Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Thursday, May 26. This morning we are learning more of the names and seeing more of the faces of the victims of the school shooting in Texas.

We will be remembering those who lost their lives throughout the morning and the extremely emotional moment from a dad who learned about his daughter's fate

while aiding other victims.

Plus, new details this morning

raising questions about why it took police so long

to stop the killer.

We'll have an account from a witness

who says police were gathered outside

while the gunman was inside and tempers flare after Democratic

candidate for Texas governor Beto O'Rourke interrupts the news conference of the man he's trying

to replace. With us at the table, NBC News Investigations correspondent Tom Winter, the host

of way too early in White House Beer Chief at Politico, Jonathan Lemire, and professor at Princeton University, Eddie Glaw, Jr. Thank you all for being with us. Wow, the past 24 hours, heart-wrenching.

They really have been, and we've all been hearing from our friends, and I know everybody's

been hearing from loved ones.

Just shock.

I got a note this morning from a friend in Mississippi.

His pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as I write these words, the sun is rising

on May 25th, 2022.

Another day of morning in America after another mass shooting at another elementary school. As we pray yet again for those whose lives

have been torn asunder by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me

to say as a Christian pastor, that we try to find

reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political, it is moral. The church needs

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