familiar face calling the investigation a witch hunt and kept up the attacks on the fbi and serve of mar-a-lago. we re gting new details and a clearer picture of the timeline around what happened there. sources tell nbc news the fbi agents arrived at mar-a-lago on monday at 9:00 in the morning. the secret service was given a heads up 45 minutes to an hour before the search and agents left around 6:30 p.m. the former president s legal team said they were in discussion with the doj as early as june about records stored there. one trump attorney said the fbi removed a dozen boxes from a basement storage area and say a search warrant indicated the fbi was investigating possible violations of laws related to the handling of classified material. politically, we re seeing the republican party coalesce around the former president. a source close to trump called it a complete circling of the wagons. we ll start with the mounting legal troubles for the former president. ken is back and
laws. a source tells cnn that mitch mcconnell has privately expressed openness to raising the age to buy them but he won t say so publicly. it won t surprise you to know that i m not going to sit here and try to negotiate the deal with all you guys. we re waiting to see if we can get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought the issue to the fore. daniella diaz is live on capitol hill for us. what are republicans concerned about, are there divisions among them on this issue? reporter: there is divisions about what they actually want to see on any sort of gun safety legislation that could pass through the senate. there is still the more conservative senators like senator ted cruz and ron johnson that don t want to pass any legislation and wouldn t support any sort of bill in the senate. of course there are negotiatneg, john cornyn of texas being one of them, that is trying to reach some sort of deal to get ten republicans on board to support any gun sa
attention? is there an economic hurricane coming? the president admits there are limits to what he can do to fight inflation. the idea we re going to be able to bring town the cost of gasoline is not likely in the near term. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. politics. i m abby phillip. in uvalde, portraits of grief are impossible to escape. the funerals of the 22 victims began this week, and makeshift memorials continue to grow at the scene, bringing family and friends of the victims, even mariachi bands comforted the grieving. since uvalde, though, 12 days ago, there have been at least 26 mass shootings in this country, including in philadelphia just last night where three people were killed and 11 more were wounded. and now, families are calling on washington to do something to curb the seemingly endless stream of gun violence. on capitol hill, senators are considering small changes, like addressing mental health and joe biden
for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now we re being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the focus of a contentious news conference that took place yesterday afternoon that went a bit like this. it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. how did he get in? it was supposed to be locked during the school day. so right now during the investigation it appeared as unlocked. so we will look at that and try to corroborate that if that s what we can. wasn t there a school officer
if he was going to hold onto the white house. that was the big issue. we are covering it going into election night. it was a huge deal when biden won arizona. arizona. are you 100% sure of that call and when you made it and why did you make it? absolutely. we made it after basically a half hour of debating it. we finally called it right now. nbc news is projecting that when every last vote is counted in the state of arizona, joe biden will be awarded 11 electoral votes. joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. trump and his allies were enraged over exactly that call, especially the fox news call to arizona. it was seen as kind of the nail in the coffin as a state that the trump folks would need to win or somehow continue to cast as too close to call, which might offend these plots you re hearing about. fox later fired the staffer who accurately called arizona for biden. it was close. they were separated by 10,000 votes. biden won with 1.6 million votes