19 babies and two teachers were murdered on tuesday and yet another mass shooting in america. this time it was at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. the latest accounts of law enforcement s response pain to woeful portrait of a potentially deadly inuktitut. in the days since the massacre, we learned that officers waited for 45 minutes just outside the classroom where the shooter was barricaded. this despite active shooting trainer that these officers were trained to engage with the shooter immediately. now they said that it had evolved from an active shooter situation tour barricaded should ve situation, despite the number a number of 9-1-1 calls. it wasn t for 30 more minutes that the team opted themselves to lead the officers waiting in the hall to stop the shooting. now texas department of public safety director col. steven mccraw acknowledged a knowledge finally that it was the quote unquote wrong decision. community leaders are outraged along forsman s response
that s what beto overwork said today when he provided the only unpredictable moment in the unfolding story of mass murder at a texas elementary school. the mass murder that occurred yesterday was predictable. we just could not tell you the exact location that it was going to occur or the exact day that it was going to occur. it is now predictable that a virtually identical shooting will occur again in texas and in other states. what has been said in the aftermath has also been totally predictable. but beto o rourke s crashing of the news conference by greg abbott was not predictable. beto o rourke went to that news conference in uvalde, texas to listen and then to tell greg abbott and other republican elected officials on the stage, quote, this is on you. the shooting right now when you are doing nothing. no! this is totally predictable. sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line! sir, you are out of line. please leave this auditorium. [inaudible] i can t be
stations signs climb higher by the day. it could plunge the u.s. into a deep recession. sandra: first america reports with five states holding primary elections today as voters choose their party s nominees, in critical midterm races and the results could say a lot about president trump s influence over the republican party in 2022 and 2024. hello, i m sandra smith on this tuesday in new york. john: john roberts in washington. voting underway in alabama, arkansas, georgia, minnesota and texas. several races could give us clues about trump s grip on the republican party and whether the progressives are gaining control of the democratic party. sandra: georgia gubernatorial race, david kemp is facing david perdue, and who will face stacey abrams in november. john: rick scott, chairman of the republican senate committee standing by. sandra: our team on the ground, aishah hasnie, but mark, what is the latest on the governor s race? hello. hey, sandra, good afternoon.
brian kemp in his race against trump-backed david perdue. trump versus pence. we ll also play more from elise jordan s eye-opening focus groups that she does with voters out of georgia. they re absolutely fascinating and give you a real sense of the state of play. with us, we have president on the council of foreign relations, richard haass, who has golf reporting for us this morning. very excited. we ll give him another chance. don t know how don t screw it up. this is your last chance. thank you for the support. former aid to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. analyst and the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. white house bureau chief at politico. and also host of the circus, affairs analyst john heilemann. good to have you with us all this morning. president biden today said the u.s. military will get involved militarily if china invades its island neighbor. this is how the president answered a reporter s question this m
why america seems to be responding with an empathic this is american invoices. american democracy s doing undermined by election lies fabricated by don t donald trump and his allies. voters are fed up by those lies. trump is backing several it s not just trump s backing candidates and three other battleground states who falsely claimed trump s won the 2020 election. it s all part of the slow-moving crew to move the future elections. it s a crisis spreading in state legislatures across this country. you re reporting for the new york times reads at least 357 sitting republican legislatures in closely contested battleground states have used the power of their office to discredit or try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the tally accounts for 44% of the republican legislators in the nine states where the presidential race was most narrowly decided. in an interview with the times, trump acknowledged he is looking for candidates who want state legisla