right now on "andrea mitchell reports," new bodycam video released by nashville police this morning detailing the frantic search to find the school shooter and the final moments of the incident. we will have the video just ahead. this as the community mourns the loss of six people, including three young children, to another senseless act of gun violence. investigators work to learn more about the motive behind the shooting. i will be joined by nicole hawkley, co-founder of sandy hook promise who lost her son in the 2012 new town mass shooting. the latest on what benjamin netanyahu says is a pause in his plan to take over the judiciary and supreme court. for now, halting the country's most dramatic protests in

history. he said it was at the risk of civil war. my report on some of our most beloved heroes, rosie the riveters. sparked generational change for women in the workplace. >> it was a man's world. they didn't realize how capable women are. there's nothing i don't think that a woman can't do. it's up to a woman whether she wants a career raising a family or whether she wants to be an astronaut. we have that choice now. good day. we begin with breaking news from nashville. the bodycam footage from the nashville police. we want to warn you, this is difficult to watch. they released more than six minutes of video from cameras worn by multiple officers as they move from classroom to classroom at the covenant school

on monday. searching for the shooter responsible for killing six people, including three children. their tactical movements sending them through the main halls and up to the second floor for an exchange of gunfire with the suspect. >> today, the nashville community is forever changed by gun violence. the victims, three 9-year-old students, children. evelyn, hallie and william. also 61-year-old substitute teacher cynthia, the 60-year-old head of the school katherine and the 61-year-old custodian mike. the focus for law enforcement is the motive of the 28-year-old

shooter, seen here in video released earlier by the nashville police department entering and walking through the school monday morning. carrying an ar-style firearm, one of three weapons found at the scene. this is an all too familiar horror story highlighted by anal you illinois mother sharing her story and frustration. >> aren't you tired of being here and covering mass shootings? i'm from illinois. my son and i survived a mass shooting over the summer. i'm in tennessee on a family vacation with my son visiting my sister-in-law. i have been lobbying in d.c. since we survived a mass shooting in july. i met with over 130 lawmakers. how is this still happening? how are our children still dying? why are we failing them? gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens. >> joining me now, nbc's catie beck in nashville, former atf

special agent in charge jim kavanaugh and the co-author of "the violence project, how to stop a mass shooting" and john kasich. what do we expect to hear from local or federal investigators about the motive? >> reporter: we are waiting for that question, andrea, that every parent is waiting for, the why in all of this. we are seeing these unbelievably disturbing images. first last night police releasing images of her shooting through the door and kicking through the glass, carrying heavily armed -- looking for targets and later this morning now seeing that bodycam footage, police making a response very quickly, in 14 minutes, that shooter had been disabled, had been taken down.

you see them clearing the classrooms and then finally the confrontation as they described her standing at the window shooting down at police as they confront her. anincredibly raw time for the community as they grapple with what happened. this is a small, private school, tight-knit community. they were well prepared. you can see the bodycam footage showed the classrooms had been cleared. the tragedy, had the response not been so swift, could have been much worse. what we are told is she left a manifesto behind in her vehicle detailing exactly what her plan was. that manifesto has been turned over to the fbi for review. we know they have recovered maps of the school and also pinpoints where surveillance cameras were located. this was, according to police, a very targeted, a very intentional act. why, the intention why she did it, a former student here at this school, it's something that

police are yet to reveal. we hope to learn more about today. they are backtracking through all of her steps, her social media accounts, seeing who she contacted. one person she contacted was a former teammate, a former basketball player she played basketball with to say that something bad was going to happen and that she needed to die. here is what the classmate said about the text message. >> 9:57 i received a message from her. at 10:08, i showed it to my dad. he instructed me to call suicide prevention tip line. at 10:13, i called the nashville sheriff's office. then at 10:14, i called the nashville non-emergency line and then at 3:29 is when they said that they were -- they came to my home. >> reporter: good intentions. calls made too late.

that shooting was already in progress. there was nothing to do at that point that could have stopped this from happening. we do know from the nashville police department that because this is a private school run by the church, they do not staff school resource officers here. there were none on campus at the time. there are usually not any employed at this school. we hope that investigators are going to be bringing more information out. they have been very forthcoming in this investigation giving us a lot of answers early on. still that big question, everyone wants to know is why. what is at the heart of this horrific attack? >> jim, you are an expert as a former head of the bureau of atf. let's talk about the way they handled this whole horrible incident and what they are learning, what they are learning from the shooter's writing. >> textbook, the way they handled it. they moved in swiftly. when they arrived, the killer is shooting from the second floor

of the school at the patrol cars, shooting up the patrol cars as they arrive. they know they are facing a heavy rifle. they can hear it. they know what it is. they have their own rifles. they advance against the rifle fire outside. that's a very large plaza there, very open plaza. my daughter was married in that church. i'm familiar. i spent a whole afternoon on that plaza at her wedding. they have to advance against that open ground. they enter the school. the classrooms are empty. you don't see any students when the officers arrive. the kids have either egressed out the back, they are hiding somewhere. the fire alarm is going off, lights are flashing. the officers move rapidly. they stay in their teams. this is the way we were trained post columbine, stay in a team, move rapidly, find the killer. the job is locate, isolate, eliminate the threat. they move very quickly. they go upstairs when they hear gunfire. as they move down the hall, you see the metro officer on the right with a handgun.

he fires twice. then he waves the office with the tactical rifle to come past him, which is a smart move. you want the rifle to face the rifle. of course, the police are proficient shots. the officer with the tactical rifle kills the shooter. they come in. there's a few more shots. she never left the window that she was firing out at the patrol cars. probably never left that spot because it was suicide was part of the plan. she was going to die in a blaze with the police, a suicide by cop at the end. she most likely murdered all the children and adults prior to the police arriving and then she waited to engage them and die so their presence would prevent her from killing anyone else. that is the plan post columbine. you are supposed to focus the killer on you, on the police, who can defend themselves and take their focus off the children or other victims who are present.

>> it's horrifying that we have gone through this so many times and there's a plan -- protocol for this now. the president in leaving white house was just speaking at the south lawn. we wanted to play his brief comments. >> is there any action you can take on guns? is it all up to congress at this point? >> i have done the full extent of my executive order to do anything about guns. congress has to act. the majority of the american people think having assault weapons is bizarre, it's crazy. i think congress -- i want to remind you, the last time we did this, mass shootings went down.

>> what can you do? >> i can't do anything except plead with congress to act reasonably. >> will you consider traveling to nashville to meet with members -- >> i have spoken with everyone down there from the mayor to the senators to all the players. irspoke to the chief of police today. i have spoken to all of them. i don't want to -- i've seen too many of these myself, as you know, starting way back -- >> ali rafa is at the white house. >> you heard president biden asked as he was leaving to north carolina whether there's any more he can do in the wake of the mass shooting in nashville, barring any more legislation that has to be passed through the congress. the president acknowledged he maxed out his presidential power and laying this at the feet of

congress to do anything further. that comes after he renewed calls yesterday for passage of an assault weapons ban. that's something he has called for for years now. it's something -- it's a call that is essentially dead in the water when you consider this deeply divided congress the president is working with over the past two years. especially over the next two years. especially because, especially when democrats controlled not only the white house but both chambers of congress, we saw last summer they were still able to get something passed, the bipartisan safer communities act, but it was historic, but it was modest in the changes that it posed to gun control. the president just a few weeks ago issuing an executive order that essentially allowed him to max out the provisions of that bill to be able to make sure that they are working at full capacity. this latest call is highlighting how limited he is in his executive power to do anything further. this is an issue, a political

fight that's not going to go away. this is an issue very important to voters. it's at the top of their minds, especially with these latest mass shootings and this is something that is likely to be an issue that is brought up on the 2024 campaign trail. >> thanks. governor kasich, it's great to have you as an nbc contributor. you were governor of ohio. you were a presidential candidate. you heard the president. >> i know. >> there was something -- when we had the assault weapon ban, passed in 1994, went away when it was not renewed ten years later, when it sunset. i want to share a picture of the republican congressman representing this community posting this holiday photo in 2021 with his family holding ar-style weapons. here is what he had to say this morning. >> i think ultimately i think

what this does is highlight mental health issues, mental health crisis we have in this country. that needs to be the real conversation we're having, how did this individual slip through the cracks, what could have been done to get them help? >> any regrets about the photo of your christmas card? >> why would i regret a photograph with my family exercising my right to bear arms? >> what are your comments? >> look, andrea, first of all, he is right about the fact that we need -- i don't think tennessee has a red flag law, which means if you see somebody that has an issue, that the gun can be taken from them for a period of time. i tried to do that as governor of ohio. i understand how frustrating it is as an executive to not be able to force your legislature to do something. to say i'm proud of the fact i was standing there with an assault rifle to me, it's silly, it's absurd. there are a lot of changes that

can be made limiting the clips that a person can be able to purchase, the red flag laws, waiting periods for purchasing, eliminating some of the weapons -- you have do it specifically because there's workarounds, but ways you can get rid of things like the ar-15. andrea, until people start to go into the streets and protest, we're not going to see the changes. in my state, had i been able to get 5,000, 10,000 people on the lawns of the statehouse, the politicians would have passed what i wanted. we couldn't get them mobilized. i was reading this morning a lot about the montgomery bus boycott. that took over one year for the supreme court to ultimately act to end discrimination on transportation. if you don't have the people rising up like they did with civil rights, to end the vietnam war, if you don't have that,

they are going to keep passing the buck. the politicians will listen to one group of people. frankly, if, in fact, we can have the kind of massive outpourings that we have seen in this country, because this is about saving our children at this point and so many other tragic accidents, then you begin to put the real pressure on the politicians to do things that we all know we can do while still preserving the right -- the second amendment. things can be done that can provide a safer environment for all of us in this country and most particularly our children, without the protests, andrea, i think we're going -- 19 incidents -- 19 incidents in school shootings this year. this is sick. i heard the lady talking about all the people she visited. god bless her. she along with so many of the other people who have experienced this tragedy personally got to figure out a way to mobilize all of us to stand up and say, enough.

>> let me ask you a follow-up. we saw what happened after parkland with march for our lives. the children across america joined by adults. then there was no political will in washington to do anything about it. i know it has to be done at state capitals also. we saw what connecticut did do after new town. >> look at media coverage, andrea. it has to be done federally and at the state level. if you look at the media coverage, we ramp it up and then it goes away. what i said about those women down there in montgomery, they just kept marching. they kept doing everything they could. that's what it's going to take here. if we don't have people begin to get into the streets and say, enough of this, the women who were so worried about all of the children, the men who say this is my family, we have to mobilize. without it, the politicians will look the other way.

it's not going to happen in a week or two. it has to be ongoing to get this changed. that's my opinion on it. i sat there trying to get things done, and i was frustrated the whole time. i did what i could with executive orders, as the president has done. there's a limit to it. we have to get legislative action with common sense proposals that can really make a difference without undermining ultimately what the constitution says about the right to keep and bear arms. >> it makes so much sense. you have the experience. i want to bring in james, who studied this, and play a clip of what we heard from a local news reporter. she was covering the story in nashville yesterday. she herself was a survivor. >> there's no words for what's going on today. i'm actually a school shooting survivor myself. it happened years ago. i was in eighth grade. all this is -- it's flooding back. flashbacks for me. what i went through with my

classmates. i was actually in the hallway during break when the gunman opened fire, shooting one of my friends and killing them. after hearing gunshots, i knew to run and hide. i hid in the choir class. those minutes and hours of waiting to be released by police officers, i felt like a lifetime. i will never forget my mom's emotions. she was so emotional. i know exactly what some of these kids are going through today. it's going to take a lot of thoughts and prayers and a lot of support to get through this. >> james, the gun violence archives, your archive puts the number of mass shootings this year alone, a minimum of four victims shot or killed, at 131. we are still in march. what does it say about us as a society? >> well, it's tragedy after

tragedy after tragedy. we are traumatizing an entire generation as was outlined by the reporter just then. i want to think about a few things. we have an obligation to act. we have to be focused on solutions in the aftermath of these terrible tragedies. in our research, we tried to outline -- in our book we have 30 solutions. we can't sit around and wait for congress to act. they're not doing it. there are things we can focus on as individuals or as institutions that don't require an act of congress. for instance, mass shootings are driven by despair. we talked earlier about the connection between suicide and homicide in this most recent case. but that's also something we see time and time again in these stories. anything we can do to address those issues in the lives of individuals can help save lives. at the same time, we have to be having a serious conversation about firearms in our society.

this is a country that was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. what is happening to our young people? we either have a choice to make. we can fortify our schools, turn them into secure fortresses, or we can actually try to address what is the leading cause of death for young people in this society, which is firearms. it has to be prioritized at that level. life, liberty, the pursue of happiness. ask those young people, do you feel like you have a right to life, liberty and happiness in your school? that's what we are dealing with at this particular moment. it's agut-wrenching tragedy. we have to focus on solutions that not just require acts of congress. but we need solutions that can also come from the individual level and from our institutions

working collectively. safe storage of firearms. it's something we can all do right here, right now that could save lives. focusing on our loved ones, making sure we are looking out for one another so that despair, that suicide doesn't manifest into radicalization into this violence. we are part of the solution. we have to demand action across the board. >> james, thank you so much. thank you all. there have been 13 shootings at u.s. schools so far this year that resulted in injury or death according to education week. that's almost one a week. nearly a decade before the tragedy yesterday in nashville, 20 children and six faculty members were gunned down at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut. the mother of one of the victims is reacting to the nashville shooting saying, my heart has broken so many times in the last ten years. there is nothing but tattered

remains. there are more people like me. as my heart dies, my anger grows at cowards who stand in the way of protecting children from gun violence. joining me now is that mother, co-founder and ceo of the sandy hook promise foundation. i'd like to say it's good to see you again, but we only see each other in tragedy. your son was killed at sandy hook elementary. found in the arms of a teacher's aide trying to protect him. you are angry at the cowards and profiteers. who are you referring to? >> there are a lot of people blocking the change. you can match -- you can put some members of congress in

there. you can put some gun manufacturers in there. you can put some second amendment extremists in there. i use the word extremists because i think there's a lot of people that support the second amendment, as my organization does, but don't stand for getting in the way of sensible progress, which is what we need. the people that are just saying, this is the way it is in america and aren't doing anything positive, that is who i'm referring to when i talk about cowards and prove prove -- prof. >> after sandy hook, your state instituted universal background checks, outlawed high capacity magazines. the rate dropped significantly in connecticut after those

changes. what is it going to take to bring it to congress to make it federal? >> we made a lot of changes in some states. we have seen progress. although, minimal, at a federal level. there are ways to work together. i'm thinking about what james just said, this isn't just about what we need to do at congress. we have an issue with guns in terms of violence in terms of volume and access. there are a lot of sensible things that gun owners want to do as well, such as secure storage. however, we need to move on from the spectacle of our lack of gun policy across the states. there's so much division right now. even the most basic solutions, such as universal background checks, such as red flag laws or extremist protection orders, are up against opposition.

if we mobilize in our community and engage in how do we look out for each other better, how can we teach our kids to recognize signs, these are things that are proven and that was proven after sandy hook promise, to make a different and prevent tragedy. we need that combination of upstream violence protect. there are too many extreme points of view in the way that aren't focused on solutions that are really focused on the next sound bite or the next tweet rather than what it takes to keep kids safe. >> i'm sure it never goes away. as someone who lost a child, lost a loved one, what would you -- how would you advise grieving parents and families of these victims? >> you know, it's really hard sometimes. ten years later, i still don't

always know what to say. i just know that everyone processed grief very differently in their own time, in their own way. for the family members who lost children or loved ones yesterday, allow yourself that space to proceed in your own way without judgment of yourself and without accepting judgment from others but leaning on those there to support you. there are more people like myself and others that are here to support you than you will recognize at this moment. >> nicole, thank you for what you are doing. thanks for talking to us today. i'm sure you don't realize how much it helps those people in nashville to see you as someone who is at least coping and trying to turn a tragedy into something positive. >> thank you. we will be right back.

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its work tomorrow. on monday, they heard from david pecker who helped broker the payment to stormy daniels. this as the former president running again for president is accusing manhattan's d.a. of election interference. joining us now, garrett haake and andrew weissmann. garrett, what goes with the grand jury? i know it's secret, we don't know. now that they heard from david pecker, potentially a rebuttal witness to shore up testimony of michael cohen about what actually happened with that payment, do we think we're getting closer to a resolution one way or the other? >> reporter: let's review why we know what we think we know. this is a grand jury where the prosecutors reached out to mr. trump and his attorneys a couple weeks ago to offer him the opportunity to come and testify

or provide a witness that's a relatively unique in new york law that's typically done near the end of an investigation. trump provided that witness in the form of bob costello, a lawyer who worked with michael cohen. he testified last monday. yesterday we had a second round of testimony from david pecker, the former publisher of "the national enquirer." he was brought back to clear up testimony or perhaps rebut elements of what costello said. that's to say, every indication we have is that this grand jury could be close to concluding their work. what that means in regular people time versus lawyer time could be very different. they have often met on wednesdays and thursdays. they could be back as soon as this week and could perhaps turn to a vote. andrea, as we learned the hard way last week, they are keeping their work secret and close to the vest. we will find out when they are good and done when they hand up

an indictment dismiss this matter. >> what do you think is the significance of david pecker returning to testify? i assume you believe strongly, as most professional former prosecutors do, that the prosecuting here is not going to be intimidating by these threats or attacks or political attacks from the former president. >> taking that last point first, we actually have a direct statement from bragg that he would follow the facts

than he is making sure that all the people that need to be secure are secure. i'm confident the nypd and secret service are all over that. then with respect to mr. pecker, i think you have to sort of surmise that the reason he was brought back to testify had to do with something involving the testimony of mr. costello. i think mr. costello had said, according to his own words going into the grand jury, that he was there to say this is all michael cohen's idea. the former president had nothing to do with it. that, i think, struck a lot of us at odds with what david pecker is on record saying, which was, no, no, no, this

whole catch and kill scheme was something that he was involved in with donald trump and had personal conversations, at least one, with the former president. that would seem to be contrary to what mr. costello is saying. that could be the reason that he was put in was to point out a discrepancy in what mr. costello was saying to try and tarnish what michael cohen was saying. i agree with garrett that with that piece, it's hard to see what else is needed before an indictment is voted on. >> of course it would be unprecedented. we will see what happens tomorrow. thanks to both of you. the campaign by protesters that pressured israel's prime minister to temporarily pause his controversial plans regarding the judiciary. front lines of history.

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many elements of the military. joining us is richard engel in tel aviv. richard, you have been in israel for years. i've been there for years. neither of us have seen anything like this. >> i lived here for several years and have covered this story for decades now. almost all that time i was covering israeli/palestinian tensions or tensions between israelis and their arab neighbors. this time, there's a real division and there are real tensions and real fear within the israeli population, within the jewish community. they are extremely polarized at this moment. you have supporters of netanyahu and his far right religion conservative coalition, and there are people on the other side who are afraid of it. afraid that netanyahu -- they say he is acting out of desperation because he faces criminal charges. they say that he formed this coalition and with this

coalition the far right and religious conservatives are trying to take over the country, take over the courts and dictate how people live. we saw an outpouring on the streets of, let's call them secular israelis, people who don't want to have their civil liberties taken away. it has been building for months, since netanyahu came back to power about three months ago. then over the weekend, it exploded and went to a much more significant level of outrage after the defense minister was fired. the defense minister expressed concern about the government attempts to change the judicial system here and said that some reserve soldiers had stopped showing up for training. when the defense minister expressed concern and thought that the government should take a pause, netanyahu fired him. the defense minister in israel

is an extremely powerful position. this is a country that sees enemies and has enemies both within and without. it touched a nerve of national security here. but after yesterday, prime minister netanyahu backed off, kicked the can down the road. the situation has become much calmer. there were some demonstrations today but no noticeable incidents. no violence. the streets here are very calm once again. give my best to martin. i know you will talk to him. he is an old friend and colleague. this was his patch for so many years. i'm glad to see he is doing well. >> thank you, richard engel. martin fletcher is here, an

award winning journalist who was our colleague here, first as a cameraman, then a foreign correspondent then the tel aviv chief. he is a prolific honor. nbc is teaming up with christie's auction house with an exhibit of photos from the books. a storied career. i was watching from near and afar and learning from you and benefitting from it. i'm excited. congratulations. >> thank you, andrea. thank you, richard. >> it's wonderful to see you again. i will see you in a couple of days. you are such a prolific author. this is a new medium for you. talk to me about the photography and what you were capturing, which was your original mission here at nbc. >> that's right, andrea. i did join nbc as a cameraman.

it gave me a different view of the work we do. what i wanted to do this time was not write another book. in fact, i did in the end. but to put together freeze frames from "nightly news" stories and "today," and present them to an audience. trying to evoke an emotion by digitally editing these images. i wanted people to look at them as you would a painting. you look at a painting and you are moved by that painting. i wanted to move the viewer rather than inform the viewer. i guess that's what i was trying to do here, andrea. >> one thing was striking was even -- >> all of the pictures in the exhibition are of people that really stayed with me, who i can't forget, i can't get out of my head. i begin the book and the exhibition with an 8-year-old

girl. her parents both died of aids. she's hiv positive. when i went into her school room, i got ahold of the school book, and i saw under the name of the school, she had written, school of struggle. the name of the class, she had written class of hope. it moved me then and it moves me now telling you. i can't forget her. i began the book and exhibition with the story of her. what she hoped to be, she wanted to be a pilot. >> then there's wafa. it's a haunting picture. she's trying to be a suicide bomber. >> exactly. this is a unique moment in photography. this is never been shown before. a suicide bomber at the moment of pulling the cord trying to

blow herself up. it was taken by an israeli camera. the bomb doesn't go off. she's wearing the bomb on her body. it doesn't go off. she's screaming. when i got to know her story, what i learned from her -- the book is called teachers. it's what i learned from these people. her story was tragic. i learned -- it helped me understand, don't pre-judge people. i got to know several failed suicide bombers. i got to know their families and the people who made the bombs and who sent them. the more you speak to these people, you think that you have no sympathy with a suicide bomber. i met some. i got to know them. i got to understand them. what it made me want to do is tell their story and honestly and fairly as possible. it's a complicated story. they all have complicated stories. my job was to tell their story

and try and understand them. that's what i try to do with these images in the exhibition. i want to evoke emotions in the viewers. you want to know who these people are. that's what i was trying to achieve with the images. with the book, i ended up telling their stories and a lot more. i was so moved by what they taught me. >> speaking of that, what in your vast experience can you share with us about what's happening in israel, before i let you go? it was approaching civil war, but not over the israeli/palestinian issue, as richard was saying. it's over, where does israel go? richard haas was saying it's partly the influx of so many conservative and not secular but russian jews over generations, but you have lived there. >> everyone is trying to

understand what's going on. one of the almost jokes over the decades was that israel was lucky to have the palestinians as an enemy, because if they made peace with the palestinians, the israelis, the jews would tear themselves apart. that's what's happening now. they are tearing themselves apart. they haven't got peace with the palestinians. they are getting the worst of both worlds. as richard said, this issue has been kicked down the road. one thing i would like to pick up on what richard said -- he summed up the opposition in one word, secular. he was trying to find one word that said it all. it's not -- this is not a battle between the secular and religious. that's the wrong way to look at it. demonstrators -- there's plenty of religious people among the demonstrators. arabs, not so much, but they are there in numbers. this is a fight between those people who want to defend democracy. there are plenty of people on the right who understand that. they are demonstrating in the

streets. this is a very complicated situation this israel. the conflict is not over. netanyahu promised his right wing members of the government that he would continue with this and make the laws of changing the judicial system happen only in a few weeks. this is not over by a long way, andrea. >> martin fletcher, you are invaluable or so many levels. thank you. the new book is "teachers, the ones i can't forget." >> thank you, andrea. >> we will see you soon. an honor 80 years in the making. my interview with the real life rosie the riveters who paved the way for generations of women. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. the tools and expertise you need to bring out the innovator in you. [toilet flushing] when dehydration gets real... ♪♪ hey! that's mine.

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good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we just learned that we will be getting a new update on the school shooting in nashville about 15 minutes from now. we will bring it to you live when it happens. in the meantime, president biden admits he's out of options to address the uniquely american plague of gun violence. >> i have gone the full extent of my executive authority. congress has to act.