democratic politician who has had enough and the governor of texas defending his state s gun laws. in washington halle jackson with garrett haake and tom llamas in texas. garrett, we re specifically talking about this warning from the shooter, that he was going to not only shoot his grandmother but he was going to attack an elementary school. a spokesperson clarified these northern the facebook posts, no the public posts. these were private messages that apparently or presumably were only found after the fact. what else are we learning? reporter: yes, that s right. we heard about those private messages from the governor in this press conference just now. he also described in a little more detail how this shooting took place, how it began on the street behind me, where the gunman shot his own grandmother after what appears to be some kind of argument and drove to the school, his truck off in a ditch getting into a classroom and essentially barricading himself inside. he was
mirror on another topic and ask ourselves what kind of country do we want to be? a long list of communities have been ravaged by a senseless mass shooting. residents of uvalde, texas, face the task of burring 21 members of their community. that includes 19 third and fourth graders. those 21 victims were killed by an 18-year-old gunman armed with an ar-15 style rifle, the same type of rifle used in the shootings in parkland and sandy hook. the shooting taking place just two days before those students summer break was going to begin. texas department of public safety spokesperson lieutenant chris olivara described how police officers had faced someone who as he puts it, had no regard for human life. the shooter was involved in a domestic disturbance with his grandmother prior to the shooting at the school. he did shoot his grandmother at that point. he then fled in a vehicle, and was in close proximity near the school when we got calls. local law enforcement at the uvalde po
volkswagen. right now on ana cabrera reports, we are on top of breaking news in new york, donald trump back in court for a multimillion dollar fraud trial. for the first time in more than a month ahead of his return to the stand on monday. we re live at the courthouse. plus, the fourth and potentially final republican debate, we ll have the big moments and the clashes on that debate stage. this is the fourth debate, the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blow hard in america. also ahead, breaking news in nevada, a gunman killing three people at unlv, what we know about the attack and the search for a motive. and breaking in texas this hour, a court hearing for a woman seeking permission to have an abortion. what makes this case the first of its kind since roe was decided in 1973. hello, and thank you so much for joining us on this busy thursday. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york and donald tr
and gun policies in earnest. almost a decade now, since sandy hook which is why we have you to talk about this today. is he being naive? i think optimism is the right word here. but it does seem like joe biden is still assuming that the senate that he left is still the senate that is there, in which case you you have republicans that were more willing to look across the aisle with democrats. but particularly on the issue of guns and even dgun safety for that matter. because we ve seen background check bills go down in flames for a number of reasons. it s tough. it s tough in the u.s. senate. and it really going to be really hard to move anything. in that way, perhaps. what is the role of mitch mcconnell and john cornyn in this? mitch mcconnell has tapped john cornyn to be a negotiator. to potentially get through the senate, perhaps have bipartisan support. but we re talking about
emergency meeting that we talked about a little bit ago on the show from the house judiciary committee about the gun safety measures. when do you expect a vote in the full house? do you think that will happen in a relatively short time frame here? i do. the judiciary committee will be meeting on thursday of this week to mark up legislation that deals with gun violence prevention and that bill will be on the floor on the following the week of june the 6th. we ll also have a separate vote on a red flag, extreme order, projected order on that same week, so you ll see some action in the house. those bills will be passed over to the senate and, remember, the house has also passed two very important background check bills, one is my bill that would expand backgrown cheques for anybody who buys a gun and the