noon pacific, good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. today, the department of justice released a long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. it was almost two years ago in may of 2022 when a mass murderer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and despite officers arriving on the scene just three minutes after the shooter gained entry to the school, it took 77 minutes for law enforcement to confront the lone gunman. the report is scathing. calling the response to the shooting a failure. noting that despite evidence that wounded children were in the classroom, the officers did not engage with the shooter. they didn t treat the perpetrator as an active threat, and those decisions among others may have cost lives. families were briefed before the report was made public. i spoke to kimberly whose daughter lexi died that day and asked her what she wants to see come from this report. account is
questions to consider if the war between hamas and israel ever ends what should happen the day after the day after? the proposal that prime minister netanyahu is already turning down. and leading this hour the justice department out today with its report on the uvalde massacre detailing a list of failures on may 24, 2022, when an 18-year-old gunman made his way inside robb elementary school. young students and teachers were left trapped in the classroom with the gunman more than han hour after officers arrived on the scene. instead of confronting the gunman the justice department found officers waited and more response and more equipment. instead of storming into the classroom police were waiting around for a set of keys, keys to open a classroom door that probably already unlocked. not to mention the terrified parents left waiting outside for hours wanting to run into the school, told they couldn t, learning little to nothing about the status of their children. just hours
it s always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it s not too light to say happy new year. it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on
and election night victory? plus, dangerous defense. donald trump says a lot, we know, but nothing quite like what we heard this week to a federal judge. re-upping a frankly murderous claim from his 2016 campaign. and in his first and only tv interview with western media al jazeera s gaza bureau chief wael al dahdouh tonight on his mission to keep reporting despite losing his wife, sons, daughter, and grant some two and israeli airstrike. and he s got something to say president to joe biden. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s do it. t minus 48 hours. exactly two days from now, at seven pm on monday evening, iowa caucus goers will make their voices heard in the first in the nation gop primary contest. they re going to do it amid possibly life-threatening blizzard conditions, with temperatures in areas across the state expected to be up to single digit negatives, a chill the state has not expressed and at least four tickets. nevertheless, finally, after months of debate and polls
our top story tonight is a brand new filing by special counsel jack smith. you can see it right here in this paperwork. you can see what they re talking about which is evidence, what lawyers call discovery material. this kind of filing reminds donald trump and his evolving team of lawyers they re on a collision course with jack smith s aggressive office, barreling towards a trial slated to start in august. that could be delight, but only by rulings. it s not a timeline that donald trump s team controls. so they re headed towards that. this filing that we just got outlines the new evidence that donald trump s team will get. that includes interviews of defendant trump conduct bid non-government entities obtained by the special counsel s office. the key word here is interviews, plural, because even in this sparse word we got new information. it means smith has at least one more recording of trump beyond the one we knew about, the one that made news, that was also featured in the