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hi, thank you for joining me. im jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. im joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what youre seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. hes playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center...

the bidens attended mass at sacred heart catholic church where an influx of funerals is imnenlt. they are meeting privately with the victims families this afternoon. so many of them want an answer to an excruciating question, would their loved ones be here today if police had acted sooner? the justice department is stepping in saying it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response as a top texas official admits the decision not to breech the classroom even as the children were...

elementary school in uvalde, texas at 12:03 8 pm and 12:51 pm, when police finally stormed an and shot the shooter. during a stunning press conference this week, police admitted to a string of failures. at the heart of the matter, the incident commander on the scene said that he made the wrong decision by not breaching sooner the classrooms where the gunmen was with students and the teachers. texas congressman, joaquin castro, is not calling on the fbi to investigate the response into ...

holding republicans accountable. the audacious effort that one group is taking to make sure that some election deniers never work again. then the trumps must testify. new details on the order -- of the civil investigation and president bidens efforts to reform police system, two years on after george floyds death. i am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. >> one of the most important features of a healthy democracy is holding officials who do wrong accountable. this week, there have been...

encountered. texas governor here as well. the crowd shouting at him as he arrived in a plea for action. uvalde needs help, they yelled. hoping for something, anything. from either leader to give them hope. that things are going to change. after the mass, the president is going to meet with families of the victims of the shooting that killed 21 people, 19 of them children. he will face a community thieving with anger. after what they have learned about police mishandling of this situati...

>> if i commit a little speed limit. over the speed limit, they will stop you. you have 20 cars searching you down. but they could not go in there and break that effing door? they are darn cowards? cowards. they let those kids get slaughtered. >> texas officials say officers waited outside the barricaded classroom for nearly an hour while trapped students frantically called 9-1-1. joining me from the town square, nbcs liz maclachlan. liz, weve seen long lines at the memorial in uvalde ...

feels hotter due to the humidity. ive seen long lines before when people wait for hours to get concert ticket or to receive free food or something free. that is not the case here. people are waiting in line, quietly to pay their respects. they are here because they want to show love and support. we have also heard from parents, including parents of some of the children who were killed on that tuesday. the shooting is still sijnking n but the parent we spoke to are upset and stunned. >>...

kids and two teachers taken from this town far too soon. live stolen from senseless violence. the daycares honors, like most uvalde, you many the students and watch them grow up over the years. we are learning more about their lives, their unforgettable personalities behind each face, big plans for the future. rodriguez had big dreams of becoming a marine biologist. she planned to study at texas a&m. her mom said that she was carrying and cold driven. her classmate lexi rubio wanted to...

speak louder than words can that on tuesday at rob elementary school in uvalde texas, this first priority for every single law enforcement officer in the state did not come first. the awful truth which was confirmed today is that police officers waited to storm a classroom while children were hiding inside and calling 911 for help that would not come. for as long as an hour. now we often here police officers talk about split second decisions. this time, the decision to go into a classr...

than an hour while children inside were calling 9-1-1, begging for help. waiting because they apparently believed it was a barricaded subject situation. the police, not an active shooter. that was the wrong decision. texas officials say. >> a bit of hindsight, where im sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. very wrong. theres no excuse for that. >> there are so many unanswered questions tonight. but lets not lose sight about what this is all ab...