with lester holt good evening i m savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman s ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation s gun laws what s on the table and will it make a difference nbc s gabe gutierrez leads us off reporter: tonight as the u.s. grapples with the dramatic surge in gun violence, relatives of those killed in the buffalo m
he met with after the mass shooting and the victims of another preventable tragedy, this time in his hometown. watch. uvalde, texas, is where i was born. it s where my mom taught kindergarten less than a mile from robb elementary. uvalde is where i learned to master a disy bb gun. took two years before i graduated to a 410 shotgun. uvalde is where i was taught to revere the power and the capability of the tool that we call a gun. uvalde is where i learned responsible gun ownership. wore green high top converse with a heart she had drawn on the right toe because they represented her love of nature, camilla s got these shoes. can you show these shoes, please? wore these every day, green converse with a heart on the right toe. these are the same green converse on her feet that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could identify her after the shooting. how about that? you know what every one of these parents wanted what they asked for, what every parent separately expr
committee is about to go public with has been gleaned by more than a thousand interviews and more than 125,000 documents that s according to the washington post. it may very well represent the last and best chance to break the fever of trumpism and the hold that trump and the big lie have on millions of our fellow citizens. the nearly year and a half since the deadly insurrection, the gop has not just memory hold january 6th itself, but in many ways it s come to embrace the insurrection and what it represented. its leaders have gone from blaming trump angrily and privately considering casting him out to the political wilderness once and for all to choosing to politically resurrect him. the party declaring the events of january 6th as legitimate political discourse and many of the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election are now laying the groundwork to overturn the next presidential election if it doesn t go their way. new york times reports this, key figures in
with lester holt good evening i m savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman s ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation s gun laws what s on the table and will it make a difference nbc s gabe gutierrez leads us off reporter: tonight as the u.s.
owe it democrats owe this to the body that they serve, to their own oaths to the constitution to talk about the fact that if you house and harbor insurrectionists, if you lie for them, you don t deserve to hold power. tim, what is your sense of, you know, i think the story about washington is sort of its intractable information silos and echo chambers. we don t know what we don t know about how roadblock coverage over the course of a month and another report to come out in the fall, we don t know with whom that lands and how it will land among independent voters. i think that s exactly right, nicolle, and that s why i think if i was advising the democrats, i would caution them against worrying about like how is what we re doing today going to impact the midterms and the january 6th committee. and i would look bigger than that. the democrats need to make and you know, liz cheney and adam kinzinger along with the democrats need to make a broad