in akron, ohio, as outrage grows over the police shooting of jayland walker. jaylan good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire. there s been yet another mass shooting in america. this time, on the nation s birthday. six people were killed and 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park, an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing, when seemingly out of nowhere, people started running. other footage caught the sound of the gunfire. and a warning. it is jarring. it i that video shows a series of shots you just heard, it was followed by a second round, lasted about seven seconds. the gunman on top of a roof, with a high-powered rifle. parade-goers scattered in all directions, leaving behind chairs, toys, baby strollers, and blankets. here s one witness describing the scene. the parade started, the marching band had just passed, i heard a pop, pop, pop, all in quick succe
way. president biden serving up jokes on the white house lawn yesterday. so the votes are in. they ve been counted and verified. there s no ballot stuffing. there s no foul play. the only red wave this season is going to be a german shepherd who knocks over the cranberry sauce on our table. i here by pardon chocolate and chip. gentle ribbing from president biden. later that day the president and first lady, jill biden, went to north carolina to thank troops for their service. that was during a friendsgiving dinner. your parents when you re deployed, they don t know, your spouses don t know for sure. every single day they worry about you. every single moment. we owe them too. a big debt of gratitude. absolutely true. he joked he was serving mashed potatoes so come on down. switching gears now to the
work together. you all heard what happened, you all heard what happened today. and each day, we re reminded, there s nothing guaranteed about our democracy. nothing guaranteed about our way of life. we have to fight for it. defend it. and earn it. by voting. speaking from the white house lawn yesterday, that was president biden briefly addressing the shooting in highland park, illinois. later, he held a moment of silence for the victims. six people have passed and others are wounded, but we have a lot more work to do, we ve got to get this under control. we ve got to get this under control. and having said that, i just want to keep a slight moment of silence for all of those families. joining us now, the president of every town for gun safety, the organization the largest gun violence prevention group in the united states.
pressure campaign against law make ers and people who might have information against whistle blowers e you re seeing that meet a will the of resilot of resistance. i think that s something that waying heavieighs heavily on t t president s mind as the democrats try to unravel the campaign that he and rudy giuliani waged in ukraine and certainly the arrest of giuliani s two associates this week plays into that. mauer ra, get us up to speed on this in what s been an exhausting week with so much. these popped up in the new york times this morning. southern district of new york vesting rudy giuliani for the role he played. involved in getting that ak ambassador from ukraine brought back to the united states. when you have a president incapable of saying whether rudy giuliani is his personal attorney, he was hedging on the white house lawn yesterday. well this issing connected to the story that happened earlier this week in which two giuliani associates were arrested on their way to th
that is absolutely correct. so are you saying so let me ask you this. for centuries. okay. so, from what you have read and what you have seen from the texts, from the system, from the readout of the phone call, from the whistleblower complaint and on and on, do you think that the president did something illegal? well, certainly. when he stood on the lawn yesterday and asked china directly, and we know that he asked ukraine in that phone call to interfere in our election, to dig up dirt on a political opponent, absolutely. that is so you think the evidence is there? that is prima facie illegal. so you think the evidence is there because people are saying, we need more evidence. we need to do this. you think the evidence is already there? my reading is that he has he has admitted that that was