cindric expressed their tremendous loss chanting do something to president biden as he left mass this morning. do something! do something! do something! emily: that was on sunday. kennedy, the timeline is heartbreaking. 77 minutes passed before the shooter was engaged and killed. yes, people are sickened to see what happened inside that school. desperate parents were pleading with the police officers trying to go inside, they were trying themselves to go inside. they were being handcuffed and restrained and we know one child bled out waiting for help in the critical, that hour between when police arrived and they killed the shooter. we know enough at this point that that cannot happen. there are no excuses, there is no rationale for any of this. what is disturbing for people trying to access the truth, the story has changed. we have been mislead and lied to and that also can t happen. there needs to be accountability from the moment something like this begins. a lot of
the only one that is truly sacred, the only truly sacred obligation we have is to prepare and equip those women and men we send into harm s way and care for them and their families when they return home, and when they don t. it s an obligation that unites americans, brings us together, make sure the women and men who were willing to lay down their lives for us in the very best to return. i want to acknowledge we are making progress in key areas, like bipartisan legislation advancing in congress to deliver healthcare services and benefits to veterans and the survivors impacted by toxic exposures. don t know how many americans and service members may have died because of what they are exposed to on the battlefield. toxic smoke from burn pits, burn pits that incinerated the waste of war, hazardous material, jet fuel, so much more. we have a duty to do right by them, and i m determined to make sure that our brave service families and members that served alongside them do not wait
who lost their lives defending our nation and our freedoms. we re glad you re with us. with us today, we have my friend msnbc contributor mike barnicle. we re going to jump right into the news. the justice department is opening a review into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas, after authorities there admitted to a stunning string of failures last week. this as the president and first lady jill biden visited robb elementary school yesterday and met with grieving families. nbc news correspondent sam brock has the very latest from texas. sam? reporter: jonathan, good morning. president biden spent most of the day on sunday in uvalde, texas, trying to provide consolation to lift up a community here that s so griff grief stricken. they want answers and accountability. all day, people have been coming to the memorial. president biden and dr. biden came out and laid flowers. all of this happening as a critical incident review was announced by th
life and this bias in favor of life is not grounded in religion so much as it s grounded in law and logic in literature and moral philosophy. i understand the debate in the arguments on the other side. i just don t agree with them because i am biased towards life. biased towards life should extend to other areas as well. there is no debate about the origin of life when it comes to children being murdered in a texas elementary school, there is no debate about the sanctity of life when it comes to people being slaughtered in a buffalo new york grocery store or a church in downtown charleston or a church in california for a concert in las vegas or a concert in florida and texas. schools and churches were once safe havens seemingly immune from the evils of the outside world. those days have long since passed, nothing is safe or immune anymore, your place of employment is at risk, your grocery stores, your malls, everything is seemingly at risk. when 20 children were murdered as s
this three day weekend. a reminder freedom isn t free because it s about memorial day. honoring the men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice protecting the country. holiday dates back more than a century to the debt this conflict ever fought on american soil. as a quick history lesson. 1865 the civil war came to ac end but not without devastating american families more than 600,000 men killed in a bloodbath. grieving mothers, daughters and wives credit the grace of fallen soldiers decorated with hours and flex. the brutal conflict moved major general john logan to establish decoration day may 30, 1868 which could later be known as memorial day. the peaceful they chosen because it wasn t associated with any anniversary of any particular battle, it was for all of them. at the first major ceremony held in arlington national cemetery, the general approach for americans to decorate the graves with springtime flowers proclaiming that no vandalism or neglect, ravages of ti