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hi, thank you for joining me. im jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. im joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what youre seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. hes playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center...

children and their two teachers who were slaughtered inside their schools. the first lady reaching out to the images of the innocent, smiling. fourth graders who were murdered. the president caressing the face of one childs photo. just 12 days ago, mr. and mrs. biden were in buffalo, new york, to honor the 12 people murdered in a wasteless attack on a supermarket. yesterday, vice president horizon attended a gruesome funeral and across the country this weekend, there was an explosion o...

inaccurate. and i am absolutely livid about that. >> and gun owners, lawmakers and former president trump gather at an nra event in nearby houston with protesters outside. washington begins yet another conversation about elusive gun reform legislation. >> we are going to try to work through this and see if we can find a common ground for chris west republican congressman mo brooks has an a rating from the nra and is a roma for the republican nomination for senate and alabama the divide...

buenos dias, good morning, and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, may 28th. im boris sanchez live in uvalde, texas. >> and im christi paul, boris, i look at whats behind you and i cannot imagine the atmosphere there in uvalde, and i feel like, i think a lot of people i talk to feel like the more information we get the more disturbed we are. >> reporter: thats right, christi, the anguish in this community has been exacerbated by the discrepancies that weve gotten from law enforcem...

hallway. and the haunting questions that are now presented by these it tails, by these revelations by law enforcement. could more children have been saved? two teachers and 19 children were killed in all. most no older than 10 years old. as the horror played out inside the school, frantic parents were rushing to the scene desperate to get to their children. watch this . investigators now admit it was the wrong decision for those 19 officers to stay waiting in that hallway and not breac...

than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnns shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scen...

president biden is calling on americans to make america safer as he prepares to travel to uvalde to honor the victims tomorrow. authorities are facing scrutiny over conflicting information as well as the response time. we now know the gunman was not confronted by police before entering the school. and more than an hour past between the first 911 call and when that shooter was killed. cnns shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers on friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gath...

entering the elementary school. and we know more than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. police now acknowledge that tragic mistakes were made. >> the decision was made that this is barricade the subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. that was the decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> the incident comman...

911 call and the moment that shooter was killed. cnns shimon prokupecz pushed for straight answers during a press conference on friday. >> reporter: you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door, to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> reporter: why? >> the on-scene commander a...

we know what works on this. it includes lets have an assault weapons ban. >> vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. theres growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the n...