advocate. i have defended the indefensible from saddam hussein to charles manson. they want a person who they believe has got away with them. if i ve committed anything that the media had alleged, i would not be a free man. am i going to be condemned and convicted? on a television program? devil s advocate, mr. murder, call him what you will the who s who of the criminal world. giovanni destefano is one of the attorneys representing saddam hussein. mr. de stefano, good morning to you. good morning. committed the most serious of criminal offenses. do you believe that? i really don t care. i don t live in a fantasy land. the legal world of london is a bit of a village really. it s elitist. the judges and lawyers come from the same chambers. they ve been school together. they will tell latin jokes among themselves. and along came this very unusual lawyer. with a love of tv cameras and seeing himself on the screen. one, two, three. do you vanity stefan
everybody went, oh, this is mob connected. so why would police focus on her, a beautiful socialite, ex-wife number two? it was very intoxicating. i think she was cold and calculating. maybe her former husband was worth more dead than alive. it s easy to blame the rich, beautiful woman. the person everyone loves to hate. but she is completely innocent. or maybe it was someone else entirely. he is obsessed with gary triano, obsessed with him. it s a case we investigated for more than five years. now a stunning new in. we are going back up under a rollercoaster. spend a little time in tucson arizona and here, in the shadows of the majestic saguaros you will find a thriving metropolis of 1 million people, with a surprising small town feel. it s the kind of place where everyone seems to know everyone. and if you ask anyone from tucson where they were on november 1st, 1996, they will tell you it was the day of a murder. so dramatic, so horrific they will never f
participate in vent which is what they were planning. people don t want everyone to forget what happened in orlando six years ago. senseless. happens all the time. really we need to pay respect for things like that. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. . it is 19 days since 19 young children were slaughtered in uvalde, texas, with 2 teachers and the senate is taking a step to gun safety. here are the provisions under discussion. funding for mental health resources. red flag laws. expanded background checks. addressing the boyfriend loophole and straw purchasing and clarifying the definition of a firearms dealer. if there s attempt to filibuster the legislation you need ten members from the gop and the democrats to end it. saying we can t fail the american people again president biden is pushing for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, strengthening the background checks and enacting safe storage and repealing gun mrveers.
president biden on the world stage. we hear accomplished at the summit of the americas. when john kirby, a member of the presidents national security team joins us live from the white house. let s begin this hour on capitol hill. today s news of a bipartisan deal on gun reform. it s the latest sign that public pressure is working, and this time it s different. the framework reached and enhanced background checks for 18 to 21-year-olds. incentivizes for states to implement red flag laws. new funding for school safety, mental health and tele-health. clarification of who receives f else. and penalties for struck here s what s not in the deal. they would not ban semi automatic weapons or high capacity magazines. it would not raise the age to buy assault weapons. it would not apply universal background checks. make no mistake, this would be a historic achievement. a deal is a deal. sometimes politics is the art of the possible. president biden released a statement today saying i
the capitol riot committee s primetime hearing laying out in detail how the insurrection unfolded. the politicians, the pundits who say that january 6th was anything short of a violent insurrection are lying. the committee is promising many more details that we haven t learned before. just justin bieber taking a break after getting a rare virus that has paralyzed half his face. i can t smile on this side of my face. i m pamela brown. you are in the cnn newsroom. a call to action under a ban hear the sums up the high stakes, march for your lives. in more than 400 cities across the country today that s rallies demanded that lawmakers confront the explosion of gun violence and mass shootings. the largest was in washington where significant gun reform has stalled for years in the senate of the right now, senate negotiator working on a bptd package are expressing some optimism for compromise. our correspondents are fanned out across the country to cover these urgent