constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
more than a dozen from the water. a 7-year-old among the dead just in, twitter suing elon musk for breaking his deal to buy the social media giant. and the new images from the most powerful telescope ever created, changing the way we see our universe announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone for almost two months we have tried to understand why it took nearly 80 minutes for police to end the massacre that claimed 21 innocent lives at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas tonight some horrifying new insight. let me warn you that what we re about to show you is disturbing on so many levels. surveillance video from inside the school that has just been made public revealing the decisions that cost time and lives. the video shows a police response that appears at moments uncoordinated, confused, with officers in apparent disagreement over how to proceed it begins outside capturing the shooter, crashing his car, his sprint to the school
release of brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn learning exclusively that the u.s. is now proposing a deal to exchange a convicted russian arms dealer for the two americans. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new evidence that the justice department s criminal investigation of january 6th is picking up steam big time. a star witness from the house hearings is now cooperating with federal prosecutors who have been asking questions about former president trump. let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, up on capitol hill. tell us about the key witness who is now working with the feds. yeah, wolf. it is the witness that perhaps delivered the most compelling testimony of any of the january 6th select committee s public hearings. that s the former aide to mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson. it shows that this probe is expanding, specifically into the efforts to sta
back burner, healing at the forefront. the east lansing community continues to grieve for the three students killed and pray for the students still in the hospital. nbc s jesse kirsch is on campus where he met with a professor who was struggling to sleep after witnessing the deaths of two students. i can t imagine how he could sleep after seeing something like that. jesse, tell me a little bit more about your conversation with him. reporter: yeah, so chris, this assistant professor says he was teaching when he heard something, and all of a sudden the suspect, the gunman walks into his class, and he says the suspect went on to shooting seven of his students, including two of the students who were killed. alexandria verner, and arielle anderson. the teacher described what his classroom looked like. it was a long classroom. he was at the far end and the suspect walked in at the back end of the classroom, and he talks about how this was theater like seating.
been reported, a maintenance order would have been completed. so was the door to 111 then sometimes propped open so that instruction wasn t interrupted in room 111? no, ma am. doors were always closed. so somehow, the report says that it was likely unlocked. so somehow, it could have been unlocked on that day. it s possible. now, wolf, i asked, okay, so what went wrong then? because you saw the video. we all saw the video where the gunman walks into the school building and then goes into a classroom. she says that she just doesn t know. wolf. rosa, i understand you also asked principal gutierrez if she is partly to blame for what happened that day. what did she say? you know, according to the texas house investigative report, there was a culture of noncompliance. i asked her about that.