it take to get formula on store shelves? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we start in buffalo, where president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit there today. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against quote weapons of war, and curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. this trip comes as information continues to surface about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning the attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations had he not been arrested. two possible plot, a black church in buffalo and an elementary school in the city. the author of the posts wrote that they were targeting the school because of its predominantly black student body which they found by looking up tes
all right. breaking news overnight in ukraine, where a devastating months long battle in the key port city of mariupol, ukraine, has officially ceded control on russia. we ll have more on the deal that is right now allowing the city s final defenders to safely evacuate that steel plant. we ll also go live to buffalo this morning as president biden prepares to visit the grieving city in the wake of saturday s deadly mass shooting. it comes amid new reports about the suspect s alleged plan to turn the massacre into a spree. we will talk to a top member of the white house national security council on that. and it is primary day in pennsylvania. the senate race there has been rocked by twists and turns in the key final days. for the democrats, the leading candidate, john fetterman, is recovering from a stroke. on the republican side, an unexpected surge on the far right from kathy barnette. we ll be watching to see how trump-backed dr. oz performs tonight. good morning
expecting it, wanting it. a veteran of the united states army who won the bronze star. we ll see what happens tonight. it ll be a fascinating race. as joe said, you wouldn t lose a lot of money, perhaps, if you bet on kathy barnette, who i d say most people didn t know the name a week ago. we have john heilemann coming up in a few minutes, and we ll talk more about this. first, president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit to buffalo today. according to white house officials, the president will ask congress to take action against, quote, weapons of war, and curb access to fw guns for people with serious mental illness. more information is coming on the shooter in saturday s attack. in a review of interview posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning his attack for months. intended to continue the
it take to get formula on store shelves? good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, may 17th. i m jonathan lemire. we start in buffalo, where president biden is expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during his visit there today. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against quote weapons of war, and curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. this trip comes as information continues to surface about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning the attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations had he not been arrested. two possible plot, a black
it was an extraordinary, courageous, 4-minute passage. you know, if that s what s happening on controlled, live russian tv, then putin s got real problems at home. yeah. we have a lot to cover in ukraine. willie geist, let s start things off in buffalo. yeah, president biden will be there today, mika, expected to renew calls for national gun reform legislation during a visit to the city. according to a white house official, the president will ask congress to take action against what he calls weapons of war and to curb access to guns for people with serious mental illness. the trip comes as information continues to come out about the alleged shooter in saturday s attack. in a review of hundreds of pages of internet posts, nbc news reports the 18-year-old suspect was planning his attack for months and intended to continue the violence at other locations, had he not been arrested there at the supermarket. two additional possible spots the suspect allegedly wrote, a black church in b