gun legislation in three decades, just a week after a gunman killed seven people in highland park. this legislation is real progress, but more has to be done. those families in highland park, on july 4th a parade became a killing field. the white house being urged to do more on guns as democrats are also calling for more federal action on abortion rights. yeah, there s more that needs to be done. and i know the president knows that. president biden is facing challenging political headwinds as he s hemorrhaging support in his own party ahead of the midterm elections. elections matter. a new poll shows 64% of democrats want a different candidate in the 2024 presidential race and only 26% believe that biden should be renominated. biden is already the oldest president in american history and 33% of democrats who were surveyed voiced concerns about his age. he intends to run. and if he does, i am tend to run with him. so there you go. among all voters, biden s job
it s monday july 18th. lawmakers have released a 77-page report outlining a series of missteps by multiple law enforcement agencies who responded to that school shooting at robb elementary school in may, including failures to adhere to their active shooter training and prioritizing the lives of the victims. the scathing report says authorities who responded to the scene displayed, quote, an overall lackadaisical approach. and while investigators say they didn t find evidence of malice, they did find, quote, egregious poor decisionmaking. the majority were from the u.s. border patrol and from the texas department of public safety. one texas state representative says the report contains difficult truths. it s hard to hear that there were multiple systemic failures because we want to tell ourselves that systems work. we want to tell ourselves there s one person we can point our fingers at. we want to tell ourselves that this won t happen again. that s just not true. what happe
all around the world. it is monday, july 18th. i m john berman. brianna is off. chief white house cress department kaitlan collins is here, fresh off a presidential trip to saudi arabia. you know, there s nowhere that i would ever be without a 12-hour flight and another one-hour flight from washington. but who is counting? not me. i m thrilled to be here. great to have you here. we are waking up to a developing story from overnight. a mass shooting at a shopping mall south of indianapolis, a gunman opened fire in a food court in green wood, indiana, three people were killed two others injured, among the wound add 12-year-old girl. police say a good samaritan shot and killed the gunman. the real hero of the day is the citizen that was lawfully carrying a firearm in that food court and was able to stop this shooter almost as soon as he began. according to the gun violence archive there have been 352 mass shootings this year. green wood, indiana, joins others still r
one of the revelations in this wide-ranging report on the uvalde massacre. it describes widespread failures, egregious poor decision-making that resulted in more than an hour of chaos in the, quote, lackadaisical approach by those sent to help. the report states law enforcement failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety and failed to adhere to active shooter training. the police chief failed to assume his responsibility of incident command, the report says. the report says the robb elementary school lockdown was likely delayed by poor wifi connectivity. and the school also had reoccurring problems with maintaining its doors and locks, those are just a few of the revelationes in this report. and uvalde s mayor is releasing dramatic new video showing the first moments that officers arrived on the scene there at the school. shots fired. get inside. go. go. go. the new body camera footage gives a close up view of the action, but mainly the inaction, as
following his first trip to the middle east. we ll go through what if anything was accomplished in his controversial visit with the saudi crown prince. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, july 18th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we begin with the latest fallout from the massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. a damning investigative report released over the weekend said that nearly 400 law enforcement officials responded to the mass shooting but that quote egregiously poor decision making let the shooting continue for more than an hour. that report written by an investigative committee from the texas house of representatives is the first to criticize state and federal law enforcement for their role in the response. it makes the fullest account of what happened during the very worst school shootings in u.s. history. uvalde mayor don mclaughlin said the acting police chief during the shooting was placed on