navarro s arrest and indictment and what it means for the insurrection investigation. just ahead of a pivotal public hearing next week. and destruction and defiance in ukraine. as the nation marks 100 days of russia s brutal war, president zelenskyy vowing victory even as russian forces control a fifth of the country right now and the kremlin pledges to keep fighting until its goals are achieved. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to the new reporting on the texas school massacre as the investigation into police failures is clearly intensifying. here s cnn s senior national correspondent ed lavendera. reporter: tonight new questions raised in the investigation of the deadly school shooting in uvalde. texas state senator roland gutierrez says pete arredondo didn t have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate di
multiple magazines of ammunition entered marjorie stone in high school and murdered 17 people, that shooting sparked a nationwide youth lead movement for new gun safety legislation. a year later, little had been done at the federal level to curb gun violence. by valentine valentine s day, 2019, then president donald trump was trying to push attention back to his pet issue, building a wall to stop immigrants. at the time, trump was threatening to declare a national emergency in order to try to build his precious border wall without congressional approval. it was that threat from trump which prompted this counter threat from house speaker, nancy pelosi. if the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an emergency, an illusion that he wants to convey, just think of what a president with different values can present to the american people. you want to talk about a national emergency? let s talk about today, the one year anniversary of a another man
nbc news has confirmed he s currently in custody and is set to make his first appearance in federal court just a few minutes from now. let us get to it. joining me now is nbc news nas political reporter sahil kapur, host of the beat ari melber and barbara mcquaid. pete, i want to begin with you. this is a bit tricky territory for the d.o.j., is it not? reporter: well, it didn t seem to be in his case, in the steve bannon case, though it took the justice department almost twice as long to decide whether to pull the trigger on peter navarro on two counts, one for refusing to give documents to the committee and secondly for refusing to show up and answer questions in person to the committee. he said to an e-mail in the committee that he was powerless to act here because of the executive privilege claim by president trump. one of the problems for him, it seems to me, is that six days before he sent that e-mail, the supreme court rejected president trump s legal appeal in the
former trump aide peter navarro indicted today by the justice department on two counts, contempt of congress for the way he s defied repeatedly in public the insurrection probe. big news whether you follow it here on msnbc where mr. navarro has been a guest or anyone, really, in the trump world or around the nation. a trump white house adviser indicted for issues related to the insurrection. how it played out today. breaking news moments ago involving former top trump white house official peter navarro. peter navarro now criminally indicted. doj indicted him on two counts of contempt of congress. former adviser peter navarro is at this hour in federal custody and about to make a court appearance. he was issued a subpoena in february to produce documents and appear before the committee in march, but refused to do either. wow. they cuffed him, took him out. serious business here. this is very bad news for peter navarro. we are keeping an eye on the federal cows do
it s investing 101, reimagined. i m laura coates this is cnn tonight. frankly, our breaking news this hour is awful. we re still trying to find answers what happened in buffalo and get answers to questions in uvalde and now we ve got another mass shooting in america tonight. this time in a medical building on the campus of the st. francis hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, at least four victims are dead, the shooter is also dead. here s video of the early moments of the police response, officer s pulling out their long guns and women who saw emergency vehicles racing to the scene and rifles pulled out couldn t help but get emotional. frankly, it s hard to not be emotional from yet another mass shooting in this country. talking to a city counselmember said the shooter may have been looking for a specific doctor at that campus. as we update you on tulsa we re not going to forget for a moment what s going on in uvalde, texas, how can we? and we re looking at all of the important que