morning joe. it is wednesday, march 29th. we have a lot to get to this hour, including a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a federal judge has ordered mike pence to give testimony. meanwhile former trump ally chris christie appears to be willing to play the anti-trump role if he gets into the 2024 race. we ll have more on that new reporting. and we re still on so called indictment watch since the president announced, the former president, that he was going to be arrested. we ll have the latest on the manhattan grand jury s investigation into the hush money payments to a porn star. plus, an update on the continuing protests in israel, and what president biden is saying about meeting with the country s leader, along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, just ran over. how does he do that? and member of
where that severe weather is headed next. plus, back to back to back senseless shootings leaving the country shaken the latest, two texas cheerleaders shot for accidentally getting into the wrong car just days after a 20-year-old woman was killed for pulling into the wrong driveway in new york, and a missouri teen shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, the violence sending shock waves across the country and spurring outrage on capitol hill this is a dystopia and i m here to tell you that it s a disd dystopia that we ve chosen for ourselves. and the supreme court delays making a decision on the abortion pill at the center of a massive legal fight. the drug is still available for now, but what happens next and filming for the movie rust is set to resume today in montana 18 months after the fatal onset shooting of halyna hutchins by actor alec baldwin, why the star is returning and plans to be on set today and throughout the production even after that tragedy let s beg
the fear is the toxic chemicals being released into the air, the ground water prompting urgent evacuation orders. and newly released body cam video from the mass shooting at a louisville bank showing the moments police officers put an end to a gunman s reign of terror i think i got him down. i think he s down! plus, new details about how police say the shooter was able to legally purchase an ar-15 style rifle just case before his rampage. and a highly anticipated vote in memphis in just hours now over whether to reinstate the second black tennessee lawmaker ousted from his seat for protesting gun violence. will justin pearson join his colleague who made his triumphant return to the capitol days after their dramatic expulsion. just in on the u.s. economy, inflation dropping to the lowest level in nearly two years, but are any of us feeling it yet first, the breaking news unfolding in indiana at this hour, take a lack at this, that plume of black smoke from this massi
rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday s tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement s account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal mis
it s graduation season here. there are big photos of local graduates, on local science outside of city hall, outside of businesses. driving down main street in uvalde, texas, you wouldn t know something so terrible s happened just blocks away. two blocks away, life looks as a normally does. but something terrible did happen here. this community, this small community lost 21 of its people right here at this school, everything has changed forever, this will never be a normal spot again. this school, this town, becomes yet another name on a list that no one wants to be on. tonight, a vigil here in uvalde, texas is underway, it s paying tribute to yesterday s victims we will have much more throughout the show tonight, about the victims, the people who lost their lives. 19 children, and to teachers it s robb elementary, we re still learning the identity of some of the children who were killed. they were eight, nine, ten years old. all of them in the same fourth grade classroom, mu