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psychopath, which is what senator cruz called him, was able to legally buy an assault rifle more than 1600 rounds of ammunition, and then walk freely into an elementary school because he wanted to kill kids. there are two small funeral homes not enough to handle a massacre. that means funeral directors, morticians and volunteers from across texas are now there to help. among them are facial reconstructionists, because, yes, it was that bad. and making it even worse, just how long the c...

day. the district police chief made the decision to hold officers back from the robb elementary classroom. the shooter locked himself inside. now we know those officers waited for nearly 80 minutes. it was a terrifying nearly hour and a half for the entire school. here is what one teacher told her students to do when she heard the gunfire. she spoke with our ore morgan chesky. >> i just kept hearing boom, boom, boom. it kept going off for what felt like an eternity. >> reporter: as the...

>> charges were leveled at the commercial television networks. >> congress has no right to interfere in the media. >> excuse me! >> we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the years of the 60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. >> when i think of tv, i think of the...

will bring out both the best and worst in us. and television has been that. >> they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. ♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watchin...

♪ >> listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. >> ten, nine, eight -- eight, eight, eight! >> oh, will this horrible year never end? >> when the 90s began, we are starting to see a lot of experimentation. and "the simpsons" i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. >> tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. >> youre stupi...

>> television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. ♪ ♪ ♪ the tv was the center of the house. i dont remember a time without tv. >> by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. >> when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. >> keep an awakened eye on the world. >> suddenly television was the ma...

>> thats correct, this is a memorial near the town square in uvalde, where people have gathered around a fountain. and as you can see, they have laid out candles and balloons and messages to those that were lost in last weeks tragic shooting and to their families as well. we actually moved away from the elementary school in part because the president is visiting uvalde, today, and preparations are under way right now for his arrival. thats where we begin this morning. the president onc...

the past. and top ministers from finland and sweden tell me about their nations historic decisions to apply for nato membership. then, a rare interview with irans foreign minister at a critical time in talks for a revived nuclear deal. >> to make sure that an iran that is already acting with incredible aggression doesnt have a nuclear weapon or the ability to produce one on short notice. >> will they reach an agreement, or will the talks fall apart? >> when in gods name do we do what w...

i talk with the leaders of four of russias neighbors to the west. starting with ukraines president zelenskyy. i ask under what conditions he would be willing to negotiate with vladimir putin. then president duda of poland explains just how much suffering russia has caused his nation in the past. and top ministers from finland and sweden tell me about their nations historic decisions to apply for nato membership. then, a rare interview with irans foreign minister at a critical time in t...

happened here on tuesday, and im here at a makeshift memorial in the town square in view yauld. it has just been teaming with people coming to pay their respects. people coming from all over texas, really, all over the country, to give gifts -- i saw a woman who was a teacher who brought a cart full of stuffed animals for the families coming to pay their respects to lay at each individual cross that was put here for each individual person murdered, and that is 21 people. 19 children, o...