had been under a doctor s care for an emotional disorder. law enforcement also revealed that the shooter s parents cannot think that 28-year-olds should own weapons. the disturbing details putting a renewed focus on the nation s gun laws. president biden pointing some fingers at the same time. i, again, call on congress to pass the assault weapons ban. this should not be a partisan issue. it s a common sense issue. i want you to know who isn t doing it. who isn t helping. ahead, i ll talk to a tennessee state representative who rushed to the scene after the shooting. why he says thoughts and prayers are never enough. plus, former vice president mike pence in iowa fueling more 2024 speculation, even as both he and his former boss face a major legal blow. a federal judge has ruled pence must testify in the justice department s probe of donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the latest on how pence is responding. and a perfect storm of devastation in missi
we re live with and we re following breaking news this morning. that could have a major impact on the nation s opioid epidemic. the life-saving treatment the fda is approving for over the counter use. new details in one of the investigations surrounding donald trump. what mike pence is saying after a judge orders him to testify before a grand jury. and we are live in ukraine where the head of the nuclear watchdog has crossed fierce battle lines in hopes of preventing a nuclear disaster. we begin this very busy hour with new details out of nashville where police are still searching for a motive in the devastating shooting at the covenant school that killed three adults and three children who were just 9 years old. police say the 28-year-old shooter was under a doctors care for undies closed emotional disorder. the shooter s family told investigators the shooterer should not have owned any weapons. they thought their child had one firearm, but had sold it. the family told p
i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we need t
making reporter: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it goes against every fiber in our being, having to bury our own children parents in uvalde, texas now facing that grim reality, beginning to lay their children to rest in a world no safer today than it was a week ago when their children became victims of mass murder this holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 hurt in mass shootings across the u.s. overall, at least 156 died by gun violence hundreds left wounded. but in the tiny texas town of uvalde, still mourning the 19 children and two adults who were ruthlessly murdered last tuesday, we re still learning about the timeline and what officers did or didn t do to try to save them but today s focus, the first of 21 funerals celebrating the lives lost our morgan chesky is there. reporter: tonight heartbreak hitting home, with hundreds saying final goodbyes. you feel sad, man, it hits you hard reporter: 21 funerals over the ne
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t