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we'll go to nbc's priscilla thompson, who's joining me now from outside the uvalde civic center. priscilla, welcome. first of, all have you seen the report? what do you know about it so far? and what are you hearing from parents? >> good afternoon, alex. we have not yet seen that report. we do expect, however -- but we do know, i should say, is not for the past several weeks the committee members have been speaking to witnesses, they have been speaking to law enforcement and even visiting the school. in order to compile this report that is supposed to shed light on what exactly went ...

that is incredibly notable because as brianna was saying, it's been this long-standing practice of strategic ambiguity. basically, that means that the white house will say, china, don't do this. we don't want to see you do this, but they wouldn't exactly spell out what would happen if china were to do that. and the president, of course, did that today, saying the u.s. military would be involved in this. so, yes, afterward, you did see some of the president's aides try to walk this back saying he wasn't articulating any kind of change in his policy, but it is a policy difference for h...

Their favor. >> on the issue of taiwan, president biden in tokyo said that the u.s. will respond militarily in the event of a chinese attack on taiwan. he could not have been more clear. and i wonder if you think he made a mistake in being so unequivocal? >> well, i mean, it certainly has clarified the situation. it's also a much more forward-leaning than the strategic ambiguity that has characterized the policy for well over four decades. look, only time is going to tell how this eventually -- if all the implications of this are. i suspect those in the wake of this will on background say that...

Previous impeachment hearings. certainly, you know, in this age of twitter everything is brand new. but the response from democrats coming out of that hearing as they took a break was that, you know, this is more evidence that the president is committing obstruction. this is witness intimidation. we may be able to use these tweets where he was tweeting in real time as part of articles of impeachment when we eventually write them and bring them to the house floor. >> hey, scott, did this sway any of those on the right, the republican members of congress, as you know so many there on the hill af...

The person in the background say, why are you not doing cpr and you heard the response from one of the police officers or it could have been one of the emt members that he was breathing. and it's also important that you know that the video you were just watching, the police and emts say that mr. garner was alive at that time and it appears that the female emt who was taking the pulse, it appears she may have said that he has a pulse, but we're not clear if that's exactly what was said at the moment. it is important to know that is not the moment that mr. garner was dead and according to the po...