that the midwest remits. alexi mccammond, thank you very much for joining us early, and thank you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. morning joe startis right now. we need to take this grief and turn it into action. i am a person of faith, i was raisin raised in the church if you are a person of faith and you want to give us your thoughts and prayers, we want them and we need them. our community is hurting, but we need policies in place that will keep this from happening again so that thoughts and prayers do not have to be offered to yet another community ripped apart by the savage violence coming from guns. that s democratic congressman morgan mcgarvy making a plea for action on gun violence after monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment
monday s mass shooting in louisville we re getting a look at the deadly confrontation between police and the gun nan we ll have that and the latest in the investigation ahead. trump on fox news making outlandish claims about his arraignment in manhattan and offering praise for authoritarian leaders around the world. we ll play those comments for you. meanwhile, manhattan district attorney is suing one of trump s top allies in the house in the latest escalation in that political fight over the former president s indictment plus, we ll get a live report from northern ireland as president biden prepares to mark 25 years since the good friday agreement. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 12th. with us, we have u.s. special continue for bbc news katty kay, former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele, and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe, mika has the morning off, so good news, we can talk about baseball for four years
well, yeah. everything i do in life, everything one does in life prepares you for what you re going to do, right. then police started negotiating for three hours by telephone. while watching him through the lobby windows and with cameras inside the lobby, they could see he was holding three men hostage and appeared to be wearing pipe bombs. finally, nearly four hours after the crisis began, they saw him point his gun at the hostages. but, at that point, our tactical units moved in. they shot the suspect. the suspect is disease deceased. all three hostages were released, rescued, unharmed, including one security guard. by the way, the discover channel tells us they were aware of mr. lee, but they never took his threats seriously. guys, back to you. what a story. nbc tom costello, thank you. the producer you heard is rob marevis who runs the desk over here to us and spoke to the gun