Trump to visit and Gidley explained why it was important for the POTUS to go anyway. For the record, a question from the Slice was interrupted before being fully stated.  In light of the racial divide in America and considering   Pres. Trump and former Pres. Obama have similar influence on polar opposite ends of the racial spectrum, the intended question was: "Would Pres. Trump  be willing to work with former  Barack Obama to heal the nation?"   This  question was based on Obama releasing his own statement to quell the nation after the El Paso ...

By Mona Austin (Washington, DC): The nation is in tears after back-to-back mass shootings, reinvigorating the gun debate among Democrats and Republicans and leaving the nation shell shocked. Pres. Trump denounced white supremacy in a presser about mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH while evoking the death penalty.  Reading prepared remarks in the Diplomat Room of the White House, he lamented the death and harm done to 80 people over 2 days and sent condolences to Mexico for the lives of their citizens that were lost. Both acts of domestic terrorism were carried out by men in their twenties, reminiscent of Timothy McVeigh who bombed a government building in Oklahoma,  a grim reminder that hate sprouts in young hearts.  McVeigh was executed by lethal injection. He used the poem 'Invictus,' which means undefeated, as his last words in which the final line reads, “I am the captain of my soul.” While this may reflect that he took ownership of the e...