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nick queststead. he will be one of the key witnesses on thursday and he is expected to reveal more previously unseen video of the proud boys that day. we are also expecting to hear from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards, who was injured in the attack. she told nbc news garrett haake in october january 6th felt like a war zone. they started ripping down barriers. that s when the moment i knew this is not like any other protest. they approached our line. they injured me and a couple of officers by tearing down you know our barricade and then the fight on the west front began. it was chaos. i ve never seen anything like that. and now breaking just a few minutes ago, new reporting from the washington post that president trump had been insisting for two weeks before the insurrection that he wanted to march alongside his supporters to the capitol. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly, politico investigative reporter josh to besee and luke ....
the airport to meet with grieving families here today. try to bring some comfort to a community traumatized, absolutely traumatized by the loss of 21 innocent people. 19 of them children, as young as 9 years old. they were murdered in their classroom. this is a community just trying to understand not only that, but why 19 law enforcement officials waited an hour outside the classroom as the children made desperate 9-1-1 calls for help. the president lands here as lawmakers in washington and around the country are renewing calls for action again, but it is unclear whether the president and those in power will be able to get anything done. as we watch pictures of the president, i want to bring in arlette saenz. arl arlette, you are also here in uvalde over at the school at robb elementary waiting for the president to arrive with grieving families and arlette, unfortunately, this is the kind of meeting that this president has had all too often in his career. reporter: ye ....
children and their two teachers who were slaughtered inside their schools. the first lady reaching out to the images of the innocent, smiling. fourth graders who were murdered. the president caressing the face of one child s photo. just 12 days ago, mr. and mrs. biden were in buffalo, new york, to honor the 12 people murdered in a wasteless attack on a supermarket. yesterday, vice president horizon attended a gruesome funeral and across the country this weekend, there was an explosion of more gun violence. we need change! president biden accompanied by the republican governor of texas also faced frustration from people demanding gun reforms. one man explains why he was heckling. at a certain point in time it s going to be on us. because we vote these people in to represent us. they re not representing us. it s heart breaking. because things leak this happen. something needs to be done. we need change. we need help and my biggest fear is nothing is going to change. ....
you want to do, then sandy hook happened and i cared. high school was bad enough. now this. when students are shooting students, you know, that s not understandable, it s not forgivable, but how can somebody look at a nine-year-old and shoot them in the face? how can somebody do that? how can somebody have the capability to do that? it angers me beyond comprehension, and i have a lot of displaced anger right now, don, i really do. it s just displaced so i should shut up, but it s just going to keep happening unless we do something, and i mean we, because the guys and women we have elected aren t getting anywhere. we as a people have to stand up and say, okay, son, okay, daughter, you re not okay. you are not okay. thank you. thank you. are you okay? i will be. better than these parents, that s for damn sure. thank you. thank you. thanks, kim. appreciate that. so there are major questions tonight about the police response to the elementary school shooting ....
as investigators worked to piece together a motive. ramos s aunt shelby telling me she s in disbelief. my heart hurts for everyone right now. do you have any idea why he flipped. people go through things and nobody understands. everybody has, i don t know what was going on. reporter: while he had no known criminal history or record of mental health illness, a series of private messages posted on facebook give a chilling warning. the third post, less than 15 minutes before arriving at the school was i m going to shoot an elementary school. across texas, emotions running high. former congressman beto o rourke running for governor in texas disrupting his opponent greg abbott s news conference on wednesday saying another shooting would happen without real reform. you re doing nothing. no. he needs to get his sir, you re out of line. reporter: as so many others struggle to make sense of yet another mass shooting. this morning the painful images are contin ....