mia cerillo covered herself in her friend s blood, pretended to be dead so that she could survive. the hearing comes as pressure mounts on u.s. lawmakers to address a recent string of mass shootings. this afternoon the house will vote on a set of bills that would raise the minimum age to buy a semiautomatic weapon from 18 to 21, ban high capacity magazines and crack down on ghost gun purchases or guns that are not traceable. the bill is unlikely to garner republican support, but a different story is unfolding in the senate where the top democratic negotiator of a bipartisan package of gun bills says a deal could be reached by the end of this week. some issues on the table include addressing mental health, expanding background checks, providing incentives for states to implement red flag laws and strengthening school security. the calls for lawmakers to act got a boost on tuesday afternoon when actor matthew mcconaughey a uvalde native made an emotional plea from the white hou
reeling from the mass shooting in uvalde, texas, that killed 19 children and two adults, shaken by another mass shooting at a hospital complex in tulsa, oklahoma yesterday that left four people dead. they found the first victim, then the next victim. reporter: biden plans to call on congress to take action, as lawmakers try to hammer out gun reforms. so far, biden wary of giving too much optimism. are you confident congress will take action on gun legislation, sir? i served in congress for 36 years. i m never confident, totally. it depends. and i don t know, yi don t know about the negotiations going on. reporter: during his visit to uvalde, the president hearing pleas for change in washington. earlier in the month, he had traveled to buffalo, new york, the site of another mass shooting that left ten dead at a local supermarket. the shooter targeting the black community. i promise you, hate will not prevail and white supremacy will not have the last word. but evil
classroom, where all those 21 victims were killed. but in an exclusive interview with cnn this morning, chief arredondo is contradicting that. he says he is in touch with the department of public security. let s go straight to cnn producer aaron cooper, he just spoke with arredondo. aaron, what did he tell you? reporter: it was just that, he told me that he is in touch with the texas department of public safety every day. i asked him about the comments that they had been hoping to speak with him, to have an interview with him, and he had not been responsive, he repeated that he was in contact with them every day. he said he was focusing on the families. he was not did not want to talk about the investigation, did not want to talk about details of what was going on, but wanted to focus on the families. i asked him about being sworn in as city council member here in in his hometown in texas, last night. he told me that was a private affair, not something they wanted publi
a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mr. padilla: mr. president, for many people, not just here and around the capitol but across the country, the past few weeks have been a wake-up call, a wake-up call to see the stakes of our fight for a fair judiciary, from abortion rights to free speech, to gun violence, federal judges make countless decisions that impact our daily lives. we ve been reminded of that in a very significant way. but our current federal bench is not representative of the diversity of our country and our democracy, and we have a lot of work to do to rebuild the judiciary in a way that deserves the faith of the american people. to build a judiciary that reflects and represents the diverse nation that it serves. we talked about it before. we ve been chipping away at it not just through the judiciary committee, but through a number of circuit court judges, district court judges across the country, including in california.
where every senator stands. republicans unanimously voted to criminalize abortion in more than half the states in america in just a few weeks. democrats filed to stop the alito court from turning the clock back on women s health by a century. let s be very clear about the consequences of this ruling when it becomes final. it will immediately criminalize abortion in many states. it will allow republicans to pass a law criminalizing abortion in all 50 states. it will throw out the constitutional right to privacy, a right upon which marriage and choice and many other civil rights depend. and it will put government and governments in control of women s bodies for millions and millions of people across america. this is a terrifying prospect. it s no secret that people have been considering what would happen if and when this far-right supreme court would throw out roe. less than a month ago i was talking about the end of roe and the danger of griswold v. connecticut. however, it is