the u. s supreme court temporarily. as the justices review the case. justice samuel alito issuing the order just hours before new restrictions were set to go into effect, and donald trump just spoke to the national rifle association, one of a slew of current and potential republican presidential candidates making pitches to the group today we re breaking down the gop message on guns after the latest mass shootings. and as the 2024 campaign clearly heats up, welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight we re getting a fuller picture of the suspected pentagon leaker and the crimes he s accused of committing after his first court appearance in boston, cnn national correspondent jason carroll is on the story for us. we haven t jack to share his family leaving federal accord in boston this afternoon, refusing to answer any questions the 21 year old massachusetts air national guardsman made his first
States during the 1st 104 days of this year. what impact is that? having on the cases that these republican hopefuls are making right now? but look, i think our crisis questions of gun violence is fundamentally a crisis of majority rule. uh there is no issue on the structure of american politics is a greater inherent the majority working. it will then on gun control. look at the key elements. universal background checks about capacity magazine. um there is majority support, not only among democrats who do and don t own guns, this majority support in polling, even among republicans who own guns. the only group that opposes these ideas at a majority level are republican gun owners and because of the influence of the nra, inside the republican party and the bias of