captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is just after 9:00 p.m. eastern time, 8:00 here in uvalde, texas, outside robb elementary school. the community held a prayer vigil tonight. i want to play you video that occurred a moment ago as people there listened to amazing grace. [ crying ] a community in mourning. we ve spoken with parents of some of the young children killed here. most of them ten years old. and told some of their stories. there s so much we still don t know. we don t know the names of all the 19 children who were murdered here. we ll try to bring them to you as we learn them. there is still so much we don t know about what happened behind me inside this school and outside, as the shooter first got on the scene. we don t know, we re not going to speculate. so, we begin the hour with what we do know and cnn s ed lavandera. ed, so, there is, as i said, a lot we don t know. talk a little bit about where the investigation is. one of the key things we l
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21? you know, i hope so. i think there s a lot of opeople that don t understand the gun laws from the perspective of this. in america, you have to be 21 to buy a hand gun and 18 in most states. there s basically no federal minimum of 21 for long rifles. so, you can when the law was made, you can understand, long rifles weren t ar-15s at the time because they kept the age at 18. you have to be 21 we just federally raised the age to 21 to buy cigarettes, by the way. when you tack a look at this shooting, the shooting before it, there s an epidemic of young men between the ages of 18 and 21 that are doing these kinds of things. i think one of the easiest things we can do to begin to do something is to say you ve got to be 21 to buy a rifle in this country. you ve got to be 21 to buy cigarettes. we need universal background checks. we need red flag laws with teeth. these are things that we can do to have that discussion move forward.
fact that this incursion will not go beyond the ukraine into nato territory, not by a single inch as president biden underscored, is absolutely crucial. the difference between the name calling and the actual sort of invocation that there is a possibility of leadership change are two very different things. they were unfortunate statements. they ve been downplayed by the state department. and by the white house. but, unfortunately, they have left a shadow over this particular trip and they are words which president putin of course pays very close attention to and will, unfortunately, be able to instrumentalize. it is crucial, i think, that the conversation and the discussion move back to the substance of the speech to what president biden attempted to achieve and this remarkable coming together of european leaders who have been so distracted the past few years because of brexit, because of president trump, and far right matters, that they can now focus on the business ahead,
the most open and the most committed. and i think that we have reason to believe that if we provide the policies that are consistent to provide for the kind of growth and opportunity for them and education plays a gigantic part of that, i think we i think the future is very, very bright. i think we have an opportunity to do some really very good things. and with that, i should, as my mother would say, i should hush up and let this discussion move forward. president biden at a meeting of the european union there. now, one thing to note is he s a guest here. up until this point we ve seen him with the g7 and nato where the united states very much a member and the leading member. here he s a guest of the european union. talked about the great shift the