and moved and pushed forward immediately and continuously toward the threat until the room was entered and the threat was eliminated. that did not occur. cnn has been leading the way on the story, exposing details the authorities tried very hard to keep quiet. that is all thanks to cnn s shimon prokupecz and his team, who spent well over a year reporting on so many of the failures that are laid out now in this very government report. shimon, you are there, back in uvalde at this news conference, waiting for merrick garland to begin. this is all shocking to once again read. but again, it is all information that you pried out of officials right there on the ground in uvalde. reporter: yeah, it s different when you get to see it in such, as you say, a government report way. and the way it s laid out. and just how disturbing everything was here on that day. just from top to bottom, the mistakes from the response to the communication to the way they treated the victims who were
being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
deadly weekend in america. since friday there have been ten mass shootings across the country, no area immune from the violence of course. the shootings happened at high school graduation parties in south carolina and texas, at a funeral outside a church in kentucky, multiple shooters then firing into a crowd on a busy street in philadelphia killing three people. and in tennessee shots rang out at a nightclub, all told 15 people were killed, dozens more hurt in these mass shootings. the gun violence archive now says there had been 246 mass shootings in the united states this year. the math not fully calculating the pain. 33 of those that we are talking about here just since the uvalde school massacre nearly two weeks ago. cnn s polo sandoval is live in philadelphia starting us off at this hour. another city in pain, another investigation into deadly gun violence now under way. polo, what are you learning? kate, unlike those calculated and planned massacres we have seen rece
the country philadelphia, chattanooga, phoenix, chicago. just some of the city that is saw shootings over the weekend as families continue to grieve the 21 lives taken in the texas massacre. we ll ask congressman colin allred what more can be done at the federal level. in ukraine, russia striking kyiv with missiles for the first time in weeks. we ll take you live to ukraine. also this hour, new detailing around the fatal shooting of a retired wisconsin judge. police say the suspect was planning others. this morning marks the beginning of the summit of the americas as the white house confirms the leaders from cuba, nicaragua and venezuela will not be invited. the president of mexico said he won t be going then. we begin this very busy hour with the kase lating gun violence crisis across the u.s. at least 12 people were killed in just 48 hours. in yet another string of mass shootings. this weekend marked more deaths in the u.s. than the memorial day weekend in which nine pe
so here we start this hour by wishing all of you a very good today here from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. again, we are going to keep a close eye on. thanks buckingham palace. but, before beginning with a brand-new insight into what issues matter most to voters. of, course just months ahead of the november midterms. and you from abc news and if ipsos shows the economic concerns are growing at only due to 61% of americans disapprove of how biden has handled the economy, but because most american faith, the, economy and gas prices are the top issues affecting how people will vote in the coming election. up next, making a case for our publicans should vote. the bottom line is there are two very clear in very different approaches here. there is our approach, which is to find solutions to invest in our supply chains, like we are doing with the infrastructure money in my department and in others, to do everything we can to lower costs