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brutal lockdown but will newfound freedoms last? let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, i'm poppy harlow in for erin burnett, several developments in the investigation of the school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. texas officials tonight revealing the incident commander during that shooting, pete aradondo is now not repeating to investigator's request for a follow up interview, this comes aztecsous department of public safety tonight confirms the elementary school teacher who propped open the door right before the attack did in fact close it before the g...

protection to defy those orders and went in. that's according to two senior federal law enforcement officials. but by that point, it had been so long, some of the families say their wounded kids bled out. leaving them forever asking the question, what if they went in sooner? was there still time? the chief was supposed to be sworn in to the city council today a. position he was just elected to hold. uvalde's mayor says he is free to assume his position on the council but that the ceremony to welcome him is postponed. joining me is nbc news koempt liz mclaughlin and nbc news' tom wint...

Murphy and dick durbin and others meet with republican senators to come up with something they can get passed? is there an alternate set of bills currently being worked on? >> reporter: yeah, that's the more likely path to this. what we've seen in the immediate after math of this shooting is people like senator chris murphy coming together with republicans, including john cornyn and others to talk about a more moderate set of pieces that could amount to a gun safety package and he outline what happened some of those things are. you can take a listen to him tell it. take a listen. >> on the tab...

So you don't hit them when you dig. call 811 before you dig, and make sure that you and your neighbors are safe. welcome back. president trump today defended his new plan to reduce school violence even as his education secretary has had a rocky 24 hours defending president trump on schools and guns. what's in the plan, you may ask, arming teachers and nra-backed provisions, fixing background checks systems and expanding mental health programs. what's not in it raising the age from 18 to 21 which is a provision the nra objected to. betsy devoss defended arming teachers on the "today" show. >>...