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were missed. and the shooter should have been stopped. but, in the back drop of all of this, joe biden, the candidate, ran on uniting the country and bringing us out of a funk but thats not whats happened. record high gas prices and inflation have shattered the countrys confidence and pocketbooks. a crime wave it and an open border are among our top concerns and now a baby formula shortage has pushed this presidents approval rating into the 30s. tonight, he has an opportunity to strike...

underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight there are new questions about what happened inside that texas elementary school, were 19 young children and two teachers were killed on tuesday. nbc news reporting that texas investigators now say that victims of the shooting were found in four separate classrooms. meanwhile, details are emerging about the police response and the specific timeline of the attack. tom jonas has more on that timeline. ...

>> i think weve all answered these questions so many times, and i think when we go to answer them again i think we have to bring up the name of these three young people whose futures have been ended as well as the people sitting in the hospital and question why were not asking those questions, be it background checks, be it individual sales, red flag -- whatever has to take place, weve had all these conversations kind of enough times here even per our congress person. its kind of -- weve had eno...

Better frame in a better, you know, deflection point. it is not -- no ones putting anything serious on the table even though there are serious substance and policy decisions that they could put on the table. mcconnell could very easily have said in answering the question, will it background checks, red flags. he couldve recently said it would include all of. that we are looking at all of that. but he didnt. and that was a tell. >> so why are democrats even wasting their time talking to him? why ...

The trump administration to withdraw the $5 billion request for border wall funding and instead reallocate it toward programs combatting violent extremism and domestic terrorism and gun violence research. for his part the president continued a series of calls with lawmakers involved in the gun issue, including some staunchly opposed to gop positions. >> he certainly believes that there is a deal to be had on what he calls a meaningful background checks bill. the devil is in the details is as to ...

Weapon is the same as his old weapons. the president continues to defend himself as opponents last weekend mass shooting in hoyle. now several of the democrats seeking to replace him in the oval office are openly calling the president a white supremacist. >> good evening, john, do mass shootings this week a month congressional democrats are pushing the white house to call and senators to return to washington and address of bills that would expand it background checks. they have moved from critic...

Intractable political divide. and so thats the part of this that i find frustrating is wheres the political leadership on capitol hill that says you know what? look, im not going to make a judgment. is it background checks? is it this or that? but you know what i do want to do? hold hearings, do fact finding and open up the idea that were going to look at every aspect of this. and thats the part that we see a failure of political leadership on capitol hill on this. >> right. and i think when you...

Nations capital. that letter was opened sunday by its director. mayors against guns has targeted public officials both republic and democrat across the country. opposition to it background checks. the group has spent $12 million since the newtown shootings last december on campaigns and ads criticizing precisions in various states. bloomberg has promised to spend millions more. ricin has recently been used as a dangerous threat in several cases just in the last two months. last week a washington...