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the negotiations are done. the bill is written. now with just days until the united states runs out of money, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are rushing to sell the debt ceiling deal to their parties. an attack on ukraine s capital city hours after a nighttime assault. schoolchildren forced to run to shelter and cars dodge missile debris on busy city streets. on this memorial day, an emotional reunion as a group of vietnam veterans are reunited for the first time in decades. they recount the story of what bonds them, being prisoners of war being held captive in bamboo tiger cages. welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m bianna golodryga in for jake tapper. we start with the scramble in washington, d.c. to avoid an economic catastrophe, after house speaker kevin mccarthy and president biden struck a deal. republican and democratic leaders are waging a campaign to get as many members on board as possible. both facing revolts. as cnn s jere ....
the lead starts right now. allen, texas, joining the ranks of columbine, aurora, parkland, new town, another town whose name is synonymous with a mass shooting. two young sisters were just identified as victims as we re learning more about the gunman s extremist background into which authorities are looking. and new video obtained exclutively by cnn. bystanders trying to hold down the man accused of plowing his range rovers into a group of migrants. plus, just in time for summer travel, the new proposed rule to give you a refund if you re bumped from your next flight. welcome to lead. i m jake tapper. another day. another deadly mass shooting in america. over the weekend a man gunned down several people at a mall in allen, texas. police are investigating whether a gunman killed by the cop at the scene was motivated by right wing extremism. this is not a monthly occurrence in the united states. it is not a weekly occurrence in the united states. this is now hap ....
europe and north africa. details in a live report from rome . an overall la video showed h officers responded after entering hallways in robb elementary on that fateful day in may. texas statehouse investigators released this 77-page preliminary report sunday. it outlines a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies. cnn s rosa flores is in uvalde with the details. reporter: according to this report, there were just so many systemic and catastrophic failures on multiple levels by law enforcement. let me take you through this report, a portion of it. according to this report, the school police chief pete arradondo wrote the active shooter policy for this school. he wrote his name as the incident commander, but then he didn t take the role on that ill-fated day on may 24th. according to this report, arradondo even chose the administration office to be the command post, but, again, according to this report, he didn t take that role. now, this report goes o ....
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we ....
president trump, was at the center of the conspiracy to overturn the election of joe biden. the committee says it will connect the dots between trump s lies and the violence at the capitol. aides have amassed a mountain of new information. lauren fox is live on capitol hill for us. what are you expecting? how are things going to be playing out? well, kate, this is all going to kick off with opening statements from thompson, the committee chairman, and the top republican on the committee, liz cheney. we re told from aides they are going to run this hearing. they will do most of the talking. there s three areas that they are going to explore tonight. some of which is unseen to the public previously. one of the areas, they are going to play some video from the private and closed door depositions and interviews they did with trump family members and campaign officials, white house aides. we expect that is going to make an impact here. we know there s going to be previous un ....