Around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. 12 days after the Florida School massacre, the white house is refusing to reveal exactly what President Trump will do to help combat gun violence. The president promising to turn grief into action and suggesting he personally would have acted to pro protect innocent students if hed been at the scene. This hour ill talk with jeff merkley about the president s rhetoric and gun policy and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, the president says he thinks he would have acted differently than some officers whose performance he calls disgusting. Thats right, wolf. President trump made this strange claim that he would have tried to rescue the students at the Parkland School shooting. The white house tried to clean up those comments but there was not much clarity on what kind of gun control measures the president would support, besides banning bump stocks w
Viewers last night and today about a story we did on the back half of last nights show where our guest was a nuclear expert. The story was about a mysterious explosion that happened thursday, last week, in russia. I know from the feedback that we got from you guys that the news as of last night about that explosion, as we were able to present it here on the show, wasnt just dramatic news about a big explosion, it was very concerning news. I could read that in your feedback. Well, the story has become considerably more dramatic and more concerning today, so i want to start tonight with a little bit of an update on that. Now, as i mentioned, the explosion in question happened last week, thursday, in the far northwest of russia on the white sea at a military site. And after whatever it was that happened there, russian authorities put out an initial statement admitting there had been a fatal accident but provided very few details on what had happened. They said two people had been killed i
Shes going to be joining us here live in just a moment. We got lots of feedback from viewers last night and today about a story we did in the back half of last nights show where our guest was a Nuclear Expert named Joe Cirincione. The story was about a mysterious explosion that happened thursday, last week, in russia. I know from the feedback that we got from you guys that the news as of last night about that explosion, as we were able to present it here on the show, wasnt just dramatic news about a big explosion, it was very concerning news. I could read that in your feedback. Well, the story has become considerably more dramatic and more concerning today, so i want to start tonight with a little bit of an update on that. Now, as i mentioned, the explosion in question happened last week, thursday, in the far northwest of russia on the white sea at a military site. And after whatever it was that happened there, russian authorities put out an initial statement admitting there had been a
Including a Big Development we need to tell you about in a story that we have been covering. The Trump Administration targeting sick kids, targeting kids with lifethreatening illnesses, putting them on notice they need to stop the medical care keeping them alive and get out of the country in a month, all of a sudden. We have been covering that for more than a week now. There was a very Interesting Development on that story today. We will have that for you a little later on in the show this hour. We have got a Key California congressman joining us live to talk about one of the big problems with the Trump Administrations plans to raid funds for the u. S. Military to take those funds away from the military and instead use them to build the wall, the wall that the president said mexico would pay for. Theres an emerging serious problem with that plan by the Trump Administration. We will talk about that tonight. Lots still to come. Of course, the developing story that we have been watching c
The American Physical Society recognized a number of MIT affiliates with honors and prizes for their contributions to physics. Honorees include Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Yuan Cao, Alina Kononov, Elliott H. Lieb, and Haocun Yu.