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passed a spending package in an attempt to avert a government shutdown with just hours left before the midnight deadline. and plus the deepening dwid over the next phase in gaza. benjamin netanyahu insisting that military operation in rafah is the only way to defeat hamas. secretary blinken saying it could have the opposite effect. and donald trump attorneys insisted neither he are nor in-else is able to came cover the nearly half a billion dollars. but he may have it after all it so what is going on? and we want to begin with the breaking news as another potential battle for speaker of the house unfolds. last hour republican marjorie taylor greene filed a motion to oust speaker mike johnson. today i filed a motion to vacate after speaker johnson has portrayed our conference. it is time to choose a new speaker. and this is right after the house passed a bill to finish stopping a shutdown. and more members voted against it than for it. this is just other five m ....
i will start with this. i will ask my caller sees if they want to comment as well. audible systemic failures. we don t try to compare, contrast, whatsoever. we laid out the basic facts as we were charged to do. what i said early on about law enforcement, the officers that no or should have known this wasn t active shooter situation should have done more. we are very clear on that. not every officer on the scene had that same information and had that same opportunity to comply with their training. one of the things this committee has not done, we are a three-person committee go through and determine which law enforcement personnel new what, what did they know and when they knew it. i think that that will take many months to go through all the different video, body camera footage and figure out, i think there are other investigatory arms trying to figure out what this person knew, when they knew it and what did they do with it. i think you will need all of that. we do s ....
by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] ahead of the report. the graphic footage was edited into shorter clips with some audio removed. it shows police response that day or lack thereof which critics have slammed since its release. the new report reveals there were actually nearly 400 officers who all responded that fatal day from federal, state, and local agencies. about 90 of them were state police. nearly 150 border patrol were there. about two dozen uvalde city police officers and more than a dozen sheriff s deputies and five school district police officers. this was unprecedented for so many reasons. the number of law enforcement that arrive on that day and that police chief that made a fatal decision not to send them in. the police chief square one right there. the question is, should the law enforcement officers known better to storm the building and ignore their chief? the answer is yes. ever since columbine, we don t wait. i want to be clear to the a ....
six months to plan. and brittney griner is returning to a russian courtroom as she is possibly learning her fate in a russian penal system. welcome to the lead with jake tapper. house speaker nancy pelosi is in taiwan and ignoring weeks of learning from president biden and threats of retaliation from the chinese government, and she says it is america s unwavering commitment to the american democracy which china views as inseparable part of its territory. and president biden said that the u.s. military does not believe it is a good idea for her to visit and it would and could increase tensions between beijing and washington, but president biden stopped short of instructing her not to go. and short of her arrival, there was a sign that flashed welcome to taiwan, speaker nancy pelosi. and china was furious. the foreign minister renewed xi jinping s warning that she was playing with fire in taiwan and added that those who play with fire shall surely perish by it. ....
pyromaniacs and saboteurs are the republican words about his colleagues responsible for removing the speak e of the house, and now furious phone calls in a fight the replace the speaker, and what we are hearing from those jumping into the race now. and reversal of president biden now supporting a new barrier on the mexican border. a massive strike in ukraine today, and the deadliest russian strike in ukraine for over a year. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, and this is cnn news central. this morning, the house is essentially frozen and unable to legi legislate, because it has no leader. the house members have gone home to their districts and that means any legislative work is stalled until the house republicans can come together to elect a new speaker to replace kevin mccarthy ho ohio s jim jon and steve scalise say they will take the job, but the road to 218 votes is fraught. this is what one republican congressman told john berman last hour. ....