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struggling to answer questions about the presidents new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour well break down the plans benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. im alex marquardt, and youre in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lag...

why have we heard so many different messages, frankly, lies -- families dont know -- >> thank you. im going to ask my colleagues if they want to comment as well. multiple systemic failures. our report does not look at other comments that have been made to try to compare and contrast and whatsoever. we laid out the basic facts as we were charged with to do. and what i said early on about law enforcement. the officers who knew or shouldve known that this was an active shooter situation b...

No one to command. >> decide who its going to be. call the shots. >> reporter: arredondo trying to communicate with the smooter, contradicting law enforcement active shooter protocol to eliminate the threat. >> please put your firearm down, sir, we dont want anybody else hurt. >> reporter: families receiving some accountability for that delay. >> does he expect to be in a small community and hold his head up high and say hes going to protect and serve? thats simply ridiculous. >> reporter: shimo...

Massive failure. you need to clean house. you need to start from zero. higher experienced, trained officers who are prepared to take on the responsibility to protect our children. >> that call to fire arredondo comes after a new video released to cnn shows him pleading with the shooter to stand down. here it is, listen. >> sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we dont want anyone else hurt. i know, i know. >> we are trying to get him out. they are going to break the window....

Preserve when it comes to those sorts of things, the secret service has never been an agency thats accustomed to getting rid of those sorts of things. this is peculiar, and we wont know what the cause was until we see those messages. >> sean turner, thank you. chaos and confusion, hours of police body cam footage in uvalde reveals what happened in the school were 19 little kids and two other teachers were shot to death in their classroom. >> if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, si...

Camera, we hear uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo is inside attempting to negotiate with the shooter. >> sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we dont want anyone else hurt. >> i know, i know. >> back in the hallway, officer mendoza repairing his mid pack. >> it would still be about 25 minutes of confucian and hesitation, until the door was breached. >> are you guys inside? >> one guy on the, radio decided, whos gonna, be called a shot. >> body cam footage ...

Same child made to 911. the first call was apparently not related to these officers. >> my anxiety is up. >> reporter: you can hear a heavily armed s.w.a.t. team member still expressing confusion over if there are any kids alive in the room. >> no one knows. >> reporter: now realizing the worst-case scenario is unfolding, officer mendoza prepares for the trauma injuries. >> i need to grab my med kit, they said theres multiple victims in the room. >> room 12, this is the hundred building. suppose...

>> we have a child on the line. >> what was that? a child calling 9-1-1? >> the room is full of victims. >> victims in the room. multiple victims. >> a child just called, they did have victims in their. >> they knew a child had called 9-1-1. and they were outside. the chief, for his part, kept his focus on negotiating with the shooter, even after a burst of more gunshots were heard. >> sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. we dont want anybody else hurt. >> i, know i know. ...

>> yeah. my anxiety is up. >> reporter: minutes later, you can hear a heavily armed s.w.a.t team member still expressing confusion over if there are any kid as live in the room. >> no one knows. >> reporter: now realizing the worst case scenario is unfolding, officer mendoza prepares for the trauma injuries. >> they say theres multiple victims in the room. >> room 12. this is the 100 building. supposedly the victims are here. im not 100%. theres a bunch of information flying around. >> reporter:...

He is in the room full of victims. full of victims at this moment. >> yet, even with that information, six minutes go by without any sort of response. then arredondo with a set of keys trying and failing to make entry into a classroom near where the gunman is barricaded. eventually handing the keys off to another officer who does make entry. more heavily armored officers arrive. suddenly, a new round of gunfire. but after those gunshots, arredondo again tries to talk with the shooter. >> can you...