18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994 i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years mass shootings were down. ten years in a row. i was going to say i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004 republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] it s time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. [ applause ] look, i m prouder that after seven years we finally had a senate confirm director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms responsible for fighting gun crimes, for seven years the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement identify the ballistics. a whole range
vulnerable are other u.s. cities? i ll speak with fema administrator deanne criswell next. plus, rematch? president biden gives a stark warning to americans ahead of the midterms. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism. as we learn more about donald trump s handling of classified material, three ex-advisers to the former president will join us. hello, i m dana bash and the state of our union is hitting the campaign trail. happy labor day weekend. the unofficial end to summer and kickoff to campaign season. president biden is heading to key midterm states tomorrow, two of them, he s visiting wisconsin and pennsylvania, after he warned americans that his predecessor, former president trump posed a threat to the future of american democracy. today we re going to test how that speech and other top issues like the economy, education and abortion are resonating in the midterm campaigns. we re going to get the view from both candidates in a race that co
return to the campaign trail. cnn s joe johns joins us from the white house. joe, what does biden have on his agenda for this week? battleground states. he s about to go to wisconsin, pennsylvania, also ohio to a groundbreaking for a semiconductor plant there. a huge $20 billion semiconductor plant. so this time of year the labor day weekend is traditionally the time when campaigns start bearing down. the voters start focusing on the candidates. joe biden s name, of course, nowhere on the ballot. but the fact that he s going to these three battleground states tells you a little bit about what the biden people are thinking. it wasn t very long ago that there were real concerns about the challenges faced here at the white house by the biden administration challenges including inflation, the president s approval numbers, the price of gasoline. now some of those challenges have started to ease up and democrats are thinking things might not be as bad as they first thought they c
russian military forced the others to shut down and it lost its main connection to the nation s power grid and atomic safety experts are extremely worried. cnn s melissa bell has the latest from ukraine. reporter: there s been good news from the ukrainian counteroffensive tonight according to officials here in kyiv with an aide to president zelenskyy of what he says is the ukrainian flag. this town has been the center of battles for some time and we are getting some confirmation of the fact it may be now in ukrainian hands and also on the russian side, with some talk of the retreat of russian forces around the town. it is of course a counteroffensive now going on for just about a week and about which ukrainian authorities have been remaining pretty tight lipped insisting this is about degrading russian military capabilities, trying to take out infrastructure that allows them to resupply their troops around kherson. not really aimed at fast territorial gains. of course this
a trial. i slowly watch my son die every day. heartbreak. nobody wins. and a twist that stunned everyone. it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. we had to stop and think whether we heard it right. hello and welcome to dateline . it s been said there is nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child. and no greater pain than losing a child. both forces collide in a small midwestern town, when a mysterious death sparked a search for justice. it also divided a community and turned strangers into allies. the outcome left both sides reeling. here s dennis murphy with at the edge of town . yards from the chicken place is an unlikely scrap of wilderness in a southern illinois town. a thicket of vines and rumbles. acres of thorns that tear at the flush. for years, people just sped by without a second look. but something terrible happened there one cold night in the winter of 2014. that brought a stranger to town. a mother, looking for answers abo