united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m jim acosta and this is a the situation room special report. and we begin our coverage this evening in the town of uvalde, texas. still heartbroken and grasping for answers nearly a week after the robb elementary school massacre. let s get to lucy kafanov in uvalde. new audio and video evidence keeps pouring in from the crime scene. what else can you tell us? that s right, jim. official accounts of how police have responded to the shooting have changed wildly over the past few days. some of the new information includes dispatch audio informing officers on the scene of a child calling 911, saying they were in a room full of the victims. the police response now the subject of a justice department investigation. a chaotic scene as police rushed to evacuate children. dispatch audio revealing some police were aware at some point that kids were still trapped inside. he is in the room full of victims. more
what specifically is the kremlin considering? the united nations confirms a horrific discovery near kyiv as it steps up its investigation into russia s alleged war crimes inside ukraine. with us this morning, a great group. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. she is an msnbc political analyst. let s dive right into it this morning. we begin with the major step from the house committee investigating the january 6th attack, issuing subpoenas for five sitting republican lawmakers who have refused to cooperate in the investigation. including the top republican in the house, minority leader kevin mccarthy. congressman biggs of arizona, scott perry of pennsylvania, jim jordan of ohio, and mo brooks of alabama, seen on january 6th firing up the crowd before the attack on the capitol, all being compelled to testif
never know. you never know what s going on. just like you didn t know what was going on in the kremlin with the soviet union. kremlinologists were paid a lot of money in western think tanks to try to figure it out. who knows what happened here? maybe he was on the plane, got blown out of the sky. regardless, vladimir putin certainly can t have that guy running around as the admiral predicted, people thinking that he can get away with staging a coup against putin. by the way, you are not alone in that suspicion. when the wagner group was marching toward moscow, abruptly stopped, and within a couple hours, there was a deal struck with another nation to end it, there were some suspicions among experts on russia, that happened a little too quickly. admiral stavridis is with us and joins us now. you called this many times. you said, you know, not long for this world, likely, is prigozhin. what is your suspicion or what you ve heard from your sources around the world about what may
speak, many cannot be seek with me because of the threat they ll be investigated and prosecuted if they speak with me, if they say things that putin is doing is a war instead of an operation. that gaffe and you can be subject to 15 years in a russian labor camp. it is not a good place to be. ambassador sullivan, at least the one fingered salute you receive sometimes driving down the street must remind you of being back home in boston. but in any event, what can you tell us, if anything, about vladimir putin s inner circle? is there an inner circle, or is it just him? well, you know, it reminds me of the kremlinologists who used
have spoken with said, look, just given the nature of these cruise missiles, the neptune missiles that hit, the reality is russians did take some casualties in this fight. it s not just a deal. it s cast by experts, it s embarrassing. this is a humiliating defeat by russia. ukraine seems to be bracing for what comes next. a humiliated putin, embarrassed moscow looking to seek revenge with russia warning of more attacks where are you in kiev. reporter: yeah, we have been hearing that from kremlinologists and war experts that basically it seems like vladimir putin thought it was going to be super easy. he was going to roll his tanks across the border and take over at a lot of the escalation, the civilian casualties and what looks like the indiscriminant attacks. a lot of that experts have been attributing to vladimir putin doubling down, because he s invested so much in this fight,