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as the nation observes and extended independence day weekend, i find myself reflecting on how our country has been radically transformed by decisions handed down last week by the ultraconservative supreme court super majority. in their new america, higher education is further out of reach for people of color and those struggling financially to keep pace with skyrocketing tuitions and the skills of justice are tipped in favor of business owners who wish to discriminate on the basis of s...

im sorry to tell you. the average cost of gas now topping $5 a gallon this morning. this is not just everyday drivers, obviously, being impacted. how emergency crews now are trying to save as well. plus, a new saudi-backed golf league luring some big names and reportedly handing out even bigger payments. the controversy surrounding the new league. ♪ it is saturday, june 11th. good morning, christi. >> good morning, boris. lets talk about this national call for gun reform this mor...

oklahoma. police say four people were killed and as many as ten others injured. the gunman is also dead, officials believe of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. this a week after the horrific elementary school shooting in uvalde, texas. were covering these stories from all angles. cnns omar himjimenez on the ground. gary tuchman is in tulsa, okl oklahoma, this evening. gary, were going to start with you with the latest shooting. were learning this one is at a hospital campus in tulsa. wha...

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Americas colleges and universities going forward? >> it will certainly have an effect on numbers and the diversity goals of those institutions. i think ucla law school where i attended is an example of what can happen when you have such a devastating policies that rolled back programs, initiatives that worked. i often remarked before i went to ucla, there were a ton of black graduates from the law school, post or after prop 209 in the class that was before me, there were six bucks students, one ...

Now house democrats are working very hard. they actually passed an array of bills to address gun violence, including a bill that would raise the legal buying age from 18 to 21 for some semiautomatic center fire rifles. they also have something that would let local governments run buy back programs. these are really extensive measures that probably wont be included in whatever the bipartisan group comes up with. theyve been working on trying to do something thats more narrow, something thats more...

Anybody whos purchasing a firearm should have to go through a background check. every responsible gun owner that i know has been through a background check. and so this is one of those things everybody talks about hr-8, this is a piece of legislation thats been brought up multiple years. when i was in congress i was one of eight republicans that voted for that. this is something simple. now, would hr-8 have stopped the uvalde shooting? no. but thats still something we should do. and again to go ...

People have taken advantage of them and gotten guns out of the hands of the wrong people. guns that didnt need to be in the hands of the civilian population. should there be buy back programs for people who want to take advantage? >> look, if someone wants to take advantage of it, why not, right? youre not forcing anybody -- youre not forcing anybody to do that. and so i dont know what the -- what the opposition to something like that. again, i go back to responsible gun owners. they know youre ...

>> well, i mean, the republicans dont care about getting things done, right? they want to stop government, they want to cut back programs. theres nothing they want to move forward in charge, except tax cuts. other than that, what else did trump care about in the republicans getting done through legislation? very, very little. the democrats want the legislate. and it a very difficult process, particularly with a 50-50 senate. yeah, they are -- they know if they have any chance in 2022, they have ...

Who would think that people would be shooting guns around a stadium? so d.c. is just what because dodge city again. remind us of the 90s when the crack co-era bodies left and right. numbers 3 and 400 people dying a year the numbers seem to be going up again. we had 120 homicides right now and thats 5% increase of homicides over last year. another thing i want to mention in the month of july, we lost 8 people to covid-19 but we lost 21 people to homicides including a 6-year-old girl that was shot...