i want to know what has taken so long. i want to know if they re going to be able to satisfy the american public s appetite for new information in light of books that have been put out, the impeachment hearing as well. there s a lot of things to talk about, and i am really eager to understand how they re going to have the legislative and oversight function, and really are people going to watch? that s the biggest question. are they going to watch with an eye towards validating this committee? yeah. i think people will watch. i don t think it s going to be, you know, watergate, right, because we don t have that sort of media system anymore. it s not that way. but i think people will watch, and i think some minds will be changed and others, it won t matter to them because they ve already made up their minds. but at least the information is out there, and we re going to get to hear from those who are involved. we ll see you tomorrow night, laura coates. looking forward to it
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, june 7th. we have important new reporting this morning on the status of the gun safety talks in washington. negotiators met late into the night, and it seems there are areas of possible agreement. narrow agreement, but agreement. word of a measure that might change how people younger than 21 buy semiautomatic weapons. both the killers in buffalo and uvalde were 18, they used semiautomatic ar-15-style weapons. this would not be a ban on sales to those under 21, which the president and others have called for, but something of an adjustment and we will have details on that in just a moment. since friday, gun violence has killed more than a dozen people and injured dozens more in 13 mass shootings in the united states. awful scenes at graduation pop particulars, night club, tainment district and strip mall. let s go to lauren fox on capitol hill to get the latest on what is being disc
second trump ally indicted on a contempt channel. we begin the reidout with a choice, a choice about the continuation of mass murder and school shootings that are plaguing this country because it is a choice, not an inevitability as some might want you to believe. in fact, one of our political parties has gone to great lengths to make you think just that. well, at this point shouldn t the republican party just keep it real and openly admit at long last that they believe that a substantial number of dead church-goers and dead shoppers and dead doctors and, yes, dead chirp, big kids and little ones, is an acceptable trade-off for them to have as many guns as they want whenever they want with as little inconvenience as possible, and no one has said it better than democratic congress montana dare jones who spoke during yesterday s contentious debate over democrats package of gun safety bills. as the youngest member of this committee, i need to address my republican colleague
i had to protect my children. pete: a local hospital says it has discharged or transferred all those injured in the shooting. continuing search for a motive. and governor greg act praising law enforcement s, quote, amazing courage without which he says the death toll would have been higher. abbott also revealing the gunman wrote a series of messages online before his killing spree. one saying, quote: i m going to shoot my grandmother. another saying, quote: i have shot my grandmother and i m going to shoot up an elementary school. ainsley: we are also learning the heroic cbp special agent killed the gunman barely made it out with his life. the picture of the hat he was wearing shows it was grazed by a bullet. authorities say he was able to walk away safely. let s bring in lawrence jones, is he live on the ground in uvalde, texas. lawrence? good morning, family. i attended that vigil last night. i have got to tell you whenever you see grown men cry because their loved on
classroom. parents sharing stories about the wonderful young children they loved and lost. and the heartbreak that will last forever. our correspondents are covering every angle of this story, including cnn teams on the scene in texas. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, investigators are starting to put together the pieces of america s newest shooting massacre. the epidemic of gun violence invading yet another school and claiming 21 more innocent lives, most of them young kids. cnn national correspondent jason carroll begins our coverage at the scene of the attack in texas. jason, state officials revealed new details of how this horrible rampage played out. and wolf, just a day after the shooting, the gravity of what s happened here has begun to sink in even more with this community. the governor here is saying that as far as they can tell so far, the suspect, the shoo