this press conference i handed over to mehdi hassan. hello alicia. a horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police preface conference on the shooting in california. that is going to be a very important press conference, is it not? it is going to be a very important press conference. a lot of big questions, still outstanding. many of course, the question of public safety. you heard representative chu saying she had people coming up to her all day saying can i send my kids to school? can i go to another event that is there, trying to reassure them. then of course questions about motive, what was it that was driving the suspect here to commit this horrific act. and then there is still a lot we don t know, matty, about the victims. we know that there are ten people dead, five were men five are women, we know that there are going to be ten more injured. but beyond that a lot of questions. we don t know enough about the victims. w
whether we will ever have a seat at the table. truly profound question. karoun, thanks so much for time tonight. that is it for american voices. i m alicia mendes, as we continue to follow this breaking story, and this press conference. 100 over two hello mehdi. hello, alicia. horrific day of breaking news. the worst kind of breaking news. we are now waiting for police press conference on the shooting in california. that is gonna be a very important press conference. it s good beaver in portland press conference, a lot of big questions still outstanding. mehdi, of course, this question of public safety. you heard representative shoe saying she had people come up to her all day saying, can i send my kids to school? then i go to another event that is planned. trying to reassure them. and then of course questions about motives i what is driving the suspect to commit this horrific. act and this a lot we don t know, mehdi, about the victims. we know there are ten people de
constant contact with russia to try to secure griner s release. and donald trump is firing back as author bob woodward is sharing his recorded phone calls with the former president. woodward joins us to break down the trump tapes and take us behind the scenes of their extraordinary conversations. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this hour, we re counting down to the pivol u.s. senate debate in pennsylvania as well as the bigger midterm battle playing out across the country over the next 14 days. cnn correspondents are out in force in critical swing states. and here in washington covering the fight for control of congress. first, let s go to jeff zeleny in harrisburg, pennsylvania. the senate debate begins two hours or so from now. what do we expect? reporter: wolf, this is the marquee senate debate. when they go head-to-head for just an hour this evening. the first time they ve ev
filing. all right. let s beginning this morning with kara scannell. kara, these are stunning developments. walk us through the key the key revelations that tells us so much. yeah, i mean, what we ve really learned from this, from the department of justice filing, they say when they went and executed this search warrant at mar-a-lago three weeks ago they recovered twice as many classified documents than what the former president s legal team had given them pursuant to a grand jury subpoena in june. so this all goes right to the department of justice s position that the trump team has not been cooperative with this investigation, they re really trying to put forth a counternarrative him. they say that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform, calls into serious question the representations made in the june 3rd certifi
get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. other fashions pale in comparison when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. w