one of the areas of the country to get out while they can, and grieving families in texas are furious with officials over their lack of answers about the uvalde school shooting. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. we re now learning that the funeral for japan s shinzo abe will be held next week. a wake is scheduled for monday, with his memorial service set for the next day. a hearse carrying the former prime minister s body arrived a few moments ago. he was gunned down while giving a campaign speech on monday. doctors spent hours trying to save him but his blood loss was too great. police are hinting at a possible motive. listen to this. translator: the suspect committed the act as he had a grudge against a specific organization and believed former prime minister abe was part of it. we would like to refrain from getting into the details. condolences have been pouring in from world leaders who knew and worked with abe during his years as p
in a letter to colleagues, speaker of the house nancy pelosi gushed over what was happening saying we ve been moved by how many have channeled their righteous anger into meaningful action. they even got support from the white house. these activists posted a map with the home addresses of the supreme court justices. is that the kind of thing the president wants to help your site make their point? i think the president s view is that there s a lot of passion. laura: deputy white house press secretary andrew bates tried to kind of clean that up earlier today, tweeting jen psaki never encouraged people to protest outside justice s homes providing a transcript in which he highlights her saying protests have been peaceful to date. but he didn t include the whole part. so i know that there s an outrage right now, i guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges homes. laura: when the angle recognizes re
since friday, as in today is monday. unbelievably, the country is on pace for its worst year ever of mass shootings. this according to the gun violence archive. that means at least 246 since the beginning of the year. three-year uptick began in 2019. in 2020, it jumped to 610. and then just last year, we were at 692. but with all those numbers, there s really only one number to keep focusing on. i mean, that s if america wants to do something about these other horrible numbers. and that is the number ten, my friends. what would persuade ten republicans in the 50/50 split senate to sign legislation to reduce gun violence. i didn t say eliminate gun violence. the lawyer in me does not want to lead you astray. how about saving as many innocent lives as possible with some kind of action? whether public defenders in the bipartisan group of negotiators, who s working on a potential deal, said it quite well this morning. there is no one thing that will prevent mass killings. a det
Washington d. C. Thank you all for joining us today for this profoundly timely event on the 75th anniversary of u. S. Israel alliance, i like to start with the prayer. Heavenly father, pray for our friends in israel and all americans that they stand with our israeli friends and the jewish people in this terrible time, we pray for your guidance and wisdom as we go through these discussions today and not only celebrate anniversary is required. The timing of this event because we have been talking about this for two years so we hoped to have it this may and i was upset what was rescheduled and felt like i failed but to be able to join together today and talk about these topics, talk about u. S. Israel Security Alliance and antisemitism two weeks after the horrific responsibility for heritage to host these discussions and i am excited to hear what everyone has to say and hopefully engage in the spirit looking at the next 25 years and what can come of this. One other quick thing i want to m
Group in the primary purpose is the Iranian Nuclear program neck you can watch the rest of this program if you go to cspan now you up. U. S. Israel alliance hosted by the Heritage Foundation here in washington d. C. Thank you all for joining us today for this profoundly timely event on the 75th anniversary of u. S. Israel alliance, i like to start with the prayer. Heavenly father, pray for our friends in israel and all americans that they stand with our israeli friends and the jewish people in this terrible time, we pray for your guidance and wisdom as we go through these discussions today and not only celebrate anniversary is required. The timing of this event because we have been talking about this for two years so we hoped to have it this may and i was upset what was rescheduled and felt like i failed but to be able to join together today and talk about these topics, talk about u. S. Israel Security Alliance and antisemitism two weeks after the horrific responsibility for heritage t