and our own janice dean was among them. she called out andrew cuomo. his orders led to more dying. there was no sympathy, i don t think he met with families. he just decided to write a book talking about how great a leader he was. sandra: we will hear more of that as well from the group of sorority sisters suing for their safety. they say they live in fear after they caught a biological male sister peeping on them in their own home. caitlyn jenner will react in moments. and welcome back as america reports rolls into hour two. it is a delight to be here in washington with you, john. i m sandra submit. john: i m john roberts. and we ll talk more about the race all that and more coming up, but we start with the fox news alert on the debt threat and warnings it could play right into china s hands. mr. president. mr. president! when will you meet with president xi? sandra: and with a wave of his hand, president biden is off to the g7 meeting in japan with the one k
top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. thanks for joining us. i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. happening now, attorney general merrick garland on capitol hill to testify before the jen at judiciary committee for the first time here. you see senators cruz and holly. he is expected to be hit with a wide range of questions including allegations from republicans as they said that the justice department is being weaponized against conservatives as well as updates into investigations into trump and biden and we ll take you there live as it happens. the annual cpac conference happens today as we get new cnn reporting about what trump s allies are doing to get house republicans in his corner. for 2024, not all of them are there. sdwloo also ahead, closing arguments are expected to begin today in the double murder trial of disgraced former lawyer alex murdaugh. jurors in that case at the crime scene at this hour. we will take you live to south carolina. let s begin this hour with
of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment
violence stalks every corner of the nation on any given day. in the last 28 hours in chicago at least 21 people were shot and seven died. last night four people were shot and one died in denver. five people shot in a park in louisville, kentucky. two are dead, four injured after a shooting in gary, indiana. in georgia a man shot and killed himself after killing his wife and daughter and injuring his granddaughter. it s a lot every weekend here that we cover on cnn about these mass shootings. let s go to our capitol hill unit, eva, it doesn t go as far as some gun safety advocates would like. but what do we know about the provisions in this agreement and how it would work. this is modest proposals but still could be quite consequential if the red flag law provision is adopted for instance, it would provide funding to help states create new red flag laws. this allows law enforcement to keep guns away from people found by a judge to pose a threat to themselves or others. but i
and unimaginable loss. young children full of enthusiasm and hope for their future. this next saturday on the 4th, she would have been 10. a look at who was lost this week. hello, i m dana bash in uvalde, texas, where the state of our union is so sad and wondering when enough will really be enough? i m joining you today from a community in shock. a community grieving the 21 people brutally murdered in an elementary school on wednesday. a community so overwhelmed by loss, the parents of 9, 10 and 11-year-olds have to wait weeks to bury their own children because the funeral homes are so busy dealing with the small, broken bodies from robb elementary school rooms 111 and 112. as these patients learn about the excruciating delay by law enforcement officials who waited outside the door where children were trapped with the gunman as they learn about a young man who made violent threats but able to buy a weapon of war. as they call for action from their elected official it is