these witnesses begin talking. goodness. an 11-year-old girl. as a small circle of senate negotiators, democrats and republicans continue to work on the possibility of gun legislation. cnn has learned that a larger group in the senate are expected to meet in the next hour to discuss an emerging proposed package, following an emotional plea by actor and uvalde texas native matthew mcconaughey from the white house podium yesterday. can both sides rise above? can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life preservation problem on our hands? we ve got a chance right now to reach for and to grasp a higher ground above our political affiliations. the chance to make a choice that does more than protect your party, a chance to make a choice that protects our country, now and for the next generation. my next guest was elected to the senate as a pro-gun democrat in 2007. he voted to allow guns on amtrak trains in 2009 and everything changed
will there be bombshells? as the panel begins going public tomorrow night with the results of its insurrection investigation. and a death threat against a u.s. supreme court justice. brett kavanaugh, an armed man is arrested near kavanaugh s home and charged with attempted murder, amid growing fears for the safety of the nation s highest court. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and we begin with desperate new calls for action on guns by victims families and survivors of the most recent shooting massacres here in the united states. they gave voice to the unfathomable loss, the suffering, and the frustration felt by too many americans right now. our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju, reports. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. you think it s going to happen again? 11-year-old mia cerrillo recounting in harrowing test
mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou
i thought he was going to come back to the room. so i grabbed the blood and put it all over me. do you feel safe at school? why not? because i don t want it to happen again. you think it s going to happen again? miah s dad, who spoke briefly, said the 11-year-old is still healing from the bullet fragments lodged in her back. he said she is not the same little girl who only a few weeks ago was laughing and playing. and they heard from the only pediatrician, he detailed the moment he rushed to the e.r. that morning. i want to warn you his testimony is really hard to listen to. two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets pulled at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. all that remained were the bodies of 17 more children and the two teachers who cared for them. incredibly he survived. my son has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back and another on his left leg, caused by an exploding bullet from an a.r.-15. as i cleaned
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