defending his decision to visit saudi arabia as he travels to the middle east next week against criticism and controversy surrounding the trip. the president set to meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now as president he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. that s right. washington post op-ed the president writes it s my job to keep our country strong and secure. we have to counter russia s aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position to outcompete china, and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. to do these things we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. the saudi crown prince was said to be responsible for ordering khashoggi s murder. let s get some perspective on president biden s trip. a historia
mass shooting. additionally there s new word how his father apparently helped him obtain a gun license he likely should not have had given the red flags in his recent past. this young man who apparently had attempted suicide and yet his father helped him get a gun license. more on all of it shortly. first, though, because we now have the names of all seven people killed. we want to begin with who they were. he d just celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary. his wife and four daughters were everything to him. his daughter telling cnn he would have turned 70 on friday. despite being the oldest victim at 88, steven strausss was still active, still enjoying life according to one grandson. nicholas toledo had eight children, countless grandchildren. one of them describes him as a loving man who was creative, adventurous and funny. in highland park from mexico visiting family he was 78. taught preschool, served on the staff of a local citadel, just couldn t find a lovelier person.
can. and to you, the british public, i know that there will be many people who are relieved and perhaps quite a few who also will be disappointed and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them s the breaks. remarkable developments, just three years after his party won a huge mandate in parliament, it is important to note that johnson gave no timetable for exactly when he will leave office, saying that will be announced next week. let s bring in cnn s nic robertson, outside number 10 downing street. so tell us, first of all, your reaction to johnson s words as he finally under intense pressure, we should note, from inside his own party, to step down. this feels like a place holding resignation and less a resignation from power, because it is behind the doors there, appointing replacement ministers for all those who have quit. more a he is resigned to the fact that his party no longer wants him. last night he was talking about and ev
he was read his miranda warnings, offered attorneys, et cetera, he went into details about what he had done. he admitted to what he had done. reporter: the county sheriffs office also revealed that there were red flags about the shooter well before monday s mass killing. in april of 2019, police were called about a suicide attempt of his. five months later, a relative contacted police after the suspect threatened to quote kill everyone in the family. but still, he was able to obtain the illinois equivalent of a gun license in 2020. today the prosecutor tried to explain it. there was never a firearm restraining order. that s what i had used the term red flag. that type of order mr. crimo has never been involved in that type of order. that s an order where family members and other individuals can go to a court and ask that somebody have firearms taken and not be allowed to piurchase firearms. that did not happen in mr. crimo s case. cnn security correspondent, josh gamb
plus the justice department marks a new phase of its investigation into donald trump. a federal grand jury subpoena now demands testimony from a key west wing insider. the trump white house counsel pat cipollone. and china s response to nancy pelosi s defiance by dispatching 27 war planes into taiwan s airspace. the house speaker says her taiwan visit a clear marker now in the battle between democracy and dictatorship. today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. america s determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world remains iron clad. china s sovereignty cannot be infringed, and the chinese people cannot be humiliated. our response will be very strong and forceful. back to that story in a bit, but we begin with hour with the biggest lesson of another bid-term primary night. republican election deniers scored some big wins out here in arizona, and here s more proof the trump brand still matters. let s shift and bring up