nationwide calling for tighter gun laws. march for your life rallies are scheduled for today. some locations underway right now like in d.c. rally-goers reknewing cries for addressing the gun violence epidemic after a series of mass shootings and cnn is covering events across the country and i want to begin with brian todd at the capitol. hi, brian. things are just kicking off where you are? reporter: that is right, amara. the crowd gathering, several hundred strong with the riser and with the white house in the background. we ve talked to several people in the crowd about the general mood as we come out of the horrible shootings in uvalde and buffalo, and it is the mood of being fed up with the gun violence taking place in the country. especially lately. four years after parkland, a lot of them feel like enough is not being done. rackon brown is about to get up here and speak in a few minutes. and he s a survivor of gun violence in d.c. we should add. what is the message t
barksdale, a cnn law enforcement analyst and the former acting police commissioner for baltimore. so much to talk about, anthony. i just want to start with the comments that arredondo made to the texas tribune that he never considered himself the scene incident commander saying i wasn t in charge and he assumed another official had taken control of the larger response and he took on the role as a frontline responder and that makes me wonder well did he do his job as a frontline responder then. who do you make of these comments. does it make any sense to you? it makes no sense to me. his excuses are sickening. it makes no sense. so if he assumed that someone else was incident commander, and he wants to say that he went inside with the teams and he stepped up, then why didn t he give the green light to do other things to get into that room and eliminate the active shooter. so if he wants to well
everything that came out of her mouth was just exaggerations. she never mentioned that to me at all. that was something that i was very surprised to see. i was very surprised to see her making these accusations because she had never, ever mentioned that to me at all. laura: now, you filed a restraining order in march of 2001 after these threats. you said in repeated phone calls to you, threatening you, and your unborn child and your family. but you never follow through with it. you never appeared in court. if you were so threatened by julie swetnick, your ex-girlfriend, then why didn t you follow through? that is a question that everybody is asking. the reason i didn t was because i knew that i would have to see her again. i talked at that time to my family, and we decided not to do anything. not to follow through.
i don t understand what s so kpli complicated about this unless you re trying to hide things. giuliani this morning said it s very clear that president trump hasn t violated any campaign finance laws over this payment. he said the payment would have been made regardless of the presidential campaign, and even if it had been campaign related it wasn t a loan or expenditure because the president reimbursed it. is that right? no, that s not right. rudy giuliani evidently doesn t he claims to not know the facts, but he most assuredly does not know campaign finance law. that s not campaign finance law. rudy giuliani seems to believe that if the payment was not made with campaign dollars that somehow there is no campaign finance violation. that s not the law. i think it s clear that, look, if this $130,000 reimbursement was all aboveboard and they weren t trying to hide anything or trying to skirt campaign finance law, then why didn t the president just write a check or send a wire for
case of the united states senator who campaigned for her a year ago to jump up and down and say, i can t serve next to this man when she just provided cover for someone accused of rape, knowingly provided cover, where s the credibility, honestly? i think the credibility is and what she s again, i m not affiliated with kristen gillett brand. tucker: not your fault, just a sincere question. i think she feels sincerely about the issues. she certainly led the conversation on military sexual assault. i think this is something she personally feels very strongly about. tucker: then why didn t she say anything when it mattered. franken doesn t matter. he ll be replaced by someone else, it s all fine. but it mattered last year when a woman who attacked self-described victims is running for president and everyone gave her cover. she didn t do anything.