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Barricaded subject. this wasnt even close. >> at one point officials were claiming police did not have the right equipment. back in 2018, though, on facebook the uvalde police department posted their gratitude to the state government for passing a bill to outfit every uvalde police officer with level four body armor. this important piece of legislation provided funding to police officers with body armor rated to stop rifle rounds. for the record level four armor is tested to stop .30 caliber ste...

If employed with effective tactics, shoulder-fired weapons such as the Javelin can have a devastating impact on armored forces.

We will say that over the past 20 years, more ordinary crimes and schools of plummeted. schools are generally the safest place for kids. most of us that kids experience happen at homes and their neighborhoods sadly, not a school. schools are safe havens for most children. >> thats an important point. >> you doctor armor that, but at the same time we cant accept these mass shootings either. >> all right, jenna, thanks. fantastic work. >> they firing me. >> as i said above, they saw a lot we are n...

Sense the burden of safety has been shifted to them. a third grader yesterday said i was in lunchtime when i happened and i could do is run and hide, and i said, did someone tell you? and he said, no, i knew i had to. >> on the video, around here, there were police officers of all kinds and a police -- at least two police officers with m-4s. there were two or three police officers with long weapons, fully dressed with armor. in other words, if there is a process of holding people back, you would...

Basically be the same infantry soldiers, the same gear that i wore when i was in the military. that guy went into an elementary school today with that year. why did he do that? why did he have access to it? part of the discussion that you had with tom, which i thought was fantastic, was about how is it that a school resource officer -- i met lots of them. i have done training with them and for them. let me tell you what, that is not your newest compliment on the street. it is not your young swat...

Productive meeting, but we recognize that this is a work in progress, and we will need to continue to remain focussed on this going forward. now, in terms of what they -- what their needs are, they really are pretty much the same as they were the last time we talked, and that was a long-range fires, armor, in temp terms of tanks and personnel carriers. some uav capability, and so that has not changed. the nature of the fight, as youve heard us describe a number of times, is -- this is the fight ...

Armor is scattered along this path through the woodland. on the ground, we cant move forward, the track is mined. a real disaster for the russians but something that the ukrainians are saying here that means that the pressure is off this particular front for now and that they believe that the russians are focusing more of their efforts elsewhere. ukrainian soldiers pick over the debris of this victory but the chilling truth is that many of their comrades have ended up like this. while this is a ...

Area where the russian armor was caught after it had crossed the pontoon river. you can see down here theres a destroyed bank, next to it an armored personnel carrier and if we look down the road here weve got another armored personnel carrier and another and another. the ukrainians were able, they say, due to their superior reconnaissance and intelligence to work out where the russians were going to cross and then bring in devastating levels of artillery. and this is the result. this is only th...

This is the result. this is only the edge of it. >> reporter: russia now shifted its attacks elsewhere, at least for now. when you see this, how do you feel? >> super. >> translator: great, i understand our artillery is working and our troops are working too because there was both artillery and ground fire. the units in cooperation with other troops were pushing the enemy across the river on foot. >> reporter: shattered russian armor is scattered along this path through the woodland. on the grou...

Brian kemp could win. trump endorsed a far-right challenger who doesnt seem likely to win. you have the case in pennsylvania. you can see a bunch of chinks in the trump armor in terms of the sway he has over the republican party. barnette is the most interesting of those cases, i would say. she represents a different challenge to trumps power, which is not the republican establishment triumphing over maga world, but someone who sort of says, maga world doesnt belong to trump. trump doesnt lead m...