an off the rails oval office meeting between rudy giuliani and sydney powell that almost erupted into a fistfight between mike flinn and a white house aide. and new allegations of possible attempted witness tampering by the former president. president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation, a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. and this committee has supplied that information to the department of justice. president biden is in israel today, the first leg of a middle east trip that includes a controversial visit to saudi arabia, the oil-rich company he said during the campaign should and pariah for killing jamal khashoggi. but now the president does plan to meet with the crown prince the cia concluded was responsible for khashoggi murder. another big goal for the white house is to get the saudis to pump more oi
steps to annex parts of the country. the former president of ukraine about this latest news. and cancelled, chronic delays, scores of lost luggage. can this summer s travel woes get any worst? one small airplane has a possible solution to all of this. we start with the growing controversy over the secret service text messages and the january 6th attack on the capitol. a source tells nbc news the secret service has no new text messages related to the january 6th insurrection to hand over to the house select committee investigating the attack. that revelation comes after an inspector general informed the committee the secret service had deleted text messages from january 5th and 6th, 2021. the committee issued a subpoena for those records last week. the source tells nbc news that the secret service plans to do a, quote, forensic examination of agents phones identified in the inspector general s report, but added the agency does not expect it will yield any relevant e-mails
obtained legally, according to the mayor of highland. whether it s buffalo, new york, uvalde, texas, whether it s highland park, illinois, this is unbelievable to me that this is an acceptable part of who we are as a nation. in philadelphia last night, more americans running for their lives during another shooting at a skrul 4th celebration. a concert near the city s iconic art museum. two police officers were injured and another mayor then speaking out about gun violence in center city. we re the most armed country in world history, and we are one of the least safest. until americans decide that they want to give up the guns and give up the opportunity to get guns, we re going to have this problem. joining me now from highland park, illinois, shaquille brewster and with me nbc s ken dilanian. shaq, what s the latest as we are awaiting this press conference, which is expected in about 10 or 15 minutes? reporter: that s right, andrea. it will begin any minute now. th
from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome everybody to alex witt reports. welcome to breaking news from uvalde, texas. this is what it looks like outside robb elementary school today. 21 crosses, one for each person killed and the deadliest school shooting in a decade. also, growing outrage to the police response to the shooting in the heartbreaking details of children calling 9-1-1 begging them to police and the police now. grief stricken parents and state officials are angry over the decision from preventing federal tax to to from taking immediate action. you know every officer lines up, stacks, up goes and finds where the grounds are being fired, and keeps shooting until the subject is dead. joining us now from uvalde is nbc s liz also and then from houston shaquille brewster. liz, delays by police have grabbed the nations attention. what more are we learning about the timeline today? alex, after days of confusion and conflicting reports, we are hearin
investors a scare by reporting a stunning drop in earnings, largely because of supply chain turmoil and rising costs. target lost 25% of its value today alone. its worst day since black monday in 1987. this comes a day after walmart sounded the inflation alarm, also suffering its worst day since 1987. the big concern is companies are having trouble passing along higher costs consumers and that perhaps corporate profitability has peaked. that s normally something you only see during big economic slowdowns. put all this together, you have the s&p 500 losing the most in one day since june of 2020, in nearly two years. the nasdaq plunging even deeper into a bear market. i should note markets were up big yesterday, but the wild swings really speak to the deep uncertainty about what comes next for the economy. and matt, a new conference board survey suggests, you know what, let s move on. matt egan, thank you so much. turning to our politics lead and an election cliffhanger in pe