uvalde. how school security roundup in the wake of previous mass murders continue to fail and why all of us are concerns about margins keep getting ignored. and as the architects of america s gun crisis meet at the nra convention going all about the potential for congress. why only in the your country, why isn t only in america? why is this exceptionalism so awful? when all in starts right now. . good evening from new york, i m chris hayes what we know happened at ramallah matthew school in uvalde texas is that 90 children and two teachers were shot and killed. they were murdered by an 18-year-old who purchased two weapons as soon as he was legally able. right after his 18th birthday. there s a lot we do not know. in particular, about the timeline of just what happened on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, o
on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, or crucially, didn t do to stop him. this afternoon, local officials held a press conference and was clear that there are still many holes in the story. we re gonna talk more about that later in the show. but something that i am certain of, is that the most wrongheaded downright dystopian response to the murder in the town of uvalde is to call for quote, hardening schools. we have to harden our schools, not soften them up. the most important thing we can do is harden the schools. harden schools. hardening schools. god help us if we don t harden our schools and protect our kids. you ever notice when that happens, like some nasty new bit of lingo that didn t exist before in all like iran is saying it. clearly there was some memmel, somewhere. that was the enraging
supreme court. now, i know there s a draft opinion, and it was leaked and it purports to say that, yes, the writing is on the wall. and no one should be naive to the prospect that roe v. wade may, in fact, be overturned. and yet, roe v. wade, again, sitting here today is still supposed to be the law of the land until the supreme court officially says otherwise. but for some governors and abortion clinic operators, the leaked opinion was enough. it s given license to governors to try to anticipate that overturning roe v. wade, according to that opinion, will allow them to decide the issue. remember, alito wanted it to go back to the states. it s about having the individual states being the one to decide how their state will operate. and because of it, some governors are now signing legislation accordingly or hoping to be able to soon. and for some abortion clinic operators, well, state abortion bans have made them stop providing the service entirely out of fear of being sued.
Who was on board a helicopter that crashed or had a hard landing earlier today. It was described both ways. A rescue way should operation underway. In just a few moments ago, we received pictures showing the helicopter with the president on board when they were taking off today. Again, it has not been seen since. There is been weather in the other area. Lets go to josh letterman. We no anything concrete about his condition and who was on board the helicopter. We note the Foreign Minister of the country who is a significant character was also on board the helicopter. We dont no his status just like we dont no the status of the president. We have heard from a rons Supreme Leader who is ultimately the Decision Maker in iran who has released a statement who said people should pay pray for the well being and the safe return of the president and the Foreign Minister. He says everybody should stay calm reassuring and nation that the work of the country will go on unimpeded. We are in a Holdin
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