and, after winning his defamation case against ex wife amber heard, we look at whyjonny depp lost a similar court battle in the uk. in a rare primetime television address, presidentjoe biden has called on congress to ban assault weapons. from the white house he said that it is time to act, following a string of high profile mass shootings, and appealed to congress not to let the american people down. over the last two decades, more school aged children have died from guns than armed duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than armed duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? i know that we can t prevent every tragedy but here is what i believe we have to do, here is what the overwhelming majority of american people believe we must do, here is what the families in buf
celebrations. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in a rare prime time television address, presidentjoe biden has called on congress to ban assault weapons. from the white house, he said that it is time to act following a string of high profile mass shootings, and appealed to congress not to let the american people down. over the last two decades, more school aged children have died from guns than on duty police officers and active duty military combined. think about that. more kids than on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough, enough? i know that we can t prevent every tragedy, but here is what i believe we have to do here is what the overwhelming majority of american people believe we must do here s what the families in buffalo and uvalde, in texas, told us we must do we need to
don t die thank you for joining us this hour. i m a myth muddiness. 1 am on the east coast, midnight in uvalde, texas, where a mass shooting at an elementary school has left 19 children and two teachers dead, as well as a shooter. several more people are injured. that makes it the deadliest school shootings since the attack on sandy hook elementary school in connecticut, a decade ago, were 20 we are the only nation in the world that has so many school shootings, that we have to rank them by body count over years and decades. let that sink in. like today shooting, the sandy hook massacre in 2012 happened at a elementary school, and in the aftermath, there was such collective national horror what had happened, that it really seemed, for a moment, like something might change. that we might actually do something. we ve gotten so used to being in this country that it is hard to remember now, but there was this genuine sense that something had finally snapped. with 21st graders
it s a poison. [ applause ] running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. [ applause ] none. look, failure in saying that is going to complicity, silence is complicity. it s complicity. we cannot remain silent. i call all americans to reject the lie, and i condemn those who spread the lie for power, political gain, and for profit. [ applause ] president joe biden s clear eyed denunciation there of white supremacy as a poison marks a return to an issue that animated and inspired his run for the presidency, what he described at the time as a battle for the soul of america. but now the new york times reports, quote, the challenge for a president who came to office preaching unity may be how to take on those preaching hate, and in the wake of the mas
the battle over abortion rights is moving to the floor of the u.s. senate. tomorrow, lawmakers are expected to vote on a democratic bill that would make those rights federal law. the first big political test comes just one week after the bombshell leak of that draft opinion, which would overturn roe v. wade. and senate democrats are making it clear, they re linking tomorrow s vote to the midterm elections. we are making sure that every, every senator will have to vote. and every, every american will see how they voted. the republican party, the maga republican party will suffer the consequences electorally, when the american people see that. we are going to remember everyone who votes against the right to an abortion. and this november, we re gonna use our voices and our votes. we re not gonna let anyone forget. they wanted on record for all our eyes to see. meanwhile, pennsylvania senator bob casey, a democrat was long supported abortion restrictions. today, he said he