thanks for watching. takes it from here. thanks he s in uvalde as we speak, it s the presidents second visit to the site of a mass shooting and just many weeks. we have live coverage of texas. also, some way republican friends say hardening schools into mass shootings is the way to prevent these heinous attacks. my question is, what do these 12 to be safe when asked the houston independent schools a. and we re heading into the culture corner today, britney griner s been detained in russia for more than 100 days now, our culture critics are gonna weigh in. i m simone sanders, and i have something to say. president joe biden and first lady dr. jill biden are in uvalde texas, right now they re meeting with the families and the and to educators who were murdered and yet another mass shooting in america. the bidens travel to buffalo new york less than two weeks ago consoling breedlove villains in a traumatized community. the president paid respects to a memorial outside of rob
realistic hope right now, as we sit here, that this time will be different? greg abbott would like us all to think that this is a mental health problem, every expert will tell you that these people that there are no indicators of mental health. that they re rational people, that they plan these things out. they re psychopaths, sure. but you re never going to really truly isolate them and identify them beforehand. and the experts around the country suggest that. there s mental health problems all over the world, but you don t have incidents like this happening all over the world. just here in these united states. i m in this business, because i have to find solutions to problems. and i hope and i have hope, that we can change things. so, let s see what greg abbott does. because i m calling on him right now to call a special session to bring us back in. we are seven states that meet every other year. we re a part-time legislature. we need to get back in there. because the
what, if anything, will they do? will anything actually change in this moment as we ve asked every single time before. the parents of these 19 children, the loved ones of all 21 deserve answers to these questions and they deserve action. we re talking about people like stephen garcia and jennifer lugo. their daughter ellie was killed in gold blood, a little girl so excited about the pool party she was going to have for her tenth birthday next week. sweetest girl you ve ever had the chance to meet. told her we were going to have a party and her face just lit up. that was the last time i saw her. i won t see my daughter again. hear with me from uvalde, texas is jose diaz-balart and gabe gutierrez. gabe, what do we know now that we didn t know yesterday or when we woke up this morning? reporter: chris, good afternoon, yes. the key question, how did the initial officers at the scene engage, in their words, with this gunman. we now know the texas department of public safety
democratic politician who has had enough and the governor of texas defending his state s gun laws. in washington halle jackson with garrett haake and tom llamas in texas. garrett, we re specifically talking about this warning from the shooter, that he was going to not only shoot his grandmother but he was going to attack an elementary school. a spokesperson clarified these northern the facebook posts, no the public posts. these were private messages that apparently or presumably were only found after the fact. what else are we learning? reporter: yes, that s right. we heard about those private messages from the governor in this press conference just now. he also described in a little more detail how this shooting took place, how it began on the street behind me, where the gunman shot his own grandmother after what appears to be some kind of argument and drove to the school, his truck off in a ditch getting into a classroom and essentially barricading himself inside. he was
On the future of education policy. Introductory remarks now underway and this is live on cspan2. The president of the Largest Labor union in the country, the National Education association. She is the first ever latino elected to leave the and a a and is students are heading back to school. It is also a time when efforts are underway to further privatize Public Education and rollback protections. The nea reprimands 3 million teachers who work in k12 schools, colleges and universities. The union has been a critic of the trump administrations proposals for education. Last spring she said the Administration Proposed budget was a wrecking ball aimed at our nations Public Schools. She went on to say the budget quote shows how dangerously illinformed they are about what works for students and Public Education and they are reckless and irresponsible budget would smash the aspirations of students, crush their dreams and make it difficult for them to go to college and get ahead. We would be int