nation and called for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, but can the president convince the country do something this time. more celebrations today. the world is watching, the uk is watching, many of the members of the public have arrived here, this just the second day of four days of celebrations. this is a public holiday in the uk. how many public figures can command that in honor of their service. sadly the queen won t be appearing as planned here. reluctantly the palace said she s had to pull out, she suffered discomfort yesterday during the military commemorations in central london. and that happened through the day i understand from my sources and she had to pull out of today s service. it is quite a distance here, the service is very long and she is clearly overexerted herself. but prince charles will be stepping in for her which is pretty symbolic. she just can t do what she thinks she is able to do. the service marks the queen s years on the th
january 6th attack, what many republicans told cnn exclusively now about their pleas to donald trump to stop the violence. some of them now pretend publicly that trump did not incite. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead, the epidemic of gun violence in america. in just a few hours, joe biden will address the nation about the state of recent mass shootings and new gun laws he wants to see congress pass to stop it. the most recent of these horrific attacks in tulsa, oklahoma, where police today laid out a timeline of the rampage at the st. francis complex. the gunman bought an ar-15 style rifle yesterday afternoon and opened fire in his surgeon s office just a few hours later, killing his surmgeon, another doctor, the receptionist and a patient. and in uvalde, texas, the mayor says a negotiator had been trying to reach the shooter inside robb elementary school, but the shooter did not respond. it s unclear why officials were trying to negotia
information on 911 calls was actually relayed to the school police chief. another layer of uncertainty surro surrounding the police response. our correspondents are standing by as we cover the mass shooting crisis in america. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with president biden getting ready to speak to the nation after the 233rd mass shooting here in the united states so far this year. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. we ll hear from the president about 90 minutes from now. what is he expected to say? yeah, wolf, it s a rare evening address for president biden. the white house says he felt it was important to speak to the nation about the recent shootings that we ve seen, but also call for action from congress on what they say they want to see are common sense gun laws. this is a speech that the president was considering giving before f
time they received the first call. uvalde s mayor says that he rushed to the staging site the day of the shooting and was placed in a room with someone that he referred to as a negotiator who he says tried to call the gunman but did not get through. i wasn t there at the initial, but at the moment he went in that classroom, they were trying to get numbers and call. they tried every number that they could find. reporter: mclaughlin does not believe that the negotiator was aware of any 911 phone calls from inside the classroom. while i was there, i did not hear the 911 calls. i can assure you had we been aware of it, or i would have been aware of it, i would have been screaming. reporter: texas department of public safety says it will no longer answer questions about the investigation directing all questions to the prosecutors here in uvalde. but as you have seen, they are not talking. state senator roland guttierez says he is hoping to get an updated report from state investigat
retired army major mike lyons joining me. we want to get your take on the operation we re learning about overnight and that s the ukrainians saying they ve struck some russian ships to the black sea not far from sake island. we have video released of this incident. they say the russian vessels were hit by ukrainians drones. tell us the significance of what we re seeing here. first, the fact that the ukrainian military is being creative now and coming from the land to attack these targets in the sea because they recognize that this is a strategic place that they re going to have to potentially use to evacuate civilians. we d like to think other forces will kind of get there and reinforce as well. these are massive explosions, the kind of things that, again, ukrainian military in concert with the kind of equipment that the west has provided has allowed them to do. let s stay on the subject of ukrainian attacks on russian sites or vessels. this has to do with belgorod, a town that has