two alleged chinese agents, accusing them of running a secret police station in new york s chinatown. the feds are describing it as an unprecedented operation aimed at intimidating chinese dissidents and a potential roadblock for democrats plans to temporarily replace senator dianne feinstein on the judiciary committee. some key republicans now signaling they hope to block the move and keep biden s judicial nominations log jammed. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world will flip is on assignment. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. we are following fast moving developments in multiple stories tonight. right now we re awaiting a news conference from the prosecuting attorney in kansas city, missouri, where a black teenager was shot after mistakenly going to the wrong house. elderly white man apparently lived. cnn security correspondent josh campbell is with us, josh walk us through what we know about the shooting, which took
congress. would this really help or a ploy for political mileage? and president biden will have to counter this dismal sal by barack obama in 2008. we re arguing over a gimmick to seau half a tank of gasp. if so everyone in washington can pat themselves on the back. let me tell you something. this isn t an idea designed to get you through the summer. it s an idea designed to get them through an election. phil mattingly joins us at the white house. this is another effort by president biden to deal with gas prices. he s released oil from the strategic reserve. he will travel to saudi arabia in efforts to increase production. he s called on refineries to ramp it up. but even some democrats don t support a gas tax holiday. help us understand the white house thinking here. reporter: it s just a myriad of reasons why they have been reluctant to give their support. it s been on the table. it s been something that s been under consideration by president biden and his team ask t
expected to press washington to take action after the rash of deadly mass shootings. we ll bring you his speech when it happens this hour live, let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin bur e, burnett, biden about to discuss gun violence in the united states, looking at pictures from the white house in a moment where biden will be speaking in about 30 minutes. his prime time speech follows what, of course, in the past few weeks has been mass shooting after mass shooting that have taken the lives of children, teachers, doctors, mothers, fathers, grandparents, friends, in so many different settings. hospital, grocery stores, schools, just some of the faces of those who have lost their lives, in buffalo, uvalde, and now tulsa. police say two doctors, receptionist and a patient were killed in a rampage at a medical building. the gunman, according to police, purchased the ar-15 style rifle three hours before he went and murdered all those people, went to the hospital with th
friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
hold on to to believe in this living is just a hard way to go our thoughts are with all those who are missing a loved one tonight. the news continues. let s hand it over to chris for kcuomo primetime. what a year, what a year, my brother. so nothing is the same and nothing will be the same and we still don t know where we re going to wind up but the president was certainly pointing us in the right direction tonight. great coverage. i m chris cuomo, excuse my voice. it s allergies and emotion. tonight marks one year since start of the pandemic, the deadliest year in the century. literally it started one year ago with the presidential address on our watch and now a year later, literally to the hour, a very different president with a very different message. the biggest anti-poverty measure in a generation. the law aims to lift 11 million americans out of poverty and cut child poverty in half, but president biden spent most of his first address to the nation not takin