todd: we begin with america s crime crisis, shots ring out in major cities in because surgeon gun violence. jillian: a shooting in downtown dc leads two people hurt. reporter: police looking for the man accused of the shooting your popular restaurant in dc, non-life-threatening injuries from gunshot wounds. one was the apparent target but the other is an innocent bystander, several shootings in dc in recent days including a drive-by shooting that left a 6-year-old girl get along with a shooting outside the nationals ballpark. in chicago eight people were put in the hospital following a drive-by shooting involving a party bus where the shooter is on the run. most of the victims are in serious or critical condition but several other shootings happened in the city, one left a 15-year-old debt after he was shot in the head. if you pick up again, if you shoot indiscriminately into the crowd, not only will we find you but we will take you to federal court and ship you to south
something that might have been accomplished in another phone call. they ve already spoken by phone a number of times, but it was clearly important to this president who, yes, has been conducting foreign policy for 50 years, but who is only now, as president of the united states, in control of that foreign policy, an important opportunity to speak directly and look directly and to speak directly to president putin about all of this. i will say based on what we were talking about before, there are some issues from putin that you respond to proactively, there are some you maybe wait for a question to respond, and there are some things you ignore. he ticked through a number of issues right at the top. first and foremost, human rights. he asked a question about alexey navalny if he was killed under his watch. there were certainly things that had to be brought up proactively as well and is more to digest as we learn what happened behind the scenes. andrea, how will putin take bid
pieces of debris off that missing submarine in indonesia. it was full of crew members. it is saturday, april 24th. you re still laughing at that i love it. it s great. it s only the second time seeing it. it makes us cooler than sometimes we feel. that s right. thank you, boris, thank you for waking up with us. we appreciate you. always go to be with you, christi. johnson & johnson is rejoining the race as americans are worrying about signs that demand for the vaccine is dipping. but the cdc says it comes with a warning of a rare and potentially dangerous blood clot issue, noting that women under the age of 50 may have a very small risk. after a ten-day pause, the cdc advisers, decided that the benefit outweigh the dangers. new coronavirus models show the current vaccinations will help save thousands of lives by august 1st but they re worried about, quote, a slow erosion of vax seeps, that will likely outfit the demand by next may. the cdc is stepping up its
we talk a lot on this show about democracy being in peril, and after the week we ve just had, make no mistake, american democracy is certainly in grave danger. but sometimes it feels like we re talking about all of this in an abstract way. so let s talk about specifics tonight. let s look at arizona, a swing state that helped joe biden win the presidency. a state that democrats hadn t won at the presidential level since 1996. a state that in 2020 got two democratic senators for the first time since 1952. so how have arizona s republicans responded to these democratic victories? by trying to make it harder to vote, of course. meet gop state senator kelly townsend, who as chair of the senate committee on government, has broad discretion over which bills get to advance out of that committee and which get to die a slow and painful death. she s behind four of the more than two dozen bills that arizona lawmakers have submitted to make significant changes to the state s voting syste
good evening. i m mehdi hasan. we talk a lot on this show about democracy being in peril, and after the week we ve just had, make no mistake, american democracy is certainly in grave danger. but sometimes it feels like we re talking about all of this in an abstract way. so let s talk about specifics tonight. let s look at arizona, a swing state that helped joe biden win the presidency. a state that democrats hadn t won at the presidential level since 1996. a state that in 2020 got two democratic senators for the first time since 1952. so how have arizona s republicans responded to these democratic victories? by trying to make it harder to vote, of course. meet gop state senator kelly townsend, who as chair of the senate committee on government, has broad discretion over which bills get to advance out of that committee and which get to die a slow and painful death. she s behind four of the more than two dozen bills that arizona lawmakers have submitted to make significant chan