it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu
that s what beto overwork said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally predictable. but beto o rourke s crashing of the news conference by greg abbott was not predictable. beto o rourke went to that news conference in uvalde, texas to listen and then to tell greg abbott and other republican elected officials on the stage, quote, this is on you. the shooting right now when you are doing nothing. no! this is totally predictable. sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line. please leave this auditorium. [inaudible] i can t be
thank you for telling us a little bit about her, it does help us to hear the story of the people who lost their lives here yesterday. thank, you i m sorry. there are so many people here like you hear, who are leaving, things are coming, they re crying, they re grieving. it won t be enough, but that s what s happening here in new validate, that s it for us, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, ali. and i know it s been a difficult hour of reporting for you there on the scene. for you to have spent so many weeks in ukraine so recently, and now to be back in the united states covering the tragedy of death by gunfire again it is hard, lawrence. thank you for that. we will see you on your show and i will see you tomorrow. thank, you ali. this was totally predictable.