unprovoked invasion of ukraine. we ll hear from three of the brave women reporting from the war zone, as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness. mitch mcconn
we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
before. we are told that some clerks are so alarmed, they re exploring seeking counsel. let s bring in cnn s joan biscupic with the exclusive reporting. joan, tell us what you re learning. sure. first of all, remember, this is the most important case of this term, in many years, potential to roll back a half century of abortion rights, privacy rights. midway through negotiations of this case a draft document was leaked, as we all know, it was leaked from last february. so not only did the public see where the court was headed to roll back roe v. wade but seriously disrupted negotiations in terms of justice where is they were going to head by june. chief justice john roberts launched an unprecedented investigation four weeks ago today. apparently that has made absolutely insufficient progress, i would say. and they have taken this new step to have clerks sign affidavits. i m not sure exactly of the wording. but there would be denial of any responsibility. and also starting
call for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. we re going to play that audio for you in a moment. plus, there are new details about a key figure in the response to that shooting, uvalde school district police chief pedro arredondo will not be sworn in to his newly elected city council seat today as originally planned. should he keep his job as police chief? critical question. also today, a bipartisan group of senators will meet on gun reform. president biden is optimistic that this time around he will get republican support. the president says, quote, rational republicans are ready for a deal. we will see. all of this as the uvalde community prepares to bury 10-year-old shooting victim amerie jo garza and maite rodriguez today. little bodies in little caskets. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent nick valencia, near robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. nick, cnn has new audio and video, desperate police radio calls, another warning fr
the scene. those serious questions amid the grief. we ll get to it. thank you all so much for being here. today, the president and his administration are making a major push to refocus on the economy and defend his handling of it. in a new opinion piece in the wall street journal, the president claims that the u.s. is in a better economic position than almost any country in the world. he credits his own policies can helping to achieve the strongest recovery in modern history. he s also facing public sentiment that s making clear americans don t feel that strength, not by a long shot. ga gallop s economic confidence reading is reporting this is likely the lowest public confidence has been in the economy since the tail end of the great recession in early 2009. biden s team is now outlining what they are calling a three-part plan to fight inflation and to turn this around. inflation will be number one, the number one agenda item when the president meets with the federal rese