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as the midterms approach. im ayman mohyeldin. lets get started. s get started. all right, some republicans arent playing by the same senate rules that democrats are. we establish that already, you know when it comes to judicial nominations, not when it comes to gun control legislation, and definitely not when it comes to our elections. this week the new york times reported that at least 357 sitting republican legislators and closely contested battleground states have used the power of ...

where they met with the families of the 19 children and two teachers in the school shooting which came ten days after buffalo. as biden left a church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting "do something." he responding by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a similar note in the commencement speech at the university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. >> lets be clear. evil came to that elementary school in texas...

>> this memorial day we know the memory is still painful of all the fallen who lost their lives during the last few decades in combat. each of them leave behind a family, a community. lives will never be the same. >> the same could be said of the decades of combat that american children have faced in their classrooms where hundreds of them have been shot and killed by mass murders. yesterday the president and first lady brought flowers to the memorial site outside of robb elementary sc...

do something. >> president biden responding to the shouts of "do something" with quote, we will, we will. of course, we are covering all the angles, lucy cavanaugh is focusing on a country seeking answers. lets begin with you, lucy, at that memorial, uvaldes town square so many families are suffering with trauma and heart break. how did the community respond to the president and governor? >> reporter: well, the focus, people la, is really on the victims, the 19 little boys and girls wh...

is sadly not the first, they responded to. and speaking of calls for action, thats because someone who solving gun crime once could start by convincing a new generation that theyre safer without guns. welcome to a new hour of american voices. this sunday the city of uvalde remains in shock struggling to find a way forward after 19 students, and two teachers were killed inside robb elementary behind me on tuesday. the president, just warning remain -- first responders. hes now heading b...

theres active shooter. >> how an 18-year-old can get this militarized weaponry anywhere is beyond me. please stay engaged. >> dont forget them, please. i beg you. >> show them to the world. when he died, i died with him. >> we cannot outlaw tragedy but can he can make america safer. we can finally do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and of our children. im pamela brown in washington. you are in "the cnn newsroom." it is member aerial day wee memorial day weeken...

>> charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. >> congress has no right to interfere in the media. >> excuse me! >> we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. >> when i think of tv, i think of the...

i talk with the leaders of four of russias neighbors to the west. starting with ukraines president zelenskyy. i ask under what conditions he would be willing to negotiate with vladimir putin. then president duda of poland explains just how much suffering russia has caused his nation in the past. and top ministers from finland and sweden tell me about their nations historic decisions to apply for nato membership. then, a rare interview with irans foreign minister at a critical time in t...

hi, thank you for joining me. im jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. im joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what youre seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. hes playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center...

the bidens attended mass at sacred heart catholic church where an influx of funerals is imnenlt. they are meeting privately with the victims families this afternoon. so many of them want an answer to an excruciating question, would their loved ones be here today if police had acted sooner? the justice department is stepping in saying it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response as a top texas official admits the decision not to breech the classroom even as the children were...