country. as the summer travel season heats up, the average price for gallon of gas hits $5 for the first time ever. i m pamela brown, you re in the cnn newsroom. hello, every one. great to have you along with us on this saturday night. more than 20 million americans tuned in thursday night as the house select me investigating the january 6th capitol attacks opened the hearings in prime time. the narrative that former president trump was at the center of wide ranging conspiracy to stay in office. the members used dramatic footage and chilling testimony to make their points. capital police officer offer car line edwards recalled slipping on the plood of her fellow officers during the assault. documentary film maker following the proud boys said he watch the crowd transform tr protesters to rioters to insurrectionists. thursday s hearing was just for starters. cnn senior crime and justice reporter has more. tell us what the committee has in story for cothe coming week. eve
law enforcement reversed what was the initial statement about this. we covered these type of incidents before. there is room, of course, for monday morning quarterbacking and room to update information as it comes in. if you watched the news, you are familiar with that process. but there are some aspects of this painful story that are getting extra scrutiny today. a statement update says now no school official confronted the shooter outside the school. that s a change. the shooter was able to walk in through an unlocked door. 11:40, he walks into the west side of robb elementary. multiple rounds. numerous rounds were discharged in the school. four minutes later, local police departments, uvalde police department, finished the school district marred are inside. making entry. was there a school officer on campus and was that school officer armed? because that s what we have been told. so at this time no. also newly revealed video from that terrible day, what you see her
Deadly air strikes leave 20 people dead, mostly children. Here at home, texas Immigration Law with stop and frisk is spreading to other states. Lets do it. Est in the president ial election hit a near low. 64 of registered voters say they have a highlevel interest of the election. On the face it might not sound alarming until you realize it was slower than nbc news found at the same point in time four years ago and during every election cycle before it, going all of the way back to 2008. This after america juggles twiceis, here and abroad the growing war as tensions over the israeli hamas war and the volatile situation abroad is contributing to rising inflation and gas prices for americans. Meanwhile, trump reported to a manhattan courthouse four times this week at the start of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President. Come november, he could become the first to be convicted of a crime. That conviction would not bar him from running to become our president the second t
hi, everyone, we made it to friday. it s 4:00 in new york. the very first person to earn the dubious of being first of the republican party is at this very moment playing a game of chicken with the rule of law with practically every prominent member of the gop either silenced or acting at his henchman, the ex-president is talking like a mob boss, amping up his threats of retaliation against his perceived political opponents and enemies in the wake of his conviction on 34 felony counts for concealing a scheme to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. over the course of a single day, trump openly mused about revenge, not once, not twice, but three times. even when he was practically begged to back off the threats by friendly interviewers. watch. i think you have so much to do, you don t have time to get even. you only have time to get right. well, revenge does take time, i will say that. it does. and sometimes revenge can be justified, but sometimes it can t
journey through the criminal justice system. reporting in the new york times that lays out the challenge for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg as he contemplates his sentencing recommendation for the ex-president. trump was convicted of class e felony, the lowest level in the state and could be sentenced to probation or up to four years in prison. alternately what is known as split sentence is possible with a relatively brief amount of time spent in the city jail in advance of a probationary determination. expected to be a factor in trump s sentencing, quote, the fact that michael cohen, one of the exto he can tors. he pointed out that trump s