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set of hearings. plus flying in without a covid test, why the cdc is dropping a international testing requirement. and the embattled uvalde, texas, police chief defending his actions over his department s response. you ll hear from him just ahead. good morning, it is saturday, june 11th. thank you so much for starting your day with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. thank you so much. each when we have to talk about what we re talking about now because this is effecting every single person watching us. no question about that. we begin with painful economic news. the national average gas price surpassing $5 a gallon for the first time ever. this is unprecedented. according to aaa. that is a 60 cents increase, the biggest price jump since 1981, more than 40 years ago. it triggered a massive sell-off on wall street and biden officials have admitted that inflation is uncomfortably high and we continue to pay more for everything. the president tried t ....
hour despite supervisor s at the scene being told that some trapped with him in two elementary school classrooms were in need of medical treatment. meaning they were alive. instead the documents show they waited for protective equipment to lower the risk to law enforcement officers. the shooter entered the school at 11:33 a.m. and began shooting into a classroom at least 100 rounds. two minutes later, three uvalde police department officers arrived, approached the class door and two received grazing wounds from the shooter. by 12:03 p.m., as many as 19 officers had gathered in the hallway they thought they now had a barricaded situation at hand. but at 12:21 there was more gunfire and the cops still did not move on the shooter. finally, at 12:50 p.m., law enforcement used a key from a janitor and breached the locked classroom, shot and killed the suspect. more than two weeks after the fact, uvalde school district police chief pete arradondo gave an interstrew the texas ....
police chief is defending his actions as questions continue to mount over his department s response to the deadly school shooting. a new saudi-backed golf league is luring some big-name golfers with some reportedly getting nine-figure payouts. what s behind the saudi strategy, and how the pga is responding. and dangerous heat is gripping part of the country. 60 million of you are under heat alerts. when we re going to start to see some relief from the triple-digit temperatures. newsroom starts right now. wish you a good morning. we are grateful to have you with us on this saturday, june 11th. happy weekend to you. i m christi paul. great to be with you, i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with a national call for gun reform. hundreds of march for our lives rallies are planned in nearly all 50 states today with activists demanding lawmakers address the epidemic of gun violence in this country. a series of high-profile mass ....
well, the most important news of the day, by which i mean, the most important news that was revealed today, and not last night at the hearing, is that clarence thomas now appears to be the most corrupted member of the united states supreme court in the court s history, because clarence thomas s wife definitely is. the most corrupt spouse of a supreme court justice in history. and she may also be a criminal, possibly guilty of federal and state crimes. the washington post reported today that virginia thomas used communication to urge members of the arizona state legislature to commit a crime, the crime of election fraud, in a federal election. that news exposes a supreme court justice s wife as possibly guilty of state and federal crimes. in any other era, that would be the only news of the day, that would dominate all television news coverage, and it would be giant front page headlines all over the country, tomorrow morning. but in this era of rampant republican crimi ....
on the u.s. capitol, that he was the central player in trying to overturn the election and that they have the evidence to prove it. over the next few weeks we will see how they meet the high bar they have set for themselves. during the primetime hearing they presented never before seen video of the violence as rioters breached the capitol and there was testimony from a u.s. capitol police officer who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the attack. republican liz cheney presented the case that trump s election lies inspired the insurrectionists alleging trump had a sophisticated seven-part of plan to overturn the election and she highlighted the former president s actions and inactions as the riot unfolded. you will hear testimony that, quote, the president did not really want to put anything out calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave. you will hear that president trump was yelling and, quote, really angry at advisers who told him he needed to be d ....