plus, on the trail. as candidates make their pitch to voters, one democrat goes all in on a major issue. i am pro-choice and i am going to be governor because of my commitment to the women of georgia. what s the winning strategy for november? democratic nominee for georgia governor stacey abrams joins me ahead. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is watching the u.s. senate pull an all-nighter. you are looking at live pictures of the senate floor where tired lawmakers are still voting. after more than nine hours of all-night debate on the democrats sweeping tax, health and climate package. saturday vice president kamala harris cast a tie-breaking vote. right now democrats are trying to remain united as republicans and bernie sanders offer up amendments to the bill. i want to go straight to capitol hill and cnn s chief congressional correspondent manu raju. manu, you have been up all night. you don t look it, but you ve been up all night with
this is something out of a gangster movie. the star witness in a dramatic trial who has damning information about the boss, contacted by someone who may be trying to intimidate them, to keep them telling what they know. sources are telling us that is exactly what happened to cassidy hutchinson. three sources telling cnn that hutchinson was one of the witnesses trump world tried to influence, which tells you a whole lot about what they thought about her testimony. right? the committee so concerned about her security that they kept her identity a secret leading up to the hearing. in the wake of her block buster testimony, we may be about to learn a whole lot more with the subpoena for pat cipollone who knows what was going on behind those closed doors at the white house before, during and after the january 6. we are also learning more about the lengths trump world may be willing to go to. liz cheney saying two unnamed witnesses told the committee they heard from people in the f
systematic failures and egregiously poor decision-making resulted in more than an hour of confusion and chaos before police finally confronted and then killed the gunman who had murdered 19 children and 2 teachers. the victims family members got a copy of the report before it went public. vincent salazar, whose granddaughter, you probably remember her picture, was among those young children killed. he reacted with skepticism. we re not going to get the truth. because there is cover-up. everybody s throwing everybody under the bus. the only ones that ain t under the bus is because they re six feet in the ground now, and that s our children. and the two teachers. it is unimaginable heartbreak for these families. it goes on and on. also detailed in this report, major, major lapses in school security leading up to the shooting, including broken locks and a, quote, culture of noncompliance with safety policies. also even poor wi-fi that may have delayed the lockdown alert. we
call, it does send a signal that democrats are very galvanized behind that. and we can t wait until the 11th hour before the general election to get out the vote. so, i know of social conservative organizations that are getting bus tours ready, get out the vote efforts, volunteer groups to galvanize the pro-life community to get them out to vote. early on in the general election process. but this was certainly an opportunity for us to realize that democrats are just as motivated about this as we have been on supreme court justices for the past decade. so, both sides are really looking at that is an opportunity to buckle up and get out the vote. let me bring someone else in the conversation, cnn political commentator paul welcome to the conversation. harry enten you know, data as i call him, cnn numbers crunchers, he s an he crunch these numbers for us. he said democrats have now outperformed biden in 2020 and each of the four house special elections since roe was overturn
growing anger and frustration in south texas and around the country following the release of new information and images concerning the law enforcement response to the uvalde school shooting. the latest report spreads blame for the failure to intervene across multiple agencies. senior correspondent casey stegall is in uvalde tonight. good evening, casey. bret, good evening. uvalde s mayor decided to release the body camera footage from the city police and it came after the texas house committee that was tasked with investigating this tragedy made public a 77 page report highlighting a series of failures that morning here. shots fired. get inside. go, go, go. 11:36 a.m. three minutes after the gunman entered robb elementary school, uvalde police are already on scene. one minute later. [gunfire] suspect fires at officers. positioned in the hallway and they retreat. at 11:38. an update goes out over the radio. he is armed inside this building. we have him contained. c