nbc has obtained a copy has already condemned systemic failures and egregious poor decision making on the part of nearly 400 local state and federal law enforcement officers on the scene. at robb elementary on may 4th. let s go to nbc news correspondent, priscilla thompson. priscilla, you ve been in uvalde speaking with parents and anticipating where we may hear from this report that they just released. what are some of the big takeaway so far? one of the things that you already mentioned, the sheer amount of the police presence that was here on that day. we re talking about hundreds of officers from nearly two dozen agencies, from federal, state and local law enforcement. the majority of them where texas department of public safety and border patrol. we are also learning about what happened in regards to the incident command. there was a lot of talk over the past several weeks over the school police chief, pete arredondo, being the incident commander. what is clear in this r
news night. laura coates live starts right now tonight. drugs, a gun, a document, and an alleged lie, another their historic trial. this time the president s son. so just who are the 12 jurors who will decide? hunter biden s state plus president biden tries at a new tougher message against trump, but not the public. what he just told a group of donors. and it was the foul seen round the world, but it has now become something now a little bit more hasn t been the new twist and the caitlin clark story tonight. i m laura coates, live alright, stop me if you ve heard any of these statements before, the cases, an unusual prosecution that quote, would not have been filed gantz anyone else? is the result of prosecutors have in quote, bowed to political pressure and the entire thing is quote, unquote, politically motivated can you guess which case i m talking about? no, it s not donald trump s conviction in manhattan though all of those things hadn t thought about that case
Bowed to political pressure and the entire thing is quote, unquote, politically motivated can you guess which case i m talking about? no, it s not donald trump s conviction in manhattan though all of those things hadn t thought about that case as well. i m talking about hunter biden s trial and wilmington, delaware, which continues just hours from now with opening statements and all of those things that have been said about the case by hunter biden s attorney abbe lowell. i ve just said the case, though. it could not be more different than the one involving trump, hunter biden has charges lying about his drug use when he filled out a form to purchase again back in 2018 and possessing the gun illegally and the form hunter apparently or allegedly checked the no box when asked if he is an unlawful user of any controlled substance and prosecutors, they say that was a lie. now, hunter biden s long history of addiction will be settled to this very case, and we actually saw that on full displ
Denied the allegations, but you hadn t. interesting op-ed about this very point where you talk about the support that trump has enjoyed from women. it improved in 2016 rising, you save from 39% to 40 4%. earlier this year, biden was winning women 58 to 36%. and there are concerns about why, if this is a guilty verdict that could be a fork in the road as you say, for republicans who looks at two point out different direction why do you think they re not doing that? this time? why are they not falling the left fork in the road well, i think as i mentioned a second ago, we can talk about all the different machinations of whether or not the charges should have been brought forward. but the facts are the facts in the case and it really proved the case and certified the donald trump lived his life and the gutter whether it s his business life is personal life, or even as political life, he lives his life in the gutter and that certainly is not a magnet for folks that live in the suburbs
And certainly raising questions about the mistakes that were made. if any of those things hadn t happened, if lives may have perhaps been saved. priscilla thompson, please stand by. joining me now is mark claxton, a retired and my deep p good evening, mark. give us your initial thoughts after reading the early report that was just released. rev, the report is disturbing of course. there is some question of the operational or value of the report. there is an overstatement of a lot of unknown information. it s an amplification of even more obvious information. unfortunately it is playing into this death by 1 million paper cuts. the slow and selective drip drip of information is