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School district was aware of the investigation at the time of elizondos hiring. >> the district has not responded to emails, calls or direct questions from cnn. >> sir, do you know this officer who you have recently hired and are you aware she is under investigation for her actions on the day of the shooting? >> do you think she is fit to serve here. considering her actions are under investigation. mr. mueller. you dont want to respond to that? >> the hiring raises further questions about the de...

Who are here waiting and asking the police to go in. >> there was 19. there was 19 officers in there. in fact, there was plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done, with one exception, that the incident commander inside believed they needed more equipment and more officers to do a tactical breach at that point. because the chief of police of the consolidated school district, he was convinced, and again, i want to go back, he was convinced a the time there was no more threat to the child...

Governor abbotts press conference, this is what dps director steven mccraw claimed happened. >> when the shooting began, we had uvalde police officers arrive on scene along with the consolidated independent school district officers immediately breached, because we know an officer every second is a life. law enforcement is there. they didnt engage immediately. they did contain him in the classroom. those officers that arrived on the scene and put their lives in danger, they saved other kids. they...

Transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject. >> mccraw says the onscene commander was uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo. >> the chief of police of the consolidated independent school district is the incident commander. its his school. he is the chief of police, okay. >> where is the police chief? and why isnt he here to take our questions? >> well, because im here to address the latest timeline and the facts that we know. youre certainly welcome to reach out -- t...

Ranking official, you end up being the incident commander. lets say a dps captain shows up to a situation and decides well, he is going to exercise control. first of all, he doesnt have the information. and you know what? he may not be as sharp as the onscene command theyre is there. information to not having the information. so im reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level of hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over, tha...

Department of public safety and other officials hold another press conference. this is dps director colonel stephen mccraw. >> at 11:27, we know from video evidence, at 11:27, the exterior door suspected of what -- where we knew the shooter entered was propped open by a teacher. the bottom line is that reported what happened is that back door was propped open. it wasnt supposed to be propped open. it was supposed to be locked. and certainly the teacher that went back for her cell phone propped i...

Tactical team could be put together. they breached the classroom door. they went in. they engaged, killed him at the scene. >> what we didnt know when mccraw was saying is the shooter was in the school for 77 minutes before the classroom was finally breached and he was killed. during that time, there were dozens of police coming and going, hundreds outside the school, and not one of them did what officers around the country are now routinely trained to do in these situations. >> the delayed and ...

See when they were murdered. whats your reaction in uvalde? >> you know, the families are outraged. the officials here who were advocating for the release of the video are outraged because the families were not given a heads up. those families were expecting to view all of this on sunday, but they were preparing themselves emotionally to do this. the may of uvalde is calling for a criminal investigation into this leak, take a listen. >> the way that video was released today is one of the most ta...

Its prior statements. according to a source within texas dps, they were told that mccraw, excuse me, that the texas house committee had more questions for mccraw related to other testimony, other people who had been interviewed and its important to note that according to the source post of the committee, this investigative report that will be released on sunday will show that the failure, that the magnitude of the failure here in uvalde is not boiled down to one person. but, it is a much bigger ...

Had a protective ballistic shield with them in the school, nine minutes after the gunman got into the school. >> lawrence, you and i spoke last week, where we know that at 20 minutes, there was it at least three ballistic -- it was told to me by mccraw, stephen mccraw, he acknowledged to me that he didnt have equipment material and ammunition to be able to reach that room at 12:03 and beyond. so for those 48 minutes, we saw nothing. i have no doubt, that that first ballistic shield arrived with ...