so president biden just released a statement thanking the negotiators and saying, quote, obviously it does not do everything that i think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction and would be the most significant gun legislation to pass in decades. the sooner the legislation is written and comes to his desk, the sooner he can sign it. senators agreed in principle to these measures. first, funding to incentivize states to implement, quote, red flag laws, implementing a 10 state pilot program to mental health on all 50 states, allowing juvenile records to be searched during background checks for those under 21, strengthening the background check system and increasing funding for school security. the outline does not include the renewal of the assault weapons ban or raise the age to purchase a firearm but does boast the support of ten republican senators. you look at them. john cornyn. tom tillis. roy blunt. richard burr. susan collins. lindsey graham, m
republican senators signaling it could be strong enough to overcome any threat of a filibuster. the new legislation coming in the wake of several mass shootings across the country, including an attack on a texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. now, this framework of the agreement includes modest gun restrictions, and broader investments into mental health and school security. we have team coverage of these developments. joe johns is with the president in delaware. let s begin with daniella diaz on capitol hill. what can you tell us about this compromise? well, it just broke a little over two hours ago. and it is just a framework as you said, no legislative text yet. but i m going to talk a little bit about what this proposal includes. it would have support for state crisis intervention orders, investment in children and family mental health services. protections for victims of domestic violence. funding for school-based mental healt
top of my head. i was pushed backwards, and my foot caught this terrible hind me, and my chin hit the handrail, and then at that point i had blacked out. she was knocked unconscious, even though she was bleeding, and days from the traumatic brain injury, she had just suffered, somehow she miraculously returned to duty on that day. thousands of protesters directed to the capitol, fine by donald trump himself, quickly began to overwhelm the police. and as officer edwards try to hold that line, she saw a colleague in distress. it was bryan sicknick. i see movement to the left of me, and i turn, and it was officer sicknick with his head in his hands. he was ghostly pale. i look back to see would have hit him, would have happened, and that is when i got sprayed in the eyes as well. and officer sicknick was injured while trying to control the trump mob. he suffered two strokes, and died the next day. the assault on the capitol continued for hours. what i saw was just a wa
all to push congress to take action on gun violence. one party, and only one party has heard the calls for those actions. this week, the house oversight committee held a hearing on gun violence, where members heard from survivors of recent mass shutting s, including maya cerrillo, a fourth grader at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. he shot my friend, and i thought that he would come back to the room, so i covered myself in blood and put it on me. maya, who is just 11 years old, speared her classmates blood on her face to protect herself from a gunmen. also this week, the house passed a series of petrol bills that would raise the age to buy most semi automatic rifles to 21. it would ban high capacity ammunition magazines and create a federal red flag law. more than 200 lawmakers, almost entirely republicans, voted no on these measures. the good and bad news, the votes no matter all that much because those bills will never pass the senate. don t get too discouraged, a bipa
nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we ve talked to several people in the crowd about the general mood as we come out of the horrible shootings in uvalde and buffalo, and it is the mood of being fed up with the gun violence taking place in the country. especially lately. four years after parkland, a lot of them feel like enough is not being done. rackon brown is about to get up here and speak in a few minutes. and he s a survivor of gun violence in d.c. we should add. what is the message t