imperial ambitions. darya dugina died as an explosive device went off as she drove. she is the daughter of alexander dugin, an ally of russian president vladimir putin. for the latest let s turn to frederik pleitgen in moscow. fred. reporter: hi there christine. first of all, the reason why i m standing here is because today is also russian flag day and there is a big celebration here, people coming out and are told to show their patriotism here in central moscow. but of course the killing of darya dugina really is something that continues to dominate the headlines here and especially the question of how it could happen and second of all who might be behind it which is really something that lot of people are debating here. what is being becoming clear is that there does seem to be a pretty high degree of sophistication behind all of this. of course we know that her car blew up on a moscow highway late saturday night. and then engulfed in a fireball, she crashed and was dead
cnn s chief white house correspondent caikate lynn coll with us. the daughter of alexander dugina was killed. they believe someone planted explosives and ordered the attack. darya dugina died at the scene, she was a russian tv commentator and outspoken supporter of russia s actions in ukraine. dugina s father alexander owned the vehicle and might have been the intended target. he is an influential writer in russia, he advocates for an aggressive imperialist russia and many believe that his ideas have a lot of sway inside the kremlin. some russian officials are already blaming ukraine for the deadly bombing, but a top adviser to ukraine s president says that his country had nothing to do with it. fred pleitgen has the latest from the moscow. reporter: hi there, kaitlan. the read of russia today, kremlin controlled media, has come out and demanded that kyiv be hit in response to the death of darya dugina. you already just mentioned the fact that there are some in russia who
migrants crossing the border. and why some are calling it the abbott plan. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team, ali vitali is on capitol hill, we ll get to what i think you can only call the gut punch of a hearing that happened this morning on the house side. right now you have this debate on changing gun laws. it seems likely these bills will pass the house. then it seems likely these bills will hit a brick wall in the senate. that s why the focus is on the private negotiations on the senate side. where are those negotiations, especially on this idea of raising the minimum wage for semiautomatic weapons to 21, which mitch mcconnell is privately, though not publically suggesting he s open to. mitch mcconnell is someone we ve been tracking closely throughout this process. he both blessed the negotiations, deputizing senator john cornyn to be the republican representative in the room alongside thom tillis and this group of four senators trying to hash out som
second trump ally indicted on a contempt channel. we begin the reidout with a choice, a choice about the continuation of mass murder and school shootings that are plaguing this country because it is a choice, not an inevitability as some might want you to believe. in fact, one of our political parties has gone to great lengths to make you think just that. well, at this point shouldn t the republican party just keep it real and openly admit at long last that they believe that a substantial number of dead church-goers and dead shoppers and dead doctors and, yes, dead chirp, big kids and little ones, is an acceptable trade-off for them to have as many guns as they want whenever they want with as little inconvenience as possible, and no one has said it better than democratic congress montana dare jones who spoke during yesterday s contentious debate over democrats package of gun safety bills. as the youngest member of this committee, i need to address my republican colleague
just a few hours. his remarks coming after a harrowing 24 hours in america yesterday when one gunman shot and killed four people inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, before turning the gun on himself. the shooter whom officials say purchased his ar-15-style rifle just hours before he barged into the facility looking for a doctor he blamed for ongoing pain after back surgery. the tragic attack in tulsa was not the only one to take place. a prison inmate in dayton, ohio grabbed a security guard and fatally shot him. outside in los angeles, a student was shot outside a high school. that incident now among the two dozen acts of gun violence near schools that have taken place since the start of 2022. according to one count there have been 20 mass shootings just since the rampage in uvalde, texas, last week, which of course, became the country s deadliest mass shooting this year, just ten days after a white supremacist murdered ten people and wounded three others in a supermarket