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Morning Joe 5/27/22

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Questions surround 'confusing, conflicting' police response to Texas shooting

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Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Friday, May 27th. This morning, a new account from

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police about the response to the school massacre in Uvalde, Texas is leading to new questions about

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why it took one hour for police to take down the killer and why the doors of the school were unlocked.

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We also are hearing more stories from survivors and their parents, including a girl who

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smeared blood on herself and played dead to avoid getting shot, a fourth grader. Also hearing from

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parents who say they rushed into the school themselves to save their children, not waiting for

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police. And the tragedy compounded for one family, unbearably.

0:40.0

The husband of one of the two teachers killed in the shooting

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dies from a heart attack just days after the shooting in the school.

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With us this morning, we have the host of way too early

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and White House Bureau Chief of Politico, Jonathan Lemire,

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U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC News,

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Caddy K, and MSNEC contributor Mike Barnacle. We begin this morning with those questions about

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the police response to the shooting in Yuvalde. Some of the key details provided by Texas officials

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in the first 48 hours after the attack have turned out to be inaccurate.

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Here is what has changed.

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Texas officials first said the attacker exchanged gunfire with a school resource officer before entering the school.

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Then later said the school resource officer engaged with the attacker but did not exchange

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gunfire.

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Well, yesterday officials now said,

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in fact, there was no school resource officer there at all, and that the killer walked into

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the school through an unlocked door, unobstructed, and began firing. The amount of time the

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