why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scavino, t
acknowledging he took those documents and claiming he had every right to take them. under the presidential records act, which is civil, not criminal, i had every right to have these documents. in other words, whatever documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. independent legal experts say that s not true. it could hurt him at a trial. is he betting on an election victory for republicans and getting the case dropped? i will speak to former top cia attorney jeff smith about the legal strategy. are more republican politicians, including some rivals, now willing to criticize donald trump s handling of national secrets? the handling of classified materials is a very serious matter. i had a chance to review the indictment over the weekend. this indictment contains serious charges. i can t defend what is alleged. the former president has a right to his day in court. i know he pled not guilty. i will
the bidens attended mass at sacred heart catholic church where an influx of funerals is imnenlt. they are meeting privately with the victims families this afternoon. so many of them want an answer to an excruciating question, would their loved ones be here today if police had acted sooner? the justice department is stepping in saying it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response as a top texas official admits the decision not to breech the classroom even as the children were calling 911 begging for help was wrong, period. cnn s arlette saenz is in uvalde. the president visited the site of that school memorial today. reporter: yes, jim, certainly an incredibly emotional day for president biden and first lady jill biden as they are here on the ground in the community of uvalde, texas, grieving with the community in the wake of that horrific massacre at the elementary school right behind me. at this moment president biden is meeting privately with survivors and fam
said today. the admission of a string of police failures including driving right by the gunman, ever how one girl cowering inside the cool called 911 five times. 20 officers stood in the hallway outside of the classrooms but it wasn t until 12:50 that the classroom was breached using keys from a janitor. mcgraw said the on-seen commander believed that this was a barricaded subject situation and did not think that there were more children at risk. he was then overwhelmed with reporters demanding an explanation into the time delay leading him to make this stunning admission. stand by. hey, stand by. from the benefit of hindsight where i m sitting now of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision period. there s no excuse for that. the press conference also failed to translate questions and answers into spanish despite earlier promises that they would. again, a lot of the folks in this town speak spanish as a primary language. in espanol. no spanis
its employment has fallen in half. what the leaders would like to do is change the leadership of that fundamentally. it s not changed the policies of gun control in the united states. it s still as hard as ever to get meaningful gun reform passed even after we get mass shooting after mass shooting. even though the nra does not have as much influence, the extreme parties, the outside parties have fwlu on the lawmakers. ken dilanian, thank you. what the faa says went wrong when a door plug on an alaska airlines flight blew out midair and what the agency is doing to the boeing fleet.