you. we have got a lot more coming, up everybody. you are watching msnbc, or second hour starts right now. starts right now hey everybody, i m yasmin vossoughian. if you re just joining, us welcome. if you are sticking with, us we are so thankful for that. collision course, the president in the air right now, flying back to washington and right into a debt ceiling showdown with speaker mccarthy. the two men sit to meet tomorrow sometime, to try to resolve the gulf of differences between them as they face a deadline. it could lead to the unimaginable default by the united states of america. my assessment is that the odds of reaching june 15th will be unable to pay all of our bills. it s quite low. based on what i ve offered, i would be blameless. on the politics of, it no one would be blameless. it seems as though he wants to default more than he wants a deal. speaker mccarthy is allowing himself in the entire nation to be held hostage by the biden republicans. just by
about mike pence, that served to whip up the crowd. one of the rioters read it aloud. watch this. you just heard that mike pence is not going to reject any fraudulent elector votes! you re a traitor! that s right. you heard it here first. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! [ bleep ] you, mike pence. it was clear it was escalating and escalating quickly. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. so when that tweet, mike pence tweet, was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. the danger to pence was very real, and very close as we have now learned, that angry mob got about 40 feet away from the vice president. mr. jacob, you were there, seeing that for the first time, does it surprise you to see how close the mob was to the evacuation route that you took? 40 feet is a distance from me t
hold up for you, says cities soul crushed. i think that perfectly describes the feeling here in uvalde this morning. behind me is the elementary the school. overnight, a series of crosses were put out, one for each of the 21 victims, the 19 children and the two teachers that were killed here. this small community of 15,000 people is coming together, united in grief for what happened here. about 1000 people attended a vigil for the victims last night. a solo violinist closed with a rare rendition of amazing grace. the music punctuated by the anguish of those who were there. almost everyone at that vigil, it feels like everyone in this town has some connection to the victims. including ten-year-old tests marie mata, who loved tiktok dance is, and ariana grande a. they just received the honor rolled and received a good citizen award. we are just learning about how the mask or unfolded. there are questions about how the timeline and how long it took for law enforcement to step in
until the school s principal provided them with a master key. the associated press is out with bombshell reporting today reporting that onlookers, parents and neighbors outside of robb elementary school where the shooting took place were fluft frustrated and upset by the lack of police including one parents raised the idea of charging the school with other people. from the a.p. report, go in there, go in there, nearby women shouted at officers soon after it began, car ansah what saw it from across the street in the close-knit town of uvalde. carranza said the officers did not go in. minutes earlier carranza had watched after the shooter crashed his car into a ditch near a school and grabbed his ar-15 and shot at two people outside a nearby funeral home who ran away uninjured. while it is unclear at this hour at precisely at what point on tuesday this scene that you re looking at took place. the video appears to show desperate and anguished and terrified parents right outside
Also tonight, after President Trump told millions that the government is fully prepared for this hurricane, the president tweeting today, questioning how many really died in puerto rico, saying 3,000 people didnt die after hurricanes hit puerto rico, and the president now says that number was raised to make him look bad. We are also following several other breaking headlines tonight. More than a dozen explosions outside boston in several different communities. Authorities are urging some residents to get out. And paul manafort, tonight news of a key meeting. Is manafort about to plead guilty . Is he striking a deal with Robert Mueller . And good evening from wilmington tonight. And as we come on the air in the west, millions along the coast here and inland are bracing now for this monster hurricane. The Cape Fear River right behind me here. We witnessed some of the very outer bands of the hurricane. The winds, the rain of course
here already. And theres a good chance that the eye of th