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u.s. but first we go to london, prince harry back home to face cross-examination in court, some heated moments at times and reportedly struggling to recall some of the details he was being asked about on the stand today. and he has a first member of the royal family to give evidence in court since edward the seventh showed up to testify and a slender trial over a card game back in 1991. then princess and made an appearance in 2002 and had to plead guilty after her dog bit to two children in windsor park. so now the spotlight once again back on 38-year-old prince harry whose father is now king. he has claimed that he wants to change the british press to reformat and to prove that they have blame for basically ruining his childhood. this highly litigious couple now has at least seven lawsuits against the media. harry says that winning them is now his life s work. so how did he do? the royals reporter neil sean was in the courtroom today. first correspondent greg palkot with t
killed. phoenix, a 14-year-old girl was gunned down and 8 others shot at a strip mall in south carolina, where bullets tore through a graduation party, leaving one dead and others injured, six children. in texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. add those numbers up with the other mass shootings over the first months of 2022, and you get 240 mass shootings. let me say that again. 240 mass shootings already this year, in a year that s not even half over. what will republican governors, legislators, and members of congress do to stop the continued killing of our children in schools, our teenagers at malls, our mothers at graduation parties, our families in church, our grandmothers in supermarkets, our friends at country music festivals? it looks like nothing. nothing to speak of. i just want to know, this so-called party of life, which is anything but, when will they ever respect the life of those who are actually drawing a breath? i don t know. it looks like never. but i will
ago and now a week later more and more criticism and more and more questions over the police response and the decision to wait an hour before storming the classroom. we re waiting for updates from the department of justice on their review of thattins spo. we re also live in uvalde and in washington where president biden is saying this afternoon he plans to meet with lawmakers on gun reforms. the reality check on where those stocks stand with an emergency hill meeting on thursday with some new proposals. i m hallie jackson in washington among with our nbc news team. liz mclaughlin is live for us in texas, and our investigative reporter is on capitol hill. liz are let me start with you, this is just a horrific, you could call it a milestone and maybe another step in what s going to be a lifelong healing process perhaps for these families dealing with grief, dealing with anger about this police response. hallie, so many intense emotions here. this community will never be whole
do something about it. i beg you. show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. ch it s memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings over the last two weeks. tomorrow, president biden will travel to uvalde, texas to mourn with the community heartbroken by tuesday s massacre. 19 children, mere 4th graders slaughtered along with their two teachers. today in buffalo, new york, vice president kamala harris attended the funeral of ruth wlhitfield. she s the last to be buried. i cannot even begin to express our collective ive pain nation for what you re feeling in such an extreme way. to not only lose someone that you love but throu