For your time tonight. That is our show this evening. Now it is time for the last word with jonathan capehart, who is in for lawrence. Good evening. I could not hear what you are talking about. What were you talking about? about lindsey graham? lindsey graham took a trip to nebraska to basically try to convince the state to be a winner take all state, so when the electoral votes are apportioned, donald trump gets all of them rather than kamala harris getting one of them and that one vote, gosh i hope it is not true, but could be the difference maker in the election. Maybe this is all, you know, trivia that we will enjoy looking back upon or maybe something we will wish we paid greater attention to in the course of this election season. Thankfully you paid attention to it in your show. We will talk a little bit about it in the show, so with that, alex wagner, go enjoy your thursday night. Have a great show, jonathan. Thanks, alex. It is 47 days to election day and tonight, while donald
news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
crisis at the border. 150,000 migrants waiting to cross into the united states. a wave that could overwhelm the border patrol and humanitarian groups, with already strained border towns facing an influx that has been building for months. and it could hit in just 48 hours. we re going to take you there. the country are running out of time and money. hours from now, a critical meeting to avoid economic calamity. president biden set to meet with congressional leaders on the debt ceiling, but the two sides are nowhere near a deal and a catastrophic default could be just weeks away. and a mysterious object smashes through a roof and right into a home. officials say it is most likely a meteorite. a little gift from space. we are following these stories and many more, all coming in right here cnn news central. we are just about 48 hours from a border surge that has been months in the making. you can see people waiting to make their move. and this video that cnn took today from
i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. investigators in monterey park, california searching for a motive after a gunman killed ten people and wounded ten more at a dance hall. the gunman later took his own life after a standoff with officers officers. before it ended, he did try to target a second dance hall. he was stopped by a bystanders, brandon tsay, who managed to wrestle the gun away from him. my first thoughts was i m going to die here. this was it. when i got the courage, i lunged at him with both of my hands and grabbed the weapon, and we had a struggle. we struggled into the lobby trying to get this gun away from each other. he was hitting me across the face, bashing the back of my head. i was trying to use my elbows to separate the gun away from him creating some distance. brandon tsay confronted the gunman. don lemon is on the scene in monterey park, california. don, you re witnessing so much hurt there, i imagine. what are you learning this morning. repor
address making a new plea yet again for gun action. telling congress in the wake of more mass shootings, enough is enough. more kids and on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. this time we have to take the time to do something. this time, it is time for the senate to do something. among the president s demands to congress, either ban assault weapons or raise the minimum purchase age to 21 years old. fact is, many of these proposals have no realistic chance of passage. there is little to no gop support for them. that s exactly right. even after what happened this week, and last. the president s speech comes as democrats on a house committee did pass a string of proposals and got in a fiery debate with a republican colleague, small bipartisan group of senators is still working behind the scenes, but