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weeks of horror. three mass shootings. the latest hours ago in tulsa, oklahoma. police say a gunman burst into a medical building on a hospital campus and killed four people including the doctor he blamed for his post surgical pain. we also learned from police that that killer bought an assault-style rifle less than three hours before the attack and a handgun only three days earlier. we are also letting new details about last week's horrific school attack in uvalde, texas. the mayor says a negotiator tried and failed to reach the killer as he was barricaded in a fourth grade class ro...

and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. live from london, nbc news foreign correspondent meagan fitzgerald. broadcaster and author, suzanne lipscomb. also with us, associate editor of the "washington post," eugene, once the london bureau chief. to put into context, the seven decades of queen elizabeth. we expect to see her twice throughout the course of the day today. though she stepped back a bit on what she'd normally be doing on an occasion like this. let's go to london where meagan fitzgerald has the latest for us. set the scene on what we can expect today. >> reporter: willie, i ca...

texas rangers and they're looking into the uvalde police department that responded here yet as we know we've said in the past, this is jurisdiction of the school police of which pete arredondo is the chief. meanwhile, this week pete arredondo has been sworn in as a new city council member in uvalde despite some criticism because of the investigation, willie. >> gaud venegas, thank you so much. mike, you were watching that sound bite from the mayor and a bit of disbelief if you go back to the timeline and the misinformation and the bad information we received from police from the word...

it's hard to believe it's been a year we all gathered here in the same location with fivele republican governors who pledged to keep he open to growco their economies and to protect the basic freedoms of their residents. we never had a statewide mandate. we never give a stay at homecr order and the far left ofve the democrat party who believedl that government should control all decisions made by all americansns and that's somethina that we have tond be willingta and able to stand up and push back against. we're going to give parents 100% option to have their child in the class room ...

gunman fired more shots and children inside the classroom he was holed up in called 911. top police officials now admit it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. listen. >> why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? >> again, you know, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and there was time and no children at risk. of course it wasn't the wrright decision. it was wrong, period. >> one father telling cnn he wonders if his daughter and others might have survived if authorities had acted more quickly. i mean, how can you not think abou...