states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
garza was honored the bronze cross the award given to those who save or attempt to save a life and risk to their own. back in washington, a bipartisan group of senators will meet to discuss gun safety legislation. a smaller subgroup met including democrats chris murphy and kyrsten sinema along with thomas tillis. saying the participation is a good sign since uvalde is in his home state and given his personal closeness to mitch mcconnell. and in a meeting yesterday, mcconnell was asked about those talks. we had a group led by senator cornyn and senator murphy, democratic senate. discussing how we might be able to come together to target the problem of mental illness and school safety.
we ll dive into uvalde, texas, where the funerals continue for the 19 children and two teachers killed in last week s shooting. this as new details about the time line of the attack emerge and why officers waited to engage the gunman. nbc news correspondent morgan chesky has more from uvalde. reporter: heartbreak hitting home with hundreds saying final good-byes. it s sad, man, hits your heart. reporter: 21 funerals other the next two week, maite rodriguez was remembered as a sweet soul. he wanted to be a marine biologist. family of neviaeh hernandez whose name is heaven spelled backward. and he liked protecting others. amerie jo garza her family said called 911 that morning. i just want to honor her name. i want her to be remembered as the type of person she was. reporter: the girl scouts
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went
saying because ar-15s are so commonly owned they ought to be a right to own ar-15s. but i m not sure if that should be decided in the future and lines drawn on what sort of firearms protected and what aren t. as we said in the piece, red flags considered, red flag laws, background checks is that we may disagree with the measures but that s an issue for democracy. that s not an issue that s been constitutionalized by the supreme court. kind of what prompted the piece, for me at least, i saw liberal commentators saying things without heller in uvalde, and el paso, these other tradition eyes did would not have happened. but the laws they say would have prevented those tragedies were not bound by heller. heller was about a handgun in a home. as we say in the piece, we re not aware of any evidence that any law struck by heller enabled a mass shooting ever.