protect your party, the chance to make a choice that protects our country now and for the next generation. matthew mcconaughey today in the white house briefing room. the mayor of uvalde telling cnn he still has confidence in the city s police department, but the fbi agent who created the agency s active shooter program says they didn t follow the training. she s here with me, next.
there is not a democratic or republican value in one single act of these shooters. it s not. but people in power have failed to act. so we re asking you. and i m asking you will you please ask yourselves. can both sides rise above? can both sides see beyond the political problem at hand and admit that we have a life preservation problem on our hands. we got a chance right now to reach for and to grasp a higher ground above our political affiliations, the chance to make the choice that does more than protect your party, the chance to make a choice that protects our country now and for the next generation. matthew mcconaughey today in the white house briefing room. the mayor of uvalde telling cnn he still has confidence in the city s police department, but the fbi agent who created the agency s active shooter program says they didn t follow the training. she s here with me, next.
threat and that local police did not take critical action. the aztec police department had a police officer who was assigned to the school that person was never told, you know, by the way, there is a guy who was a former student who, you know, is threatening to shoot the school reporter: citing the litigation, neither the school district nor the aztec police would comment to nbc news. in court papers they deny wrongdoing. a judge ruled the fbi can t be sued in this case but the bureau still declined to talk catherine schweit formerly ran the fbi s rapid shooter program and she reviewed the case for nbc news and she defended how the bureau handled it. even though he talked about a lot of different things, they are still just words i don t see anything that the fbi should have done and they didn t do. reporter: lattin says she will keep pushing for accountability, driven by her daughter s word in a poem found after her death. songs you ve heard,
news reporter tell us earlier in the hour that his reporting suggests there s a possibility the fire at that house could be connected to the shooter. as he said, a huge number of police at what is normally just what would be just mostly firefighters. there s still a lot we do not know about these incidents. we ll get the latest now. we ll go back to our correspond on the ground there, lindsey reiser. we also have katherine schweit. she ran the shooter program to preven and respond to shootings. we re getting information slowly but surely. we now know the number of dead. i guess one piece of information we don t know is the seven casualties, that does not include the shooter, i believe, correct? yeah, chuck. you read my mind. we re working to figure that out, if that seven number that we have confirmed from sources does include the shooter or does