baldwin. sen. baldwin:'s about her career and wisconsin political history. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that empty apartment. convention night 1984 in wisconsin. what is the story? sen. baldwin: i was fresh out of college. had yet to land my first job. the ink was hardly dry on the diploma. i had a double major in mathematics and government. my whole future was ahead of me. my first efficiency apartment, sparsely furnished. as you suggest. mattress on the floor. little tiny television on the ledge between the kitchen and the rest of the room. i watched the democratic national convention. i watched geraldine ferraro take the stage and with my whole life ahead of me, i said to myself -- i can do anything. i can aspire to anything. that image of a woman for the first time being nominated to one of the highest positions in the land, in the world. it was a transformative moment for me. that moment.watch we have a little bit of video from 1984.r stop -- [video clip begins] geraldine ferraro: as i stand before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bes

"q&a" with wisconsin senator tammy baldwin. at 9:00, we take you to east los angeles. then we look at three possible vice presidential picks. ♪ "q&a," wisconsin senator tammy baldwin. talks about her career and wisconsin political history. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that apartment, that empty apartment on convention night, 1984, in wisconsin. what is the story? sen. baldwin: i was fresh out of college, had yet to land my so the ink partly dried on the diploma, double major in mathematics and government, and michael future was ahead of me. my first efficiency apartment, sparsely furnished, mattress on the floor, little tiny television on the ledge, and i watched the democratic national convention. i watched geraldine ferraro take the stage, and with my whole life ahead of me, i said to myself, i can do anything. i can aspire to anything. woman for thea first time being nominated to one of the highest positions in the world, it was a transformative moment for me. brian: let's watch that moment. we have video from 1984. [video clip] >> as i stand before the american pe

senator tammy baldwin. she talks about her career. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that empty apartment. convention tonight 1984 in wisconsin. what is the story? sen. baldwin: i was fresh out of college. to land my first job. i had a double major in mathematics and government. my whole future was ahead of me. my first efficiency apartment, sparsely furnished. floor.s on the little tiny television on the ledge. i watched the democratic national convention. i watched geraldine ferraro take the stage and with my whole life ahead of me, i said to myself -- i can do with anything. i can aspire to anything. that image of a woman for the first time being nominated to one of the highest positions in the land, in the world. it was a transformative moment for me. >> let's watch that video. as i standerraro: before the american people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, i recall the words after martin luther king jr.. lifeid, occasionally and there are moments which cannot be completely explained by words. their meaning can only be articulated by the

baldwin. senator baldwin talks about her career and wisconsin political history. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that apartment, that empty apartment on convention night, 1984, in wisconsin. what is the story? sen. baldwin: well, i was fresh out of college, had yet to land my first job. so the ink partly -- hardly dry on the diploma, double major in mathematics and government, and michael future -- and my whole future was ahead of me. my first efficiency apartment, sparsely furnished, mattress on the floor, little tiny television on the ledge, and i watched the democratic national convention. i watched geraldine ferraro take the stage, and with my whole life ahead of me, i said to myself, i can do anything. i can aspire to anything. that image of a woman for the first time being nominated to one of the highest positions in the land, in the world, it was a transformative moment for me. brian: let's watch that moment. we have video from 1984. [video clip] geraldine ferraro: as i stand before the american people and think of the honors this great convention has bestowed upon me,

decision to go after him on the basis of him being a lobbyist? sen. baldwin: it is the issue. medicare should be able to bargain for better prices for american seniors. v.a. bargains with drug companies and medicare, which covers over 40 million americans, and doesn't. meaning seniors need to shoulder these costs. it costs government a lot more money and it costs medicare a lot more money. i was in the house of representatives at the time the medicare part d, medicare modernization act as it was called, that the program was debated and passed. i voted no. i felt very strongly that we should not be forbidding our government from creating huge savings, $156 billion. huge savings for the american people. tommy thompson was secretary at the time that bill advanced, and in my mind, it was a good example of the system being rigged to benefit the drug companies and other people. -- and not the people. brian: why then, when president obama had a chance to change it with obamacare, they kept the inability of the government and medicare to negotiate for prices on drugs and this was a o

baldwin. then former president bill clinton in los angeles for hillary clinton. and later, senator bernie sanders in los angeles followed a campaign rally in redding, california with donald trump. ♪ >> at this week and q&a, wisconsin senator tammy baldwin. she talks about her career. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that empty apartment. convention tonight 1984 in wisconsin. what is the story?

baldwin. at 9:00, we take you to east los angeles. then we look at three possible vice presidential picks. ♪ "q&a," wisconsin senator tammy baldwin. talks about her career and wisconsin political history. brian: senator tammy baldwin, go back to that apartment, that empty apartment on convention night, 1984, in wisconsin. what is the story? sen. baldwin: i was fresh out of

customers all along. thank you. baldwin:.ortman: sen. sen. baldwin: thank you. i wanted to start based on the senators last comment. we hear from constituents with enormous frustrations, but almost all of us have had our own frustrating experience. we're not strangers to this. i actually curious about your am own experiences with your own companies. and i wonder if you get paid tv from the company you're with now or formerly were with? let's go across and let me know. >> yes, senator i do. sen. baldwin: john? that was way too informal. >> senator, i subscribe to comcast service. >> ok. >> yes, i do. >> i'm a dish customer. sen. baldwin: ok. do you call the same service number that any of us or our constituents to initiate the service or deal with problems or as current or former team members do you have an inside , number, colleague or somebody who tas care of that for you? why don't you go ahead. mr. karinshak: yes senator, i , have it as a normal paying customer. myself and my team will also do calls into the system as well as normal customers. sen. baldwin: i was impressed with your te

>>> here we go. top of the hour. you are watching cnn here. i'm brooke baldwin live in orlando. just quickly to give you a vantage point, you can see the pulse sign a block away from me in the 95-degree heat we are covering the story. cnn's special live coverage of america's worst deadly terror attack. 49 innocent people, enjoying life. latin night, salsa. murdered. and another 53 hurt. we're now seeing as new information, new video is coming in, new video here, this is just inside pulse nightclub showing the moment that those shots rang out. >> at the club. >>. [ [ bleep ] ] >> i'm at the club. [ gunshots ] >> at the club. >> the main woman there you saw in that video, her name amanda alviar, she did not survive. she recorded this video on her cell phone on snapchat, recording of what would become her final moments. the gunman apparently inspired by isis calling 911. not just once or twice but three different times in the middle of his siege here at the pulse nightclub. apparently one of the calls he pledged his allegiance to isis. he also pledged his allegiance to the boston

brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn on this friday afternoon. thank you for being with me. one day after hillary clinton went after donald trump labeling him as dangerous for america and unfit to be president, secretary clinton is on the attack once more against the presumptive republican nominee. she just tweeted a link to the campaign page which features a litany of trump's own words outlining what she calls his, i'm quoting, incoheent comments on everything from the economy to isis. she is in california, culver city there. live pictures to stand before that podium and speak to a crowd of women in the run-up to the state's all-important primary next wednesday. trump is also in california getting ready to hold another rally there after firing back at hillary clinton over her scathing criticism of him. >> the only reason she's behaving like this and the only reason she's been dragged so far left, believe me, is she doesn't want to go to jail over the e-mails. okay? believe me. folks, honestly, she's guilty as hell. >> trump also tweeting this today. quoting crooked hillary's tell p

. >> we're going to pull away from the pentagon. i'm brooke baldwin live in istanbul, turkey, just before 9:00 p.m. you have been listening to historic news by defense secretary ash carter who announced this massive moment in the united states, the pentagon lifting the ban on transgender troops from serving openly in the u.s. military effective immediately. secretary carter laid out a list of reasons, and among them -- qualified and talented americans willing to serve their country should not have to serve in fear. he says one general noted that as an army they are sworn to protect and die for the principle that all people are equal. and so in turn, those in uniform should be willing to live with that very principle. secretary carter says he is proud of the year-long review of this issue, that he is proud of all servicemen and women, he announced an implementation plan in stages over the course of the next 12 months including immediate guidance and training for current service members. this move today removes one of the final barriers to military service for any individual, and it comes fiv

special coverage. i'm brook baldwin. we are actually just in front of that news conference that wrapped a moment ago so you'll see a lot of people walking behind me. you heard from the mayor here in orlando. you heard from the governor of the state of florida, from the u.s. attorney, from the fbi. not saying a whole lot as far as the investigation is concerned. obviously huge kudos go out to law enforcement here, the rapid response, the firefighters, ems, 911 operators, police, but as far as hard facts into this investigation from over the weekend, not a lot. the question remains at this hour, the why. i can tell you that right now they're honing in on the killer's phone. it was damaged in the assault within that nightclub. it's still revealing some clues about the chilling calls that apparently, according to officials, that he did, in fact, make including a phone call to a friend and includes to a local tv producer. it's a cnn affiliate here in orlando. he paused to make these phone calls mid attack. we are also learning from investigators they are still focused very closely in on the

and struggles will be listened to. wisconsin senator tammy baldwin talks about her career in public service. wisconsin political history. bob what followed senior helped shepherd the change whereby senators were not appointed by lazy man to the elections. it wouldn't be the party bosses that made the decision. in smoke-filled back rooms. free and fair elections. here's a discussion looking at the potential for a nuclear arms race in the middle east. the brookings institution hosted representatives from the state department as well as ambassador to the united states. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning. i'm suzanne maloney. deputy director of the foreign policy program here at the oo

with you all on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. of course this is cnn and this is the final super tuesday of this election season. and now coin siding with a first in the 240 years that the united states has been a nation. hillary clinton is now the first woman to become the presumed presidential nominee of a major political party. cnn's latest count of delegates shows she has secured one more than 2,383 required to clinch, but her rival senator bernie sanders is protesting what his campaign calls the media's rush to judgment since super delegates don't actually cast the votes until the democratic national convention in philadelphia in july. as secretary clinton makes the history books, rival donald trump come this fall accused of making, quote, the textbook definition of a racist comment. those words coming not just from any republican but the highest ranking, the house speaker paul ryan, in response to trump insisting that the judge overseeing a lawsuit against trump university recuse himself because of his mexican heritage. speaker ryan endorsed trump, keep in mind, merely five

here. it is true to every state, and to our knowledge every county in every stage except for baldwin county, alabama. and the president ordered flags to go half-staff, and the county commissioner in baldwin county, alabama said, no. joining now with the details on why he said no, and what he is saying about the uproar over it, jean casarez. what is going on here? >> well, the baldwin county commissioner president said that it does not meet the criteria for when you should lower the flag to half-staff, and saying that the alabama governor asked all counties in the state to follow those orders until noon yesterday, so it is a moot issue, because they cannot retract or change the decision, but one other county in the country, coal county, missouri, and their kocounty commissioner also made the decision not to lower to a flag to half-staff and the par tischer ins hit the roof. there was a lot of feedback and they said, we need to listen to constituents, and we are going to lower the flag to the half-staff. >> this not the first time that this county commissioner in baldwin kocounty has d

the vote no on. [inaudible] >> senator baldwin went to the senate floor to talk about the orlando mass shooting and propose gun regulation. her remarks are about ten minutes. >> let's start with last weekend. americans awoke to the news of a horrific mass murder in orlando florida. c gunman, u.s. citizen, inspired by terrorists legally purchased a weapon of war and turned it upon members of the lgbt community on latin night at a nightclub in orlando florida. 53 forty-nine dead, 53 wounded and senators returned from their home states last week to express thoughts and prayers to observe moments of silence and many of us resolved that while important those are not enough. we needed to follow up those thoughts and prayers, those moments of silence with action. i joined to my colleagues, number of us on the floor when senator murphy of connecticut held the floor for 15 hours tote draw attention to two common sense amendments that would have limited that easy access to a weapon of war by closing a loophole that allows 70 of our firearms purchases to occur without a proper background the

. we'll be right back. ♪ charlie rose: joining me now is brooke baldwin. she is the anchor of cnn newsroom. o'toole is the program director of the george mason university forensic science department. a former fbi profiler. we're learning more and more about this case. and about the gunmen. give me a sense of how he fits other profiles of people who have committed this kind of mass murder. maryellen: he is different in some ways. some of the similar features is that this is a mission oriented shooter. he was on a mission that morning to kill as many people as he could. there was a tremendous amount of planning that he would have had to put into this murder. takeplanning likely would weeks or months or even years. it had to pre-existing planning. when you going to a place that is crowded with all these people in your intention is to kill outlook is that they are not human beings. they have been dehumanized. this was extremely callous. and the shooter shows no remorse at all. traits that cause the crime. other shootings that are considered mission oriented shootings. charlie rose: wa

. >>> wolf, thank you so much. great to be with all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. we begin with breaking news. chilling new details this afternoon about the movement of the orlando gunman before he committed the worse shooting massacre in u.s. history. cnn has learned that the shooter bought three plane tickets for himself, his wife and his young child and he did that just one day before murdering 49 people. law enforcement officials revealing what the killer did the night of the attack. evan perez has all of this information. our justice correspondent has been on this since the beginning. also, casey jordan, a criminaligist and attorney. what have you learned? >> that the gunman went to the pulse club earlier saturday night and then left before returning to carry out his attack as the gay nightclub was preparing to close earlier on that sunday morning. officials we've been talking to said that the gunman paid the entrance fee and may have been checking out the security at the club. the fbi has been using surveillance video, cell phone tracking along with witness interviews to b

baldwin picks up our special coverage on the shooting at the campus of ucla right now. >> here we go. top of the hour. you're watching cnn. brooke baldwin. live pictures from los angeles. want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world as we are continuing our coverage here, live breaking coverage of a shooting on campus at ucla. let me just be entirely transparent. we don't know a lot. we're going to work through this together over the course of the next two hours. this is a massive campus. 43,000 students here. it is on lockdown as i speak, and we can confirm that there are two victims. we are told they are, quote, down. these victims are down near the engineering building. we are still trying to confirm what exactly down means, if it means these two are injured or possibly worse. we're waiting for updates on their condition. at this stage we have no information on the shooter or possibly shooters there in los angeles, if they have left the campus. they could possibly be holed up there in campus, but can you see just the tremendous police presence here. we'v

sees muslim-americans and muslims around the world as our partner. >> rose: also brooke baldwin and mary ellen o'toole, a former f.b.i. profire. >> in a case like this, a mission-oriented shooting, the shooter will go out ahead of time, check out the venue, drive by, see when it's the most crowded, who comes, who goes, where are the security officers. but what we are hearing now is his involvement in meeting men who frequented the club and going to the club and having conversations and having the app to meet people, that's not part of surveillance, so that's not part of knowing when people are coming and going and developing intelligence. so that does suggest a personal involvement in a lifestyle that he suggests and his father suggests that he hates and, so, it does present the question, was he dealing with his own ambivalence towards possibly having homosexual thoughts or desires and, yet, at the same time hating that lifestyle. i think that has to be considered and was that enough to just fuel the hatred even more. >> rose: we continue this evening with george c. wolfe and savion

, thanks so much. >>> thank you for joining me today. "berman and baldwin" starts now. >>> hello, everyone, i'm kate baldwin. john berman is off today. new details on the coordinated terror attack at one of the busiest airports in the world, the attackers using one bomb as a diversion, the others to kill. now the death toll has risen to 43 people, well over 200 injured. also new, a turkish government source tells cnn there is strong evidence the attack was directed by isis, directed, not inspired, directed. and that the three attackers traveled from raqqah, the self proclaimed isis capital in syria. this morning a turkish official is also revealing t three bombers were from russia and two former soviet states, uzbekistan and kurdistan, as turkish police are conducting raids in connection to tuesday's bombings. brooke baldwin is live outside istanbul's airport. brooke, great to see you. a lot of new details and moving parts this morning. bring our viewers up to speed. >> reporter: let's go back to that senior turkish source who has been giving cnn a lot of information this afterno

here on cnn. >>> wolf, thank you, sir. i'm brooke baldwin. i'll pick it up in the very same spot. the tears still fresh, funerals still going and now the calls for a revolt growing louder. right now an absolutely extraordinary moment unfolding on capitol hill. dozens of members of congress staging a sit-in on the house floor, angry about the gun violence sweeping the nation just ten days after the orlando attack. they are demanding a vote on gun control. a team of democrats led by georgia congressman john lewis, the civil rights icon delivering an impassioned speech. >> mr. speaker, i would ask that all of my colleagues join me on the floor. i wonder what would bring this body to take action? what would finally make congress do what is right, what is just, what the people of this country have been demanding and what is long overdue? we have laws, hundreds and thousands of innocent people to gun violence, tiny little children. we can no longer wait. we can no longer be patient, so today we come to the well of the house to dramatize the need for action, not next month, not next year, bu

james baldwin on racial terror in discussing it with her daughters she also draws a connection in that peace between iran group populations and the black men and women in the state's but to state the african diaspora immigrants are here in america because it is for nothing ever we come from and better lives me very little here. and charles johnson middle-class share my students find work invigorating and to find some of the most powerful wines in that novel which i think the radically helps us to unpacked how it actually works and get started the problem of the murderous oppression is that the roots of western thought and charles johnson argues through the character that is the captain of the ship republic although dualism is a bloody structure of the mind that is perceived to be built into the mind like the stampede of for merchant million science of the transcendental fault mind was made for murder if you think it through the deeper wound and i have to say there is a lot of work recently that it is encouraging that has been produced in these lines remind me of the winds from the coll

up on. >> sunday night on "q&a," wisconsin senator tammy baldwin talks about her career in politics. >> bob lafollette sr. helped shepherd the change whereby senators were not appointed by the legislatures, but demanded elections. so i guess those, i don't know if it was the first but the idea that it wasn't going to be the party bosses who made the decision of who the nominees were in smoke-filled back rooms but rather the people who were you know, going to get a chance to vote in free and fair elections. >> sunday night. >> now, professors and authors talk about the opportunities and challenges for the african-american community in the south and west during reconstruction. they discuss topics such as the role of black lawyers, participation in local politics by men and women, and race relations in the western states. the university of south carolina's history center and historic columbia co-hosted this hour and 15-minute event. >> the an exciting day. finally, after four long years of the civil war, we can finally go on to the really important work and talk about reconstruction. [

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. baldwin county refuses to lower its flags to half-staff, saying the attack doesn't, quote, meet the test. "outfront" now, tucker dorsey, baldwin county commissioner, the current chairman, the man who made the decision. commissioner dorsey, why not? why not lower the flag? >> well, good evening, i appreciate you having me on this evening. i have interpreted the flag code. the responsibility given to me by the people of baldwin county as the chair, given me the purgative with regards to the flag code and i read the flag code because i revere the flag very much. and the flag code, as it reads, is really only lowered for instances where there are the passing of officials that have given significant distinguished service to our country, whether presidents, antonin scalia, pearl harbor day. and so when i first saw it and interpreted the code, it's primarily for those things instead of the tragedy where innocent americans are getting killed. >> so the president of the united states has requested all flags across the country be lowered, and in fact, probably every single one is, except for

call: balanced battled mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. ms. baldwin: thank you, mr. president. it is no secret -- the presiding officer: the senate in a quorum call. ms. baldwin: i ask that the quorum call be disbanded. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. baldwin: thank you, mr. president. it is no secret that we are living in a dangerous time and we face a variety of threats to our security at home and abroad. we all agree that we need to make investments in a strong military to protect and defend our national security. we have also come together in agreement on the need to take on our national security challenges and our challenges here at home in a balanced way. the bipartisan budget agreement that we passed into law last year was far from perfect, but it provided much-needed certainty for our economy by preventing the on-going threats of a government default or a government shutdown. it restored investments in both our national and our economic security, ensuring that every dollar of investment in defense was matched by a dollar of inves

access what they call a weapon of war. and yesterday the floor was very emotional. tammy baldwin, someone who is part of the lgbt community, went on the floor and read stories about every single victim from orlando, cory booker talked about the time dealing with gun violence as mayor of newark and chris murphy having conversations with families from newtown, why can't anything change? the reality is, the nra is just too strong but they want to shed light on that especially now and for the rest of congress being in session this summer until july 15th. >> thank you very much. let me bring in shannon watts, founder of moms demand action for guns. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. >> let me get your reaction. when you hear luke russert, something you know very well, discuss the influence of the nra when this discussion of common sense reform enters the political dialogue. >> yeah, you know, i don't remember voting for the nra or voting for wayne lapierre to write gun laws. so i'm incredibly proud of senators murphy and feinstein and schumer, all senators who stood up dur

, jill martin, will join brooke baldwin at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. stay tuned for that. >>> the anger, the yelling, the scandals, the scuffles, the controversy, the tv. long before the 2016 presidential race, my next guest was giving daytime drama a whole new meaning and now jerry springer is out on the tirades of donald trump is better for your skin than wearing no makeup at all? neutrogena® cosmetics. with vitamins and antioxidants. now with foundations in shades for more skin tones. . >>> never one to shy away from a ruckus. jerry springer waging in on donald trump and hillary clinton. jerry took a jab at the presumptive gop nominee after criticized what he called clinton's bad temperament and here was the tweet. come on, donald. you complaining about hillary's temperament is like me complaining about the quality of television. the anger and the frustration and seen most recently. this was something out of a studio brawl and it actually could have been seen on a daytime talk show. listen to that. joining me now live from sarasota, florida, jerry springer. good to have you on. your

baldwin county, alabama. president obama ordered flags lowered at federal offices nationwide. alabama's governor did the same for his state, and a county economicser in bamd win county, alabama said no. joining us with details on why he have said no and what he said about uproar over it, jean casarez. >> he said it doesn't meet criteria to lower the flag to half staff. saying that, the alabama governor asked automaker counties in the state to fom orders until noon yesterday. it is a moot issue. they can't retract and change the decision. one other county we know of in the country, comb county missouri made a decision not to lower to half staff, and they hitd the roof. there was feedback. they said we need to listen to constituents. we are going to lower the flag to half staff. >> this is not the first time this county commissioner in baldwin county has done this, correct? >> no, it is not. he didn't do it for san bernardino or for parachuting, he is saying there's an emotional argument and statute argument. he is saying emotionally when we lower the american flag to half staf

is going to be interviewed by our own brooke baldwin at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. thank you so much for watching, everyone. wolf starts right now. >>> he is temperamentally unfit. he said i know more about isis than the generals do. believe me. you know what? i don't believe him. >> she does not look presidential. that, i can tell you. four more years of this stuff, we're not going to have a country left. >> if you believe america is weak, then you don't know america. and you certainly don't deserve to lead it. >> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 10:00 a.m. in culver city. wherever you watch around the world, thank you for watching us. game on. they're in full effect right now and giving us a preview of what's to come in the presidential race. the candidates are back on the campaign trail today after clinton unloaded on trump during a speech yesterday. trump wasted no time firing right back calling the speech pathetic and sad to watch. take a look at this, looking at live pictures from culver city, california. we'll be watching and keep you updated on the latest comments. trump, meanwh

. >> thank you senator schumer, murphy feinstein, booker, marquis and baldwin for inviting me here today. i'm grateful for to you and members of your delegation of taking action on this issue so other families do not have to live with the heartbreak and anguish my family has been forced to endure for the rest of our life. your leadership has been a source of source of comfort to my family. my name is tina. my father damien minds was killed on december 2 last year at the inland regional center while at a work event with the san bernardino county environmental health department. when a coworker and his wife who had pledged allegiance to the terrorist group isis burst through the doors of his office spraying bullets from their semi automatic rifles. my dad, along with 13 of his coworkers was killed. in near seconds, my life my life and the lives of my mother and sister were ever vocally changed. our family was small but close. very close. dad was always happy to spend time with us weather was helping us with their homework, teaching teaching us how to ride her bike , helping coach our

>>> here we are, top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. we are expecting the leader of house democrats, nancy pelosi, to come out on capitol hill and talk about this historic protest that lasted for more than 24 hours. democratic members stanled this sit-in decrying the lack of action on gun control days after the orlando nightclub shooting. the deadliest shooting in the united states. democrats left the house floor and went to the steps of the u.s. capital. they were greeted. you can see this picture. before leaving, the man who set off the sit-in, civil rights icon, congressman, john lewis, he spoke. >> we're going to go home, as jim suggested. we're going to organize, mobilize. our people are with us. not just in our district but people all over america and around the world. social media told the story. >> after the sit-in was well in, we heard from house speaker, paul ryan, especially calling this a publicity stunt. speaker ryan ended aup floor session and shut down the house camera. the democrats went to social media to keep the i

continues right now. >>> wolf, thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin live here in orlando, florida. you are watching special breaking coverage of the terror attack inside the pulse nightclub. the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in american history. >> i'm anderson cooper outside the orlando regional medal center. 27 patients are still being treated. six in critical condition. you're about to hear a survivor tell his chilling account of what happened and president obama, hillary clinton hold two separate events with one target, donald trump and republican critics who play the fiery messages ahead. >> and we have just received word of an active investigation into exactly how much the shooter's wife knew about his murderous plan. we have that, also a major development today on the killer's motives. we are hearing reports that not only did he visit the pulse nightclub often but a law enforcement official says he cased out disney springs, that is on disney world property, one week before this nightclub shooting. we have all of that for you. let's bring in our cnn justice correspond

the hospital this morning. let's begin our coverage with cnn's brooke baldwin. >> reporter: good afternoon, carol. we're just in front of the aperture, blue skies, a warm thursday afternoon. you see the traffic streaming behind me. you would never know. a lot of the glass panes have been replaced in the aperture. you would never know what happened here two nights ago. just to underscore from istanbul, a lot of new information today, beginning with the fact from the senior turkish official to cnn, the source telling us, as you said, that there is strong evidence that these three suicide bombers came here into turkey from the isis stronghold of raqqah in syria, maybe a month ago. in fact they've locked down a specific apartment where they were renting for the last month. one of the bombers actually left behind by accident or perhaps not his passport, and it was a russian passport. that's how they began connecting the dots. you mentioned isis leadership. according to this senior turkish source, it was the isis leaders themselves who were helping plan this particular attack here at t

dollars in spending credits. >>> you are watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. breaking news in the death of music legend prince. the "minneapolis star tribune" reports prince died of an opioid overdose, the paper cites a source into the investigation. still waiting for the medical examiner autopsy results. don't have that yet. as you well know, prince died on april 21st inside the paisley park compound just outside of minneapolis. staff members found his body inside his studio elevator. he had been there for at least six hours. officials say there were opioids found on him. let's bring in sarah si sidener dr. drew. do we know anything more than opioids? >> reporter: nope. that is it. not a surprise a lot of people who have been watching and following this case. we are now at 45 days since prince died. everyone's waiting on the toxicology report. we know that the medical examiner's sent that to the lab, the blood to the lab and hearing from the "star tribune" reporting saying a source saying opioid overdose was the cause of death. what we'll hear from the medical examiner with an official ru

. thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me on this monday. just as democrat hillary clinton is expected to make history as the first female nominee, donald trump seems to be undoing the party unity he's built since becoming the presumptive republican nominee. clinton expected to earn the needed delegates for the democratic nomination by the time polls close in california. one of six states voting tomorrow. check the map. see it for yourself. as the only man in his race, trump will no doubt win his primaries there and he is losing ground in his own party after sticking to the belief that the judge overseeing the lawsuit against trump university is biassed because the judge has mexican parents. my colleague jake tapper pressed mr. trump more than 20 times on this very issue on sunday's "state of the union." >> if you were giving me fair rulings, i wouldn't be talking to you this way. he's giving me horrible rulings. >> that's fine. you can criticize every decision. what i'm saying is if you invoke his race as a reason why he can't -- >> i think that's why he's

multiple locations. we just got new information about them. let's get right to brooke baldwin, she's live at the istanbul airport with those >> reporter: yeah, chris and alisyn, good morning. we know a lot. significant developments on this early thursday morning. beyond the fact this airport here in istanbul is fully reopened, we now know that police, special operations have carried out raids here in and around istanbul in 16 different neighborhoods or 16 different addresses in total, 13 different people have been detained, including three foreign nationals. all of this, they are telling us, in connection to the triple suicide attack here at the istanbul airport. a turkish official says one attacker walked into the arrivals area of the international terminal, blowing himself up near the security check point. the chaos and confusion giving the second attacker the opportunity to go up to the departures hall. this surveillance video captures him running across the terminal with a kalashnikov assault rifle in hand. moments later, detonating his suicide vest. a third attacker waiti

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! >> drake and hailey baldwin showed up to the nice guy. sat at a dinner table very close together. >> ooh, i think this is sort of risky. if he steps out with a white chick, his sisters, it might hurt their feelings. >> but van always says he can never be with a white girl! >> van hasn't been with a white girl. >> chris brown's daughter had an amazing second birthday party. it was "frozen" themed. she entered on a pony. the entire party cost over $30,000. >> how do you know he paid for it? >> he paid for it. because he bitched about it. remember they went to court and started fighting. he agreed to do it before nasty in court. >> once you promise her a pony, you can't be like, well, your mom is a bitch. you're n getting a pony. >> remember tyga's chick demi rose? she's over in ibiza doing a whol

, have one. >> today on "tmz" -- harvey: drake's got a girlfriend! >> drake and hailey baldwin showed up to the nice guy. sat at a dinner table very close together. >> ooh, i think this is sort of risky. if he steps out with a white chick, his sisters, it might hurt their feelings. >> but van always says he can never be with a white girl! >> van hasn't been with a white girl. >> chris brown's daughter had an amazing second birthday party. it was "frozen" themed. she entered on a pony. the entire party cost over $30,000. >> how do you know he paid for it? >> he paid for it. because he bitched about it. remember they went to court and started fighting. he agreed to do it before nasty in court. >> once you promise her a pony, you can't be like, well, your mom is a bitch. you're not getting a pony. >> remember tyga's chick demi rose? shs

debate between the great writer james baldwin and malcolm x over the effectiveness of nonviolent civil disobedience, the effectiveness of a lunch counter sit in in the south. then there's houston, went on the air in 1970 in washington in 1977. that is a fabulous, specific to radio network and attorney. houston, the only radio station in the country that was blown up. in the first weeks that it went on the air. the ku klux klan strap dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blew to smithereens. right in the middle of the arlo guthrie singing alice's restaurant. i thought that was a good song. but anyway they go on the air. they rebuild. transmitter goes up again. and the klan straps 15 times the dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blows it up again. so now it will take months to january 71 they finally get ready. public broadcasting comes in in its infancy to broadcast this moment when the phoenix rises from the ashes. arlo guthrie comes back to the petrol metro to finishes the song live on the air, alice's restaurant and they go back on the air. i can't remember if it

court." [laughter] >> kendall jenner, hailey baldwin, gigi hadid's nipples all went for a stroll around the streets of new york. >> that's photo of the year! i love it! it is burned through my retinas every time i look, i see kendall's nipples everywhere. >> calvin harris is doing just fine since the breakup of taylor swift. he w i

-- that their concerns will be listened to. >> sunday night, tammy baldwin talks about her career in public service and wisconsin political history. >> he helped shepherd the change senators were not appointed by the legislatures, but demanded elections. i guess those, i do not know if it was the first, but the idea that it was not going to be the party bosses that made the decision on who the nominee is nominees work, but rather the people who would have a chance to vote in free elections here -- elections. >> sunday night on c-span. >> mohammed ali died yesterday at the age of 74. his death comes a few days after he was admitted to a phoenix hospital for respiratory problems. he was well known in the sport of heavyweight boxing, winning several championships and a gold medal at the 1960 summer olympics. in 2005, he was a recipient of the highest honor given to a civilian by the white house. here is a portion of the event, which begins with remarks from george w. bush. youident bush: only if athletes are known as the greatest in their sport, or in their time. but when you say the

. brooke baldwin was exclusively allowed inside the club. >> it has been extraordinary hearing these survivor stories. we heard from people at the hospital. i want to take a moment to talk to first responders, and especially firefighters. i talked to this lieutenant who allowed us in the a area right around early evening yesterday. he wanted to show me exactly what happened as fire station five, which is by the way about 300 feet away from the nightclub, describe first initially getting the calls, multiple shots, you know, maybe that would be just a few people. heard the shots from within the fire station 5 and studly, in the whee hours of sunday morning, it became a makeshift triage area, the gruesome scene, as though some of the walking wounded came to the fire station to a bagel shop across the street. when you talk about heroism, this fire department here in orlando, exemplifies that. here is what he told me happened. >> we're standing in front of your fire station, explain to me that night, so you start hearing the shots. the first thing you saw was what? >> people running acros

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viewers, amanpour coming up next. brooke baldwin starting right after this. >> >>> here we are, top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. we are expecting the leader of house democrats, nancy pelosi, to come out on capitol hill and talk about this historic protest that lasted for more than 24 hours. democratic members stanled this sit-in decrying the