since friday, as in today is monday. unbelievably, the country is on pace for its worst year ever of mass shootings. this according to the gun violence archive. that means at least 246 since the beginning of the year. three-year uptick began in 2019. in 2020, it jumped to 610. and then just last year, we were at 692. but with all those numbers, there s really only one number to keep focusing on. i mean, that s if america wants to do something about these other horrible numbers. and that is the number ten, my friends. what would persuade ten republicans in the 50/50 split senate to sign legislation to reduce gun violence. i didn t say eliminate gun violence. the lawyer in me does not want to lead you astray. how about saving as many innocent lives as possible with some kind of action? whether public defenders in the bipartisan group of negotiators, who s working on a potential deal, said it quite well this morning. there is no one thing that will prevent mass killings. a det
Withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and the history of my family Facing Confiscation in cuba. He did address these on your screen, the gold bars, the stash of gold bars. He did address the gift of the mercedesbenz convertible. And of course, he is absolutely innocent until Proven Guilty in a court of law. And he is not the first lawmakers to even face corruption allegations. In a moment, im going to talk to former illinois democratic governor ron blagojevich. He served eight years of 14 year sentence for a pay for play crimes. Plus, as you, know we are on the brink yet again of a shutdown of the federal government as of 11 59 pm this saturday. And as a pretty stark choice to make, will he save his job or the government, is that really the Rock And A Hard Place were at right now . Well, right hardliners are threatening just that. And now, while, donald trump. And everyone, she also spoke and broke the internet over t
a greater risk to civilians. what u.s. intel is saying about how many are being used. and in about face for the former new york mayor. rudy giuliani backing down from testifying at his defamation trial. closing arguments underway as we speak. following these major developing stories and more all coming here to cnn news central. counterterror agencies have been on high alert in wake of the hamas attacks on october 7th and the ongoing war with israel. today, officials of several european countries have made terror-related arrests. details are still coming in, but here is what we know as of right now. german authorities say they have arrested long-standing hamas members for an alleged terror plot. officials in denmark have apparently made what they call unrelated terrorists. let s bring in cnn s fred pleitgen in berlin. there are so many moving parts here, it s a little confusing. tell us what we are learning from germany about all of this. reporter: first of all you
israelis are saying seven, and danish are saying seven of them, three in denmark, and four in netherlands, but even is agreeing that they were arrested in connection with the terror plot. the fbi and the fbi equivalent is saying that they were plotting to kill civilians on european soil, and the people were acting on behalf of the hamas terrorist organization. the statement from the danish security services going on to say that the three arrested have been charged with terrorism offenses. so of course, this is far away from this war. w wait, and of course, we have fact in gaza has led to a huge amount of anger across the arab and muslim world, and it was a concern that we could start to see a new spike in terrorist attacks. this plot was stopped thankfully before it was carried out. there was a series of raids in denmark resulting in the arrests that israel is saying that was targeting european citizens on european op asians let s reiterate the important points here as there
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