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What was happening in those critical moments. gentlemen, were going to continue this conversation later on. jim kavanaugh, mark claxton, thank you very much for your insights. still ahead, the supreme courts conservative majority is destroying the separation between church and state. we will tell you about that in just a sec. between church and state between church and state we will tell youas. - llamas. so save money shopping back to school on amazon. you sure thats not a camel? yeah. whatever ...

>> i was going to say, i remember early on the governor of texas greg abbott said this could have been a lot worse had the police not responded the way they did. i cant imagine it being any worse now that weve gotten these reports and learned about what was happening in those critical moments. gentlemen, were going to continue this conversation later on, jim cavanaugh, mark claxton, gentlemen, thank you both very much for your insights. still ahead, the supreme courts conservative majority is ...

Conducting an investigation into the police response. >> the city of uvalde will be conducting an internal investigation regarding our police departments aks and our policies and procedures. the city has placed the lieutenant on absentee leave, the acting chief on the day of the shooting. >> lets go to our panel for reaction on all of these developments. joining me is jim cavanaugh, msnbc terrorism contributor and retired atf special agent in charge. and mark claxton, retired nypd detective and ...

Failed, a lot of that is chaff, because the key failures are the ones that i just described and if those had been done correctly then, you know, more kids would have been alive. >> fair enough. valid point. mark, your initial thoughts on the report before we dig into it a little bit more? >> ive got to agree jim on so many points and from a tactical standpoint, the report really could have been 150 pages long if they devoted themselves strictly to the tactics and the poor tactics that obviously ...

Kathy park, mark claxton, thanks to both of you. a handwritten play, detained wnba superstar brittney griner has written directly to president biden asking for his help to get her out of a russian jail. her emotional plea coming up. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. s"andrea mitc s"andrea mitc reports" on msnbc. but even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for meningitis b. although uncommon, all the vaccines your teen might need...

Shooting in highland park, illinois, range from young children to grandparents. medical director with north shore medical group said yesterday they treated 25 people with gunshot wounds, 19 were released, but some who remain are in critical and serious condition. four or five of them were children. highland parks mayor saying this earlier on today. >> i never thought i would be one of those mayors. none of us think we would be one of those mayors. whether its buffalo, new york, whether its uvald...

Do so in a way that puts themselves at great risk, but has a high probability of saving lives. >> chain of command is a critical aspect of law enforcement, i know that you know that. well, mark, tell me what it is like for an officer who is there outside of the school in uvalde, outside of the costume where the shooter was located, the officer who wanted to, breach the one who wanted to go in, but is being ordered by someone else not to do so? >> katie, that is one of the things about this. i kn...

School, when that psychopath arrived, the armed police officers could have taken him out, and we would have 19 children and two teachers still alive. >> mark, i was a prosecutor for half my career, i never prosecuted somebody for leaving a door open. how absurd is this proposal by ted cruz that the solution is to make sure that we dont have too many doors at our schools. >> ted cruzs statements were boldly and current, and dismissive of the clear obvious danger that is faced by so many people in...

Working on legislation that provides, or minimizes the risk of damage, and could quite possibly and probably save lives. that is some additional gun restrictions, some background checks, there are other things that are out there that will undoubtedly have the proven -- to be effective and save lives, and prevent this gun violence deaths. >> mark claxton, and retired and ypg, officer and law enforcement specialist, we thank you for being here this morning and your insights. >> thank you. >> and b...

The school, including the sounds of gunfire. then finally, more than an hour after the shooter went inside the building at 12:50, law enforcement using a key obtained from the school janitor opens the door to the classroom where the shooter has barricaded himself. he is then shot, and killed. as we told you earlier, nbc news can report that federal agents were instructed by federal police to stay outside, but then those federal officers defied those orders half an hour later and rushed inside th...