family to figure out why he might have done this. hundreds of boulder residents taking to the streets to remember the neighbors and the friends that they lost senselessly. we have much more on this ahead. first, president biden s big press conference. joining us is cnn political director david chalian. he s also the co-host of cnn s podcast politically sound. this is not the press conference he thought he was planning for weeks ago when he started talking about this. obviously, in every presidency, unexpected things crop up and now he ll have to, of course, i imagine, first on the agenda, address gun violence, address what s happening at the border. what do you think is going to happen this afternoon? yeah, these are how presidencies get defined from moments that aren t scripted, right? that aren t just going out and laying out your agenda. the external events and how a president and his team manages them. this is the stuff of why the presidency is such a unique and dif
all the while, the country was experiencing more and more and more increasingly horrific single shooter mass killings, gun massacres every year, while it became increasingly impossible to do absolutely anything in response to that. president obama put joe biden, then vice president, in charge of leading a task force in the biden administration to try they moved very, very fast. it was december 14th 2012 when the sandy hook elementary school shooting happened, 26 little kids and teachers and school staff. that was a friday, december 14th. before the next week was up, the following thursday on december 20th, then vice president joe biden had already started convening the first meetings in washington. president asked me to convene this meeting with you and we ll be talking with others as well, because we have to have a comprehensive way in which to respond to the mass murder of our children, and we saw in connecticut, you re the first with whom, when theity gave me the charge.
kayleigh mcenany and the aide that became so powerful in the final weeks of trump s presidency, he was dubbed the deputy president but we begin with a question. where is kevin? the republican quote unquote leader in the house kevin mccarthy is missing in action after a republican lawmaker appeared to threaten the life of another member of congress on social media. arizona republican congressman paul gosar posted a clip of an aname video of him killing alexandria ocasio-cortez and it features a character with gosar s face killing ocasio-cortez and slashing the face of president biden. it been flagged by twitter for hateful content but been allowed to remain on the site. house speaker nancy pelosi condemned on the video and called for mccarthy to do the same and called on the ethics committee to investigate. all indications point to mccarthy doing what he s always done, nothing. he s turned a blind eye to gosar s other anticscertifying biden and one of three republican congress
and they want a formal score from the congressional budget office. house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are forced to delay votes on the bipartisan infrastructure until the end of this month. progressives will not vote on it if the multitrillion dollar social spending package does not go along with it and the president thinks the way to resolve the infighting in his party as to raise the debt ceiling. we d like to talk about what we need today to raise the debt limit. why the republicans in congress what they re doing today is so reckless and dangerous. let s be clear, not only the republicans are refusing to do their job, they re threatening to use their power, their power, to prevent us from doing our job , saving the economy from as catastrophic event. i think it s hypocritical commit, dangerous, and disgraceful. the irresponsibility knows no bounds. he gave for republican congressman in a member of the house budget committee byron donald s will weigh in on it
nor did he have any issues to order. joining me now from uvalde, texas is nbc s correspondent antonia hilton. walk us through these new details and revelations. who was actually in charge at the scene that they? good morning michael. that is really the question, right? i think one really stuck out to me about that interview with the was that he did not know that he was the incident commander. in other words he had no idea that he would be in charge. you also mentioned that he left his radio behind, he said that was because he wanted to hands free to handle his firearm. he also described praying as he tested a key, after key, and it took him a while to find one that would actually work for the right classroom. law enforcement experts when the tribune gave them all these details, they were pretty shocked. from their perspective they say that the leader of a school districts law enforcement, the chief of police should know that they would be incident commander in this kind of