protection to defy those orders and went in. that s according to two senior federal law enforcement officials. but by that point, it had been so long, some of the families say their wounded kids bled out. leaving them forever asking the question, what if they went in sooner? was there still time? the chief was supposed to be sworn in to the city council today a. position he was just elected to hold. uvalde s mayor says he is free to assume his position on the council but that the ceremony to welcome him is postponed. joining me is nbc news koempt liz mclaughlin and nbc news tom winters. the funerals, liz, are starting today. what do we know? reporter: katy, exactly one week at 11 minutes ago, police finally confronted that gunman and stopped the massacre at robb elementary. an event that will forever change this community. so now the focus is really on honoring and remembering those 21 lives lost. the visitation started yesterday for those two girls who mentioned funerals
reporting, he s not a big fan of. look, he s the president. he feels that plain spokeenness about him has been appealing to him politically. he s been in politics, obviously, for decades now and that he, when stuck for now seeming to walk him back or interpreted as being walked back, he said the feeling is that makes him look not in control like he is not really steering the ship here. so, there is a concern it s not just the president. there are people who are close allies of the president who shake their heads about this and say there needs to be a better way, if he s out too far on an issue, it s that correcting him in the way we seen the president corrected to go after that potential regime change comment the president made about vladimir putin, that that s something that is not hopeful and feeds this narrative, where people are, is he really in control here? does he have things under control? given all these crises we were talking about.