then i'll press senator sheldon whitehouse on the senate in ability to pass gun control legislation. and ted cruz runs away, what one interviewer said that was too much for him to take. i am ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. at least nine -- excuse me, eight 9-1-1 calls were made at classrooms at robb elementary school in uvalde, between 12:03 pm, a half hour after the shooter entered the building and 12:50 pm, when border agents and police finally stormed in and shot the shooter. during a stunning press conference this week, police admitted to a string of failures. at the heart of the matter, the incident commander on the scene said that he made the wrong decision by not breaching sooner the classrooms where the gunmen was with students and the teachers. texas congressman, joaquin castro, is not calling on the fbi to investigate the response into the shooting. we are left with a series of questions, some that we will never know the answer to, how many kids could have been saved? medical experts stress the importance of evacuating -- it took days to get a clear picture, and there a

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sheldon whitehouse and others filing amicus briefs threatening the court. efforts to pack the court. efforts to have term limits for court justices. what is unique about today is, this the first time we have had somebody on the inside try to attack the institution. fortunately, i think the chief justices have taken it seriously and will find the leaker. ,reporter: democrats say that the prospect of roe being overturned and some of the more restrictive trigger laws coming into effect without exception to rape and incessant will shock the public and motivate voters in november. what does your response to that? sen. mcconnell: that's not the story for the day, the story for today is what i just said. reporter: if it struck down, do you see a need for federal abortion restrictions legislation in congress? sen. mcconnell: look, all of this puts the cart before the horse. we have three supreme court clerks in my conference, they all explained the procedure, and our entire conversation today was about what i've just been talking to you about. and it seems to me, e

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senator sheldon whitehouse, thanks for your time. with me is the president and ceo of planned parenthood federation of america. i want you to take us that because this pretense on the right, their talking point is to essentially say it's protesting against the theft of these rights that is the crime, not the theft of the rights. they want to us look away from that and to pay attention, to you know, women who are sitting outside with candles outside of, you know, kavanaugh's home or something like that, but let's put the numbers back up against. the amount of violence associated, this shift, this belated shift by the religious right to make abortion their manish u, it has come with violence and at great cost, including the cost of people's lives. your thoughts. >> look, absolutely. as senator whitehouse just indicated. planned parenthood knows full well what it's like to have protesters outside our doors and we know full well what it's like to care for many of the protesters who come inside our doors and then go back outside and prote

then i'll press senator sheldon whitehouse on the senate and ability to pass congratulation. and ted cruz runs away, what one interviewer said that was too much for him to take. i am ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. at least nine -- excuse me, eight 9-1-1 calls were made at clms

senator senator sheldon whitehouse. [applause] >> thank you also much for being here and thank you to moms and every town, thank you to students demand action. thank you to senators murphy and blumenthal for their passionate work in this effort after the catastrophe at sandy hook. it is not enough to end the gore and the carnage in america, we need to fight for an america where you don't have to have active shooter drills in schools. and a lot of us are here fed up, angry, frustrated and one of the things that frustrate us is the wave of our passion, the waves of our grief and the waves of fire anger is the shootings take place over and over again those waves break against iraq of the national rifle association political dominion over the republican party. we have to break that grip. we have to have the long game the way they have a long game. when passions are subsided the nra is still out there relentlessly building a political wall for our passions to break again and we have to take them on and do that back. one of t

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i haven't heard a word from single democrats like senator sheldon whitehouse so adamant about the dark money groups in america talking about where the dark money group is that is behind this doxxing and targeting supreme court justice that are willing to pay stipends. who are the people behind this? will they be found out because this is a dangerous precedent to set where you are going to people's homes and into their neighborhoods when they have children for what, to intimidate at best and at worst possible violence? this kind of stuff needs to stop immediately and we should be finding out his band distort group. >> kevin: while i have you here, there are those in washington that love the story and deflects from the economy and issues at the white house is happening. speaking of the economy i want to share this this is tim scott on the economy on neil cavuto show today and listen to what his thoughts are. we will get you on the backside. >> the problem is the government has acted too slow too often that created the inflation and want credit for solving the problem when, in fact, it ma

it is the supposedly moderate bob casey, sheldon whitehouse, who is not very bright, and bernie sanders and ed markey and jeff merkley and tammy duckworth and dianne feinstein, they are all on board with this bill, and then in the house you have jerry nadler, david sisson nini of rhode island, the former mob lawyer, katie porter of california, ro khanna, silicon valley -- they have all close cosponsor legislation. there hoping if they do that you won't open wikipedia to find out what happened with every other country in the history tried this. they definitely don't want you looking at the history of the soviet union and that is why that history is no longer taught in schools. instead, they want you to watch reports like this and in fear give them total control over your economy. >> the shifting and shrinking school lunch menu. supply chain disruptions and the spiraling cost of key ingredients has forced school districts to pull back or make substitutions. at some schools, no more hamburgers or chicken patty sandwiches due to problems and the price of buying bonds and ketchup, a new serv

before time runs out and we lose complete control of our government, senator sheldon whitehouse, thank you for your time and joining us. >> good to be with you. >> coming up this hour of ayman, holding republicans accountable. the audacious effort that one group is taking to make sure that some election deniers never work again. then the trumps must testify. new details on the order -- of the civil investigation and president biden's efforts to reform police system, two years on after george floyd's death. i am ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. >> one of the most important features of a healthy democracy is holding officials who do wrong accountable. this week, there have been some interesting developments in outside efforts to punish republicans who work to overturn the results of the 2020 election. the fourth circuit of appeals this wrote that participants in an instruction can be barred from holding office. the decision came in the case at the republican madison cawthorn, before losing the primary despondent, faced a challenge by north carolina voters, arguing that his actions at

we also see in the senate, senator sheldon whitehouse and joined by house member khanna, they've introduced a measure to have a windfall, a temporary windfall profits tax on oil companies, again, for the same reason. i mean, these oil companies that are showing record profits should not be allowed to take it out on the consumers right now. >> president biden has begun talking about inflation in more political terms. so, let me play for you what he said yesterday. >> under my predecessor, the great maga king, the deficit increased every single year he was president. they don't want to solve inflation by lowering the cost. they want to solve it by raising taxes and lowering your income. >> i don't know if you could hear that but he was calling president trump there the great maga king. and talking about how he thinks that republicans would raise middle class and even lower taxes. is that effective for messaging? >> well, it may be effective for messaging, and it may be close to the truth in the sense that the republicans, what they did under donald trump is they did reduce taxes on the wealth

whitehouse on special interests are stopping the senate from passing gun reform. now it's time for the last word with jonathan cambridge filling in for lawrence. >> good evening, ayman. and i like to share the optimism that this upcoming march for our lives will push things forward. actually, we're gonna have the national organizing director of that first march for our lives, maxwell frost, later on in the show. i'm looking forward to hear what he says.

whitehouse on special interests are stopping the senate from passing gun reform. now it's time for the last word with jonathan cambridge filling in for lawrence. >> good evening, ayman. and i like to share the optimism that this upcoming march for our lives will push things forward. actually, we're gonna have the national organizing director of that first march for our lives, maxwell frost, later on in the show. i'm looking forward to hear what he says. ayman, have a good weekend. >> thank you, my friend. we'll be watching. >> all right. >> it was the wrong decision. that's what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at the school. a school resource officer, who was not on the school grounds, heard the 9-1-1 call, and responded. but actually, he d

then i'll press senator sheldon whitehouse on the senate in ability to pass gun control legislation. and ted cruz runs away, what one interviewe

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the only place left that's whites only is sheldon whitehouse. this country club there's no other place where they're excluding black people but this is the thing. tucker woke democrat are cultural arsonists. they like to find new forms of oppression, set little societal firesit so they can extinguishn them and then claim valor and virtue. buthing the trick is none of it helps the black community. so when you think about the black community right now, tucker , they're being plagued by failing schools and astonishingly high rates of violent crime. nowhere tonight is a guy who'sht getting crushed by inflation getting mugged for those overpriced goods going if only by somebody could stop by and rename a statue or you know what i mean, rename a schoolpy and that's the part that drives me crazy, man. well, you're right there. they only destroy they never build builds your own impressive country, your ownui impressive school. but they can't they can onlye wreck things that other people made. well, that's great. that's what is it's so much easier, tucke

senator sheldon whitehouse wrote, we need two things, codify roe and control of the court. our question this morning is, what is your level of confidence in the supreme court? let's go to ronald calling from monroe township, new jersey. caller: good morning. i feel we are losing our democracy because the senate and the courts no longer represent the majority of people. originally, this was set up to protect the minority but it was not set up to have minority rule. right now, the way things are without the two parties working together, we have basically minority rule in the country and i think this is very detrimental to our democracy. i hope we can do something about it. host: all right. let's go to bob calling from california. good morning. caller: morning. i have every confidence that the supreme court will get rid of roe v. wade. abortion is murder. in addition, i think the u.s. should arm ukraine with rockets capable of hitting moscow and let them blow up the kremlin. gift pool nate taste of his own medicine. host: are you advocating the united states goes to war with r

senator sheldon whitehouse wrote, we need two things, codify roe and control of the court. our question this morning is, what is your level of confidence in the supreme court? let's go to ronald calling from monroe township, new jersey. caller: good morning. i feel we are losing our democracy because the senate and the courts no longer represent the majority of people. originally, this was set up to protect the minority but it was not set up to have minority rule. right now, the way things are without the two parties working together, we have basically minority rule in the country and i think this is very detrimental to our democracy. i hope we can do something about it. host: all right. let's go to bob calling from california. good morning. caller: morning. i have every confidence that the supreme court will get rid of roe v. wade. abortion is murder. in addition, i think the u.s. should arm ukraine with rockets capable of hitting moscow and let them blow up the kremlin. gift pool nate taste of his own medicine. host: are you advocating the united states goes to war with r

sheldon whitehouse and others by the amicus briefs threatening the court. efforts to pack the court. efforts to have term limits for court justices. what's unique about today is this is the first time we met somebody on the inside tried to attack the institution. fortunately, i think the chief justice has taken that seriously, and we will find the leaker. >> democrats say the prospect of roe being overturn and so the more restrictive trigger laws come into effect without exemption for rape and incest will shock the public and motivate voters in november. what is your response to that? >> that's not the story for today. the story for today is what i just said. >> if roe struck down the you see the need for federal abortion restriction legislation in congress? >> look, all of this puts the cart before the horse. we have three supreme court clerks in my coffers. they all explain the procedure and our entire conversation today was about what i've just been talking to you about, and you need, it seems to me, excuse the lecture, to concentrate on what the news is