now in custody. police called the attack random and intentional. it is difficult, but important to hear the moment that gunfire erupted to begin to understand the terror that people faced. i ll warn you, the video we re about to see is disturbing. lord help us. personally i witnessed bursts of gunfire like that before, but only from u.s. military firing positions, while embedded with u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan. that was on an american street. yeah. and those bullets left a number injured as we mentioned, and dead. the injured ranging in age from 8 to 85 years old. dr. david baum was there as the gunfire erupted, saw the immediate aftermath, and jumped in to help. the people who were gone were blown up by that gunfire. blown up? blown up. blown up. the horrific scene of some of the bodies is unspeakable for the average person. those are war time injuries. those are what are seen in victims of war, not victims at a parade. now sadly they are seen in victims
fire roughly 70 rounds into the crowd. a recording captured the barrage of gunfire, and i want to warn you, it s disturbing. the very first thing you ll hear are the shots, and then you ll see all the innocent people running for their lives. [ gunshots ] it s just mayhem. just mayhem. officers arrested the suspect yeah, the suspected gunman, about six hours after the rampage. highland park authorities also revealed how he was able to go on the run using a disguise. during the attack, crimo was dressed in women s clothing, and investigators do believe he did this to conceal his facial tattoos and his identity and help him during the escape with the other people who were fleeing the chaos. cnn security correspondent josh campbell is in highland park for us. josh, we ve seen this horror movie so many times before. it s sickening to everyone on the ground, to all of us. is there any information yet on what was wrong with this 21-year-old suspect? why he would do this? r
conversation in november, 2020, in which he claims that you told him that the election was rigged and that he had won arizona. to quote the former president, during the conversation he told me the conversation he told me the election was rigged and i won arizona, quote. did you have such a conversation with the president? i did have a conversation with the president, that certainly isn t it. there are parts of it that are true, but parts that are not, sir. the part that i read you. is that false? anywhere, anyone, any time has said that i said the election is rigged that would not be true. and when the former president in a statement today claimed that you told him that he won arizona, is that also false? that is also false. mr. bowers, i understand that after the election. i don t know if this is a conversation the former president is referring to, but after the election you received a phone call from president trump and rudy giuliani, in which they discussed the
legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab
world, it is wednesday, june 8th. cnn has learned the most prominent republican in the senate supports raising the minimum age to buy a semi-automatic weapon like an ar-15 from 18 to 216789 mitch mcconnell has said that in private we are told, but he won t say it in public, and it is not likely to be part of any agreement on gun safety as talks heat up between democrats and republicans. republican senator cynthia lummis of wyoming said two weeks ago that she doubted that any plan to curb violence would be welcome in her pro-gun state. now she s signaling an openness to finding legislative solutions because her office has been flooded with calls from constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. let s bring in cnn s pamela brown about some of the latest reporting we re hearing on these negotiations and where this discussion goes from here. what are you learning, pam? so i m learning, me and my colleague manu raju have learned that the senate minority leader mitch mcco