maria: suddenly, joe biden gets religion, claiming change is needed at the southern border because it is just not secure. you said the border is secure? no, it s not. i haven t believed it for the last ten years. i ve said it give me the money. maria: coming up, live from the southern border this morning house foreign affairs committee chairman michael mccaul on why republicans caved on a continuing resolution with no new security at the border. then, the deadly impacts from a woman who lost her daughter to an illegal immigrant and must still battle with democrat congressman dan goldman if. so you re saying that you re upset because the border patrol is not doing, is making sandwiches i think you said, so you don t think it would be helpful to have more border or patrol officers who are charged with stopping the fentanyl trade? i would like the border patrol to be able to do the job that they were hired to do. well, one every border patrol officer that i have
space center where an all-european mission to the international space station will be taking off later on this hour featuring an italian astronaut on board. a lot of you are saying you re only saying this because there s an italian astronaut on board. that italian co pilot would be the tenth italian in space. a lot of you have been saying, you re only saying that because he would be the tenth italian in space. you re actually correct. but it is a beautiful day for a space launch on this spacex mission, which would be the third commercial crew flight. there s a way that the italians look at this by talking about a beautiful day for a space launch. [speaking italian]. that means it s a beautiful day for a space launch. we ll take you there in 49 minutes when this gets going. meantime, another big story right now, and it is getting bigger by the second, the border and what to do about. is a deal close? some republicans say for any deal to happen, there better be big improvements
two teaches dead. the press conference is moments away. what do you hope people get out of this? hopefully some light to the failures and unfortunately this happened to us for the lessons to be shared with somebody else. and also this hour in new hampshire, donald trump xwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.oxwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.exwois on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away.s on offense against nikki haley with the primary just five days away. a vote for nikki haley is a vote for joe biden. if she win, biden wins and i m telling you that. and a report has been released that described a chaotic scene that could have been stopped and some of the children had been saved if some of the officers had followed standard protocols in response. and we re awaiting the press conference from merric
damming assessment of the police response to the uvalde school shooting, what a newly released report reveals about cascading failures of leadership and decision making as 21 students and teachers were murdered. breaking news in donald trump s georgia election case. the hearing just scheduled on the misconduct allegations involving fulton county d.a. fani willis, and the special prosecutor she hired. also breaking news on the crisis in the red sea, we have just learned that the u.s. has launched a fifth round of strikes on the houthis as tensions rise in the region. and ready for launch, we are live at kennedy space center as four astronauts prepare to blast off. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, but we begin on the ground in uvalde with nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. i want to get into this extensive report from the justice department about the failures inside the walls of robb elementary. what more can you tel
just introduce yourselves so they know who they re talking to. where do we want to start? hi, yeah, so just do you let them know who you are. do you guys feel the report went far enough in naming people and holding people to accountability. the dps has the largest amount of law enforcement people and there s a lot of videos and information about their reactions that day. it doesn t seem that this report really touches on their actions. it seems to focus mostly on the local officers, arredondo and the chiefs. are you concerned about that and maybe some reaction to that? i don t see why would you guys mind coming up to the mic? i don t understand why they are allowing privacy. my child, their children, they are named in this report because they are dead. everybody should have been named. do you feel if i can follow up that somehow dps is off the hook when you look at this report? do any of you just want to it s kind of hard to answer the question bec