thanks very much for joining us this morning. very busy morning. i m jim acosta, our next our newsroom with wolf blitzer starts right now, have a great weekend i m wolf blitzer in washington, were following breaking news here are the cnn newsroom, the us supreme court is up holding a federal law that bans domestic abusers from owning a firearm. the major second amendment ruling was nearly unanimous 8-to-1 decision only justice clarence thomas dissented in the majority opinion. the chief justice, john roberts said, the court had no trouble upholding the law. arguing and once again, according our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others. close glug our chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid is here with me in the z then newsroom. paula walk us through. this is a major decision by the supreme court. it is. it s one of the key decisions that we re watching in for this term
before seen. reporter: in a matter of seconds a country music festival turned tragic with a storm of gunfire raining down on an innocent crowd. he was shooting everybody and there was dead people everywhere and i don t even know what was happening. it was just shooting, randomly. reporter: it began a massive loss of life and hundred injured in the worst mass shooting in modern american history. the 2017 las vegas shooting was the worst mass shooting in modern american history. 58 people were killed, several hundred were wounded and two victims later died from their injuries. there have been more than 3500 mass shooting since then according to the gun violence archive. the las vegas shooting remains the deadliest and there is a reason for that. the shooter used a bump stock. america is the most unfriendly democracy in the world, yet even here it is illegal to own a fully automatic machine gun. but a bump stock essentially transforms the average semi automatic rifle int
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barely any time left in the term. looming decisions on trump s immunity claims, gun rights and a host of other issues. plus, a birthday reunion. the gop embraing trump in his first visit to capitol hill since the january 6th riot, but will his comments from yesterday come back to bite him? and later, a chance for peace or a nonstarter, president putin outlining his conditions for peace talks with ukraine. is it a genuine offer? it is 10:00 eastern, and i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin at the supreme court where in just moments we will get at least one more decision from the nine justices after a big decision yesterday on abortion medication. there are still 26 undecided cases this term. let s go right to nbc news washington correspondent yamiche alcindor outside the court for us, yamiche, what do we know? what are we waiting on? reporter: well, good morning, ana, we are waiting on 26 cases. we have a number of cases dealing with a number of big issues
good to be with you, i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland s refusal to hand over audio of president biden s interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let s interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. reporter: first of all, alex, this was as expected. congress, even republicans here who pushed this contempt vote. remember that just happened a couple of days ago, they successfully voted on party lines pretty much, except for one republican, to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress because he did not turn over those tapes from biden s interview with special counsel hur, and the classified documents case, republicans e