0 into msnbc for our special coverage of the january six committee, beginning right here at 7 pm eastern. tell your family, tell your friends. this matters to america. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. i know you've been concentrating on the hearing tomorrow. i think concentrating on the house hearing this morning about uvalde, about the mass shooting in baltimore. i heard there something that changed my understanding of how bad this is. goes actually description by a doctor who treated some of the survivors and saw some of the bodies of the first dead children that they had at the hospital. his testimony, there are parts of it that i'm not sure that every word he said about what he saw with those wounds got across. there is one word that he used that i'm going to get you in this hour. it is a horrifying graphic ex description. there's been that discussion about should be photographs of this so that people can really understand it. well chris, there was language there in that hearing today that is beyond anything that you would actually expect to see in such photographs. i'm not sure that it had any impact at all on the republican members of that committee. >> i watched a clip, a long clip of the individual you're talking about. it was incredibly powerful and i agree that that is as important for people to hear as any debate about these images. my father worked in gun safety activism and one of the things that you find in those circles is a lot of the most militant people are emergency room doctors, trauma doctors who work in places where they see day after day, after day, after day what's bullets due to a body. i think we saw that on display here in the hearing today. >> it was. we are going to get it in this hour. thank you. five months, five months. governor greg abbott needs the texas cover-up to continue for just five more months. then texans get no more new information about what happened at robb elementary school for the 78 minutes when kids and teachers were bleeding to death on the floor. today, i attorney general made an announcement in washington intended to pierce the texas cover-up but will probably have the effect of helping the texas cover-up continue for at least another five months. we will have more on the cover-up in everton contribution to it later in this hour. the hour nepalese spent standing in the school do nothing has been called uvalde 's darkest hour ever. a woman who works at that newspaper, uvalde leader news, said today that for some politicians, quote guns are more important then children. she is talking about republicans of course because it is the republican party whose official position is to assure that americas mass murders are the best equipped mass murders in the world while the democratic party for decades has been trying to ban the sale of the favored tool of americas mass murderers, the ar-15 assault rifle. the woman who said guns are more important children said that today right to the faces of republican members of congress in a hearing in the house of representatives. >> we understand that for some reason to some people, to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns that guns are more important than children. >> it is a great tragedy of this moment in american history that that statement is not shocking, that statement doesn't shock anyone today. that statement is simply a fact of legislative history. guns are more important than children. what we all would've done, of course, she left her daughter at schools, that's where her daughter was supposed to be. but because an 18 year old had no problem legally purchasing to assault rifles of 1000 rounds of ammunition, and large magazines that ammunition. the parents of uvalde are going to be haunted the rest of their lives. >> my husband was with me. we sat aside for a while before it became clear that we wouldn't receive a answer from sean forsman. the san antonio firefighter eventually gave us a ride back to the civic center where the district was asking all families who had not been reunited with their children to gather. soon after we received the news that our daughter was among the 19 students and two teachers that died as a result of gun violence. if given the opportunity lexi would've made a positive change in this world. she wanted to attend st. mary's university in san antonio texas on a softball scholarship. she wanted to major in math and go on to attend law school. that opportunity was taken from her, she was taken from us. i'm a reporter, a student, a mom, a runner. i read to my children since they were in the womb. my husband is a law enforcement officer. an iraq war veteran. he was fishing. somewhere out there there is a mom listening to our testimony thinking, i can't even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day be hearse. that is unless we act now. thank you for your time. >> she is right. because guns are more important and children then there will be more murders and people who are haunted for the rest of their lives. the most haunting thing said today at the hearing was not said by a parent who lost a child. it was one word said by doctor who treated victims at the hospital in uvalde that day. the word flashed past our ears quickly, one word in the middle of a 19 word sentence. no one used the word again in the hearing. no one commented on it. the word now lives in the congressional record in a transcript of that hearing and perhaps that's where we should leave it because it is the single most grotesque word that has been used to describe what happened. it was in the testimony of dr. rory herrera, a certified pediatrician who himself is a graduate of robb elementary school. the doctor began his testimony with reference to his hippocratic oath as a physician. >> i swore an oath, an oath to do no harm. after witnessing firsthand the carnage in my hometown of uvalde, to stay silent would be to betray that oath. passivity is harm, delay is harm. >> all of those things are harm. that is the harm inflicted on the american people and american schoolchildren by republicans. inaction, plasticity, and the way. that is what republicans always do after mass murders. inaction, impassivity, the way. doctor remember the old days of robb elementary school which reminded me of my time in elementary school when no one was worried about anyone coming through the door with a gun. >> back then, we were able to run between classrooms to visit our friends. i remember the way the cafeteria smelled on hamburger thursday's. it was right around lunchtime on tuesday that that gunman entered the school through a main door without restriction. he masker 19 students and teachers. he change the way that other student at rob and the family remember that school, forever. the doctor described his first minutes at the hospital as the gunshot victims were arriving from robb elementary school. >> i raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children's names in desperation. they were sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. those mothers cries that will never get out of my head. as i entered the chaos of the er, first catch the i came across was -- her whole body was shaking from the adrenaline. the white lilo & stitch shirt she was covered in blood. her shoulder was bleeding from a shrapnel injury. sweet nia, i've known her my whole life. as a baby she survived major liver surgeries against all odds. once again, she is here as a survivor, inspiring us with her story today and her bravery. when i saw a sitting there, i remember having seen her parents outside. so after quickly examining two other patients of mine in the hallway with minor injuries, i raced outside to let them know that meal was alive. i wasn't ready for the next urgent and desperate question. where is elena. that is her sister who is also it robbed during the time of the shooting. i didn't find atlanta. but what it did find was something no prayer will ever believe. >> the doctor's next sentence contained that word that is so disturbingly graphic. there has been some recent debate, as christine were just discussing, about showing photographs of what happens to children who are shot by high powered assault weapons with both traveling at 200 miles an hour. expanding as those bullets passed through human flesh and bone. some people suggest that those images would change america from the country where guns are more important than children. the theoretical model for that would be her decision to leave his casket open after his lynching so american to see what happened to her son. she did that in hopes of changing america. i don't know. i don't know what can change america. i don't know if it would help to present any more graphic accuracy about what's weapons of war due to children's bodies. doctor guerrero told us what we would see if we saw what happened to the children in uvalde. i for one know that i absolutely do not want to see that. there is no warning before the doctor described what happened to those bodies in today's hearings. i must issue a warning now. the next sentence that you are about to hear contains a word that you have not heard before about what happened to at least two children. the first two dead children at the hospital. this is what the doctor saw. this is by far the single most disturbing thing and most graphic thing i have ever heard about a mass murder. you will never forget it. maybe for you the best decision is to just leave that word buried in the congressional record and never know it. it is the truth of what happened and the doctor is going to be haunted by this for the rest of his life. he told this truth to congress because he wants us to know the truth. here is doctor's description of the first two dead bodies that he saw, a site that he says quote, no prayer will ever relieve. >> two children whose bodies had been decapitated. whose flesh had been ripped apart. >> decapitated. not a single republican who heard that today was moved by that word, not one. democrats want to ban the sale of the weapons that do that to children but republicans want everyone to be able to buy assault weapons including 18 year olds. republicans defended that at today's hearing, even after hearing doctor guerrero tell them that a mass murder with an ar-15 in an elementary school classroom literally blew the heads off of children. that didn't change the thinking of one republican on that committee, not one. i thought i knew with those weapons could do, biden know that. decapitated. that's why they needed green sneakers to identify the body. as matthew mcconaughey told us yesterday, that's why they needed dna tests in some cases to identify. that's part of why parents waited so long to find out if their kids were dead or alive and that's why matthew mcconaughey, although he was mightily trying to control his anger found himself literally pounding the table yesterday in the white house press briefing room. decapitated. if al-qaeda did that you two american soldiers, republicans would be willing to wage a war over that. but if you do it in america classroom you will get inaction, passivity, and delay from those very same republicans. doctor guerrero said today, i became a pediatrician because i knew children were the best patients. he told the story of his patient mia overcoming liver disease and finding her alive at the hospital that day. nia was alive because, as we first reported to you on this program two weeks ago, she covered herself in the blood of our dead friend so that the murder would think that mia was already dead. mia testified to the committee today from her home in uvalde. >> my name is mia. [inaudible] she went to lock the door. she was back in the room. she said, go hide and then we want to go hide behind the teacher's desk and behind the desk. then he shot the window. he made it into the other classroom and then he went in. there was a door between our classrooms and he went through there. he sought my teacher. he shot her in the head. he shot some of my classmates. when i went back, he shot my friend and i thought he was gonna come back. i grab some blood and put it all over my face. >> what did you think when you put the blood on yourself? >> [inaudible] >> what did you tell 9-1-1? >> i told them that i need help and send the police. >> is there something that you want people to know about that day or things that you want to be different, but with a? >> [inaudible] >> do you feel safe at school? why not? >> -- >> do you think it's going to happen again? >> mia is right. it's going to happen again. after this break, we will be joined by another witness who testified at that hearing today. he explained to republicans how wrong they are. david hogg, who has been in washington all week will join us after a chance encounter today with republican senator lisa recalled ski, that is next. next. next. next. next. next. next. next. what did you tell 9-1-1? i told them that i need. hell there was police in the classroom. >> if there was something that you want people to know about how you want things different, what would it be? >> to have security. >> do you feel safe at school? >> why not? >> because i don't know what's happening. >> do you think it's gonna happen again? >> me as right. it's going to happen again. after this, break we will be joined by another witness who testified at that hearing today. and had to explain to republicans how wrong they are, david hogg who has been in washington all week will join us after chance encounter today with republican senator, that is next. tha is next.