well good evening everyone. i m laura coates and this is cnn tonight. we begin with our sad breaking news. lisa marie presley, elvis s daughter, dead at the age of 54. she was hospitalized after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest just today after appearing at the golden globes just tuesday night where the film about her own father won best actor for austin butler. lisa marie s mother priscilla putting out a statement tonight saying it is with a heavy heart that i must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter lisa marie has left us. she was the most passionate, strong, and loving woman i have ever known. we ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. thank you for the love and prayers. at this time there will be no further comment. lisa marie was a celebrity from the moment she was born in 1968. she was the adored daughter of elvis and priscilla presley, living her entire life in the spotlight. much more now with cnn s entertainment reporter. th
survives and families from uvalde, but knows full well that he needs republicans on board. i think there is a realization on the part of rational republicans, and i consider senator mcconnell a rational republican, i think that there is a realization on their part that we can t continue like this. bright and early this thus mor tuesday morning, jasmine wright is in washington for us. he called them rational republicans. does that bode well for the white house? reporter: i think only time will tell, but i think that the president sure hopes that it does. he said that it was his hope and prayer that people are being becoming more rational about these things especially after the two back to back major mass shootings. now, i think that the president, he said that he is optimistic about having republicans like cornyn deputized by mitch mcconnell leading these efforts, but he also acknowledged in terms of executive actions that there are only a limited amount of things that h
but he has no mental health record. i was talking earlier to somebody. it is sort of one a kind. this guy had no record, no brush with the law. no brush with the mental health system and one day decided i m going to go hack these four women up with a knife. it just doesn t happen very often. he doesn t fit in one of the two traditional silos. no one can make much sense of this. from the psychiatricic point of view he doesn t appear to be mentally ill. i couldn t say without talking to him but he doesn t fit the classic silo of being mentally ill or a sociopath criminal. he is pretty clean. i think he got a ticket for nat wearing his seat belt and that was all they could dig up on him. well, there are still a lot of questions to be answered about this defendant who again, is alleged to have committed these crimes of killing three women and a young man as well. and so we ll be eager as all of us to understand, no one more eager than the families of the
for law enforcement, first responders, that perhaps larger areas like san antonio, dallas and houston do. i mentioned access to mental health treatment and diagnosis is absolutely critical because of course the background check system is administered by the fbi, the nationalistic background check system. there are limitations under federal law what sort of firearms that you can buy and own and maintain particularly if you have a criminal or mental health record. and we ll be looking at all that. i will do as i ve always done and that is try to lean forward and meet my colleagues across the aisle halfway particularly on matters involving the seriousness and gravity that this does. let s bring in tyler pedro white house reporter at the washington post. so great to have you on early start. you heard cornyn layout there what he hopes to achieve. pretty modest when you are
seen a barrel smmagazine like tt in the hands of a u.s. soldier. should it be legal? simple question, yes or no. so i don t smoeupport that b and that s an attack against law-abiding citizens. when you re going to talk about banning these objects we can have a political fight, but i will go after the whole solution. who behind the ban is committing these crimes. you also have psychopathic mentally ill people out there on the streets that need to be addressed and congressman, i ve covered a lot of shootings. i was in el paso and dayton, they didn t have criminal records, they didn t have a mental health record. how does that measure? you ll often hear from nra supporters like yourself that no one law will stop all mass shootings, but the measures you just suggested would not have prevented these. so look at the shooter shot the six police officers in