that much. maybe this will be an enseincen for people to use them more. >> sanjay, appreciate it. just in terms of where we are in the pandemic, what are your thoughts right now, just kind of big picture? >> this is the big debate right now. i mean, i think you've heard from the cdc, you know, they're worried about a potential fourth surge. you're hearing from other people like scott gottlieb who don't think that's going to happen. we have vaccinated a significant percentage of the country that was most vulnerable, right, people over the age of 65, people in long-term care facilities. that's good news. despite the fact that the country's overall 15%, we have in a good way muimmunized the people that needed it most. i guess what i'm say is i'm worried about the variants and what we saw in florida with spring break, because you could

see more spread of the virus, but at the same time as we've increasingly protected people who are most likely to be hospitalized or die from this, i think as cases go up, hopefully we won't see proportional case and deaths. you got to be humble. we learned humility through the year. >> chris cuomo is off. what it's like to watch the worst history repeat itself. in the wake of colorado's shooting we'll speak to survivors of the first two, and also a man who survived this latest one. tonight we're learning more about the suspect, the weapon, and the question, will two shootings in two weeks do anything on moving the needle on legislation? >> kyung lah is standing by. how's the community in boulder coping? >> reporter: i'm going to try to speak softly here just because you can see where i am,

anderson. th the fence right outside the shooting scene. this neighborhood grocery store. and you can see that, you know, something we have been seeing all day. all of these flowers that are being put along this chain link fence. and we have been talking to people as they stop here. i'm just going to walk over here real quick. messages, the various names, people saying we hold you in our halftim halftim hearts. and all the names of victims being left here in card board boxes, kids cutting their names out in hearts. and what you also hear amid all this grief in this community is a lot of anger. and the way one man put it to me was, you see #boulderstrong. well, go ahead and take the name boulder out and put in vegas. take vegas out and put in your community or the community next to yours. all of this ritual now is

something that is so familiar that it's almost knee jerk because it keeps happening. even nose exactly what to do here in boulder because they've seen it on television, and there's a lot of fatigue amid all of this hurt. so that's really what we're hearing from people is that they are heartbroken, but they are also incredibly tired, even though this is the first time this is touching boulder. >> what is the latest on the investigation? >> well, the investigation here -- you know, you see the fence here, anderson. they are still in the process of collecting all of this evidence. remember, we're talking about ten lives. there is a lot of evidence to gather. the police will take many days in order to gather all that here at the scene. and then they've got look at, where did the weapons come from? track that down. how was it obtained? where did the artillery come from? then the harder question is

motive. who caused this? what in this young man's life led him to get those weapons and come here to this particular store? that is where the investigation is, taking a look at the semantics of the evidence but also looking at the harder questions. >> what more are investigators learning about the alleged shooter? >> reporter: we're actually getting quite a portrait painted from the people who knew this young man. the brother of this gunman says that he had been bullied in high school, that he was often upset because he was picked on for being a muslim. he also says that he struggled with mental illness, that he was becoming increasingly more paranoid, that he was upset by cameras around him, that he would try to put tape over cameras. then we also spoke to a friend of this gunman who knew him

since the fifth grade who said, yes, he was absolutely bullied. here's what he told us. >> people chose not to mess with him because of hi temper. people chose not to talk to him because of how he acted and things like that. so, yeah, he was very alone, i would say. but when he was with you, he was approachable. >> reporter: so you take all of that, anderson, and put it with guns, that is a dangerous mix here in boulder. anderson? >> kyung lah, thanks very much. i appreciate it. joining us now is brian cruze who lives in the neighborhood and had just finished his shopping when the shooting began. i understand you just moved to colorado across in the king soopers. what did you see as you were leaving the store yesterday? >> i just checked out. very normal day. not that busy. and as i was walking out the

doors towards my car, i heard three very loud booms. and my immediate reaction was that they were some sort of firework or something along those lines, and it seemed strange for that time of day and this time of year. and i looked up and i saw a man with a beard, what i thought was possibly tactical sort of clothing and an ar-15 style rifle, and he was walking through the parking lot and just shooting towards the other doorway from where i was. >> so he actually was shooting starting outside when he was already in the parking lot. >> absolutely, yep. he started shooting basically right in front of the door i was exiting, standing in between the rows of cars just shooting across the parking lot, not into the store, but across the store

to people that were at the other doorway or in the parking lot area, there. >> and what did you do? i mean, that's -- i can't imagine walking out of a store and seeing that. >> i immediately realized the severity of the situation and i just left my cart with all the groceries right there by the entrance of the store and ran back in. and, you know, people didn't realize what was going on, because they had this -- i think probably the same reaction i did before i saw him, that it was some sort of firework or some sort of backfire of a car or something along those lines. i ran in and i looked at the people that were working in the starbucks area -- because right in that entrance is kind of the deli side where there's a kiosk. i told them we need to call the

police and get out of here immediately. there's a man in the apartment with an ar-15 and he's shooting. they look at me strange at first. i'm wearing my mask. i don't know if they couldn't tell i was joking or what, and then three more shots were heard by everyone at that point, and they all kind of realized the severity of the situation and we all started running, pretty much that entire half of the store, and we just ran towards the back of the store where the meat department is and we went behind the counter to the back storage area and went out through the door that's back there that's basically the door they use for bringing in, like, loads from different semitrucks. and we jumped down off the loading docks and ran behind the store. even at that point some people were in disbelief. they're looking around like, has

anyone seen what's going on? i said, yes, i saw, there's a gunman. he's shooting in the parking lot, and we need to keep going. and we all just ran basically into the surrounding neighborhoods at that point. >> i know you live right across the street. >> yeah, right across the street. >> you were concerned about your wife, who was there, if the gunman gunman, you know, left that area and went across the street. >> absolutely. that was -- once i was about two blocks away, that was my biggest concern, because i -- from my perspective i didn't see him enter the store. i just saw him when he was shooting in the parking lot itself so, my concern was, what if he was shooting in the parking lot, and now he's going to run a? if he didn't go into the store, the next area he'd run would be where i live. i knew my wife was at home on a

work call. i was calling her frantically and not getting a answer because she was on a work call. i had to text her. i said emergency, please call. she called me flusters, like, what's going on? i said you need to get inside the bathroom and lock all the doors because there's a gunman shooting in our neighborhood in the king's so maniers parking lot, and i don't know if you're safe in the house right now. >> unfortunately there's a lot of people who have been through something like this, but certainly not everybody, and nobody really knows how they're going to react when it actually happens. now that you have some 24 hours on this, what is it like to see that? i mean, to go through this out of the clear blue sky? >> it's surreal. you don't really expect to have to be in that sort of situation. you don't really prepare or plan. i know that the modern

generation probably does, actually. when i grew up in the '90s, this was slightly before columbine when i was in high school so we didn't have to lockdown drills or anything they do then. so, yeah, you do not really expect that you're going to have to deal with that situation. but i've seen enough on the news to know that if you see someone that looks like that with an ar-15, it is -- your life is in danger and you should probably get out of there immediately because that's your only option, really. >> brian, if you could just stay with us. i want to bring in two people who sadly have been in you are in the state where you are. jansen young survived the aurora shooting. frank survieillance was the principle of columbine. . i talked to the mother of jessie

phillips. he's talked about that idea as well. what thoughts or counsel do you have for someone who's just experienced something like this? >> well, anderson, thanks for allowing me to speak to you tonight. you know, i think everybody in colorado when they saw what happened yesterday was retraumatized. i remember it was around 2:30, and i actually was at columbine high school yesterday because we were planning the 22-year remembrance, and all of a sudden i started getting texts saying, do you see what's happening in boulder? immediately it took me back to where i was almost 22 years ago. i think it's a state of disbelief. right now the people in boulder, it's almost denial believing that it happened. and the next -- it was a blur, and we were just there and engulf that was happening. and i think in colorado we've seen things, you know, columbine. we've seen theater shootings, s.t.e.m. academy, planned

parenthood, and now it's to the point that we're in the state of, i think, disbelief. but i think the most important thing moving forward, and we're reaching out to help them because as i stated, you know, i joined a club in which no one wants to be a member, but when we tell the people, we know what we're feeling we really have experienced that and i think we can help and we're a phone call away in helping that community. >> jansen, i know you spoke with our sister about what was going through your mind after surviving the our report ra shooting in 2012. what do you think helped you the most in those initial days? >> speaking to the media. just really having on outlet. you don't know when you're in this big mixup of a tragedy, you don't know how much just talking about it helps. so i really commend brian on telling his story today. and it, like, touched me so

deeply because it's amazing to hear it and know, like, the mind set that he was going through at the time. and like, even thinking back about the life changing things that are going to come about now. >> yeah. brian, i keep thinking about how strange this situation you were in. you walk out of the store and you see this man and what is about to happen, what is already happening, but what is about to happen in the store, and you go into the store where people at this point are unaware. that must have been such a bizarre juxtapose position of what's right outside the store to come in. >> absolutely. that was the thing. there was a man who was right behind me with a cart who was about to leave out that exact door, and i had to stop him. he kind of looked at me in disbelief, like, why would you stop me? you know, it's very strange for someone to -- i said, you can't

go out that door. we have to get out of here. and i almost feel like i was in a better position than them because i knew what was happening at that moment. i had seen it and was lucky enough that he didn't look directly at me. he was shooting in the opposite direction, or at least sideways of me. but the other people had to somewhat take my word for it and believe the noises they were hearing was shooting and what i was saying was the truth. like i said, when they left back at the store, i think a lot of people were like, is this real? it kind of is that mob mentality where people all start running and other people start running because they see people running. and i think people were just in disbelief. at least i knew, i had seen it with my own eyes and i knew the danger we were in. >> we have to take a short break. if you all could stay around i'd

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talking with three survivors at three colorado mass shootings, columbine, aurora and now boulder. frank, at columbine, so much has changed since columbine and because of columbine. every law enforcement person you talk to will say police tactics changed. they now know you don't wait for a perimeter and wait for s.w.a.t. to show up. you have to go in immediately. most of the fatalities take place in the first several minutes. it's not a hostage situation, which is what it was thought of

precolumbine. do you see changes in how these are handled? >> most definitely. what you just touched upon, anderson, is so true. there was a school resource officer that day exchanging gunfire, but the protocol at the time was to secure the perimeter and waiting for s.w.a.t. to arrive. and unfortunately i know i was there i got out of the building within 30 minute of gunshots being fired, and these police officers were ready to break protocol to go in because they had to wait for s.w.a.t. to arrive. i truly believe if the protocol we have today, single officers are engaging, the fatality rate at columbine would not have been what it was. there have been so many lessons learned from columbine. we keep learning but we've got to stop the senseless shootings from happening. >> one of the teachers from columbine, if my memory serves

me correct -- i should know this automatically, as my memory, bled to death after helping other students to get to safety. >> yeah, it was dave sanders. a very dear friend of mine, and he saved my life because when he came up the staircase just helping kids, getting kids out of the building as the gunman was coming after me and some other students, they stopped momentarily and shot dave, and that momentarily got me and the girls in an area where we were able to protect ourselves. but buy the time the paramedics got in, it was about three hours later and unfortunately dave did not make it. >> it pains me that i couldn't remember his name, because every year i go through a list of people's names who have been killed in incidents that i've covered, and i try to remember

the names and it pains me that i often can't because there are no so many. jansen, do you worry that people forget about these events after they happen? >> i mean, yes and no. i obviously want people to be able to return to as normal of a life as possible and not constantly be plagued by fear and sadness, but also, like, it warms my heart so much to know you try to remember the victims' names because that's why i continue doing these interviews. i never want people to forget john's name. he's the most important person in my life i wouldn't be here without him. so i continue to want to remember his heroism like that, you know? >> well, you know, it was -- it was jessica goway who was killed

in -- her brother jordan i occasionally keep in touch with who in the days after aurora said, you shouldn't name the killer. you shouldn't name the shooter. you should focus on people whose lives were lost, not encourage others by naming and giving publicity to the killer. that's something i've really take ton heart. frank, what should brian, what should anybody who's been through now this shooting, what should they think about or prepare for in the days ahead? >> there are going to be so many different stages to go through, and when i was listening to brian just give his testimony-i admire you for sharing it because you're going to help others, but one of the things -- through a state of denial, and probably the best piece of advice i received 24 hours after, you're being pull in the so many directions and if you don't help yourself you can't

help others. i actually had a conversation with a vietnam veteran who my mom worked for, and he shared with me, he never got the help he needed when he got back from vietnam. and he said, frank, if you're going to need to help other people, you need to help yourself. there's counselors out there, seek help. because what you went through -- i think people have in their minds they're going to wake up some morning and it's all going to be back to normal, and unfortunately it's not. and it is a marathon not a sprint, and there's going to be days saying, boy, everything's going well. and then something triggers an emotion. i think yesterday for all of us, aurora, columbine, whatever mass tragedy, took them back to relive it. so you need to find that support system for yourself. and if i could offer any encouragement, the columbine community today is stronger than what it was because we came

together, and i know colorado and the people in colorado, they'll come together as one because we look at this as a family. and you have so many people to help you, brian, and we're here for you. >> well, frank and jansen and brian, i appreciate you all being with us and having this conversation. it's not easy, and i hope it's helpful to people out there. brian, i wish you the best in the days ahead. >> thank you all so much. >> thank you. coming up, president biden demands congress do something after the nation's latest mass shooting but like the -- the question, what changes with democrats running washington? congresswoman and mass shooting survivor joins us next.

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is. as the community grieves in boulder, president biden is demanding congress move on gun control legislation after the attack, just one of five deadly shootings in america in the two months since the president took office. >> i don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the house and senate to act. we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. i got that done when i was a senator. it passed. it was law for the longest time. and it brought down these mass killings. we should do it again. we can close the loopholes in our background check system, including the charleston loophole. >> few in congress know the trauma of gun violence like

jackie spear of california. she was shot five times in jonestown, guyana, in 1978. her boss was murdered after investigating the people's temple. congressman spear joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. i'm sorry it's under these circumstances. what you went through was such an extraordinary ordeal. you had to wait 22 hours until help arrived. when you see a tragedy like this in boulder, does it bring you back to that? how do you deal with seeing these things? >> anderson, it creates a churning in my stomach because i know what we have to do. i know it's not a heavy lift. we're just trying to close loopholes in existing laws, and we still can't get the senate to act. i mean, there's 600 mass shootings a year in the united

states. it was 50% higher this year than in 2020 than it was in 2019. we have 40% of all the guns in the world in the united states, and we have 30% of the shooters. i mean, at some point, we've got to realize -- people have a right to own guns and to use them appropriately, but felons, persons who are convicted of misdemeanor or domestic violence or persons who are adjudicated as having mental illness. what's interesting about the two shooters in atlanta and then in boulder, this a both bought the guns within days of committing these heinous acts, so we have got to do more to make it safe to two to school, to go to church, to go to the grocery store. and we just have -- i'm so sick of prayers and thoughts. you know, i've walked off the

house floor when we do these moment of silence, because it's so hypocritical. there's no willingness to do more for all the people left with the anguish of not having their loved one or have been shot up and wounded. every day, 100 people die and 200 people are wounded in the united states, living the scars for the rest of their lives. >> you tweet in the part today, assault weapons are weapons of war, which is similar to things people said in the past like retired general stanley mccrystal. what are the chances a ban could pass both chamber of congress. senate can't even pass, as you said, expanded background checks. >> we've done it before and we can do it again, as president biden said. it was in place for ten years and, when it was in place there was a reduction of mass shootings. i mean, he was able to kill ten people. not wounded. they were killed. and it's because of the rapid fire of these assault weapons.

and when you have more fire power than the law enforcement officers, there's something fundamentally wrong. we do not need assault weapons to kill bambi. it is something we've got to come to grips with in this country. >> the house passed two gun safety bills but even with the democratic majority in the senate, albeit a narrow one, they can't get a vote because of the 60 vote filibuster threshold. >> i think we're seeing more evidence of how dysfunctional congress is if you're going retain the filibuster. we're long past the senate being this entity that is one that's engaged in debate. they don't even debate now when they engage in a filibuster. they just sit this for a few moments and then walk off. so i think that, unfortunately, things have become so polarized

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democratic senator chris murphy, one of the strongest supporter of getting gun control passed in the senate told me he realized it's an uphill struggle

but believes some republicans will listen due to the recent colorado shooting. bakari, then-vice president biden led measures to get gun control passed in the wake of sandy hook. it's been said so many times but if getting gun control passed after 20 children were slaughtered in their classrooms wasn't enough to get gun control passed, why would this? >> i agree with you, anderson. i don't know if it's the cynic in me or not. if you kill 20 of the smallest of us there's going to be no action today. i think back to 1995. aat the lot of times we go to columbine in 1999, but in 1995 we had a shooting. think about millennials and generation "z." they've grown up under the arm

of terror. not only 9/11 but domestic terror. they've grown up with the school shootings and these mass shootings. that type of anxiety, having bullet proof book bags, not able to go to the grocery store -- this is the america we live in. i'm not someone -- we're still waiting, if you listen to republicans, barack obama take your guns away 14 years later. i got my cwp with neal in the general assembly. we have bipartisan support in the united states of america right now for common sense gun reform. i just wish republicans in washington, d.c. would have the fortitude to get their act together. >> charlie, president biden called for a federal assault weapons ban today. that seems -- what seems achievable, is that even in the realm of achievable? >> i think before president biden goes down that road what they ought to do is

expand background checks to all private sales. they could close the charleston loophole. i'm sure bakari knows a lot about that. i think that's where they should start. that's where there is a cons consensus. -- i think would go a long way. house just passed the bill. there is great support for that even among gun owners and republicans. they all agree that background checks on individuals in these private transactions, not conducted by federal firearm licensees, but private sales, should be background checked. that would help, i think, clean up some of the problem. i'm not saying it would prevent these shootings but it's good policy. >> bakari, the administration's hurdle isn't just dealing with republicans. you have democratic senator joe manchin was vocal about his opposition to the two bills the house passed around gun control. >> yeah, and you have this archaic filibuster. we can't get out of our own way.

again, we're sitting here, and you can't go to the grocery store, the movie theater, the you can't go to school without having this fear. it strikes all of us. you never know when it's going to happen. and we're talking about -- and charlie dent and i agree. you have a democrat and republican sitting here on cable news in the middle of the night, and we agree that you have to close the charleston loophole. you've got to have a background check. we did not vote for a new agenda on november 3rd to sit here and have a -- that's only palatable to joe manchin and kristen sinema. you need to set aside and do what's right for the country. >> charlie, on the republican side, is there any political upside for republicans to support president biden on this?

you know, senator chris murphy said he had conversations with republicans who have at times suggested to him they want to get to yes on some reforms. >> yeah, i think there is an upside to republicans, so show that they're reasonable on firearms legislation. by passing universal background checks, i think that sends a signal to the nra and other groups that have been resistant to any kind of change. anderson, what's been happening, i think, in the gun rights movement is you have to nra that refuses to compromise because they're worried about learning member to the gun owners of america or other to the right. we passed with republican tom ridge. i was in the general assembly. we voted for this, republicans. the nra agreed. now they've taken a different position on this issue. we were able to get to that

point. what changed was the politics on the outside where they're fighting with each other about members. and compromise is seen as capitulation, therefore loss of members and money. >> hmm. and i mean, how much political capital, then, should, bakari, the biden administration spend on this? particularly, you have enthusiasm in terms of the nra crowd on that issue. is this so much a voting issue for the people on the left? >> no, it's an issue of what's right. expend every ounce of capital you have so we don't have another week that goes by where we're writing off a list of name of individuals who have been murdered in spas or at grocery stores, et cetera. so use every ounce of capital you have. but if we go back to 2018 and prior to 2018, donald trump actually rants on the rems t premise that he was going to clean up our gun law after the parkland shooting.

going up to 2018 he said he was going to do this. the party was on board in doing this. he did not, and they paid a price in the 2018 midterms. so i think it's politically the right move. we're going to turn to briefly another story them one has an -- sidney powell. remember her? why a defamation lawsuit has her admitting what many republicans will not still admit about the big lie of the stolen election. if you haven't heard what she said in court filings, it's -- i would say unbelievable, but it's completely believable. we'll be right back.

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her attorneys say her claims were nothing that reasonable people would believe. yeah. quote, plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as wild accusations and outlandish claims. they were repeatedly labeled inherently improbable and implausible. such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements support the defendant's position that reasonable people would not accept such statement as fact but view them only as claims that await test big the courts through the adversary process. >> president trump won by a landslide. we are going to prove it. >> reporter: she was part of the self-proclaimed elite task force, a group of lawyers making false promises about rooting out fraud and delivering a win for donald trump. >> we have counterfeit ballots.

we have dead people voting by the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. >> reporter: her name is sidney powell and her mission, it seemed was to spread outlandish conspiracy theories about the election. >> there was a postal service driver, i think, who was sent from new york to pennsylvania in the middle of the night for a truck full of ballots that have used to back fill the vote count. >> reporter: one off her favorie targets a company called dominion voting. she falsely claimed it used an algorithm to flip votes from then-president trump to joe biden. >> all the machines are infected with the software code that allows dominion to shave votes from one candidate and give them to another. >> reporter: this is the story powell liked to tell about how dominion began. >> created in venezuela at the direction of hugo chavez to make sure he never lost an election.

>> reporter: that was a lie. dominion actually start in the toronto. powell made lots of promises, like this one about the head of dominion. >> the founder of the company admits he can change a million votes no problem at all. i'll tweet out the video later and tag you in it zwrnchts a. >> reporter: also a lie. her conspiracy theories became so wild her twitter account was suspend. she even suggested other countries were sending fake votes that favored biden. >> we have video of some coming across the border from mexico. >> reporter: drinking her own cool aid she filed lawsuits in four states, including georgia. >> we have them destroying evidence right and left in georgia. cobb county, gwinnett county, fulton county. everything shredding ballots and wiping servers. >> reporter: despite her allegation after fraud in michigan, georgia, arizona, and wisconsin -- >> it's really the most massive

and historical and egregious fraud the world has ever seen. >> reporter: judges didn't buy it, rejecting her claim various reasons and dismissing all four lawsuits she filed in the battleground states. randy kay, palm beach county, florida. >> it's like a fever dream. let's get perspective. norm, lawyers defending a client will say, my client believes this occurred. she's making all these allegations that are just not true. no evidence of and never presented real evidence of. >> anderson, it's incredible. the claims at the time were very particularized lies about hugo chavez's supposed involvement, about votes flipping in election

machines, about servers in germany. and now she turns around and says, in a case about whether or not they're true that nobody could believe them. anderson, that's the whole point of the case. that's what everyone was saying at the time. that's why these cases were thrown out and it's why the governor -- extraordinarily, the govern, the a.g., and the secretary of state of michigan have called for her to be disbarred, and frankly, she deserves it. >> will this defense work? >> well, i don't think it will work, anderson. there is a rule in liable cases that mere opinion, puffery, is not enough to establish a liable case, that you have to have false statements of facts. but the dominion complaint itemizes dozens of very particular false statements that

she made and that randy kay reviewed in her report. i mean, the judge is not going to accept this any more than the judges accepted her four cases during the election or the 60 plus cases that she and the president's other enablers attempted -- the ex presidents other enablers attempted to bring. it won't wash in court. >> norm eisen, appreciate it. again, it's surreal to even look at that and remember that actually happened, and there are still people who believe it and republicans who are making these arguments. and the former president is still making these arguments. norm eisen, thanks very much. we'll be right back. skin crawlg ♪ hey, mercedes? -how can i help you? ♪ i can't fear you, i don't hear you now ♪ ♪ wrapped in your regret ♪ ♪ what a waste of blood and sweat ♪ ♪ oh oh oh ♪

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and "cnn tonight." hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. this is "cnn tonight". i'm don lemon. the question really is, let's be honest, when are we going to do something about it? when are we really going to do something about it? finally going the say, enough? enough americans killed in the middle of what should have been a normal day. >> it all came crashing down, seeing someone i knew dead. dead there that wasn't going to be able to walk out the door to her family. >> enough. enough americans killed in the supermarket, at work, at church, at school, at a synagogue. , at a concert, at a nightclub, at a movie theater.