rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a
responders. we re also talking about the justice department this morning announcing, in fact, it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde. it is coming at the request of uvalde s mayor after authorities admitted to a string of failures in their response to the shooting. a justice department spokesperson said in part this, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. the doj saying after its review, it will publish a report with all of its findings. we are learning more about that chaotic scene that unfolded when agents did finally move in on the shooter. a u.s. customs and border protection official, who spoke to the washington post, describing a chaotic scene, with no one really sure who was in charge. quote this, the agent saw bullet ho
first in uvalde, families of loved ones that killed 19 children and two teachers are mourning in that community. an investigation into what exactly went wrong. why didn t officers get into that school and confront the gunman much faster? here s how a texas lawmaker described his conversation with one little girl s father. the. reporter: their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet through the kidney area. she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who is to know what would have happened to that little girl had officers showed up timely, had they gone in timely? we have comprehensive coverage for you this morning. nbc s morgan chesky is live in uvalde. howard litman, former attorney under president clinton, and cedric alexander is part of the national organization black law enforcement. he is now an msnbc law enforcement analyst. morgan, funerals start for the victims of this shooting soon. what else can you tell us from there on the ground? ch
asking for yet another four years in the white house together just 18 months ago. and then they lost. but when only one was prepared to acknowledge that, it seems, well, that there s no love that has now been lost between them. in talking january 6th, pence once said he didn t think he and trump would ever see eye to eye about that day. intimating that it was time to move beyond the 2020 election. today, pence has slolidified tht disconnect, stumping for georgia governor, brian kemp, a candidate who has wholly rejected trump s big lie, at least as a campaign platform-winning strategy. i am here to support brian kemp in tomorrow s republican primary. i can honestly say i was for brian kemp before it was cool. when you say yes to governor brian kemp tomorrow, you will send a deafening message all across america that the republican party is the party of the future. and with that, trump s former vice president just may have made the biggest and boldest break yet from the ma
davos, first, there is no snow. it s taking place in spring. also this is such big head winds from the war in ukraine, the result in inflation, the risk of recession, to big commission as well as climate change and the pandemic. so much, anna stewart, we know you are following it for p. i m christine romans. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. i m john berman with brianna keilar on this new day. president biden catching his own administration off guard with a tough message for china and moments ago china responds. the first shipment of desperately needed baby formula arrives in the united states as more babies are hospitalized. and president biden shifting his warning about monkeypox as another possible case is being investigated in the u.s. and the republican showdown in georgia, former president trump and vice president pence campaign for dueling candidates as voters prepare to head to the polls. good morning to to our viewers here in the united