who lost their lives defending our nation and our freedoms. we re glad you re with us. with us today, we have my friend msnbc contributor mike barnicle. we re going to jump right into the news. the justice department is opening a review into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas, after authorities there admitted to a stunning string of failures last week. this as the president and first lady jill biden visited robb elementary school yesterday and met with grieving families. nbc news correspondent sam brock has the very latest from texas. sam? reporter: jonathan, good morning. president biden spent most of the day on sunday in uvalde, texas, trying to provide consolation to lift up a community here that s so griff grief stricken. they want answers and accountability. all day, people have been coming to the memorial. president biden and dr. biden came out and laid flowers. all of this happening as a critical incident review was announced by th
unfounded allegations of corruption in his 2020 election loss to joe biden. for many months now he s been spreading baseless lies about an election that hasn t happened yet. yesterday the twice impeached and recently convicted ex-president took this grievance campaign to detroit, a city that was crucial to president biden s victory in and 2020. and the city where trompe l oeil is made baseless claims of election fraud. lanes that have credited, what have disenfranchised city voters, many of whom are black. that is all in the past apparently. in a span of just a few hours, trump attended a pair of events in the motor city. first, he participated in a roundtable discussion at a predominantly black church during which his campaign formally launched black americans for trump. and outreach group that seeks to cut into biden s lead among that demographic. then, he appeared at an event hosted by the right-wing organization turning point usai. and yvette largely attended by hard-line
you know more than most that the weight of the presidency, the weight of the presidency can only be felt by one person at a time. the president, the president of the united states. so my question to you has to do with differences in time. lyndon johnson, you spent an enormous amount of time with lyndon johnson and wrote a marvelous book about him and his presidency. lyndon johnson only had to endure really one mass shooting, and it occurred in august 1966 when a fellow named charles whitman climbed up to the texas tower on the campus of the university of texas austin and shot and killed, i believe, 11 or 14 people. this president, joseph r. biden, has had two massive shootings back-to-back, one in buffalo, one in uvalde, texas, and that s not even mentioning the daily mass shootings that occur in