want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have hap
pretty well known stuff, this is what was at the heart of the emoluments lawsuit against him. essentially what they were saying is if you want to do business with trump, you had to stay at a trump hotel or rent a trump office or play golf at a trump golf course. that was the quid pro quo for doing business with trump. i don t think that anything will legally come of it, but the appearance of it continues to remain as shady as it was during the emoluments investigations. it was business as usual for trump, make money in any way you can. ken you got the former president and his attorney saying they want to hold jack smith in contempt of violating the stay in his election interference case. walk us through that. what trump s lawyers are saying is that this case is supposed to be on hold while the appeals court and perhaps the supreme court decides this question of presidential immunity. but while it is on hold, what they re saying is that jack smith and his lead prosecutor have contin
want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have happened befo
trip, senator chris murphy was on that trip. two the folks involved in those negotiations. at the beginning of the process, i reached out to senator murphy, reached out to senator sinema s office as well, in order to remind them of the dignity act. and that we can get this done in a meaningful, thoughtful way, and not only look at the border but the broken immigration system and finally have congress fix it. congresswoman escobar, we appreciate it. i want to circle back, continuing to follow the news out of iowa where police are investigating a shooting at perry high school that left three people injured. back with us is nbc news correspondent ali vitali. ali, if you will, walk us through the details that we ve learned in the last 40 minutes or so since the press conference. reporter: well, again, yasmin, most of the details that we do know at this point are coming from our team of
unable to get out, unable to get to safety and u.s. officials say they played a coordinating role between the israeli military and the egyptians to try to get the mother and the uncle out of this war zone and eventually into safety. now, as you said, the u.s. military is stressing there were no american boots on the ground this is not a case of american special forces operating inside of gaza, but they did play a role getting these two people out of harm s way. that is a little bit of good news, yasmin, in what is a very, very tense moment in the region. secretary of state antony blinken flying from d.c. tonight to a region that really feels on the brink from iran as you were talking about with ali, to iraq, to yemen, to lebanon, where hezbollah, the powerful lebanese militant group, is vowing retaliation in response to the israeli assassination of that senior hamas leader in beirut on tuesday. hezbollah saying israeli drone strikes in beirut, the lebanese capital, are a red line and t