patient. just in the past hour officials told reporters the shooter bought an ar-15 style weapon a few hours before going into the hospital and found a letter making clear he came in to kill a specific doctor for pain after a back surgery. the mayor detailing the horror of minutes. i spoke with an officer yesterday who s a seasoned veteran of the department and he was one of the first people to get here. and he said, mayor, it was like the beaches of normandy out there. everywhere i looked to my left and right officers jumping over bushes. getting there police say it was a catastrophic scene. yet again amping up the pressure on the white house and president biden. will it move congress to action? democrat chris murphy driving gun legislation talks in the senate right now was asked about the chances to get something done today on morning joe, specifically ten republican votes in the senate. i cannot say i m confident. i m confident in the negotiators and the question t
it with the midterms fast approaching. sandra, the busiest woman in television. sandra: great to be with you this afternoon, john. president meeting with fed chair jay powell yesterday as the white house kicks off a months long effort to focus, it says, on the economy. but inflation has been on the minds of many voters in this country for months now, especially when filling up their tanks. price of gasoline rising almost daily with the new national average for a gallon, 4.67 today, a jump of 1.60 a year ago, and up $0.05 since yesterday. john: 11.4 million unfilled positions. labor shortage driving up wages and keeping inflation high as businesses continue to struggle with hiring. minnesota congressman and national republican congressional committee chair tom emmer will join us. sandra: we head to the white house, peter doocy live from the north lawn to kick things off. hey, peter. peter: good afternoon, here at the white house hearing two different things about how
changed again today. texas dps now says the door the killer used to enter the school was not propped open as police officials first claimed, that in fact the teacher closed the door as the gunman approached but the door did not lock behind her. meanwhile chief pete arredondo made the call alone to hold officers back is not responding to follow-up interview requests according to the texas department of public safety. investigators with the texas dps said they requested a follow-up interview days ago but have not heard from him. nbc news has also reached out to him but we have not received a comment. and here is a cameras where they caught him outside. shimon prokupecz. today a teacher was laid to rest alongside her husband of 24 years. joe came to the school just a couple days after the shooting to lay flowers on the cross out front that bore his wife s name. and then he suffered a heart attack. his family says the grief was just too much for him. together they leave behin
democrat dechlic precinctses. the plan as outlined by a republican national committee staffer in michigan includes utilizing rules to provide political balance among poll workers to install party-trained volunteers prepared to challenge voters at democratic majority polling places to connect a website in establishing a network of party-friendly district attorneys who can intervene to block vote counts at certain precincts. here is a clip of an rnc official in michigan making his pitch to potential recruits in october 2021. that is what we are here tonight for. to show the program that we are creating to create that safety net on the polls before election day, after election day to make sure that fraud does not happen again. i understand that we are upset with the 2020 result, but we cannot just look at the 2020 results or else the exact same thing will happen in 2022. we need volunteers on the ground on election day ahead of election day working so that that fraud does not
join us he really, really just let it go on clarence thomas in the judiciary committee yesterday. we re going to show the video and get more from congressman jeffries about that. and at the end of the hour, there is another, there s someone else who let it go. and that is patty lupone, tony winner, patty lupone. tony nominee. who in a discussion with a audience at her broadway show the other day. had to enforce the mask policy. in her theater. in the video s gone viral, a lot of people have seen already. but it deserves, it absolutely deserves the national tv attention that we re going to give it at the end of the hour. and patty love that. i was on the subway they, thinking i could use patty lupone. no one s wearing mask any more. but i m looking forward to that. i m looking forward to it. once again, donald trump and trump republicans have brought us to a place tonight where we have never been before. in the trump era of our politics, which is still ongoing, when i