being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
they both have a breaking news story to deal with, which you just delivered. everything i know about it is when i just heard you say about it on tv. just give us the short recap of it again, the donald trump apparently reached out to a support staff are at the white house. we don t know the norm of they sport they ve been described is a support staff. or it appears that it is not something that he would ve had a normal relationship with. this person did happen to be in touch with the january 6th committee separately, and so that feels to some people, and again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementa
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. we have brand-new information this evening about the january 6th committee accusing former president donald trump of trying to contact a witness during the investigation. nbc news has confirmed reporting that the witness was a member of the white house support staff. at the end of yesterday s hearing liz cheney said that the matter had been referred to the justice department. this afternoon, the committee s chair person was asked about cheney s comments. are we going to hear from this witness? i would doubt it. we re concerned obviously about the witness, and we do not want to put that witness under unnecessary pressure. is there enough evidence that there was an attempt to influence the witness? from my vantage point, it is highly unusual to do that. that s why we, more or less, put that in the hands of the justice department. is this just one missed phone call from the former president? that s all i m aware of. as
again we ll have that conversation later, it feels to some people like potential witness tampering it is been handed over to the justice department to handle it. we will get professional reaction to it in this hour. thank you very much. i did something today that i did not want to do. but i knew i had to do it. i watched all of the video released yesterday showing with the police were doing in the hallway of robb elementary school, after a mass murderer fired his mass murder weapon in two classrooms. i would not have gotten through that video, i would not have gotten through the first few minutes of that video, if there had not been a very important sound edit in that video. that made it possible to watch it and listen to it. i ll explain that later, as i describe the video. the video does not show any children or teachers at all except for one child, very briefly, one child. he steps into the other end of the hallway, far away from the shooter. and when the child sees the
the only thing that will stop iran is knowing that, if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome and will continue to work with israel to counter other threats from iran throughout the region. all of this ahead of the president s controversial trip to saudi arabia next, a visit opposed by human rights groups, but aimed at fostering closer ties between the saudis and israel. here at home, nbc news has learned a member of the trump white house support staff is the key witness referenced in vice chair liz cheney s warning about possible witness tampering by the former president himself. that comes as the january 6th committee is preparing for a primetime hearing next week, a week from today, graphically illustrating president trump s refusal to take action during the riot and in fact goading the mob on with a tweet slamming his own vice president. when he tweet