arlington national cemetery. that was just a couple hours after president biden addressed reporters outside the white house about last week s massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers in uvalde, texas. the president told reporters gathered on the south lawn that there is, quote, no rational basis for the ability to purchase high-caliber assault weapons that can fire hundreds of rounds, quote, it makes no sense. the idea that there should be at least limits on assault weapons in the wake of the uvalde and buffalo massacre, which together left 31 people murdered, was ek code by the vice president on saturday. after giving remarks at the memorial service for 86-year-old ruth whitfield, one of the victims of the buffalo supermarket shooting, vice president harris said this to reporters at the airport. you know, we re not looking for a vaccine. we know what works on this. it includes, let s have an assault weapons ban. background checks. why should anyone be able to buy a weapon th
of this attack and response and then how he spread it. a lot of this is coming out of the course of today. depending what you re up to, you may not have heard the gruesome details but he s using this as a time to take a platform within a crisis to lie about gun safety and gun control. we ll get into that. late today, the governor used a damage control press conference to repeatedly push false claims about public safety policy. here are the new details emerging about the failed police response to this shooter and some are absolutely gut wrenching. we are learning the timeline which is now updated because of the misinformation i mentioned. we re learning 19 police officers erroneously waited 45 minutes outside the close room without ever breaking in to confront the killer inside. we re learning that the killer was able to thus continue to repeatedly fire weapons again while the police were outside the door. these are facts that are terrible but they are also significant. they
school. reporter: lexi rubio loved sports, and at 10 years old, she dreamed of traveling the world. she wanted to go to australia. and she wanted to go to law school. at st. mary s. reporter: jackie s father called her a firecracker. posting his range of emotion. first at the freaking cowardly way his daughter was killed, it hurts to our souls. then a note to his daughter. be in peace with the rest of the angels, sweet heart. baby girl, we love you with all our hearts. at a community vigil last night in uvalde, the dead are mourned. they include teacher you remembera garcia, who was in her fifth year. both teachers died shielding students from gunfire. not lost here, the children still being treated in the hospital. a pediatric trauma director describes hem as critical but stable, wishing there were more lives she could save. i think that s what hit us the most, not of the patients that we did receive, but we are honored to treat them. but the patients we did no
heard them? charlie? charlie is charlie can t hear, so we re going to move on. mayor, let me ask you this question, then, because you can t forget that georgia was ground zero to the former president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the man he tried to pursue to try to find more votes on that infamous phone call is secretary of state brad raffensperger, running against jody hice. hice has repeated false claims about the 2020 election. so the big lie is on the ballot in this race for sure, no? yes, and i have long believed that donald trump does not make winners. he goes with winners. so he doesn t have some magic wand that he can just anoint someone a winner, and he has not made good choices in georgia. it s going to be interesting to see. we know what s happening with perdue. the polling is showing that he is down by a lot, so people are expecting that kemp may win tomorrow without having to go into a runoff, win the primary tomorrow. the secretary of state s rac
our show as part of the trump effect that he was able to install so many of these judges, and they continue to put policies into place from the bench that he supported endorsed. e supporte endorsed it s mad, i m glad you highlighted that you have a great rest of your day today on the mehdi hassan show, republicans are doubling down on races in the wake of the buffalo mass shooting. at the same time they re trying to blame democrats for two of those top democrats, former president joins me live plus we must teach kids about racism, republicans are silencing of the president of the national association, and then the conversation with director john apatow, on the legacy of comedy giant george karlyn. good evening on time mehdi hasan, it s been a full weekend since a match weekend brutally shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in a prominent black neighborhood in buffalo. seven days since we learned that a quote unquote, manifesto linked to the accused government