because we really have changed the world. that s on top of the string of some other very big recent wins. among them, major gun safety legislation, a computer chip bill and that veterans burn pit law. for republicans, the biggest buzz isn t on capitol hill. it s coming from cpac in texas and some of the most extreme voices in the party. the democratic party just that they were picked in this fraud election. we skipped over socialism to comism is where we re at. the joe biden economy has made it hard to families have hot dogs and that s an unacceptable thing. we re at war. we are at war. we re at a political and ideological war. in the senate every day i represent 30 million texans, and my job it s like the old coliseum where you slam on a plate and grab a battle ax and you fight the barbarians. donald trump was also there delivering the keynote speech saturday to huge applause. and the sunday straw poll show he s still the clear favorite among conservatives for 20
the country philadelphia, chattanooga, phoenix, chicago. just some of the city that is saw shootings over the weekend as families continue to grieve the 21 lives taken in the texas massacre. we ll ask congressman colin allred what more can be done at the federal level. in ukraine, russia striking kyiv with missiles for the first time in weeks. we ll take you live to ukraine. also this hour, new detailing around the fatal shooting of a retired wisconsin judge. police say the suspect was planning others. this morning marks the beginning of the summit of the americas as the white house confirms the leaders from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela will not be invited. the president of mexico said he won t be going then. we begin this very busy hour with the kase lating gun violence crisis across the u.s. at least 12 people were killed in just 48 hours. in yet another string of mass shootings. this weekend marked more deaths in the u.s. than the memorial day weekend in which nine pe
movement for women s rights. we do want to start with the president and covid as well. tomorrow president joe biden and vice president kamala harris and their spouses are going to start a whirlwind tour fanning out across battleground states to promote and explain the coronavirus relief package. with that i want to go to monica alba who s in wilmington, delaware, for us standing by with all this information. monica, good to see you this afternoon. talk us through some of the first stops of the president and the vice president and what we re expecting from them. reporter: well, this is really where you re going to see the policies start to intersect with the politics. you re going to see the president, the vice president, their spouses, cabinet officials, really fanning out all across the country from nevada and colorado to states like pennsylvania and elsewhere to tout what s in the covid relief package. everybody has seen the headlines at this point and the white house fee
the treechls. she said that would never happen. it would not work with somebody with an assault rifle the way it happened here. one thing that keeps coming up that the people talk to me about is changing the age limit like i said from 18 to 21 or even higher. i should add a person that we spoke to yesterday is a veteran and someone familiar with weapons. jose? ali, let s talk about where things stand on the talks in washington on some potential solutions. reporter: yeah. jose, the thing that is guad is talking about is not necessarily on the table. instead they focus and the same three or four policy agenda items they have been focused on since the shooting happened. school safety, mental health, red flag laws and narrower
sanders, who has already said this bill is far smaller than he wanted it to be. he wanted it to be 6 trillion at the outset of these negotiations. now it s been pared down from 1.9 to 2.2 trillion. senator manchin s number is 1 1.5 trillion. less policy priorities for the duration of this ten-year span. that s one way of doing it. progressives have long said they ve wanted to do more and maybe sunset some of the things they re trying to do here. the thinking being if you do all of the policy agenda items they want, even if it s for a shorter time, americans will see what the policies can do for them and then there will be a grassroots pressure on lawmakers to