the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden has started trying to convince voters that a much-needed victory for his agenda is a win for them as well. the senate approving the democrats flagship economic package. let s go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlin collins. final passage is expected in the house of representatives later this week. it will be a very big moment for the president. reporter: it absolutely will, wolf, because it s been a very tough few months for this white house. so this is a welcome change of pace for many of the officials, including president biden as they are now cruising into what appears to be the passage of this major piece of legislation. you re right, going to the house later this week and then the white house hopes on to president biden s desk for his signature. while the bill is very different from what democrats were negotiating over just last summer, wolf, it is still something that is we
seven people killed, 30 more injured. authorities the suspect had two prior run-ins with law enforcement. in 2019, an individual contacted state departments of the week after learning of them attempting suicide. a mental health professional at that time the second incident, he said that he was going to kill everyone, and police responded they removed knives, a dagger, and a sword from his home. two rifles, some pistols, possibly a shotgun. also saying this 21-year-old and had planned the attack for weeks in advance. nobody caught including posting disturbing images of videos. unfortunately, it does not end there. 60 people workshop in chicago 68 people were shot in chicago.g no time to go directly after them. each day, we are reminded there is nothing guaranteed about our democracy, about our way of life. defended and earned by voting must not carry assault weapons. i don t think a single one of them would have said that you have a constitutional right
elementary school auto could have been stopped within three minutes if it wasn t for the indivisiveness of the on scene commander. in a special hearing with the texas senate, the state s director of public safety testified that police had everything they needed to take the shooter down minutes after he entered the school. at least seven officers were in the building. at least two of them had rifles. and the classroom door was likely never locked. instead, uvalde school district police chief peter aday dough ordered everyone to stay back and wait one error 1 hour and 14. that s how long the children waited torres could youd. and while they waited, the on site commander waited for radio and rifles and he waited for shield and then he waited for swat. lastly he waited for a key that was never needed. he also pushed back on jeff arredondo s handling of the response and insistence on the need to wait despite some officers openly questioning the decision not to immediately storm
we don t need to. let s pass these laws, and that s my good frustration. a sitting here, knowing, maybe not the next shooter, the shooter after that, we are forced to cover. like the rest of the american media. unlike any other industrialized country that has as many problems, but not as many guns. they don t cover the stuff, chris. the problem is, we have more guns sold without the appropriate infrastructure, and we know the answers. so let s fix it. and chris murphy have said to you, tonight, he wants to. the democrats have the apparatus to change it. and you know what, if we can t get expanded brady laws through the senate, then maybe route to fix the filibuster, because of stopping a lot of other things. i think from me, as a mom, it s very hard. because there are people sitting here in our country tonight who did drop off their kids in the state of texas. and they will never see them again. that is something that never ever ends. and for me, it really star democracy in o
capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t