tougher gun safety rules. president biden will be addressing in nation in just over an hour. he has been pushing on this harder in the last few weeks. in the senate there is beltway talk of a, quote, frame work, although gun safety advocates and other experts say they have seen exactly this kind of talk and this d.c. move before. now, in the house tonight, there are people working to make change, so the frame work, which requires republican support is something that many people are not optimistic about. but the judiciary committee, which is the pivot and powerful place where this stuff originates, you can see they re at work right now. the democrats using this time today, tomorrow, so really push new bills. and democrats say republicans must finally look at the carnage and act. it has not even been 24 hours since the last mass shooting. we re in a crisis of death. we have a war on the children of america. why don t they feel an urgency to do something? do not tell me
the gas prices soaring another 5 cents overnight, adding to the strain on americans wallets. we ll talk about what the white house is doing about it. this morning in uvalde, texas, a grief-stricken community continues to lay loved ones to rest after last week s school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. today, seven separate services will be held for victims of this tragic shooting. next hour, a funeral for irma garcia, a teacher at robb elementary and her husband joe. irma was killed while protecting her students during the shooting. her grieving husband died thursday after delivering flowers to his wife s memorial. doctors describe his death as a possible example of broken heart syndrome. irma and joe were high school sweethearts. they would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary later this month. they leave behind four children. this afternoon 10-year-old jose manuel flores jr. will be laid to rest. he was honored for his good grades
yesterday. the fear for democrats, that voters frankly have had enough. the price of gas is just outrageous. these gas prices are crazy. luckily i m close to my business, so i don t have to spend as much. i used to fill up with 60, and now it s like 100. we ll have fresh reporting from the white house in just moments. in uvalde, texas, we re hearing from the school district s police chief in several days. he says, in spite of reports to the contrary, he is in touch with state investigators. also live this hour, we are keeping tabs on a briefing at the pentagon. we will cover a big announcement from the president, that the u.s. will provide some longer-range rocket systems to ukraine, although those weapons come with a condition. and hurricane season is here, and it could be a busy one. we just got a brand-new briefing, and al roker will join me in studio with what we should expect. i want to start with rising costs and the uphill climb the white house faces. jus
about the ongoing effort to overthrow the last one, well, this is news you want to know about. politico reports there are tapes, video recordings of republicans meeting with grass roots activists to do something that cuts against how elections are supposed to work here. they re supposed to be nonpartisan at the machinery side. the plan, however, is to install these partisan and party trained volunteers who can challenge voters at places where democrats tend to vote, what they call democratic majority polling places and connect those workers to lawyers, and have a network of party friendly district attorneys. now, if you take them at their word, those attorneys are supposed to be nonpartisan prosecutors who decide who s arrested or goes to jail. they shouldn t be involved in something that s quarterbacked bipartisan operatives. now, we don t know yet which d.a. s would actually get involved in this. it s important journalistically and otherwise to understand what is leaking ou
dana perino along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. republicans trying to seize the momentum after slugging it out at another contentious debate, the big talk of the night was a blowup between nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy that devolved into a series of personal insults. i want to be careful to avoid making the mistakes from the neocon establishment in the past. do you want a leader from a different generation who is going to put this country first or do you want dick cheney in 3-inch heels. they are 5-inch heels, and i don t wear them unless you can run in them. in the last debate she made fun of me for actually joining tiktok. well come her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time so you might want to take care of your family leave my daughter out of your voice. dana: wasn t just the taunts, candidates digging into the issues that americans care most abou