we ll go to nbc s priscilla thompson, who s joining me now from outside the uvalde civic center. priscilla, welcome. first of, all have you seen the report? what do you know about it so far? and what are you hearing from parents? good afternoon, alex. we have not yet seen that report. we do expect, however but we do know, i should say, is not for the past several weeks the committee members have been speaking to witnesses, they have been speaking to law enforcement and even visiting the school. in order to compile this report that is supposed to shed light on what exactly went wrong on that day. and all morning, those family members of the victims have been coming here to pick up those reports. walking away with those very thick booklets of information. and they are reviewing that information. because, in just a few hours, they are going to be meeting with the committee members to go over that report. and so, they wanted them to have an opportunity to see it, look at it a
that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it s been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don t do this. we don t want to see you do this, but they wouldn t exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president s aides try to walk this back saying he wasn t articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for him to come out and say explicitly they would do that. not just that they would provide arms to ukraine or arms to taiwan and weapons to taiwan like they are doing with ukraine, but saying they would go one step further, john. of course, it s a statement the president has come close to saying before. he articulated it very bluntly with no clarifications, no caveats. you can have aides walk it bac
at. which is a draft resolution that was going to be focused on very soon about him invoking the 25th amendment. there s plenty of other materials that they re that corroborate our position. also, it seems quite odd, when you hear his aid in the background say that the house members received it a while earlier, when he was looking at. certainly could ve been a confirmation email that they saw before. in fact, before speaker pelosi saw as well. it doesn t really match up. they have their own view. what we put in our series is accurate. i stand by it. it s great. unprecedented thanks for chatting with us about it. that s gonna do it for me on this edition of alex reports, i ll see you again saturday noon eastern. yasmin vossoughian continues our coverage on embassy nbc. on embassy nbc. gum health mouthwash.
their favor. on the issue of taiwan, president biden in tokyo said that the u.s. will respond militarily in the event of a chinese attack on taiwan. he could not have been more clear. and i wonder if you think he made a mistake in being so unequivocal? well, i mean, it certainly has clarified the situation. it s also a much more forward-leaning than the strategic ambiguity that has characterized the policy for well over four decades. look, only time is going to tell how this eventually if all the implications of this are. i suspect those in the wake of this will on background say that was actually, you know, a very wise move, very skillful move, but publicly i think there s a lot of backpedaling going on, as you heard. they worked very, very hard to maintain this very studied strategic ambiguity as to not upset the situation. but the situation is different.
previous impeachment hearings. certainly, you know, in this age of twitter everything is brand new. but the response from democrats coming out of that hearing as they took a break was that, you know, this is more evidence that the president is committing obstruction. this is witness intimidation. we may be able to use these tweets where he was tweeting in real time as part of articles of impeachment when we eventually write them and bring them to the house floor. hey, scott, did this sway any of those on the right, the republican members of congress, as you know so many there on the hill after your years there? did anybody, you know, on the side, in the background say, wow. ooh, that on friday really made me think? i will just say privately republicans were saying, this was simply not helpful to their cause. they were trying to attack the