i m proud to have done it. they wanted to get it back, right? there be no question. we celebrate. that yeah? we didn t. we did something that was a miracle. when i walked onto the stage today, a gentleman in the back, probably works for fox, nice guy, said, sir, that like to thank. you i said, for what? he said, you save 2 million lives in the last three years. you ve saved 2 million lives. i said, thank you very much. i know exactly what you meant. 2 million lives. no one has done more in that regard than me. that is perhaps the most important emission from donald trump last night. again, breaking, about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. here is donald trump s problem. he goes into, i would call it softball a softball event. i ve never seen one a fawning. i m not sure why they had to host their? you know, they could ve just had one to sit there and smile and say, you are great. ask them the s
ukraine. one of the most important story lines of 2023. the divide in the republican party about ukraine. alexi buchanan, thanks very much. and thanks for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. a dictator, building an empire, will never be able to ease the people s love of liberty. brutality will never ground down the will of the free, and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victim for russia. never. president joe biden marks one year of war in eastern europe with an impassioned speech promising continued support for ukraine and laying out the stakes of the conflict. meanwhile, we re were learning more about the special grand jury that investigated potential 2020 election interference by former president donald trump and his allies. we ll play for you new comments from a key juror in the case, as some republicans are still trying to figure out their messaging on donald trump and his third presidential campaign. als
incredible work holding down this hour before this launch and for that i am incredibly forever grateful. thank you. and on a final note, please don t forget to set your dvr s for alex wagner tonight. that is the time for the last word with, my friend lawrence o donnell. good evening. lawrence hey alex this is very exciting. it s wagner week. that s the way it s gonna be remembered in television history. you know, i saw the little gremlins attack at the beginning of the show. here s the thing to know. on my first show, first one of these which i did which is 12 million episodes ago. the very first one. in the first segment, the teleprompter went down. now you have to be bryant williams to handle a teleprompter going down. you have to be a professional which i wasn t and still am not. so there s this gremlin thing. you re still on the air 12 million episodes later that s the important part of this. that is the lesson. i believe that is the blessing from the gremlins saying
ago and now a week later more and more criticism and more and more questions over the police response and the decision to wait an hour before storming the classroom. we re waiting for updates from the department of justice on their review of thattins spo. we re also live in uvalde and in washington where president biden is saying this afternoon he plans to meet with lawmakers on gun reforms. the reality check on where those stocks stand with an emergency hill meeting on thursday with some new proposals. i m hallie jackson in washington among with our nbc news team. liz mclaughlin is live for us in texas, and our investigative reporter is on capitol hill. liz are let me start with you, this is just a horrific, you could call it a milestone and maybe another step in what s going to be a lifelong healing process perhaps for these families dealing with grief, dealing with anger about this police response. hallie, so many intense emotions here. this community will never be whole
florists shaped casket sprays. the head of the texas funeral director s association brought in an extra funeral coach along with other morticians. some experts at the art of facial reconstruction to assist. all of this happening against the backdrop of persisting questions around the police response to the shooting and deep anger and confusion over why it took law enforcement well over an hour to confront the shooter. on sunday the justice department announced that it is launching a probe into the police response, what s known as a critical incident review. new york times reports out the history of this type of investigation saying, quote, other mass shootings that the justice department has looked at in its review of law enforcement agency responses have included the 2015 domestic terrorist attack in san bernardino, california, and the 2016 attack on the pulse nightclub in orlando, florida, with an eye toward understanding how officers could have been better prepared and r