Chair is declare the subcommittee will come to order. We welcome anyone to this mornings hearing. Substantial threats to Gun Violence and Mass Shootings. Address and Distribution List dedicated to circulating exhibits motions or other written materials that members might want to offer as apartment of our Hearing Today. If you would like to submit materials please send them to email address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials the members and staff as quickly as we can. I would also ask all members to mute your myophone when youre not speaking. This will help prevent feedback and other technical issues. You may unmute yourself any time you seek recognition and as well when youre speaking you may not have your mask. I will now recognize myself for an ongoing of this hearing for an Opening Statement. Were here today on may 20th, 2021, when throughout america states have rates of death by guns of 12, 15, 22 of our population. America stil
Subcommittee will come to order without objection the chair is declare recesses the Sub Committee any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing. And unending crisis the central steps to reducing Gun Violence and man shootings. Before we begin i would like to remind members that we have established an Email Address and Distribution List dedicated to circulating exhibits motions or other written materials that members might want to offer as apartment of our Hearing Today. If you would like to submit materials please send them to Email Address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials the members and staff as quickly as we can. I would also ask all members to mute your myophone when youre not speaking. This will help prevent feedback and other technical issues. You may unmute yourself any time you seek recognition and as well when youre speaking you may not have your mask. I will now recognize myself for an ongoing of this hearing fo
doubts today. about whether they could accomplish that invasion. as china, russia, united states reached a critical point in the ukraine war. the cia says beijing s having second thoughts about potentially invading taiwan. and a significant from the head of fox move. rupert murdoch acknowledging the hosts on his network promoted election lies. what this means for the billion dollar lawsuit against fox news. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the. world i m wolf blitzer and this is a special edition of the situation room. tonight, major new questions right at the center of a deadly coronavirus pandemic. that may change so many lives. where did covid-19 come from? the white house weighing in the same thing on the u.s. energy departments assessment. that the lethal virus most likely came from a lab leak in china. emphasis on the caveat here. cnn sources tell us that the assessment comes with quote, low confidence. tonight they say withi
. look, i have no intention of meeting with him, but if he came to me at the g20 and said i want to talk about the release of griner, i would meet with him, probably. it depends. he s acted brutally, he s committed war crimes. i don t see any rational to meet with him. good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m brianna keilar here with john berman. president biden is also sending the russian leader a chilling warning. follow through with your threat to use a tactical nuclear weapon against ukraine and it could end in armageddon. biden said that putin totally miscalculated by invading ukraine but he believes the russian president is a rational actor. jake tapper asked president biden what a u.s. response might look like if putin deploys a nuclear arsenal. there have been discussions on that, but i m not going to get into that. it would be irresponsible for me to talk about what we would or wouldn t do. have you asked the pentagon to game it out just
you are in the, cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house president biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, we re turning from delaware to meet with his national security council over rising tensions in the middle east. us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and israeli forces on high alert. and we ve already seen some aggression this morning as ronnie and forces seized a container ship with ties to an israeli businessman. it was intercepted in the strait of hormuz. the only shipping routes that connects the persian gulf to the open ocean and joining us now senior white house house reporter kevin liptak and senior international correspondent been wedeman. let s talk to kevin first. we know the president is on the way back to the white house. how is it responding to this moment? as israe