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Astepro and go. school districts nationwide are getting ready to welcome students back tomorrow and some classes arent even fully staffed. as a teacher shortage in america hits crisis levels, some states are scrambling, trying to find creative ways to bring educators into its classrooms. my next guest leads one of those school districts. jesus jara is the superintendent for nevadas clark county school district which serves over 320,000 students. so good to see you. >> its good to see you, fred...

Action was taken. thats totally inexcusable. so theres multiple failure at multiple levels and multiple people that are responsible for those failures, no questionlonis it rise to negligence or any criminality? >> you know, fredericka, this is such an interesting question because weve had so many of these mass school shootings sadly, we are seeing now lawsuits being brought in these cases to try to hold more people accountable than just the shooter because were seeing it takes a lot of people to...

It was causing. theres a lot in this report. of course, family members are getting a chance to review this and ask questions here later today. its going to be a particularly difficult day for them as they hear some of this information. were expected to hear from officials later today, and i can tell you theres a lot more to come certainly about the training that perhaps the police department here is going to need to make changes to and other concerns involving the uvalde police department and al...

Thats the job of that first officer. there was a complete breakdown in that. and usually what happens in these situations is it could be anyone really. but there really was no one here. there was -- you know, there was the chief t school chief. there was another senior official, law enforcement official whos a lieutenant from the uvalde police department. he was the acting chief of that day because the police chief of the uvalde police department was on vacation. so he was in an acting role. so ...

Brought against the school in that case. and then in the parkland, florida, shooting, we saw the prosecutor do something very interesting here. they criminally charged the school resource officer. now, rarely if ever have police officers been charged criminally in cases like this because theres actually no duty for police to protect you from violence. interesting, but thats the way the constitution has been d defined by the supreme court. he actually had a duty, kind of like a caretaker to these...

Jeddah for the presidents trip. so phil, did president biden accomplish what he set out to do on this trip? >> reporter: fredericka, if the question going into the trip was, is it worth it to take the short term blast of criticism to reverse the position with respect to saudi arabia and on the crown prince, going from calling him a pariah to giving him a fist bump and walked with him throughout multiple events, today was a great example of why the president and his advisers thought the answer wa...

Migration, is it possible that it would delete or get rid of records? >> first off, thank you for having me, fredericka. yes, it is plausible. if for no other reason, the fact that during that time period there was in fact an equipment rollout. i know this because i was a senior special agent at that time. i hadnt retired at that moment yet. and i was witness to a bunch of different electronic equipment being rolled out from radios to phones to computers. so it does coincide at least factually w...

Election officials denied. and under the voting rights act, they couldnt do that. people somehow said i cheated, that it just couldnt be a lawful election. >> reporter: rigged election, ive heard that before. >> fast forward, some of the same comments that i heard back then resonated on january 6th. >> reporter: now hes leading the investigation into what happened that day. >> were going to walk down to the capitol. >> reporter: do you believe that donald trump provoked and led the insurrection ...

Weve come. the bragging rights as americans is, you can support the candidate of your choice. and sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. but you dont tear the place up if you lose. >> reporter: and fred, when thompson strikes the gavel thursday, thats only the beginning of the story he wants the american people to hear. >> and a story that is. this just in to cnn, tense moments this morning after military jets were scrambled over the presidents beach house and an unidentified plane flew overhe...

And for me, having never gone to school until i got to college with a white student. >> reporter: never? >> never. it was like, whoo. >> reporter: it was a revelation of sorts. he was determined not to be one of those people who got an education and left. he was going to get it and use it at home. he started by registering voters. >> i told my mother how excited i was to go to sunflower, mississippi and help poor african americans to register and vote and my mama said, we dont vote here in bolto...