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the push to better police congressional staff training. two thirds of us want this done. the big surprise? lawmakers are dragging their feet. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. >> good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we got a lot of ground to cover tonight, so lets get smarter. after days of hearing pleas to do something, president biden went on television this evening to ask congress to save the children from americas killing fields. surrounded by 56 can...

the kids who lived and died there, the distraught parents and community trying to rally around them. a lot we havent learned yet, maybe we never will about motive behind this senseless killing and the police response and time line of what happened in small town on awards day at the end of the school year. all those families that will never be the same again. >> she was the sweetest little girl who did nothing wrong. she listened to her mom and dad. she always brushed her teeth. she was...

new york, pending federal charges for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, which culminated in that building, and he returns emboldened, to a party devoid of critics. what does that mean for this moment? what does that for democracy? >> well, he can back to the scene of his crime, he made no apology to 150 capitol officers , npd, montgomery county police officers, who were injured and wounded by the mob he unleashed against us on that day. there were republicans, who had at least ...

Indefensible. doing nothing is morally reprehensible. if we just do something, universal background checks, banning bump stops, bumping the age to 21, banning assault rifles. maybe some more people would be alive next year. and then would otherwise be. its just astonishing to me that we cant get this right. its a national embarrassment. it happens every day, we have at least one mass shooting a day. that just means four or more injured or killed. what about the times like tonight in iowa where i...

0 the january six public hearings begin in primetime. one week from tonight. can the committee is growing evidence convince americans that a coup was attempted? and the clock is running out on the push to better police congressional staff training. two thirds of us want this done. the big surprise? lawmakers are dragging their feet. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. >> good evening, once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we got a lot of ground to cover tonight, so lets get smarte...

Under 21. ban on large capacity magazines and ban on bump stops. one year after that, according to johns hopkins university, a 27% decrease in vermont gun deaths. one year. >> in 2021, there was audio tape of top brass at nra discussing whether or not to talk about this, to cancel a convention in the wake of the columbine shooting. listen to this. >> i got to tell you, we got to think this thing through because if we duck tail and run, well be accepti ing responsibility f kw what happened out th...

This crisis in our country. really speaking to victims, family members and first responders but not really mentioning gun control, gun safety laws. the one gun measure this president has taken was to se verse an obama era law that made it more difficult for people suffering with mental illness to access these types of weapons. he reserved that order. the question becomes what is he prepared to do. we know after the las vegas shooting that occurred in october of 2017, president trump expressed an...

Accused of abusing his ex-wife and her child in 2012. >> he was sent there for pretrial confinement. law enforcement was advised he was a danger to himself and others after he was caught sneaking firearms on to air force base. suspects phone has been sent to an fbi lab but so far were told investigators have not been able to break into it. >> john cornyn of texas says hes working on federal and state levels to make sure information is reported to the national criminal background check system in ...

A dozen or more were injured. then of course in las vegas, that horrific shooting where 59 people were killed, more than 500 were injured. of course, you cannot have a situation like this where the question isnt raised so what do we do about this ongoing situation in the united states where people are killing each other in massive numbers? after las vegas, the president said well be talking about gun laws as time goes on. and of course the conversation then was about bump stops. those are pretty...

So-called bump stops, the device that turns a rifle into an automatic rifle. you dont have to hold the trigger down for rapid fire. bipartisan legislation introduced. republican leaders saying we have to do something. the house speaker was asked about this last week. he sounded somewhat open to legislation. listen to the tone here. clearly he wants the trump administration to do this with executive actions, no bill on the floor. >> we are still trying to assess why the atf let this go through in...