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everyone. i'm laura coats. this is "cnn tonight." you just saw banks bust. there are fears about what could be happening overseas as we speak and how that could affect us all. we'll have more on that later in the show. plus, the president of mexico blaming the united states for the fentanyl crisis, charging lawmakers haven't done a thing about it. what is being done about the fentanyl that's killing thousands and thousands of every single year. there is news out of the full ton dcounty grand jury investigation of president trump. remember this call trying to overturn joe biden's vict...

world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won't say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she's signaling an openness to finding legi...

Needless to say legal crossing and that's how a lot of this is getting cross is a function of it, too. >> americans are bringing it in, too. we can talk about needing to secure our borders and immigration. but it is americans also part of the smuggling problems and americans that are the market for it. again, we need to solve the whole -- look at it more wholistically. just from what we heard, it doesn't sound like that's going to happen. >> he's trying to solve his own domestic challenges that the federal government in mexico doesn't control parts of the territory, the cartel does. that's why...

So was president biden very personally disappointed that the mention con president will not attend? >> let me say first actually the mexican government and the governments of central america will be represented by delegations, the president also looks forward to hosting the president of mexico here in washington in july. i think the delay in the decision after months -- a month of conversations with the mexican government is because the president respects the diversity of views and wanted to talk to not just the president of mexico but others in the region to hear their perspectives. ultimatel...

Trump is doing with the tariffs and combine that with actually applying these tariffs, you get higher prices for consumers, higher prices for american companies and that's a recipe for the slower economy. he had a point where the economy is growing more strongly and rattle the saber on tariffs and he doesn't have that now and even if we get a deal with mexico just the fact that he's willing to invoke tariffs on an unrelated immigration matter after having negotiated a trade deal with the mention con government that suggests to companies they cannot count on the president in any way for consist...