Through loud and clear, if it hasnt already, the extent of the January 6th Riot On Capitol Hill and the former president s role in all of it. An Impeachment Trial Set to start in just three days time, but Donald Trumps lawyer says that he has found the real villains in all of this. The democrats. Theres an awful lot of tape of cities burning and courthouses being attacked and federal agents being assaulted by rioters in the street cheered on by democrats throughout the country, and many of them in washington using, really, the most inflammatory rhetoric its possible to use. When you have the president of the United States give a speech and he says you should peacefully make your thinking known to the people in congress, hes All Of A Sudden a villain. So, while the previous president s preparing to defend the indefensible, the current one is trying to solve the crisis that he left behind. From new efforts to get more vaccines to all americans to the push for covid relief, President Bide
right now. breaking news. an american reporter has been arrested in russia accused by russia of espionage. we re talking about an american citizen who has now been arrested for what you can assume is doing his job. two black hawk helicopters crashing overnight in kentucky, sudden old house something pop loud, loud bang helicopters from 101st airborne division were on a routine training mission when the incident happened resulted in quotes several casualties. concerns for the health of pope francis as the 86 year old is hospitalist tests showed that he does indeed have a respiratory infection. it s unclear if the leader of the world s nearly 1.4 billion roman catholics will be able to lead the celebration of this weekend s pump. sunday mass and holy week ceremonies the vatican leading up to easter on april 9th. children are dying. there are six people are dead in that school, including three children, because you guys got rid of the assault weapons ban. talk about protecting o
shimon, you ve obtained the report and read it. tell us what you ve learned. reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. we re also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didn t believe there were any kids inside the score because it was awards day. what he said was he looked at an adjacent room, room 110, and when he went in there, there was no one in there, and it made himly were no babies as he said inside the room. of course, we know that was not the case. he also describes how initially his thinking was that this was an active shooter situation, but then what happens is he starts to believe that the subject, the gunman, is barricaded, and that in order to rescue the oth
committee as it releases preliminary report on the mass shooting at robb elementary. nbc s priscilla thompson is there and covering it for us. priscilla, as always, good to talk to you. talk us through this, because this obviously has been, since it s incredibly tragic shooting happened, such an emotional time for these families. and, as the details have begun to trickle out more and more, even more so emotional. now, the release of this report to family members in the community there. talk us through what we may learn today. yeah, yasmin, another emotional day here with that meeting between committee members and the family set to get underway in just about a half hour here. an hour or so here. well we re learning, just from the spokesman a short while ago, was that that report was going to be 110 pages. he says that 18 to 20 family members have picked up a copy of the report, they re still working to get a copy to the family of the victim who is still hospitalized. he also
three numbers that health experts hope everyone remembers. we begin today s show with a disturbing accusation against the very people who actually charged with protecting our cop leaders. the secret service is accused of leading text messages from january 5th and sixth after they were asked to turn them over to the government inspector general. they sent a letter to both the house and homeland security committees this week to sound the alarm. he says that after his office requested full electronic records for an evaluation of the capitol attack, the secret service permanently erased a significant number of text messages from that exact time period. nbc obtained this copy of the letter. a spokesperson for the secret service denies that any messages were maliciously a raised. in a statement he wrote in january 2021 before any s inspection was opened on the subject, the secret service began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a planned system migration. the