even though he was firing shots outside for some 12 minutes, there are so many unanswered questions. here is what we do know. 11:28 a.m. central time the suspect crashed his truck into a ditch near the school. he exited the vehicle, fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m. the gunman entered the school through an unlocked door on the west side of the building. four minutes later, officers entered the school, received gunfire then retreated from the building as they called for backup. it was not until an hour later, full hour, 12:44 p.m. local time that a tactical team made entry and killed the suspect. this morning we are learning more about just what was going on inside that classroom. mia got some blood and put it on herself to pretend she was dead. she had bullet fragments in her back. that poor little girl and so many stories just hike it. we ll have more on mia s story in a moment. let s begin though on the investigation. cnn crime and justice correspo
Of the mehdi hasan show tonight, gop dysfunctions, driving us towards a Government Shutdown. Even House Republicans are pointing to figure at one man, Kevin Mccarthy. Plus, the white house just created the First Ever Office devoted to curbing gun violence. I will speak with former Gun Violence Activists turn gen z congressman maxwell frost. And, covid rates are on the rise, again. My conversation with americas doctor, Anthony Fauci. Good evening. At this moment, we are about six days away from a potential Government Shutdown. The first, since the start of 2019. And its a shutdown that we are facing, because House Republicans are completely dysfunctional, behaving in a pathetic way, and pushing for a completely meaningless shut down, because they want to burn the whole place down. Those are not my words, those are the words of House Republicans themselves. We are, completely dysfunctional. There needs to be a realization, that you are not going to get everything you want. And, just thro
there may be some movement on gun legislation in congress, maybe. we ve been here before. nothing has happened despite enormous public pressure. just think post-sandy hook. tom forman looks at how the u.s. responds to mass shootings compares to the responses of countries around the world. reporter: jim, it may be very hard to unwind all these years of gun violence in this country and figure out how to fix it, but some gun control advocates say it is easy to at least look at what others are trying. when five people were gunned down in the united kingdom last summer the nation was shocked. it s had some of the world s toughest gun laws ever since a mass school shooting in 1996. gun deaths fell by half, mass shootings became extremely rare. so in the wake of the new attack, the government announced even tighter restrictions including mandatory medical tests for mental illness or instability in would-be gun
going beyond the call of duty. brooke baldwin, cnn dayton, ohio. so important to hear their stories too. that will stick with them for a long time to come. word this morning that movement of gun legislation in congress. we ll speak with one former u.s. senator about the chances in the u.s. senate.
bipartisan legislation. john cornyn, republican senator from texas, along with chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut, are pushing to strengthen the existing national instant criminal background check system to do things like make sure that the military puts their information in there, which is something that didn t happen in a previous mass shooting. so that is something that the president says he s behind. what democrats and at least the democratic leader and other gun control advocates are saying is no, no, no, we need to do more. we need to do something along the lines of legislation that was at least tried but then failed in the senate after the newtown massacre, which was to include in the pabackground che system what they call person-to-person sales, private sales or gun shows or elsewhere, sales on the internet. that is something that the nra has very, very much opposed. when the president says don t