rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis
for example. there s a majority of republican senators, and even in the past, some democratic senators that were against and voted against expanding universal background checks. so there s not a lot of optimism for any action that a federal level, or even at a state level here. with the governor of texas greg abbott, he addressed that convention via video yesterday. he said he was not looking at new laws that control guns. despite the lack of optimism, they said it was so important for them to be here because of the tragedy that they saw. for them it is a matter of life and death, but i think if you talk to a lot of the people attending the convention, they also say that it is a matter of life and death, because i see guns as a tool to protect themselves. and that is the big gap that you have here, and i think that was on full display yesterday. and that will continue to be on display, as we go through the weekend at this convention. alicia. and we talked, and we talked a little bit
washington nationals just yesterday, also focused on making sure we re taking illegal guns off the street and making sure that the people responsible are brought to justice. i have directed our police chief to use any and all overtime necessary to make sure that we re not only increasing presence in the neighborhoods around nationals park, but in all of our hot spot areas. the courts recently have actually been ruling against vocal ordinances that control guns. how do you deal with this when there is no national push? don t you need help from the white house? we need help from the white house and we ve got some in the form of an atf task force that we re participating in that is meant to stop the trafficking of
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