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how long will this process take all together with the midterms nine weeks away? we will catch up on the key races heading into the fall. the fight for control of congress as these critical campaigns enter their home stretch. we have a live report from uvalde, texas. survivors of the mass shooting last may there that left 19 children and two teachers dead, they return to school today. another step forward for that grieving community. why some parents say, enough changes have not yet been made. we will take you to the united kingdom where liz truss met with queen elizabeth, receiving the invitation to become britain s 56th prime minister. the 15th to serve during the 96-year-old queen s reign. we want to begin with the special master ruling. ryan reilly, kimberly atkins and chuck rosenberg, a former senior fbi official. ryan, you are on set. we have been talking about this. walk us through the developments over this weekend, for those catching up, really what impact ....
This would be a re-invasion if the russians were to enter into ukraine. for a lot of people here, this isn t a big surprise. they kind of believe they know what they re expecting. also, they simply do not have a purchase on the know dwoesh ghosh yagss and the diplomacy. they do not know how to get themselves out of this because all of these negotiations have been happening between the great powers, between the united states and russia. ukraine barely has a seat at the table, kate. i want to get more on that in a moment. courtney, i do want to talk to you about some of your new reporting which i found striking and complicated. on the one hand the white house is negotiating with vladimir putin trying to get him to pull back on ukraine. on the other hand, you have reporting that the united states is working with russia on sanctions for or the nuclear buildup in iran. explain to me how those two things can happen at once. ....
History here. i would continue to be very worried if i were a ukrainian at the moment. in terms of why it matters to us, it s because we don t want an international system where nations decide what their neighbors are going to do under force of lethal weapons. what i mean by that is it s fine to have views about what your neighbors ought to do. you ought to communicate those diplomatically. you ought to incentive advise or deincentive advise but that is different than your tanks rolling across borders. i ll close on this. watch for cyber. watch for a significant cyber attack. courtney was correct to bring up this dichotomy. about a week ago you saw russia launch kind of a mild cyber attack at the same time russia shut down a group of these ransomware hackers that brought us the colonial pipeline hack. ....
That is preferably the preferred path. that s the responsible thing we ll do. we ll pursue it. we ll at this point to build up the defense and deterrence that is necessary. lawmakers are calling to sanction russia as soon as possible hoping that an economic blow to the already weakened russian economy will stop vladimir putin in his tracks. joining me now from ukraine is nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. from washington mike memoli. from the pentagon, courtney kubi and from moscow matt bogner. let s talk about what the white house is doing. let s start with mike memoli. the president presented with options. what is the likely chances he ll be taking these options and when could that happen? according to white house officials, this all largely depends on what we see from vladimir putin going forward. that s why you re seeing the president convene with our european allies. ....
And just prior to that interview becoming public. in fact, it was secretary austin who said he would keep evacuating americans until the clock runs out. a very different sort of message than what the president said, and as you saw in the back and forth with george stephanopoulos, the only question the president s taken on this subject since the fall of kabul that he had stressed his belief that the evacuations could be completed before august 31st and in the back and forth, ultimately said no americans would be left behind. that has struck a lot of concern among members of congress who were saying that americans must be evacuated and still pentagon officials are not saying they have any capability beyond the kabul airport. the burden on americans to get from wherever they are in afghanistan to the kabul airport which means safe passage as promised by the taliban. andrea? courtney, let s talk about ....