kind of. at a brand-new taco bell in suburban minneapolis, drive-through customers received their food from the sky or rather via mini elevators from a kitchen above the drive-through lanes. taco bell says the design is a response to the way fast food orders have changed during the pandemic, but i would like to think that somewhere, the j jetsons are celebrating they manifested this dream come true. our coverage continues with one mr. wolf blitzer in "the situation room." i'll see you tomorrow. happening now, an 11-year-old survivor of the uvalde massacre begs the u.s. congress to make sure it doesn't happen again. she joined with parents of mass shooting victims at a raw and very heartbreaking hearing right in the midst of urgent negotiations on gun reform. also tonight, the chairman of the january 6th select committee reveals that ivanka trump's video testimony may be played during the new hearings.

will there be bombshells? as the panel begins going public tomorrow night with the results of its insurrection investigation. and a death threat against a u.s. supreme court justice. brett kavanaugh, an armed man is arrested near kavanaugh's home and charged with attempted murder, amid growing fears for the safety of the nation's highest court. >> we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> and we begin with desperate new calls for action on guns by victims' families and survivors of the most recent shooting massacres here in the united states. they gave voice to the unfathomable loss, the suffering, and the frustration felt by too many americans right now. our chief congressional correspondent, manu raju,

reports. >> do you feel safe at school? why not? >> because i don't want it to happen again. >> you think it's going to happen again? >> 11-year-old mia cerrillo recounting in harrowing testimony how she pretended she was dead in order to avoid the massacre at her school in uvalde. >> there was a door between our classrooms and he went through there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night. and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates and the white board. when i went to the back, he shot my friend that was next to me, and i thought he was going to come back to the room, so i grabbed the blood and put it all over me. >> what did you do then when you put the blood on yourself? >> just stayed quiet and i got

my teacher's phone and called 911. >> the parents of a murdered fourth grader, lexi rubio, describing the agonizing wait as they frantically tried to locate their daughter. >> i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of my life. at this point, some part of me must have realized she was gone. amidst the chaos, i had the urge to return to robb. we didn't have our car at this point and traffic was everywhere. so i ran. i ran bare foot with my flimsy sandals in my hand. i ran a mile to the school. my husband with me. we sat outside for a while before it became clear we wouldn't receive an answer from law enforcement on scene. >> before receiving the devastating news that shattered their lives. >> soon after, we received the news that our daughter was among the 19 students and 2 teachers that died as a result of gun violence. >> the gut-wrenching testimony

from a pediatrician who treated the victims. >> the mothers' cries i will never get out of my head. >> witnessing this. >> two children's bodies pulverized, decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart. the only clue was the blood spattered cartoon clothes clinging to them. >> and the mother of a victim from the buffalo grocery store massacre detailing the injuries her son has endured. >> as i clean his wounds, i can feel pieces of that bullet in his back. shrapnel will be left inside his body for the rest of his life. now i want you to picture that exact scenario for one of urchildren. this should not be your story or mine. >> all demanding action from congress. >> we demand action. we seek a ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. we seek to raise the age to purchase these weapons from 18 to 21 years of age. we seek red flag laws, stronger background checks.

we also want to repeal gun manufacturers liability immunity. >> no citizen needs an ar-15. they're designed to do the most harm in the least amount of change. >> money of those changes will not be included, given gop opposition to restricting access to high-powered semiautomatic rifles. >> why do you oppose reinstating the assault weapons ban? >> we're trying to get an outcome. >> senate negotiators are instead focusing on a narrow set of changes including bolstering red flag laws, providing billions for mental health programs, money for school security and allowing juvenile records to be searched in background checks. even though it doesn't go far enough for many democrats, senators are willing to give the talks a chance. >> how concerned are you this guns deal is not going to go as far as you want restricting access to guns? >> i think it will be incremental. i think it will be necessary things, not sufficient to stop that level of carnage we're

having, but god, we haven't done anything since parkland, since column bibine on a national levo i'm hopeful, tempered hope that we can get something done that will be meaningful. >> and we just caught up with texas senator john cornyn who is the chief republican negotiator, and asked him about the calls from those witnesses that they should do more than what is currently being proposed. he told us i understand that, we want to do something that will save lives and while he briefed senate republicans behind closed doors, gave them the general outlines of the emerging deal, republicans are divided over this package, and it's still uncertain whether a deal can be reached and pass the senate. >> manu raju, thank you very, very much. let's get more on all of this. joining us, omar jimenez joining us from uvalde, texas, along with our senior legal analyst, laura coates, and anthony barksdale. laura, what does it say that families who have experienced so

much horrible loss, painful loss, and an 11-year-old survivor were actually forced to plead with congress to act today? >> i mean, really, it's unconscionable that it's even happened, but the idea we're about two weeks removed from some of these horrors and there's a lot of information they do not know yet they felt compelled to elevate their voice. a young girl wanting to tell people her story, in part because she knew she did not feel safe any longer. you can imagine the school-aged children who are listening to her story, even though parents don't want to have their kids exposed to this, to hear what she has endured and the parents who have lost them, i know the power of testimony as somebody who has tried many cases and watched juries in a court of law be persuaded by seeing the people and the human faces to what we have described. and i'm hoping that at some level that that notion of what happened in a court of law will translate in front of the committees that are hearing this

testimony to persuade them about the imperative nature and the urgency of having negotiations that are not futile but fruitful, particularly when you see the harm, the devastation, and knowing frankly, wolf, the uncertainty of when it will happen again. >> yeah, so, so painful. anthony, how hard is it to actually hear that uvalde pediatrician describe how these kids' bodies were mutilated by these deadly weapons? >> it was very hard to hear. during my career, i saw the damage that assault rifles and various calibers can do to the human body. but for that type of weapon to be used on children, it's -- it was just -- it's tough to listen to. but we need to hear it. because we need drastic changes here. what we currently have in place

isn't working. and children, innocent children or shoppers at a supermarket should not be victimized by active shooters, by killers armed with high power, high capacity assault rifles. >> you're absolutely right. omar, you're there in uvalde, texas. this community's grief was clearly on display during this hearing today, wasn't it? >> yeah, wolf. what we heard in this testimony really matched a lot of what we heard in this community. that when it comes to processing what happened a little more than two weeks ago, it's not just about what happened that day. it's about the feelings that persist and endure day in and day out for these parents who in many cases are second guessing what should have been everyday decisions. i spoke to the grandfather of a young survivor who told me that she still hears the sounds of bullets and gets scared at even the slightest sounds. as another teacher says he's

going to go to the ends of the world to try and get some form of change here, so as awful as it was, what happened, again, a little more than two weeks ago now, many people still are grieving and we're still continuing to see burials of loved ones and it's not over for people. >> laura, do lawmakers here in washington need to understand that even when a victim survives a shooting like this, these physical and emotional wounds, they last a lifetime? >> they absolutely do. i hope that they really understand that. i mean, it's not unheard of for even the supreme court, let alone legislative bodies, to understand the emotional and the psychosocial reaction when you're contemplating how to craft legislation in a nation of laws. you think about even the idea on a very different scale of desegregating our nation's schools. the idea of the social and psychological toll that it had on not only black and brown children but white children as well.

the idea of it's not just those who are the targets of the reprehensible behavior but those who are also witnessing, experiencing it, and growing up in a state where it exploits their biggest fears. it's very imperative to understand the holistic reaction. >> omar, after more than two weeks of questions, are we finally going to start getting some real answers from texas officials and from the u.s. justice department for that matter? >> well, wolf, there's a few different processes happening at a few levels of government. at the state level, we are expecting the house investigative committee to produce a preliminary investigative report by the end of the month, is what we're hearing. tomorrow, they're expecting to hear testimony from multiple people at the texas department of public safety and examine evidence that we're told that's likely going to happen behind closed doors in executive session. at the federal level, we got an announcement from the department of justice. they'll be launching their review into what happened here.

it's not a criminal investigation, but again, an after-action review to look at the process and see if there are any future recommendations they could offer. it's something the mayor here asked for, and now that it's here, he thanked the doj for making the step and has full confidence it is going to be a fair and transparent process. again, many people here waiting for answers. >> let's see what happens. omar, anthony, laura, guys thank you very, very much. >> important note, laura will have more on the mass shooting crisis here in the united states when she anchors cnn tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern, later tonight. >> and just ahead, we'll talk more about gun violence and the push for commonsense reform with the second highest ranking senate democrat, dick durbin, standing by live. >> also ahead, will ivanka trump's video testimony be played during the january 6th select committee hearings that are about to kick off up on capitol hill? the panel's chairman now says it's a real possibility.

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new video, new testimony. they interviewed 1,000 different witnesses. and among those witnesses, ivanka trump. who was, let's remember, a first-hand wince. she was at the white house on january 6th. i think there will be other family members who have also gone in to testify. maybe we will see attorney general, then attorney general bill barr, who played a key role because the committee wants to make the point that on december 1st, bill barr told donald trump there was no significant election fraud, and yet he kept going down this path. >> kept going and going. so much of the plotting for this coup attempt, jeffrey, as you know, and as our viewers know, it happened behind the scenes. so how do they bring that forward during the course of this public hearing? >> you know, the famous watergate question was what did the president know and when did he know it? i think it's a little different. i think the question here is what did donald trump do? because what we don't know is

how much, if at all, was president trump involved in the planning or knowing about the storming of the capitol? what role did he play in the attempt to intimidate the vice president pence? what role did he play in the attempt to put forth fake electors? all of that, as you say, took place behind the scenes. the people we need to hear from are ivanka trump, who was there, mark meadows, who was there, and also i think very importantly, yesterday there was a ruling from a federal judge that said some of john eastman's emails were going to come out. eastman was the brains of the operation. he was the guy, the law professor who was giving the legal advice that led to the effort to overturn the election. what do those emails show? that will start to show what the president did. >> jamie, you have been doing a lot of reporting on what the

committee is up to. who is their target audience? >> obviously, the american public. it's been a year and a half. they have to remind people. some people wanted to move on. some trump supporters still believe that it was tourists there. so i think the committee really wants to reach that audience, but i would say they have one other audience, and that is an audience of one, and that's attorney general merrick garland. at the end of the day, the committee is presenting what they have learned for history, for the record. they're not going to indict anyone, a criminal referral, as jeffrey would say, really doesn't mean anything. the question is, is there evidence, their testimony going to push merrick garland and the department of justice to take further action? according to my sources on the committee, they're hoping it will. >> yeah, i think that's their goal right now. how tall an order is it for the committee to actually change minds during the course of these hearings?

>> one of the things we learned about american politics in the trump and post-trump era is that there are not a lot of ominds out there to be changed. this is a very locked in audience, and there is, you know, there are a handful of probably suburban viewers who don't follow politics very carefully, and haven't followed this investigation certainly the way we have, that's probably the audience. the fox news audience and fox will not be broadcasting the hearings, they're not the target audience because their minds are not changed. but the handful of people who are open to new evidence, that's the audience, but i don't know, maybe jamie knows, i don't know how big that audience is of open minded people. >> we'll find out soon enough. thank you very much, jeffrey, jamie. always good to have you here in "the situation room." >> important note to our viewers, be sure to watch cnn's live coverage of the january 6th select committee hearings. it all begins tomorrow night,

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on capitol hill today, lawmakers heard a terrifying first-hand account of the uvalde elementary school massacre from one of the young survivors. parents of victims of gun violence spoke out as well, begging the u.s. congress to pass commonsense gun reform

legislation. listen. >> he went there and shot my teacher and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head. and then he shot some of my classmates. he shot my friend that was next to me. and i thought he was going to come back to the room, so i grabbed the blood and put it all over me. >> somewhere out there, there's a mom listening to our testimony thinking i can't even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day be hers unless we act now. >> today, i come because i could have lost my baby girl. she's not the same little girl that i used to play with and hang around with and do everything because she was daddy's little girl.

>> after hearing from me and the other people testifying here today does not move you to act on gun laws, i invite you to my home to help me clean ziare's wounds so you can sood up close the damage that has been caused to my son. >> making sure our children are safe from guns, that's the job of our politicians and leaders. in this case, you are the doctors, and our country is the patient. we're lying on the operating table, riddled with bullets like the children of robb elementary and so many other schools. we're bleeding out and you are not there. >> let's discuss with the number two democrat in the u.s. senate, the chairman of the judiciary committee, senator dick durbin. thanks so much for joining us. as you know, republican senators say they're making progress on gun control talks, but that the bulk of this deal will focus, they say, on mental health. can democrats get behind a gun control deal that barely addresses guns themselves? >> listen, wolf, i have my own ideas about how to stop gun

violence in america. i believe we have to be resolute, determined, and we have to get it done quickly. too many innocent people are dying all across this country. and more will continue as long as we waste our time. i will tell you this, though, i know as sure as i'm standing here today that the ultimate agreement is not going to be including everything i want. in fact, maybe few elements of the things i want will be included. but if it is a step forward in saving lives in america and makes us safer, i'm going to support it and work for more. i'm not going to come out empty-handed demanding the perfect before i give a vote in favor of this effort. >> privately, the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has expressed openness to raising the age limit to buy semiautomatic weapons from 18 to 21. but senator thom tillis says that idea hasn't even come up in these talks. is that officially off the table? >> i'm not in the talks. but i will tell you i think mitch mcconnell is right.

the idea that an 18-year-old would turn around and buy one of these assault weapons, these military weapons that don't just shoot a person, they pulverize the internal organs of a person, is unthinkable. an 18-year-old. many states, they're not old enough to drink, not old enough to operate some equipment. yet they can buy a killing machine like this and turn it loose on children, innocent children. it's an indication to me of a situation that's out of hand. i don't believe there's any need for military assault weapons for anyone who is legitimately a sportsman or a hunter. if you need a military assault weapon to kill a deer, you ought to stick to fishing. the bottom line is, if you're just buying it for the pleasure of having this in your household, it's not worth it. it's more important that america be safe. >> the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, says he hopes, key word hopes, he hopes there's a deal by the end of this week. you think that's a realistic timeline? >> listen, he's talking directly to the people who are negotiating this. i don't want to push him or

shove him, but i do want to tell him there's a sense of urgency here. there's a national momentum because of the mass shootings that we have had in the last several weeks. a political momentum which is rare. you can feel it on capitol hill. take advantage of the wind behind our sails here. move forward now. this may be one of the few opportunities in history to do it. >> republican senator pat toomey says he's, quote, cautiously optimistic for the first time in ten years, he says, that the senate will actually get something done. do you share that level of optimism? >> only because when i go home everyone is hearing exactly the same thing. people are exhorting us to do something, people are telling us it's unacceptable to do nothing. if you can't do your job, step out of the way and let somebody else take it. there's a feeling across america that it's time for us to put up or shut up. >> senator dick durbin, good luck to you and your colleagues. i say commonsense gun reform is so, so essential right now here

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out as tenaciously as they can. to make sure they extract the maximum amount of pain for the russians as they move bit by bit towards taking full control over that city. it would be an important political victory for the russians because it's the last city still nominally under ukrainian control in the luhansk region. luhansk is one half of donbas, so that's why it's so important for russians that say taking donbas is a military priority for them. elsewhere, counteroffensive operations are under way, according to the ukrainian officials we have spoken to, to try to take back pairatory, particularly down here in the south, where i'm speaking to you as well, from russian hands. earlier, we got a chance to look at some of the u.s. weaponry that's been given to ukraine to help it defend itself and help it push russians out of territory they have conquered in the past four months. an american m-777 howitzer gun.

a couple of them, in fact, we were taken to see a training mission. these are powerful long-range artillery weapons currently being used and there are dozens of them, up to 90 that have already been delivered. dozens of them having a real impact, we're told, on the front lines. not just here, but elsewhere in the country as well, wolf. >> matthew, stay safe over there. we'll be in touch. matthew chance on the ground for us in ukraine. thank you very, very much. >> for more on what's going on, i want to bring in ukraine's ambassador to the united states, oksana. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. you have a lot going on right now, and we always appreciate you joining us. how close is ukraine right now to losing this whole eastern region of the country? it looks like the russians have the upper hand, at least right now. >> thank you, wolf, for having me. and big thanks to be on the ground and showing everything to the world. it's very important.

yes, the russians temporarily control now almost 20% of the territory. >> 20% of all of ukraine? >> yes. >> what about in the eastern part? >> the eastern part, that's where the most difficult fight is right now. this is the artillery duel where russians put in all the firepower they have, and they're trying not to even fight but to essentially destroy everything and reduce everything to rubble. now, despite the fact that they outnumber us, despite the fact they have many more artillery and shells and they also shoot from the caspian and other places, our brave defenders are holding the ground even under this very difficult circumstance. and as we saw already in the battle for kyiv, we can lose something temporarily. of course, we're trying to minimize that because we know what atrocities happen where russians control the territories. but we will get it back. >> i want our viewers to hear what president zelenskyy told the financial times today. watch this.

listen to this. >> we definitely have a strongest desire than russians but we're inferior in terms of equipment. therefore we're not capable of advancing. it will be very difficult for us. we're going to suffer more losses. >> so i understand ukraine definitely needs a lot more military support from the united states and the other nato allies. but what are the most important things you need right now to turn the battlefield around? >> yes, we appreciate everything we have received, but as we started the war, having much less equipment than russia, and of course, now, already 105 days through the war, we need even more. so all the artillery, all of the firepower, all of the multi-rocket launch systems, the range, this is what we need. not to shoot into russia, as many people were afraid, but actually to defend our territory and to be able to defend it whilst also saving the lives of

our defenders. >> has ukraine given a commitment, a formal commitment to the united states and the other nato allies if they get long-range artillery and missiles they won't fire into russian territory? >> we always said we are not going to fire into russian territory. we never planned to, we never planned to attack russia. we don't plan to do it in the future. all we need is for them to get out of our territory. we need to have all of the artillery because as i told you, the area that they temporarily control now is quite large. >> you fear at all that american support for ukraine might go down as this war drags on? >> well, there is always a risk of that, but i know that american people support us. and we hear from everyone here, from president to the very strong bipartisan support in congress that support is very strong. and it's not only words. it's actions. so right now, the congress provided very generously, this large supplementary budget, and we just need to turn it into the

weapons and get them as fast as possible into the battlefield so we can actually shorten this war. >> ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. good luck to you. good luck to all the people of ukraine. we'll stay on top of it. >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it very, very much. coming up, new charges just filed against an armed man who threatened to kill the united states supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. we have details when we come back. lock of hair with dove. glowing areas represent hair damage. dove precisely repairs so there are almost no signs... of visible damage. dove intensive repair. number one beauty brand not tested on ananimals. >> tech: cracked windshield? schedule with safelite, and we'll come to you to fix it. >> tech vo: this customer was enjoying her morning walk. we texted her when we were on our way. she could track us andee exactly when we'd arrive. >> woman: i have a few more minutes. let go! >> tech vo: we came toer with service that fit her schedule. >> woman: you must be pascal. >> tech: nice to meet you. >> tech vo: we got right to work, with a replacement she could trust. >> tech: we're all set. >> woman: wow. that looks great.

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we're getting new information right now about a threat to kill u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. let's go to our justice

correspondent, jessica schneider joining us from just outside the high court here in washington. jessica, what are you learning about the suspect and what he allegedly was planning to do? >> wolf, this is a 26-year-old man from simi valley, california. he allegedly traveled to maryland, he told the authorities, with the intent to break into a supreme court justice's home and kill him. we now know that target is justice brett kavanaugh. it all unfolded outside brett kavanaugh's home around 1:00 this morning. authorities say the suspect got out of a taxi cab. he was dressed in all black and he carries a suitcase and a backpack that were packed with weapons and ammunition, according to authorities. inside the backpack and suitcase, a number of items, including a black tactical chest rig, a glock-17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, duct tape. the suspect, though, almost immediately after getting out of the cab, called 911 on himself,

telling the dispatcher that he was suicidal and he had a gun. that's when police moved in. they arrested him, and when fbi agents interviewed him, he allegedly told them he was upset about the leaked supreme court draft that was set to overturn roe v. wade that still has not been officially issued. also saying he was angered at the shooting, the mass shooting in uvalde, texas, and saying he was worried that brett kavanaugh would cast his vote against a new york gun law. that's still a decision that remains to be released from the supreme court. so the suspect was taken into federal custody. authorities, though, say that that suspect had purchased the weapon and ammunition leading up to and with the specific intent to target supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. the suspect, wolf, was in federal court this afternoon in maryland. he's currently being held. he's being charged with attempted murder of a u.s. judge. that could get him up to 20 years in prison, wolf.

>> so, so disturbing. jessica outside the supreme court for us, thank you very much. >> let's get an update right now on president biden. he's in los angeles hosting a summit with latin american leaders. our chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins, is traveling with the president. mexico is actually boycotting this meeting. how is the white house explaining the absence? >> they're downplaying the absences of not just the president of mexico but several other leaders as well, wolf, but they're really impossible to ignore because this is the summit of the americas. it's being hosted by president biden and several of these key leaders, including mexico's president, have decided to boycott. that is obviously notable that they declined the invitations to the summit from the u.s. president and it's raising key questions about whether or not this agenda that is not only being overshadowed by their absences but whether or not president biden can get momentum behind it while he's on the ground. it's raising a lot of skepticism about what that's going to look like because the united states and president biden's top aides had said they wanted to show

they had reestablished u.s. leadership in the region, that they were going to work on critical issues like migration, climate change, dealing with obviously and now with several of these key leaders missing, it's raising big questions about that. the president of mexico is boycotting because the united states did not extend invitations to the leaders of cuba or nicaragua, saying they did not want to invite dictators. that is why the leader, who is going to the white house next month, will not be joining. but it is raising questions what this summit will accomplish and what that looks like in the end. one lead they are the president is going to be meeting with is the president of brazil, who was close to president trump. he has raised questions whether joe biden is a legitimately elected president. the white house says they do

plan to have a candid conversation between president biden and the brazilian president while they are here on the ground. it could create awkward moments, given the fact that he has raised these questions wlrnl bide season the duley elected president in the united states. stlz is a new cnn poll of polls, joe biden's approval numbers. what does it show? >> obviously the president is here and focused on the foreign policy aspect of his job during this summit. but as this new poll comes out, it shows that he has a 39% approval rating among the american people. obviously, much lower than when he first took office. his main two issues he has the lowest approval rating on, is when it comes to the economy and when it comes to dealing with guns. obviously, two things that the white house has been focused on. we should note they've been put thing focus on the economy saying they are going to do a lot of events on that and

focusing on american's pain in june. and this comes when it comes to guns as the white house chief of staff says they are cautiously optimistic about the progress they are seeing. >> kaitlan collins in los angeles, thank you very much. coming up, some of america's best known olympic athletes now seeking $1 billion from the fbi for allegedly mishandling their sexual abuse claims against larry nasser. we'll be right back. you could earn yourr master's degree in less than a year for under $11k. learn more at phphoenix.edu.

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tonight, the victims of team usa gymnastics dr. larry nasser are seeking $1 billion in

compensation from the fbi. cnn's brian todd is track thing agency failed to protect them. >> reporter: they not only say the fbi failed to protect them, they say the bureau's mismanagement of their cases led to dozens of other young women being abused until nasser was caught. stunning legal allegations from some of america's best-known olympic athletes, accusing the fbi of mishandling their claims of sexual abuse and by botching their cases allowing the abuse to continue. >> why are public servants whose job is to protect getting away with this? this is not justice. enough is enough! >> reporter: top u.s. olympic and team usa gymnasts mikayla maroney, simone biles, alley raisman are among 90 women and girls sexually abused by larry nasser, who are now submitting claims for over $1 billion to the fbi. they say they gave the fbi

detailed accounts of nasser's abuse in 2015, that the fbi could have ended the abuse right then. but certain agents neglected the case, gave false statements and committed other acts of malfeasance, allowing nasser to continue his predatory behavior. as a result, they claim nasser assaulted approximately 100 women and children between july 2015 and september 2016. >> it was like serving innocent children up to a pedophile on a silver platter. >> there's no question that policies were broken and that these young women were wronged by these fbi agents. >> reporter: the justice department's own inspector general last year said fbi officials failed to take steps to protect the gymnasts, warned local officials, interview all accusers or follow up, which delayed the probe. >> to be clear, i blame larry nasser. and i also blame an entire system that enabled and

perpetrated his abuse. >> reporter: at an emotional hearing last fall, mikayla maroney told an agent how nasser molested her for hours in a tokyo motel when she was 15. she said she was crying over the phone. then when she finished the account, there was dead silence. >> i was so shocked at the silence and disregard for my trauma. after that minute, he asked, is that all? those words in itself was one of the worst moment os of this process for me. to have my abuse minimized and disregarded by the people supposed to protect them. >> reporter: the report says one of thee ing agents was engaging in other pursuits. >> one of the supervisory agents had been talking about a job opportunity with usa gymnastics. so it looks terrible. >> reporter: as for what happens

next, the fbi has six months to respond to the claims just filed. the bureau could either reach a settlement or deny the claims. cnn has reached out to the justice department for response to these latest claims. we have gotten no response. >> brian todd reporting. thank you very much. to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, new audio release thing hour of a republican lawmaker asking for a safety plan the day for the january 6th riots, warning trump supporters would go nuts. another republican saying he wasn't convinced there was election fraud, but said this is a political vote for all of us. and the destruction from an ar-15. we'll show you what this weapon is capable of doing to the human body. and selling out. more top professional golfers bucking the pga tour for a