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first began to establish the solo career to have hits that also seemed to communicate her life story, it just gave an added residence, and led people to embrace her even more as those songs hit the charts. the queen of rock n roll, tina turner has died at the age of 83. eric deggans, thank you very much. that does it this hour. our coverage continues with alex witt right now. very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we are staying with this story. one of rock n roll s most famous voices has died. tina turner passing away at the age of 83. according to a statement from her spokesperson, just listed this afternoon, she died following a long illness. she was at her home in switzerland. turner s career, of course, spanned more than 60 years ago. she has put out instant hits like river deep, mountain high, she won a told of eight grammy awards, including a lifetime achievement award in 2018. she had a musical on broadway that was done all a ....
russian soldiers calling putin s invasion a, quote, absolute hell. a six-month exclusive investigation by the reporter who exposed the russians behind alexei navalny s poisoning. wait until you see what he is going to show you tonight. he is one of the republican s biggest targets, a top democrat in charge of getting democrats elected. and now he could be taken down by someone who is not a household name, yet. and american teacher mark vogel was sentenced to 14 years in russia for marijuana possession. he s now believed to be on his way to a secret russian penal colony where he will be subjected to hard labor. his sister anne is my guest. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a new and bigger threat to the united states from putin. top official with russia s foreign ministry tonight warning that american commercial satellites could be a target because of america s aid for ukraine. it is a direct threat from russia to the un ....
1972. these anniversaries are somber for him and sacred as well, and one that he knows and shares the painful experience with those families in uvalde today as well. i am reminded, having covered the sandy hook school shooting in december of 2012. and the difficulties of that and the question that you thought in the immediate after math of that with the mansion/toomey bill, did not pass with an april vote. i remember going up to both senators, privileged to go to the white house correspondents dinner, and i begged them to put it back up there and push for it, and keep going. here we are. the question has to be asked, if not now, when. i m joined by guad venegas, nbc news correspondent who s unfortunately having to join me from uvalde, texas, where i imagine it is a remarkably difficult day there for the families. i know you ve spoken with some of them. how are they even beginning to get through this day. what are they telling you? ....
Those kids in sandy hook in connecticut and nothing happened. so i think in some ways you find in joe biden someone who has looked at the history of what happened at the congressional level over these last years and is really looking at the states and you do see some movement in states, places like california, places like washington stayed and maryland as well. you have this situation where there is a narrow majority, not even really a majority, a deadlock in the senate. you have a bill that has passed out of the house, but it doesn t look like there s going to be any movement out of the senate. joe manchin of the joe manchin/toomey bill in 2013, he has expressed an interest in bringing that up, a much naoer bill that looks at expanded background checks, but, listen there, doesn t seem to be the environment and the political will, the bipartisan will to get something done on this. and commissioner, 63 of 66 ....
There s some chance of a compromise here is what we know, andrea. we know the attorney general bill barr and the white house legislative affairs director were here on the hill yesterday, meeting with key republican lawmakers over this measure that would expand background checks consistent with the manchin/toomey bill. right now most americans live in states where anybody, even people with a violent background, a criminal background, can purchase a gun from an unlicensed seller whether at a gun show or an unlicensed sale. at the moment there is general consensus, i don t want to oversell it, but there is broad agreement on the hill, the doj is behind it the sticking point is still the white house, president trump has not signaled what he will support. sources tell us the white house adviser running point on this, michael williams, his background, he used to work for ....