I m pamela brown in washington. You re live in the cnn newsroom on this busy sunday evening and we begin this hour the same way we did last night with america s gun violence epidemic but with a completely new set of shootings to tell you about and that should say all you need to know about the crisis getting harder to ignore. Nine states are grappling with mass shootings as the u. S. Nears 300 incidents this year in which four or more people were shot excludeing the shooter and as the summer arrives, police departments and communities across the country are bracing for this cycle to keep repeating with no help from politicians and washington expected to come any time soon. Cnn evan is tracking these stories once again for us. Tonight, this trend sadly continues this weekend, devin. Reporter: that s right, pam. A lot of us are looking forward to this summer to take our mask off, congregate again and do the things we like to do but there is another public health crisis touching more and
That complex, you will often hear about it first from a congressman from ohio named tim ryan, the reason why he is very tuned into what is going on is because congressman ryan runs a committee in congress that specifically has responsibility for overseeing and funding the capital police. Congressman tim ryan is the closest thing that congress has to a point person on that issue, on that police force. Today, as that point person, with that expertise and experience, congressman ryan basically lost his mind a little bit. I want to thank the gentleman from new york in the other republicans who are supporting this and thank them for their bipartisanship, to the other 90% of our friends on the other side of the aisle, holy cow, incoherence. No idea what you re talking about, you guys chased the former secretary of state all over the country and spend millions of dollars. We have people scaling the capital, hitting the capitol police with a lead pipes across the head and we can t get bipartis
January. Does he feel that way now, with just two days to go for the mayoral primary. I m going to ask a member of congress why there s moment actual to veto that measure now, and how exactly should it be replaced. Also this there are many things that are open to debate in america, but the right of all eligible citizens to vote is not one of them. Attorney general merrick garland making it clear on the right to vote, and the senate set to vote on legislation to uphold that principle, yet states are extending their power over election. What one organization is doing to combat the assault on voting rights. Also, the growing interests over the supreme court voting on obamacar, allowing the aca to be the law of the land. Why this ultimately leads back to donald trump and the curious legacy he leaves in washington, d. C. The intriguing way connecticut residents make their way into adulthood and whether it can be scaled at the national level. We are following breaking news in southcentral al
That math at this hour is if that s going to happen, that would mean that some republicans would have to change their minds over the course of the afternoon and evening because john thune, who s technically the vote counter on the republican side, he announced confidently today we have the votes, we have the votes to block this. So i agree with you. I think it is possible because this is just an extraordinary thing for the republicans to be voting against. So there might be some republican senators at this hour who are struggling with this decision, but it would have to be a change of mind among some of them at least from this afternoon when john thune was 100% confident, he and mitch mcconnell, have the votes to block this. I m unclear as to what the glory is in that, in winning that battle, but a lot of things confuse me. You know more about these thins than i do so i look forward to your analysis this evening. Have yourself a great show and i ll talk to you next week. Thank you, ali
Massacre. A white mob killed a thriving black community. They said that two of the last living survivors and to make a new push to try to narrow the racial wealth divide in the country. A vote other voting rights governor greg abbot threatening to cut off paychecks if they keep blocking a voting restrictions bill. So what happens next? i m hallie jackson. Shannon pettypiece is outside of the white house. Antonia, you re there in tulsa. Talk to us about what s happening where you are. What is happening at oak lawn cemetery which i think is behind you. We re going to see researchers and archaeologists go to a back corner and begin a highly amendmented archaeological dig where they re going to excavate human remains they believe may be victims of the 1921 race massacre. They re going to bring the bodies up to study and identify and potentially connect them to family members. So what that looks like is bringing heavy machinery, a backhoe that is already on site, bring it on to the grounds,