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
can i get can i get a connection? ohhh can i get a connection? trying find the old me welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, insider rumors fly as the president prepares to make a primetime announcement about the supreme court. plus, alan dershowitz joins me live. we ll get his top tips for summering on martha s vineyard, oh, and also talk about the president s evolving legal strategy in the mueller probe. plus, some actual good news as divers emerge with some of the boys that stranded that soccer team alive.
we ll get a report on the ground as monsoon rains fall and thai navy seals prepare to go in again. but first we are just over 24 hours away from president trump s primetime announcement of his pick to replace anthony kennedy on the supreme court. by the way, for those of you watching at home, abc says it is prepared to break into the bachelorette to bring you that news. president sa
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
The senate towards small states , that group that minority distinct minority of the country effectively has a veto over us being able to act. you know, wolf if you look at it, the 20 states that have the most highest per capita gun ownership send 32 republicans to the senate. the 20 states that has the lowest per capita gun under send 20 democrats. the difference is that the states with the lowest gunner should have 190 million people, and those were the smallest have only 70 million people in the senate. they have equal weight, and that s why we are stuck without some change in the filibuster. we are simply never going to act again. i think on meaningfully on gun control. dana as you know, the florida governor ron desantis, who himself is also a potential republican presidential candidate. he s visiting virginia and new hampshire today after signing a six week abortion ban, but he barely mentioned that bill over at liberty university. why is that? why is it that he signed the
Direct if i, jake. all right, pete 19, thank you so much. i will see you this sunday on state of the union. i m going to talk to the republican governor. of georgia, brian kemp plus democratic senator kirsten gillibrand from new york. that s at nine am and noon eastern on sunday morning. until then, you can follow me on facebook. instagram twitter at jake tapper. you can tweet the show at the lead cnn if you ever miss an episode of the show, you know by now you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts all two hours just sitting there like a big, delicious bowl of fettuccini alfredo, our coverage continues now with one mr wolf blitzer. right next door in a place i like to call the situation room. i will see you sunday morning. happening now the suspect in the pentagon intelligence leak now stands charged with two federal crimes after his first court appearance , court documents revealing the air national guardsman top secret clearance and the high level of classified material t