Murders. Those are events in which four or more people are killed. And nearly 9500 Gun Violence Deaths already this year. The president is using this moment to announce new Executive Action to tamp down, to try to tamp down gun crime. Hes also once again calling on congress to act on gun legislation. Lets begin this hour at the white house. Our Jeremy Diamond joins us. What is to come from biden today . Reporter listen, were going to see the president Layout A Comprehensive Gun Prevention Violence Strategy to address the surge in Violent Crime that happened over 2020 and appears to be continuing into 2021, with experts warning of a potentially dangerous and violent summer. Were going to hear the president sign some new Executive Actions on gun reforms. Hes also going to Push Congress once again to enact gun control laws. Press for the confirmation of his atf director. This will all follow a meeting between the president , his attorney general, and several mayors and chiefs of police as
how alvin bragg s policies are empowering criminals. bill: democrats dismiss it. ] s indictment of donald trump is the reason they re here. the victims of crime tell a very different story. dana: one of the people we re hearing from today is jose alba. last year a repeat offender attacked him last year in the deli where he worked. he fatally stabbed the attacker in self-defense. bragg s office initially charged him with murder. bill: that prompted a massive public outcry. bragg dropped the case under great pressure. republicans say that this points to a larger problem with progressive prosecutors. it s driven by these left wing d.a.s who come in with a political agenda. instead of focusing on protecting people, families, communities an small business owners they are about politics and it s almost like every night you see some senseless act of violence on our screens that happen on the subway or city street and it is just wrong. dana: we have reaction from john levi
where we re police in new york. what they re doing to seize illegal weapons. soaring gas prices. fuel hits more than $5 a gallon in more than a dozen states as we learn the pain at the pump might be here to stay. the battle against long-haul covid. the first in our two-part series about the 23 million americans, including kids, fighting to the battle against long-haul covid. recover after months of illness. and american kindness: a teenager using her birthday money to help her neighbors. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. t, the presso something on gun reform came to washington today in moving testimony and star power. oscar award-winning actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey gave one of the most emotionally powerful speeches about gun laws that we ve ever seen at the whit
second trump ally indicted on a contempt channel. we begin the reidout with a choice, a choice about the continuation of mass murder and school shootings that are plaguing this country because it is a choice, not an inevitability as some might want you to believe. in fact, one of our political parties has gone to great lengths to make you think just that. well, at this point shouldn t the republican party just keep it real and openly admit at long last that they believe that a substantial number of dead church-goers and dead shoppers and dead doctors and, yes, dead chirp, big kids and little ones, is an acceptable trade-off for them to have as many guns as they want whenever they want with as little inconvenience as possible, and no one has said it better than democratic congress montana dare jones who spoke during yesterday s contentious debate over democrats package of gun safety bills. as the youngest member of this committee, i need to address my republican colleague
to purchase to 21 years old. but the simple facts, once again, are this, those measures have no realistic chance of passages in the senate. republicans aren t even talking about gun restrictions. they are once again blaming mental illness for the nation s gun crisis. we have crunched those numbers before on this broadcast and that claim does not stand up. some states are, though, not waiting for congress to act. new york state lawmakers just passed several bills including one that raises the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic rifle to 21. we will have more on those state measures in just a moment. first, let s look at the national or what remains of it. with us political anchor for spectrum news and you decide podcast. john, i want to be honest with our viewers because we will report on measures that pass of a democratic controlled house but don t have the votes to pass the senate and become law. what is the reality of the effort? wl what is still alive and might still ge