migrants crossing the border. and why some are calling it the abbott plan. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our team, ali vitali is on capitol hill, we ll get to what i think you can only call the gut punch of a hearing that happened this morning on the house side. right now you have this debate on changing gun laws. it seems likely these bills will pass the house. then it seems likely these bills will hit a brick wall in the senate. that s why the focus is on the private negotiations on the senate side. where are those negotiations, especially on this idea of raising the minimum wage for semiautomatic weapons to 21, which mitch mcconnell is privately, though not publically suggesting he s open to. mitch mcconnell is someone we ve been tracking closely throughout this process. he both blessed the negotiations, deputizing senator john cornyn to be the republican representative in the room alongside thom tillis and this group of four senators trying to hash out som
investigation in uvalde. then breaking this morning, nearly 400,000 jobs were added in the month of may. labor secretary marty walsh will join us with more on the new jobs report. and today marking 100 days since the start of russia s brutal invasion of ukraine. we re going to bring you the very latest on ukraine s fight for freedom. hey, everybody, good to see you on this friday morning. we re going to begin this hour with this renewed message from the white house on gun violence enough is enough. in a rare primetime address from the east room, the president laid out specific policy proposals he says will, in fact, address this crisis head on. he s calling on congress to reinstate the 1994 assault weapons ban. and if not, raise the purchase age from 18 to 21. he s also proposing congress ban high-capacity magazines, extend background checks, enact red flag laws, repeal gun manufacturers immunity from liability, and address the mental health crisis. he called out sen
and vice president vow to act on gun control. russia s major advancement in ukraine. what vladimir putin said in calls with key western leaders. allegations of widespread price gouging, as the baby formula shortage gets even worse what parents can do to fight back new rental car warning, as the summer travel season kicks off, you may have a confirmed reservation, but they may notave your car just had no cs.s. and they just clearly overbooked and on this memorial day weekend, the man turning veterans houses into homes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. i m kristen welker in for jose as the memorial day weekend get underway, the anger is growing as we learn new details about what happened inside robb elementary school. while law enforcement waited nearly an hour to move in on the shooter who claimed 21 lives. we now know the name of the police chief who gave the order to wait and we learned that he and his department partici
encountered. texas governor here as well. the crowd shouting at him as he arrived in a plea for action. uvalde needs help, they yelled. hoping for something, anything. from either leader to give them hope. that things are going to change. after the mass, the president is going to meet with families of the victims of the shooting that killed 21 people, 19 of them children. he will face a community thieving with anger. after what they have learned about police mishandling of this situation. mishandling of what is now led to the big news just into a short time ago. a justice department review of what happened. i haven t trusted law enforcement here in a while. why is? that they re very slow-moving. very slow-moving. anytime we ve had situations, they re very slow. i believe the parents would have done a lot better if without law enforcement here. we re going to talk more about that failure and the justice department review coming up. including your relations about the
underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight there are new questions about what happened inside that texas elementary school, were 19 young children and two teachers were killed on tuesday. nbc news reporting that texas investigators now say that victims of the shooting were found in four separate classrooms. meanwhile, details are emerging about the police response and the specific timeline of the attack. tom jonas has more on that timeline. authorities say the gunman crashed his grandmother s truck at 11:28 am. witnesses reported seeing carrying a long gun and a bag. he fired at two people outside a funeral home while before heading to the elementary school. at 11:30 am the first 9-1-1 call came in. this video shows the gunman, dressed in black long gun in hand, entering the school ten minutes later at 11:40 am. police say that the doors appeared to be locked. as for whether or not anyone tried to stop him from entering, yesterda