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presidents direct involvement? >> i would love the presidents direct involvement and he has been directly involved. hes passed executive orders. the president is not a king. the president cannot just by fiat claim something to be the case. the system starts with congress to pass laws. the house of representatives has passed, in my time in congress, we have passed most of this major legislation. it goes to the senate to die like most things do but were going to do it again. were going t...

guns since i was 12 years old, and i became a army ranger and i am a gun owner now and never wwas was it an issue. ar-15 until last couple years when the gun lobby wanted to sell more gungs thats when it became part of the dialogue. we need to stop the insanity and get back to reasonable discussions how to save peoples lives. >> the president is leaving it up to you, the white house is staying out of the capital negotiations on guns, is this speech a sign thats going to change the pres...

victims of gun violence from every u.s. state and territory. >> my fellow americans, enough. enough. its time for each of us to do our part. its time to act. for the children weve lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love. lets hear the call and the cry. lets meet the moment. let us finally do something. >> the president laid down a marker to expected opposition from republican lawmakers. >> dont tell me raising the age wont make a difference. enough. my god, the fact that...

to purchase to 21 years old. >> but the simple facts, once again, are this, those measures have no realistic chance of passages in the senate. republicans arent even talking about gun restrictions. they are once again blaming mental illness for the nations gun crisis. we have crunched those numbers before on this broadcast and that claim does not stand up. some states are, though, not waiting for congress to act. new york state lawmakers just passed several bills including one that rai...

thank you. top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. im victor blackwell. >> and im alisyn camerota. happening now, former trump add v -- adviser peter navarro is in court. he refused to cooperate with the investigation, and was arrested by the fbi earlier today. >> cnns senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on this story. so lets start by just reminding everyone of the information that navarro has that the committee wants and how investigators got to this...

and president biden tries to celebrate a strong jobs report while his attention is otherwise consumed with inflation and gas prices and gun massacres and more. the beginning of what could be a long hot summer. plus, delicate diplomacy. biden refuses to confirm a meeting with saudi arabias de facto ruler and he once vowed to make the country a pariah because of its horrific record on human rights. >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our money lead and president bid...

navarros arrest and indictment and what it means for the insurrection investigation. just ahead of a pivotal public hearing next week. and destruction and defiance in ukraine. as the nation marks 100 days of russias brutal war, president zelenskyy vowing victory even as russian forces control a fifth of the country right now and the kremlin pledges to keep fighting until its goals are achieved. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf b...

unemployment staying at 3.6 pers percent. >> bill: there are at the moment 11.4 million jobs open and 6 million unemployed americans which means the math says two jobs for every person thats looking for work today. >> gas is soaring. another record high today. $4.76 a gallon now. thats nearly twice as high as when president biden took office. >> bill: here is the good news. wages rising slightly up 5.2%. not enough to keep up with inflation is the bad news. that disparity creating a na...

having a constitutional monarchy. the pinnacle is an institution and a person in her majesty the queen who everybody looks up to and brings everybody together. >> martha: he had a lot of interesting things to say. more on that later and his take on u.s. leadership and 100 days of war in ukraine. but first, back at home, president biden today hammering a singular message directing americans to blame not him but another president for the soaring food prices and fuel prices in the u.s. >>...

her majesty to travel from windsor castle outside london to the center of london st. pauls cathedral and get inside the cathedral. she would have to, even though there was discussions of could she go in through the side entrance, not do the what all the dignitaries are doing, she could have gone in through a side entrance, even that it was decided it was too much for the 96-year-old monarch. it was great for the country to see her yesterday. the world appreciated seeing her on the balc...