texas elementary school that left 19 students and two teachers dead. and yesterday, if you are people were killed in that tulsa medical office shooting when a patient went after his doctor. take you both places live. the president has been under increasing pressure to do something about gun violence, but he has consistently deferred to congress where talks are continuing. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. it s only been two and a half years or so since president biden referred to saudi arabia as a pariah with little redeeming social value out of concern about potential human rights abuses. but, here at home, gas prices have apparently gotten high enough that he is reportedly set to visit saudi arabia to ask them to pump some more oil. that is brand new. it s unclear what in the president s speech about guns tonight will be new. he going to renew his call for action. renew our ban
bipartisan policy on gun reform stands this morning. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, june 2nd. i m jonathan lemire. thursday, june 2nd, i m sorry. still a long week, folks. thursday, june 2nd. thanks for joining us. just over a week since gunfire rang out in uvalde, texas, we begin this morning with another mass shooting in america. and four people are dead, and several others injured after a gunman armed with a rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma. the gunman who has not yet been identified apparently also died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound according to police. the chief of police there in tulsa said that officers arrived at saint francis hospital at 4:56 p.m., just minutes after reports of a gunfire were first called in. officers heard shots and made their way to the second floor. where they found the gunman and victims. at a news conference, tulsa s deputy police chief praised the quick response of office
and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. live from london, nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald. broadcaster and author, suzanne lipscomb. also with us, associate editor of the washington post, eugene, once the london bureau chief. to put into context, the seven decades of queen elizabeth. we expect to see her twice throughout the course of the day today. though she stepped back a bit on what she d normally be doing on an occasion like this. let s go to london where meagan fitzgerald has the latest for us. set the scene on what we can expect today. reporter: willie, i can tell you that this entire city and the country is just exploding with excitement and an sis anticipation of the next four days. right now is trooping the color. this, of course, the traditional event here, celebrating her majesty the queen. as you mentioned, we would typically see her in horse-drawn carriage, but that s not expected today. of course, senior members of the royal family will be in
texas rangers and they re looking into the uvalde police department that responded here yet as we know we ve said in the past, this is jurisdiction of the school police of which pete arredondo is the chief. meanwhile, this week pete arredondo has been sworn in as a new city council member in uvalde despite some criticism because of the investigation, willie. gaud venegas, thank you so much. mike, you were watching that sound bite from the mayor and a bit of disbelief if you go back to the timeline and the misinformation and the bad information we received from police from the word go, since the shooting nine days ago. we had commissioner bill bratton on the show a few days ago who has run police departments from new york to l.a. and boston and said it was a disgrace to the police the way this story was being communicated and changed so much times. or miscommunicated. the level of misinformation dispensed from the get-go in this tragedy is astounding. and it began the day
described frantic people running for cover, amid the gunfire. the shooter was a young man, and one of the people that he tragically shot was a 39 year old woman, she died as a result of those injuries, and that is what happened just this past sunday in taft, oklahoma, where a mass shooter started firing during a memorial day festival. seven people were injured, one woman lost her life. in chattanooga tennessee, it was six people. six people were shot in another mass shooting that took place on saturday. all of them were children. one of them was just 13 years old. now, it was reported over the weekend that four of those children were expected to survive, two of them sustained life-threatening injuries, we did not know what condition those two children are as of today. in benton harbor michigan, six people injured, 19-year-old, one of them was a 19-year-old, he was killed when gunfire erupted at a liquor store. now, in philadelphia, a 16-year-old girl and a 21-year-old woman w