nbc has obtained a copy has already condemned systemic failures and egregious poor decision making on the part of nearly 400 local state and federal law enforcement officers on the scene. at robb elementary on may 4th. let s go to nbc news correspondent, priscilla thompson. priscilla, you ve been in uvalde speaking with parents and anticipating where we may hear from this report that they just released. what are some of the big takeaway so far? one of the things that you already mentioned, the sheer amount of the police presence that was here on that day. we re talking about hundreds of officers from nearly two dozen agencies, from federal, state and local law enforcement. the majority of them where texas department of public safety and border patrol. we are also learning about what happened in regards to the incident command. there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks over the school police chief, pete arredondo, being the incident commander. what is clear in this r
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Host at our table this morning, christine mcdaniel, a former white house senior trade economist during the George Bush Administration and now a senior fellow at the George Mason University mercatus center. We are talking about trade policy with china. What is a at our table this morning, christine mcdaniels, a former white house senior trade economist during the george w. Bush administration and now senior fellow, research fellow, at the George Mason University center. Thanks for being here. Talking about trade policy with china. What is a terrorist tariff. It is a tax on imported products. Lets say you import this pen, it is one dollar, and lets say the government puts a 10 tariff on it, you pay 1. 10. Why do countries like the United States have tariffs . A long time ago countries used to have tariffs because it was a good revenue raiser. But over time, countries got better at having income taxes, personal income tax, Corporate Income tax, they got better at collecting taxes. And now