could if you go out if you change the filibuster rules after the horrific massacre at sandy hook in connecticut where 2567 year olds 267 year olds were killed and a mash routing. a law was brought up and passed the house and then went to the senate and there were not 60 senators who would support a criminal background check for online gun sales now you have to understand in america every federally licensed gun dealer although they can work out of their homes backpacks or car trunks they're registered gun dealers they have to run a background check but if you're a criminal or a domestic or international terrorist and you know you can't pass a background check you can go to 32 states 5000 gun shows private be a lawyers and buy a 1000 guns a day so it's of you could drive a sherman tank through the loophole so you need universal background checks for all gun sales i'm a gun owner i know i can pass a background check so i go to a federally licensed gun dealer if you're a criminal you'd be stupid to go to a federally licensed gun dealer because you could just go to private dealers who sell 50 percen

yep or do you think you know the time was pretty good to put it connecticut in for the do through a bigger political track you might. you want to play you've looked at what i said little bit of you so basically you feel that us oil companies were behind the push and the effort to remove you from power this wasn't just prosecutors acting on their own do nothing out of face a threat of terror i meant to not say. there would be a duck or speed ourselves might need to do. the part of procure a good just 2 weeks of sat by don't profess to to macondo now for their 15 minutes is. my words your new part of you might not offend proverbs procurement care to fit our 5 in the last choice my. queue of i understand you don't have evidence but i want to know what you believe and what you think you spent years in jail do you look at the prosecutors and say to yourself they just got together to put me to get me out of power or do you say there is at least can we at least can you at least tell this show there was people behind the prosecutor's you believe there were people behind the prosecutor's. tale filt

playtime in west haven, connecticut. for over a0 years, preschool children have learned now, these kids will qualify for president biden�*s child tax credit. this woman, whose grandchildren are thriving here, says the money will help with the cost of childhood. the families has been struggling for years, and it is finally about time somebody will help them out so they can provide an adequate future for their children. it would help with some out of poverty as well. on a day—to—day basis, take a look around you. what better investment do you have than to invest in the children? quinn's motherjulianna teaches here and her children love attending the preschool. they, too, will benefit from the child tax credit. the $300 a month will help with the expense of raising quinn. money has been tight since her husband lost hisjob during the pandemic. it would help out a lot. in clothes and everything. just having money for clothes. for the summer, i had to take out a credit card at carter's just to get him clothes for the sum

i wouldn't travel and i wouldn't lecture to little groups in connecticut. i wouldn't spend all this time on civil society if i didn't think that it mattered and it could make a difference. and the things that worked out for us in early 2021, they have to do... the things that worked out, they had to do with people setting other things aside and working really hard on election turnout, on other issues. so, i mean, not really. i mean, as a historian, i have a sense of how badly things can go and that guides me. but as a citizen, i also realise that the horizon of possibility can be better than we can imagine. i mean, history teaches both lessons — that things can be worse than we can imagine, but also that things can be better than we can imagine. and as far as my own work goes, i'm always working for the better because i believe that that matters. professor tim snyder, it's been a pleasure to talk to you. thank you for being on hardtalk. pleasure was mine. remember last week? it was nice, warm, and sunny — almost a dose of summer for some of us. a comple

playtime in west haven, connecticut. for over 40 years, preschool children have learned to play at this innovative centre. now, these kids will qualify for president biden's child tax credits. kathy, whose grandchildren are thriving here, says the money will help with the cost of childhood. families have been struggling for years and it is finally about time that somebody will help them out so that they can provide an adequate future for their children. it will help with some out of poverty as well but on a day—to—day basis, take a look around you. what better investment do you have been investing to the quinn's mother giuliana teaches her son loves attending. they too will benefit from the child tax credit. the $300 a month will help with the expense of raising quinn. money has been tight since giuliana's husband lost hisjob during the pandemic. gotta help out a lot and in clothes and everything, just having many for clothes for the summer, i had to take out a credit card just to get him clothes for the summer. the

not only new york, minnesota, new mexico, i believe vermont and connecticut indicated they want to do it this july. i think pennsylvania will be next. when new jersey voted in november, i said i think this was a domino effect from here on, and that is what is happening. definitely, major growth is in the united states. the major focus continues to be the u.s., but europe is not far behind. europe is where we were in 2017. i think that is where europe is today, deciding to put its footprint to move our brand into europe, and we bought the largest operator in europe, and we also raise $130 million of finance. we are very excited about the european operation. europe is a capital-like model. the medical business in europe, it is absolutely legal in the eu, so we don't have to build these operations. we can build a centralized operation in portugal and spain, which is where we are, to distributed through europe. romaine: once you get the distribution level, you're not worried at all about impediments with regard to member states deciding they want to set their own parameters? you're certai

you know when you have made it to connecticut. lisa: there should be a sign. tom: it is not europe. full disclosure. i know it is only $630 billion. it is an outrage where this nation is versus when you travel to europe or even parts of asia jonathan: jonathan: over the better infrastructure. switzerland, specifically. let's bring in ron temple. huge first quarter. we know the winners, the banks, energy and small caps. can this continue? >> i think there could still be upside in markets. i think what we have got is a really powerful recovery. when i look at growth, i think we are going to see the strongest economic growth in 50 years. you have that pent up savings. excess savings of $2 trillion. massive pent-up demand to spend that money. government stimulus and very importantly, central banks that are not only going to keep their foot on the gas, they are going to keep adding accommodations to this economy. i think this is a very strong set up for the economy. tom: i was going to go to your really wonderful research not where you -- i have a note here at the end of the quarter, s&p

hubble, shelton, connecticut, they make 130,000 electrical parts. it got revenue growth, high single digits. they are minting money and they are raising their dividend. they are up 90% of the bottom. jonathan: raising their full-year earnings forecast, too. that's the story in america right now, a better outlook. that's been the story of the last six months. equities up 3, 4 on the s&p. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. president biden is stepping up pandemic assistance to the rest of the world. the u.s. will share its entire supply of astrazeneca's coronavirus vaccine with other countries. plus, it is putting together an aid package for india. all of this represents a shift for president biden. he's been focusing on making sure americans are vaccinated first. president biden is staking a claim on economic issues ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. according to his advisors, the president's infrastructure and family support plan are an appeal to the disenfranchised white voters who put president trump in off

small community banks, but also the big deals like we saw with acquiring people's bank of connecticut. we are going to see big regional deals, we believe, over the next two to three years, and the canadians will likely get stronger in the u.s. jonathan: you're so gracious with your time on mornings like this morning. can i squeeze another when in? just your report card for the quarter. we had the likes of goldman, j.p. morgan in the last 24 hours. who won the quarter? gerard: reporter: so far -- gerard: so far, you've got to put goldman sachs at the front of the list. but when you look at the banks, i would say jp morgan probably came out ahead, but they all have the same trends, which is the loan-loss reserves are very meaningful. they are going to continue throughout the year, and that is going to be the bridge until we get loan growth and higher revenue growth in the second half of the year. jonathan: gerard, good to hear from you. gerard cassidy of rbc. was that your take talking to a lot of people in this market, that goldman is the big winner here? sonali: yeah, the returns are

a federal judge throwing out a lawsuit by celina soul and three other connecticut student athletes. >> no matter how hard we try anr how hard we train, they beat us. >> seeking to bar transgender females like andre a yearwood and terry miller from competing in girls sports. >> you don't want to go with boys and other girls, are we not human like everybody else. >> the judge not ruling on the merits of the case but because the girls at the heart of it have graduated regardless, it set off a firestorm in state capitals across the country transgender athlete bans introduced in 31 states signed into law so far in alabama, arkansas, tennessee and mississippi. >> this important piece of legislation will ensure that young girls in mississippi have a fair, level playing field. >> opponents say the laws have no basis in science. transgender females have no inherent physical advantage especially since rules require hormone suppression therapy to qualify. >> our policy should be driven by facts and science not by fear. >> they're hoping economic pressure might turn the tide soon after the ncaa t

this is a year and a month into it, paymon j johns hopkins states connecticut, nearly 9 0% of the state's kids are in school what have we learned about schools and covid? what would you do? >> as you mentioned, you have to put the safety of teachers and students at the top of the list. we know masking and proper ventilation and testing do you those three things and you can mitigate the risk of covid in schools even with community spread that's the thing we had the list. we have known that basically since this past summer there hasn't been a solution or a plan in most districts and most progressive as i argue in most progressive states and cities >> paymon, this is a personal issue. i'm a product of the los angeles public school district my bromother dropped out of high school she got her g.e.d. mom, i'm proud of what you've done i'm a product of the los angeles public schools it was a long time ago a different time when you think about the educational loss -- we always talk in the media. i'll blame the media cases. cases. cases. you know what we don't know? we don't know how many of the m

some minor upholstery damage 11,000 bear sightings in connecticut in 2020. and a record of 45 home break-ins. so far only one grand theft auto attempt. >>> 30 seconds left on a race to the finish at least 45 people are dead and more than 150,000 hurt after a stampede in a religious festival in israel. a u.s. official tells nbc news, multiple americans were among the victims. >>> and the tsa extending the mask mandate on planes, buses and traends. it was set to expire in a couple weeks. people had refuse to wear masks will be fimed. now you know the news of this friday, april 30, 2021 see you back here friday have a fantastic weekend ♪ ("don't stop me now" by queen) ♪ ♪ don't stop me ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm having a good time, ♪ ♪ having a good time ♪ ♪ i'm a shooting star leaping through the sky ♪ ♪ like a tiger defying the laws of gravity ♪ are you managing your diabetes... ...using fingersticks? with the new freestyle libre 2 system, a continuous glucose monitor, you can check your glucose with a painless, one-second scan. and now with optio

>> for this year it's connecticut and rhode island as a reminder, we've already seen arizona, new jersey, new york, and new mexico legalized for adult use cannabis as we think about 20 22, pennsylvania will be a big one. it's already a very large medical market approaching a billion dollars. we do see and hear from industry insiders that republicans in the state assembly are increasingly warming up to adult use cannabis >> what names do you like? >> our best idea is green thumb industries we're also outperform rated on intraleave as the top three. >> vivian, we're going to keep it brief this morning, but obviously we're going to come back to you early and often. happy 4/20 we'll see you next time. >> speaking of the cannabis sector, frank holland joins us with erwin >> thanks for being here, erwin. >> hopefully everybody gets a 420 later onto drink okay >> i'm glad you didn't miss that opportunity to promote we'll talk about cannabis, cannabis and consumer packaged goods like that 420 good and other goods. till ray voters, they basically punted they're going to have their final vote on a

you're seeing from munis right now coming from just those high tax states like new york, or new jersey, connecticut, california, those places or do you see a broadening out of muni interest across the country? >> we see a fairly broad interest across the country, but you know, no doubt that it is coming from high tax states. keep in mind with the muni state and local tax deduction, the s.a.l.t. cap, that has tremendous pressure and effective has raised taxes for high in comb earners in the top tax states, so we've seen a huge demand come in from california, from new york, from other high tax states, since the s.a.l.t. cap went into effect, but i would say it's even more broad-based. you know, if you take a look at the taxable yields of municipal bonds even today in the a-rated space, and you pair it to the taxable counterparts, there's certainly still value there, right? so with cash earnings, with limited options, there's still certainly a lot of opportunity that investors can look to take advantage of >> with a breakdown of municipal bonds misha patel, thank you, have a nice weekend. >> thank you

. >> reporter: in connecticut, advocates for transgender athletes have managed to run tout clock a federal judge throwing out a lawsuit by selena soule and three other athletes >> no matter how hard we try or train, they'll beat us >> reporter: you don't want to h human nd other girls, are we no >> what are we are we not humans like everybody else >> reporter: the girls have graduated and regardless set off a fire storm in state capitals across the country signed into law so far in alabama, arkansas and tennessee and mississippi. >> this will ensure young girls and mississippi have a fair levelled plain field . >> reporter: opponents say the law has no basis in science. transgender females have no physical advantage especially rules require hormone suppression policies qualified they're hoping economic pressure may turn the tie soon after the ncaa threatened to pull events from states the human rights campaign is calling on the ncaa to follow through on its threats in other states >> i don't see how states can be competitive where they in they does not prevent opponents o doc doctrinate >>

said he plans to put those two bills on the floor of the senate for a vogt senator chris murphy of connecticut, a leading democrat, is working to find consensus, working to negotiate with republicans, to find at least ten of them to at least vote yes the senator's office is declining to comment, saying negotiations are ongoing we don't know where this ends up, but the stories you just discussed, shep, they're heartbreaking and only elevating the determination of congress to do something >> sahil, has the supreme court acted on this issue? >> not since 2010, shep. they took up two dcases in 2008 and 2010 -- and -- is more conservative than the won in 2010 with the broader right to own a gun. there's a cup 8 theories about this one scholar suggests maybe there's a division that's opened up on this, and others point out there's also the human aspect. gun violence has become essentially a routine occurrence in the united states now on a scale that is unseen anywhere in the developed world. it's not difficult to imagine this is on the minds of justices who are at the at the end of the day, only hum

in connecticut a free drink at certain restaurants. in west virginia, people age 16 to 35 will also get a $100 savings bond. >> free drinks, great idea meg, thank you dr. mario ramirez, emergency physician, former pandemic and emerging threats coordinator under appoipresident obama. it feels like this is a big step is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic if more americans get vaccinated >> it's a great step in the right direction. i think the president made the right point today, which is that guidance today is not about politics it's a data-driven recommendation that is based on how we see the vaccines behaving in the wild. we're seeing the transmission rates is extremely low, and so we can start to loosen some of those recommendations. there are things, to your point, that do have to happen before we continue to make progress and declare the pandemic over. testing is a key part of that, but this is a good step in the right direction. >> you know, convincing people to get vaccinated is the biggest challenge. the director of t

. >> jimmy, cleveland cliffs that's what john wants know about in connecticut what do you tell him >> they reported earnings yesterday. excellent earnings i had the opportunity to talk to the ceo. this is a fellow who should be on every investors tongue. i think they will write harvard business case study about this he cares about environment, his employers. he general rating cash flow. they will end the year with their leverage ratio at 1.0 and go even lower. the point being is us as shareholders are going to benefit from more and more of the earnings stream. i previously said i might sell this in the 25 range nope i'm going to hang onto it. >> stocks pushing 2% gain on the day. a bit above that right now >> good question for you he's looking for a point to trim some shares now. he bought all of us stock at 1356 a year ago and looking to s some profits now >> it ran into the 60s pulled back and ran again into the 60s after that great report last night it has been selling off virtually throughout the day take out the first half hour of trade and it's straight down to about this 57.50

i need to go to peter in connecticut, please, peter >> caller: coin based with global inc. >> peter, i believe people will use that as a proxy for owning crypto i'm with lisa ellis, the best analyst that says the stock can only go to 600 i stopped reading my mentions column in twitter because people hate me and one of the reason is coin base but there are so many other reasons to hate me i'm glad there is a hit list for me let's go to jerry in new jersey. >> caller: hello, jim. this is jerry from the wonderful jersey shore. >> hey, south or north >> caller: listen, jim, spring is here, summer is coming, people are buying pool supplies. >> yes, they are. >> caller: i'm invested in less lee. what do you think? >> i see your leslie and raise you pool corp. i like pool corp down six today 415 and buy ten, not 100 but you're fine. how about we go to mario in ohio. >> caller: boo-yah, jimmy chill. first-time listener, long time lis listener. >> what's up >> caller: i want to shoutout to my grandparents and brother. we've been watching for years. >> thank you. >> caller: don't listen to the

>> reporter: bird landed at the university of connecticut in 1998 her college coach was the legendary geno auriemma. >> you know, it starts and ends with coach auriemma. when i think about like the framework of who i am as a player, it's because of him. >> bird pulls up, it's good. two on one, bird pull up shot. sue bird with the three. sue bird. >> reporter: equipped with auriemma's education, bird rose through the professional and national team ranks. >> bird, got it. sue bird drops in the jumper >> reporter: she and fellow husky and olympian diana taurasi even inspired their college coach to take one more shot at the olympics >> after the london olympics i thought in my heart, okay, that's it. i don't really need to do this anymore. why mess with a really good thing. i think if di and sue weren't playing i definitely wouldn't do it, but i think an opportunity to be around them one more time, it was really hard for me to say anything other than yes. >> one, two, three. >> usa >> she drills the three. sue bird >> reporter: the rio results were the same for team usa as they had been f

on the floor of the senate for a vote he has hit pause on that plan, while senator chris murphy of connecticut, a leading democrat on this issue works to find consensus, essentially works to negotiate with republicans to find at least ten of them who will be able to vote yes on a background check bill. it's likely to be a watered down ve version of what the house passed that will focus on commercial sales. i checked in with smart murphy's office a few hours ago, and they're declining to comment saying only that negotiations are ongoing. we don't know where this ends up, but the stories that you just discussed, shep, they're heartbreaking and they're only elevating the determination in congress to do something about gun violence >> has the supreme court acted on this issue? >> not since 2010, shep. the supreme court took up two cases in 2008 and 2010 where it expanded the right to a gun, and it has not take ann a case since then this has led to a lot of head scratching among observers and disappointment among gun rights advocates whonote correctly that the supreme court today is more conservati

. >>> and in connecticut and much of new england, a late taste of winter parts of the nutmeg state got up to 3 inches of snow today. the storm ranges as far north as maine with some parts of vermont and new hampshire getting nearly a foot of snow that's our cnbc news update for the hour back over to you guys. >> oh, that's wrong. courtney, thank you. courtney reagan. >>> still to come, airbnb a big reopening play what the company's ceo is saying about the competition in travel. that's next. >>> plus evercore's mark mahaney on the internet names he likes most we'll be right back here on "closing bell. 27 minutes left of trade, on track for a record closeorhe p d w. f t me the best! [music: “you're the best” by joe esposito] [music: “you're the best” by joe esposito] [triumphantly yells] [ding] don't get mad. get e*trade and take charge of your finances today. >>> shares of airbnb are up 160% since going public back in december our dreeeirdre bosa caught up wh the company's ceo. >> he says travel and booking rebound continues but a new obstacle is taking place and that is making

new york, california, new jersey, and connecticut. that's why those very high rates and those high tax states would be relevant. so many of this group and it is a small group, would be paying those rates. guys >> yeah. i mean, robert, we're focussed on the impact the markets or maybe lack of potentially lack of impact just looking back over history, but i mean, it's also important maybe more important arguably from an economic perspective when you talk about business creation, business investment other means of funding real estate something i know you cover closely as well. i guess what are you hearing from some of your sources in some of these other asset classes in some of the other industries >> yeah. it's such a great point. we look at this group and say well, it's only a small number of rich people affected and have a mental picture of the group being sort of billionaires but many of the people who are in that million plus group are only what they call one-time wonders or one-hit wonders it is people that got a one-time sale of a

. >>> and in connecticut, some pretty smart bears are expanding their search for food by breaking into cars surveillance video got three bears casually opening the front passenger and driver's doors and climbing in. they did only minor damage to the seat but apparently the paint wasn't even scratched. it's like they knew what was doing. >> my mom has bears and they always get into her beehives and they don't look that neat. she has bees. >> just, you know, in the vicinity. >> rahel solomon, thank you. have a great weekend. >> you too. >>> earnings season will show no signs of slowing down next week. coming up we will look at all of the big names set to report, plus an analyst who previews what investors need to watch when uber and lyft release their results. don't miss the cnbc small business playbook on may 4th the most trusted voices in business provide critical advice and vital resources to help owners overcome extraordinary on stacks go to cnbc.com/events playbook sales are down from last quarter but we are hoping things will pick up by q3. yeah...uh... doug? sorry about that. umm.

happening is the partners can shift the tax to the pass through and then get the full deduction now, connecticut, new jersey, already allow this strategy and it is the only work around that the irs has actually allowed it only works for partners and pass throughs not employees. now, governor cuomo is saying he fully expects the froederal government will repeal the salt cap. the white house of course has not included that cap repeal in its tax plan, and any repeal would cost the government $600 billion a year in revenue, david, with most of the benefits going to the top 1%. that is why there is such a battle in d.c. and why the new york state lawmakers wanted to do something to help some people in new york. unfortunately, it's not most employees. it's just partners in pass thr throughs and s corps. >> typically among the highest compensated people in the state, and people conceivably thinking about relocating themselves or their businesses as a result of ever rising taxes and the inability as you say to deduct them or at least previously. i'm not sure what it means for the old w 2 employees out t

leading the way. 2.2% followed by texas, vermont and connecticut. the county with the highest average is rock dland county at $14 million. hawaii is .37% the average homeowner paying less than $3,000 a year. property tax attorneys saying they are seeing a record number of appeals and challenges to assessments this year. but with school and town budgets so strained by covid they're not likely to get any relief, joe. we talk about the tax burden talking about the corporate tax rate, individual tax rate. property taxes are such a big part of what the families and homeowners pay and this is going up this burden as a whole is increasing for a lot of americans. >> makes perfect sense so the costs like five times as much to live in new jersey as hawaii that's very logical. >> yeah, but hawaii -- hawaii has the second highest income tax rate s, so you could get a second home but if you want to live there, it's high. >> it's a privilege to live in new jersey, becky. a lot of people make fun of it, andrew, driving and the factories and the smell and things li

three employers have said it one a hospital in texas, one in connecticut and a health care firm in california it requires it for them to come on site but not requiring it if people want to work remotely these are the universities that have decided to do it. there was one university in texas who required it but then after governor abbott issued an order against vaccine passports, they had to retract that governor abbott saying they shouldn't have to show this. don't tread on personal freedoms we checked with that hospital and they said the executive order didn't affect them here's what harvard had to say about it. >> employers i think are a little bit more afraid of backlash in part because of end users who are customers and they're worried about the idea their customers may have strong opinions about the vaccine mandates >> reporter: guys, it's not so much the legal issues necessarily. two lawyers we spoke with thought it is legal to do even under emergency use authorization. it just doesn't seem popular. >> meg tirrell appreciate it. we'll continue this conversation becky? >> we aare, andrew

happening here, guys, the partners can shift the tax of the passthrough and get the full deduction connecticut and new jersey already allow this strategy. and it is the only state work around so far that the irs has allowed. guys, it only works for pastners of passthroughs, not regular employees. governor cuomo is saying that he expects that the government will repeal the tax but they need this at least for hedge funds. guys >> speechless, speechless, robert let's get on with the guest. joining us now a man who is never speechless, austan goolsbee, professor at the university of chicago, booth c school of business and arthur laffer, chairman of laffer economics and austan, out of the box, "a," are you in favor of spending all that and "b," if so, should we try to do that? and what is the best way of doing that without in your view doll you think we ought to do? >> joe, what is this totally reasonable tone. i love it. first, objecting that the hedge funds are getting a tax cut. and now asking it in that way. i do think we've augneglected ao of these big public investments for a long time under

guess what between state and local government taxes, if you live in new york, new jersey, connecticut, california you're into the mid 50s and this is very counter productive >> that's the point, lee and we have frank luntz on who has polled people. i don't know if everyone realizes 50% is what average wealthy people pay, over 50 and we hear about the ultra rich and however they've accrued the ultra rich money, whether it was pay ordinary income as they were making it, whether they inherited it so there was step up so they didn't pay it there the way they get to a 7% tax rate is because it's existing capital. and if you actually did talk to people about what they think is fair, frank luntz said they think 1/3 is fare. 1/3 of what you make should be paid even if you go to 50% i think 50% is fair but a lot of these proposals, you're going to go up well above 50. so i don't know whether that -- if you poll people with that, i'm not sure they should think -- maybe they do maybe if you make $500 million or have that much, maybe you should have an 80% marginal tax rate >> i don't think so. j

can't compete and we showed the film clip of those two track stars in connecticut. what is the response to the parents who say my kids have no shot, they can't compete with these trans-female athletes? >> well, it's not because they are trans, that these athletes couldn't win. it's they weren't fast enough. so, for example, neither of these trans-athletes became national champions. for example, i know one of the plaintiffs got onto a division i college school, but she failed to make the roster for the track and field team, even though some of other freshmen did. is she going to sue her other sis-gender teammates for being faster than her? it's just not because they are trans, that they were winning, they were just faster. >> i read the connecticut complaints and i know this gets into the werdeds in a hurry. those born male have a natural physiological advantage that also includes different levels of testosterone. you snow the argument. your response to that is what? >> it's a nonsense argument. depends on how much time you want to let me get into the weeds, because

and yet, connecticut is spiking. and so, i mean, i hate to -- i hate to blame this just on bad human behavior because if you look at the map, there are orange and red pockets, which are the hot spots, everywhere. so i think it's just that the variants -- these variants are, as you say, hitting people who are not yet vaccinated and is much stronger. >> well, i'm speaking to you from connecticut, too, and my experience may be a little bit different. i see young people behaving very differently from what you just described. so i think it's a very complicated situation that it's a combination of the virus, and i will say, this is not a time to relax because this is a much more dangerous virus. you're absolutely right there. much more dangerous and much more lethal. it's getting younger people, and they are filling up the hospitals. not the older people. that's a big change. and it can get young children, too. it's a combination of our behavior. i think what's making everybody extremely nervous is the fact that this is a

chris murphy the senator from connecticut is working hard to find a compromise. i do think that the white house is spending most of its political capital on the infrastructure plan, that is the biggest thing in front of them right now and i think joe biden has a sense, a realistic sense of what is doable here. >> yeah, gloria, david talked about chris murphy, the lead sponsor of the background bill in the senate. he's open to compromise on this. he says he's been talking to republicans for several weeks but swaying enough republicans to get a version of his bill passed is, you know, not easy. >> it's difficult. it's difficult. and, you know, the problem is that republicans over these years have become more and more dug in. as david points out, guns have become a cultural issue. if you say you want to do universal background checks and 90% of the public says yeah, we think that's a great idea, you have a large group of republicans who see that as somehow taking away their second amendment rights, taking away their freedom, which is the keyword here. we hear it use

two of our leaders on this from connecticut, senators murthy and blumenthal are reaching out to colleagues to see if we will have a vote. >> reporter: schumer's goal is to hold a vote so that both democrats and republicans can go on where they stand on the issue of gun control. christi, boris. >> daniella diaz, thank you. >>> if it seems like we're talking about mass shootings in america, it's because they're happening. take a look at this list scrolling on your screen. cnn defines a mass shooting, by the way, as a shooting that results in four or more injuries of death, including the shooter. by definition, there's been more than 40 mass shootings in this country just since mid-march. that includes the shooting at soopers supermarket. >>> and one of the biggest blunders that has altered the course of national decisioned in the united states. how a decision made by john f. kennedy in 1961 still impacts u.s. politics. >>> and we're going live with you to windsor, as hundreds of military personnel gather, for a final salute to the duke of edinburgh. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veteran

of course, he represents the state where the sandy hook shooting took place in connecticut. on the other hand you have two senators, senator joe manchin of west virginia and senator pat toomey of pennsylvania who tried to pass a commercial background check bill in 2013 and it failed and they have said they are not moving on this, where they stand on this issue. they want commercial background checks. and senate majority leader chuck schumer has committed to putting a gun safety measure bill on the floor, even if it doesn't pass through the senate. that's where things stand right now on this issue. we always go back to the same problem in the senate where a lot of legislation stalls because democrats need at least ten republicans to sign on to any legislation to break the filibuster because of this 50/50 split in the senate. they need 60 votes to break the filibuster. so right now senator murphy has said that he is speaking with republicans on this issue to try to convince them to support his legislation, work with him on this issue, but the bottom line is after this tragic e

four shot and wounded in waterbury, connecticut. one killed, three others wounded at a convenience store in missouri. one killed and three wounded in memphis. in seattle, april 11th, a toddler and three others hit by gunfire in a parking lot. in the following-four days, ten-more people would be killed and at least 25 wounded in six more mass shootings, including the latest one overnight. barring drastic changes or a miracle, it will not be the last. and as little as a few days, perhaps it won't even be the latest but it's where we begin with cnn's mig miguel marquez. >> reporter: eight more lives lost in america's latest mass shooting. >> he was firing in the open. and i, immediately, ducked down and got scared. and my friend's mother. he came -- she came in and told us to get inside the car. >> we heard three more shots. and then, my buddy levi saw somebody running out of the building. and then, more shots went off. >> reporter: the suspect, officers say, has been identified as a 19-year-old man who was a former employee at this fe

as connecticut works to expand vaccinations one site doubling as a food pantry. governor ned lamont was on hand in east windsor. no appointments needed there, first come first served for the shots and food being distributed. more than 50 of connecticut's vaccination sites are now allowing walk-ups. >> reporter: i'm bianna golodryga in new york. undergraduate enrollment in colleges and universities for the 2021 spring semester saw the steepest decline since the start of the pandemic. according to the national student clearinghouse research center, overall enrollment fell by 5.9% compared to last spring. with community college enrollment down over 11%. native americans experienced the largest drop in enrollment at 13%, followed by declines among black, white and latinx students. one potential bright spot, grad rat enrollment rose by 4% for those seeking masters degrees and 8% for those seeking doctoral degrees. >> reporter: i'm jean sass ras in new york city. mayor bill de blasio is announcing he plans to fully reopen this city july 1st. he says the goal is to open

that's alaska, new mexico, maine, rhode island, connecticut are the top five in terms of getting everybody fully vaccinated. those numbers moving up. who's at the bottom of that list. these five states, mostly in the south, tennessee, arkansas, alabama, georgia and utah all states with republican governors, that's where the hesitancy is a lot in republican communities and rural communities with the lowest vaccination rates as we go through. let's take a look at the world from a global perspective the united states is doing quite well at the head of the pack, or at least the head of the pack among larger countries. again, 23.5% fully vaccinated. look to the north and canada, 2.3%. mexico, 2.3%. the uk is at 12.5%. south africa, fewer than 1% of the population fully vaccinated. you have heard calls from around the world that the united states should do more to help this global effort. the head of the cdc says it will in time. >> i think we have a responsibility to vaccinate the rest of the world, both from a humanitarian standpoint as well as from a global health security standpoint to ensur

i was recently in connecticut. senators murphy and blumenthal and the governor there, so many people, the families of sandy hook. i honestly thought -- i honestly thought, when those babies, 26 7-year-old children were slotted, and i thought that would be the thing and it didn't happen p happen. >> wow, what an interview. thank you for sharing it with us. >> thanks, pamela. >>> and up next, president biden gives an address to a joint session of congress. join us for cnn's special live coverage starting wednesday night at 8:00 p.m. >>> up next, why some republicans are pushing legislation that protects drivers who hit protesters. you did hear that right. for the record is up next. we look up to our heroes. idolizing them. mimicking their every move. and if she counts on the advanced hydration of pedialyte when it matters most... ...so do we. hydrate like our heroes. re-entering data that employees could enter themselves? that's why i get up in the morning! i have a secret method for remembering all my hr passwords.

>>> nicole hochuli joins me now from newtown, connecticut. she lost her son dylan in the 2012 sandy hook school shooting and she is the co-founder of the sandy hook promise group that works to end gun violence. thank you for coming on, biden has yet to send a gun control bill to congress. he signed dozens of executive orders but zero dealing with guns so far a couple months into his administration. he says his presidency is about timing. do you think the time is now for him to act on guns? >> well, i do think the time is now. as you said, so many people, more people have died last year than the previous year or the year before that, and they continue to die every day. every day in the united states we have 100 people die, and another 200 that are wounded or injured as a result of gun violence. those are astonishing numbers and, sadly, those numbers continue to grow. i understand president biden's approach to timing. the covid pandemic is, has to be the number one priority. and i understand he is putting the time into infrastructure as well. a

i mean, you know, i was recently in connecticut. senators murphy and blumenthal and the governor there, so many people, the families of sandy hook, you know, i honestly thought, i honestly thought that when those babies, 20 6 and 7-year-old children were slaughtered, i really thought congress would act. i thought that would be the thing and it didn't happen. >> and now to those big concerns at the u.s.-mexico border, the vice president has been tasked by president biden to take on the issues surrounding the migrant increase. the u.s. has seen over the last few months, here's what the vice president has had to say about that. >> we're making progress, but it's not going to evidence itself overnight. it will not but it will be worth it and i will tell you, part of my approach to this is we've got to institutionalize the work and internationalize it. i'm working with ambassador thomas greenfield and we're going to be increasing the requests we're making of our allies in the united nations, because again, this is about the western hemis