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First lady Michelle Obama makes a campaign appearance for her husband, President Barack Obama, at Orr Middle School Friday, Oct. 26, 2012.
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 | 2:57 p.m.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is expressing her condolences over the mass shooting that left 59 people dead at a concert in Las Vegas.
She reflected Tuesday on how difficult it was for her and her husband to try to comfort the nation when such attacks occurred.
Obama said her heart goes out to the victims and their families because too much of the job of being commander in chief is overseeing that kind of loss and not having a solution to offer the families.
Obama was interviewed by television producer Shonda Rhimes at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in Philadelphia.
Some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history occurred during former President Barack Obama's eight-year term, including the 2016 attack at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub that left 49 people dead and the 2012 massacre at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 20 children and six adults.
