is in getting the maximum level of sanctions that a lot of the eu would like to see. i think you re right. that has been one of the real challenges, is holding the alliance together. remarkable so far, but if it goes on for months, it could change. michael weiss, thank you. thanks for getting up way too early on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. good morning. welcome to morning joe. beautiful picture of sunrise over new york city on this last day of may. it is tuesday, may 31st. today mark one week since the massacre that killed 19 children and 2 of their teachers in uvalde, texas. we ll go live to the grieving town as loved ones today begin to bury their dead. plus, new reporting on the uvalde school police chief who made the call for officers not
katie, good morning. it is jonathan lemire. i assume also this would create a template for other cities in order to prepare for a possible shooting in their town. let me ask you this. there s been so many questions raised about the police response in the town. so much anguish and anger from the families of those lost, who wished officers had stormed the school much sooner than they did. even if it is not this justice department probe, is there going to be any sort of mechanism here? is there any scenario where someone could be held responsible, there could be official blame assigned? will there be investigations at the local level, to provide answers parents are seeking? first, the reviews, what they do is uncover tremendous amounts of information. as we know, it is difficult for local governments to take any punitive action toward law enforcement. there s all sorts of reasons for
well, lester, one big question that is yet to be answered how quickly ramos fired the fatal shots inside the school some of the timelines that we ve seen suggest that he did it shortly after he got inside, but even so, it is correct that police nationwide preach the importance of getting in and engaging as quickly as possible when there s an active shooter. law enforcement officials say ramos was shooting at the police through classroom walls with his high-powered rifle. it may be that because they couldn t see him, they couldn t shoot back, but texas authorities said yesterday that ramos was also shooting at people outside the school through the classroom windows, so that raises a question did the police try to shoot at him through those same windows many police officers i ve talked to are surprised at how long this took, lester. all right pete williams, thank you. now to stories of survival from some of those inside robb elementary and of heartbreak for those who didn t make it
taking a car, crashing it and then entering the school through a back door. now officials are saying that they are trying to pinpoint what actually happened during the early part of that incident when he was confronted by an official at the school gate. trying to find out why there wasn t some sort of stand off at that point but it appears that salvador ramos then ran into the building and started shooting with his rifle. what shooting with his rifle. what has the response shooting with his rifle. what has the response been - shooting with his rifle. what has the response been fromi shooting with his rifle. what i has the response been from a president biden? do we know if he will attend personally? yes. he will attend personally? yes, he will attend personally? yes, he is planning he will attend personally? yes, he is planning to he will attend personally? yes, he is planning to attend - he will attend personally? yes, he is planning to attend the - he is planning to attend the
was dead, they already knew what the weapons were. they knew. they knew at that stage, and i think it s important to call out the texas governor because his critics are often called politicizing. from before the families knew that their kids were dead he was trying to claim that that he had no knowledge of which gun was used. meanwhile he s leading the press conference. it was unusual to say the least. every way. julia, i hope we never have to have this conversation again but i m terrified we will. our breaking news coverage continues after a deadly shooting in a small texas town at the elementary school. we ll be back right after this.