are dead. flee more a three more are wounded. officers are stationed outside area hospitals where their wounded colleagues are being treated. officials telling us in a briefing a short time ago that one suspect on scene is dead. officers sent in a robot to make sure there were no explosives. not that they have word there were explosives, but they just don t know what they re dealing with here. they clearly believe they re dealing with a conspiracy. they call the scene contained but active. meaning they re still working it, but the suspect who is there is deceased. and we re now getting dramatic audio of police calling in the shooting. listen. shots fired! officers down! got a city officer down! shots fired! shots fired! that s the audiofrom scene. the white house we leasing a brief statement on the attack essentially saying president obama has been briefed and will be updated throughout the day as more details come in. the white house also offering baton rouge police an
we are grieving as law enforcement community. everyone right now focus on words and actions that can unite this country rather than divide it further. we are grieving for each other. we are grieving for our loss and for our families. only we can prove that we have the grace and the character and the common humanity to end this kind of senseless violence. 8:00 p.m. eastern on sunday night. i m brian williams here with rachel maddow. this hour was supposed to be devoted to a preview of the gop convention in cleveland and instead we are covering this. people this morning could be forgiven for perhaps glancing at their device and seeing a headline that the problem was with them. after all, baton rouge, louisiana, had last been in the news for something else entirely on july 5th. and now this. the police department was alerted to something wrong via a 911 call. the people in the local area were alerted something wrong by the distinct and repeated sound of rifle fire capt
he is 15 years old. [ sobbing ] he had to watch this as this was put all over the outlets and everything that was possible to be shown. wow, it s just heartbreaking to see this and know what this family is going through right now as they are putting up this brave front while taking on police accountability. i want to talk to our msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber. i know you ve been on the air talking about this over the last hour. let s break down the facts of what we know. we have the eyewitness video not a independently verified. we know there were police cam and dash cam video, and also there was a convenience store video. so what has been made public other than the eyewitness video? that s right. as you mentioned, there are basically three sources of video here, government in the police dash and body cams, independent in the cell phone video we ve seen and the store s video that we have not seen. if we put up the cell phone video, what we see and we ll put
how long he d been here and if the 911 call that drew officers to his location was the 911 call of a concerned citizen or perhaps something more sinister. some key questions that need to be answered here tonight. meanwhile all three of the law enforcement officials who were killed have been identified by their respective agencies. montrell jackson, matthew gerald with the baton rouge police department, jackson 32 years old, father of in fantastic son matthew 41, had joined the force a year ago. officer brad garafola, been with baton rouge 24 years, he was 45-year-old. three law enforcement officers were also injured in this attack. one in fair condition, treated for nonlife threatening one in critical condition. the huge law enforcement presence we saw on this street earlier today has scaled back dramatically. we re told officers were able to get surveillance video from neighboring businesses. we don t know what, if anything, it shows. they continue, like i said, chris, to
nation. and i m going to take hoozyer ideas. let s make indiana the first state to make donald trump the 45th of the united states and send another hoosier to the vice president office. good morning, welcome to am joy and coming to you live from erie island, coffee, and donald trump has picked mike pence as his running made. he spent the indiana governor packing. he traveled home to represent a gop rally in indianapolis. some wondered why trump soaked up to soak up the spotlight with a rambling 28-minute speech and when he went back to mike pence before talking about himself. and where pence diversed on trade policy but hillary clinton tweeted this out during the saturday morning appearance. well, we have plenty to say about pence. here you go. and listed all of that. and now with me is al cardin and joan walsh, thank you for being here. and first, al, you were a jeb guy. he is a never-trumper. where are you on mike pence. does it make him more attractive to you as a re