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purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. an assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society. >> after back to back mass shootings, republicans are looking elsewhere for answers. just in the last two days, gop senators ted cruz and ron johnson and former president donald trump floated a laundry list of reasons for the countrys mass shooting epidemic. here they are, they include video games, social media, wokeness, critical race theory, absent fathers,...

elementary school, could have, should have been confronted sooner. parents demanding answers. why? why were police reluctant to immediately engage with the gunman? one explanation the texas department of public safety initially gave to cnn is that the officers could have been shot or killed, but we now know the mind-set goes directly against texas protocol for school shooter situations, which uvalde police trained for just two months ago. the manual states as first responders, we must ...

do something about it. i beg you. >> show it to the world. when he died, i died with him. >> you cannot out law tragedy but we can make america safer. we can do what we have to do to protect the lives of our people and our children. >> im pamela brown in washington. youre live in the cnn newsroom. ch its memorial day weekend, a time to honor men and women who died served in military. this year the nation approaches this holiday in grief and shock after two horrific mass shootings ove...

texas attacked an elementary school and killed 21 people. 19 of them, children. and while it is common for new details to emerge after the so-called fog of war lifts, the basic facts of the police response to this particular shooting have changed. and then, they changed again. and today, officials try yet again, to lay out a timeline of the response to this attack, to an increasingly skeptical press corps and public. and this version, the one we heard today, painted a shocking picture ...

maxwell frost, later on in the show. im looking forward to hear what he says. ayman, have a good weekend. >> thank you, my friend. well be watching. >> all right. >> it was the wrong decision. thats what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minute...

tragedy. ask the questions. those politicians dont want to answer. the running the clock. dont let them do it. love has to be the answer. decency must rule. nicole hawk lay, matthew dowd, thank you for joining me on this important friday night, at the end of a very heavy week. and from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of monday. be good. us i will see you and while it is common for new details to emerge...

ayman, have a good weekend. >> thank you, my friend. well be watching. >> all right. >> it was the wrong decision. thats what the top law enforcement official in texas admitted today, as outrage grows over why it took police so long to stop the gunman at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. that gap and police intervention is even more glaring, after we learned new details about the timeline today. minutes after the gunman crashed his vehicle, he was already firing shots outside at...

i was telling my friend to not talk. >> [speaking spanish] >> she cried a lot. according to the cdc, guns are now the leading cause of death among children than adolescents in america. it jumps a 30% between 2019 and 2020. according to the washington post, more than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since columbine, in 1999. of course, republicans are suggesting to keep the schools as virtual prisons to deal with this problem. >> we need serious funding to upgrad...

with a 2 -year price guarantee. hello everyone, i am alicia call today. menendez, live in uvalde, texas, where there are new questions mounting over the mass shooting at robb elementary school. behind me, left 19 children and two teachers that. texas authorities updated the timeline on the attack, feeling students made 691 calls as officers made calls other classroom. according to the texas safety department, the local chief commander made the wrong decision not to enter the barricade ...

camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? >> the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door an...