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, nbc s liz maclachlan. liz, we ve seen long lines at the memorial in uvalde today where i am standing near robb elementary. the lions are wrapped around the corner. what are you hearing from people coming to pay their respects? alicia the crowd here has also been growing all day, people waiting in the hot sun to pay their respects to lay flowers in front of their 21 crosses here. 22, actually 21 for the victims of the shooting and another cross added for the husband of one of the teachers who died from a heart attack just a couple of days later. a lot of people from t
State lawmakers want the public s input on a new voting map for the state of Alabama. This is the result of the United States Supreme Court s ruling which deemed the
try. there s no way that you can do any other thing except push, force, and dry. i want to ask you about that questioning, trying, representative reynolds, for people that are watching, for people in the state of texas who want to feel that they ve got agency in all of this, how do they hold their representatives accountable both in the short term, with regards to the possibility of a special session, with the possibility of legislation on gun safety. and as we look forward to november? first of all, we need to make sure that we demand that hopes and prayers are not, we need legislative action, you claim to be pro-life get the hypocrisy is you will protect innocent children once they re out of the mothers will, much less provide for them. so, we need the voters of texas to make their voices heard. this is an election year in texas that shouldn t be about politics, it should be about doing what s best to protect the public health and safety.
raise the age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21. surely, we can age the aged purpose a deadly weapon. representative reynolds, i have a minute left, i want to ask you looking into the police response of the shooting how does law enforcement need to be held accountable for its box response, what questions do you have? well, first of all, i have the utmost respect for law enforcement officers. they have a duty to serve and protect, just like first responders, police and fire retreat from they retreat to. so, my question is why wouldn t you go in there and do what you had to do to save those innocent children, they should have had to had repeatedly call 9-1-1. so, i want to full investigation by the fbi, everyone else to make sure that if there was a botched respond, which it seems like there was. but there would be accountability and that there will be people who will be made to amend for that. we can never, ever except what
filibuster but this is bigger. this is winning elections. republicans are giving us opportunity now and we should not blow it. claire, matt, representative reynolds, thanks. after a summer that proved deadlier than expected, what do the next months hold for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic? plus the investigation heats up into the disgraced ex-president s attempt to get georgia s secretary of state to find the votes to overturn joe biden s victory there. historian jon meacham joins us later in the hour as president biden deals with crises ahead of major milestone for the country. don t go anywhere. nywhere.