it is 10:00 at night here and los angeles. we will get you up-to-date because breaking news continues, fbi last hour and pennsylvania state police finished their news conference, lasted about 27 minutes and they said there was no red flag, no information that led them to believe this incident might happen today. again, a lot of focus on a building that was to the right of the stage where the former president was holding his rally. that building right there is a class and plastics fauci, they make drinking containers and their and that is where the shooter was, as they said, the shooter was taken out, he was killed on that building just seconds after he fired what many are saying at least seven or eight shots for the president, toward the crowd on the stage. that location is 130 yards from the stage the former president was located and the reporting is, and we have not confirmed this door has the fbi confirmed this, the reporting is it was a high-powered semiautomatic weapon f
decision like that without talking to his colleagues, knowing the impact of what he would be doing. but is there something larger here? there is a report out tonight that s other that other democrats were preparing tomorrow to do similar things, but we are stuck in a standoff. michael schmidt, thank you for joining us tonight, that is the show for this evening, now it is time for last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. at the end of that press conference, i really had to wonder, why aren t they doing a lot more of these? that is about as comfortable as he is going to get in terms of dealing with the reporters and being in his subject expertise territory. it just made me wonder, why haven t we seen that more often? well, there were moments where it looked like he might have been enjoying himself a little bit. yes, and we are going to show some of those during this hour. thank you, alex. there has been a lot of speculation in the news media about something the
a trillion plus dollar divide among democrats threatens to stop the biden domestic agenda dead in its tracks. new and sobering cnn pictures from the border. thousands-of-haitian migrants made in a makeshift refugee camp under a bridge. the biden plan is to send them home. we begin though with the coronavirus and two giant developments. the white house today announcing it will lift covid travel restrictions and allow fully vaccinated international visitors into the united states starting in november. more on that big news in a moment. first though, welcome news for parents. this morning pfizer releasing trial results it says show its covid vaccine is safe and highly effective in children ages 5 to 11. pfizer says it will now submit that data to the government and apply for emergency authorization by the end of the month. if that fda review goes smoothly some 28 million children could be eligible for vaccination by halloween or soon after. we re hopeful and expectant that the
also in the programme philippine boxing champion turned politician manny pacquiao confirms he will run for president next year. and the first civilian space crew to orbit the earth returns safely after their three day mission. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and two am in moscow, where initial results from russia s marathon three day elections show president putin s party on course to retain its parliamentary majority. the central election commission says with 25 percent of the ballots counted, united russia hasjust over 44 percent of the vote. that s down from more than 54% at the last elections in 2016. few critics of the kremlin were allowed to run with supporters ofjailed opposition leader alexei navalny among those affected. from moscow, steve rosenberg reports. there s something different about a russian election. polling stations turn into musicals. buses turn into polling stations. we found this one just outside of moscow. we asked why a bus? we asked