The president doesnt resolve the Voting Rights battle first. In the middle of all this comes another big push from the president. Minutes from now he will speak on a new gun Crime Prevention and Public Safety plan. But will politics get in the way of this too . Cnn chief Congressional Correspondent manu raju is live on capitol hill for us. An Infrastructure Meeting is about to kick off with white house officials 30 minutes from now. Where do those talks stand . Reporter the white house meeting is with the Bipartisan Group of senators. Theyre trying to figure out exactly whether they can reach an agreement on how to finance this package. The democrats who were involved in these talks told me today that they believe it is essential today to try to figure out a way to get an agreement on how to pay for a 1. 2 trillion package over eight years. There are still disagreements about how to do that. At the same time there is pressure from the left, particularly from progressives like Elizabeth
square is growing by the day. the mayor says the city is, quote, broken. 19 fourth graders and their teachers had just days left in the school year when an 18-year-old entered robb elementary tuesday with a legally-purchased assault rifle. now families are planning funerals instead of summer vacations. texas rangers still looking for a motive as the community s anger grows to the police response inside that school. arthel: live in uvalde with the scene there for us on the ground. jeff? reporter: yeah, arthel, two weeks ago the president traveled to buffalo, now he s here in uvalde, texas, to try to comfort a community that is just in the beginning stages of mourning the loss of 19 kids and 2 the teachers. the president first landed in san antonio, texas, now he s on his flight to uvalde if not already here, making his way to robb elementary school where he s going to pay his respects to the victims of this horrific shooting. from there he ll attend a mass at the local cat
this. if you look behind me, you can see the 21 crosses with the names of 19 little kids and two teachers killed in their classroom. 2 place they were supposed to be safe. what we re learning about the police response raises some disturbing questions. police vealing nobody was there the try to stop the gunman when he got in through door that was apparently locked and he was inside for about an hour before he was killed. how can that happen? what happened? an hour when desperate parents were all crowded outside. they were pleading with police to go in and let them go in or let them go in themselves. that is so hard to watch. so hard to listen to listen to their screams. the father of one student says he pleaded with officers to give him their gear so he could go inside as the shooting was happening. his son did survive but 19 ore children, two teachers did not survive. also joining us, cn nrknn law enforcement analyst, anthony barksdale. it s good to see you. i wish it was und
Back and you can always check in with me. The last word is next. , Donald Trumps red necktie friends, who alex was just talking about, came to the courthouse this week to praise one of the criminal defendants in the building and to attack District Attorney often bragged , who donald trump falsely accuses of spending all his time and resources on the prosecution of donald trump. The people Versus Harvey wind team, we are moving forward in that manner. We intend to retry it, and the court sets a window for trial. We are already moving forward with that matter, having conversations with survivors, censoring their wellbeing and pursuing justice. We are here, now, because the work of the office goes on in so many ways, as those of you have covered the office know the breadth of our work and that work continues. We have the expertise and resources to take on tough cases while dropping down crime alongside law enforced. That includes dropping shootings down 40 in manhattan, murder is down 17
President ial debate or in history has ever faced. Nothing even close to it and it is one that could create a gigantic challenge for joe biden. He may not be able to say anything about Donald Trumps indictments during these debates and that is a prospect no one has considered yet. Andrew weissmann will consider it for us in the discussion coming up. Lets talk about wednesday, the codeword, maybe. Ask if that is legal. Im going to be watching. We will check. Thanks, alex. Have a good show. Thank you. Donald trumps red necktie friends who alex was talking about came to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse this week to praise one of the criminal defendants in the building and attacked District Attorney evan bragg, who donald trump falsely accuses of spending all of his time and resources on the prosecution of donald trump. People versus harvey weinstein. We are moving forward in that matter. We intend to retry it and those of you in court saw that the court set a window for a trial in the fa