moment including new details on the investigation and more scrutiny on commander pete arredondo who tells cnn he has been in contact with texas officials. the president also wrapping up u.s. support with his decision to provide long range missiles to the ukrainian government believing that they won t use to launch strikes into russia. germany following the united states lead agreeing to supply ukraine with anti-aircraft and radar systems as well. we want to start first though in uvalde. joining me now is julia ainsley, jim cavanaugh. but gaud, let me start with you. i believe at this point we re about 75 days off from the beginning of school, much of the community when i was there on the ground saying to me they did not want to return to the scene of the crime to robb elementary as the school year began because of just the unspeakable tragedy that occurred there. and we re now hearing that in fact they will not be returning to those school grounds. talk us through it. repor
changed again today. texas dps now says the door the killer used to enter the school was not propped open as police officials first claimed, that in fact the teacher closed the door as the gunman approached but the door did not lock behind her. meanwhile chief pete arredondo made the call alone to hold officers back is not responding to follow-up interview requests according to the texas department of public safety. investigators with the texas dps said they requested a follow-up interview days ago but have not heard from him. nbc news has also reached out to him but we have not received a comment. and here is a cameras where they caught him outside. shimon prokupecz. today a teacher was laid to rest alongside her husband of 24 years. joe came to the school just a couple days after the shooting to lay flowers on the cross out front that bore his wife s name. and then he suffered a heart attack. his family says the grief was just too much for him. together they leave behin
tuesday, but the gunman was not killed until just after 1 p.m. initially the texas department of public safety said the resource officer at the school fired at the gunman but steve mcgraw, director of the texas dps said he did not. it was a brave, independent school district resource officer that approached him, engaged him. at that time gun fire was not, changed. confronted him. he followed him right in immediately. so if this version of events is accurate, that means an armed school officer responsible for the safety of the children and teachers inside saw a man dressed in tactical gear carrying an assault rifle and did not use force to stop him from entering the school and killing 19 children and two of their teachers. nbc news reached out to texas dps for comment previously. the director said the gunman was engaged, quote, immediately and that two officers were wounded. inside the school a teacher heard gunshot as end of year celebrations were in full swing. speaking
incumbent republican brian kemp and democrat staibians who lost by the tiniest of margins and is running unopposed in the primary. from what we ve seen so far in the political ads, stacey abrams is the star of the show, all the republican candidates, no matter what office they are running for are talking about you. how dare you, stacey abrams atapping butch miller for writing a law against transgender boys competing in boys sports. chris carr, georgia s conservative attorney general, he s taken on president biden and stacey abrams. stacey abrams and the liberal mob forced the all-star game to move. stacey abrams and the media, they all came after us. we ve got to keep stacey abrams from becoming our governor and our next president. wow, it will be up to the next governor to stand up to the big lie, and there are plenty of republicans pushing that farce, including in the races for senate and secretary of state. in the race for the republican nomination for governor f
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