elementary school in uvalde, texas at 12:03 8 pm and 12:51 pm, when police finally stormed an and shot the shooter. during a stunning press conference this week, police admitted to a string of failures. at the heart of the matter, the incident commander on the scene said that he made the wrong decision by not breaching sooner the classrooms where the gunmen was with students and the teachers. texas congressman, joaquin castro, is not calling on the fbi to investigate the response into the shooting. we are left with a series a question, some that we will never know the answer to, how many kids could have been saved? medical experts stress the importance of evacuating it took days to get a clear picture, and there are still gaps and what we do know. how do we prevent the next mass shooting in this country because democrats have sensible answers to that question? republicans, on the other hand, all they have is insulted nonsense. one of the things that everyone agreed is don
holding republicans accountable. the audacious effort that one group is taking to make sure that some election deniers never work again. then the trumps must testify. new details on the order of the civil investigation and president biden s efforts to reform police system, two years on after george floyd s death. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. one of the most important features of a healthy democracy is holding officials who do wrong accountable. this week, there have been some interesting developments in outside efforts to punish republicans who work to overturn the results of the 2020 election. the fourth circuit of appeals this wrote that participants in an instruction can be barred from holding office. the decision came in the case at the republican madison cawthorn, before losing the primary despondent, faced a challenge by north carolina voters, arguing that his actions at the capitol made him ineligible for future public service. the voting rights group,
encountered. texas governor here as well. the crowd shouting at him as he arrived in a plea for action. uvalde needs help, they yelled. hoping for something, anything. from either leader to give them hope. that things are going to change. after the mass, the president is going to meet with families of the victims of the shooting that killed 21 people, 19 of them children. he will face a community thieving with anger. after what they have learned about police mishandling of this situation. mishandling of what is now led to the big news just into a short time ago. a justice department review of what happened. i haven t trusted law enforcement here in a while. why is? that they re very slow-moving. very slow-moving. anytime we ve had situations, they re very slow. i believe the parents would have done a lot better if without law enforcement here. we re going to talk more about that failure and the justice department review coming up. including your relations about the
if i commit a little speed limit. over the speed limit, they will stop you. you have 20 cars searching you down. but they could not go in there and break that effing door? they are darn cowards? cowards. they let those kids get slaughtered. texas officials say officers waited outside the barricaded classroom for nearly an hour while trapped students frantically called 9-1-1. joining me from the town square, nbc s liz maclachlan. liz, we ve seen long lines at the memorial in uvalde today where i am standing near robb elementary. the lions are wrapped around the corner. what are you hearing from people coming to pay their respects? alicia the crowd here has also been growing all day, people waiting in the hot sun to pay their respects to lay flowers in front of their 21 crosses here. 22, actually 21 for the victims of the shooting and another cross added for the husband of one of the teachers who died from a heart attack just a couple of days later. a lot of people from t
feels hotter due to the humidity. i ve seen long lines before when people wait for hours to get concert ticket or to receive free food or something free. that is not the case here. people are waiting in line, quietly to pay their respects. they are here because they want to show love and support. we have also heard from parents, including parents of some of the children who were killed on that tuesday. the shooting is still sijnking n but the parent we spoke to are upset and stunned. they were not concerned about the real trauma that was happening inside. they waited too long. too long. i was out here. i was out here and i m not the only parent that witnessed it. a will the of parents witnessed it and to see they are saying it was they got in here quick and handled business. that s not the way that happened. had they got in there sooner and somebody would have taken immediate action, we might have more of those children here today, including my daughter. reporter: the