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well go to nbcs priscilla thompson, whos joining me now from outside the uvalde civic center. priscilla, welcome. first of, all have you seen the report? what do you know about it so far? and what are you hearing from parents? >> good afternoon, alex. we have not yet seen that report. we do expect, however -- but we do know, i should say, is not for the past several weeks the committee members have been speaking to witnesses, they have been speaking to law enforcement and even visiting...

that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, its been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, dont do this. we dont want to see you do this, but they wouldnt exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the presidents aides try to walk this back sayi...

Their favor. >> on the issue of taiwan, president biden in tokyo said that the u.s. will respond militarily in the event of a chinese attack on taiwan. he could not have been more clear. and i wonder if you think he made a mistake in being so unequivocal? >> well, i mean, it certainly has clarified the situation. its also a much more forward-leaning than the strategic ambiguity that has characterized the policy for well over four decades. look, only time is going to tell how this eventually -- i...

Previous impeachment hearings. certainly, you know, in this age of twitter everything is brand new. but the response from democrats coming out of that hearing as they took a break was that, you know, this is more evidence that the president is committing obstruction. this is witness intimidation. we may be able to use these tweets where he was tweeting in real time as part of articles of impeachment when we eventually write them and bring them to the house floor. >> hey, scott, did this sway any...

The person in the background say, why are you not doing cpr and you heard the response from one of the police officers or it could have been one of the emt members that he was breathing. and its also important that you know that the video you were just watching, the police and emts say that mr. garner was alive at that time and it appears that the female emt who was taking the pulse, it appears she may have said that he has a pulse, but were not clear if thats exactly what was said at the moment...

Accumulation of intelligence, including indications of at least a plan for a rail attack on the tenth anniversary of september 11th. how consequential is the intelligence cache that came out of that house? >> its hard for any of us to know from the outside. my reaction to the fact that leak by unnamed official, the fact we had achieved this great victory, acquiring the computers and the rest, if these are significant, why in the world would we talk about them? why wouldnt we say we have nothing ...

With hillary clinton, and i asked if this undermines any cooperation, and she said that pakistan helped the united states to help us to lead us to bin laden, and also to the compound where he was hiding and other officials on background say, they could not have done it without this general anti-terror cooperation, but i think that is where you have to define it. and it is unclear. yes, general information and probably some that led them to it, but the crunch times comes when that operation took ...