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not engage the shooter, earlier. have a listen. >> why was this decision made, to not go in, and rescue these children? >> the on scene commander, considered a barricaded subject, there is time, and no more children at risk. of course, it was not the right decision, it was the wrong one, period. >> parents of the victims, outraged, understandably, at these missteps. with one father, telling cnn, he wonders if his daughter, and others, may have survived if authorities acted more quickly...

president biden is calling on americans to make america safer as he prepares to travel to uvalde to honor the victims tomorrow. authorities are facing scrutiny over conflicting information as well as the response time. we now know the gunman was not confronted by police before entering the school. and more than an hour past between the first 911 call and when that shooter was killed. cnns shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers on friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gath...

we know what works on this. it includes lets have an assault weapons ban. >> vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. theres growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the n...

yes, i was misled. >> tonight, what we know about the police failure, and the policy failure that allowed mass murder in a texas school. plus, pandering and a protest at the air on a convention in houston, and with you and i can do to break this uniquely american ritual of violence. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york. im chris hayes. today, wayne lapierre, head of the national rifle association, hosted a number of republican politicians, including the ex...

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 ...

on our hands. what are we doing? >> the kids -- >> enough is enough. >> can anything be done to stop the next massacre? >> the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> the time for us to stop the next mass shooting in this country is right now. >> this is the moment to reform gun loss? >> it is easy to go to politics. >> we, as a society, need to do a better job with mental health. >> when in gods name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? >> not one more...

why officers failed to enter the school while the attacker was still firing. those shots audible from the outside. heres what we do know at 11:8 a.m. central time, the suspect crashed into a ditch near the school. there is a picture there. he exited the vehicle and fired at two witnesses across the street. at 11:40 a.m., he entered through the west side of the building. there is the video there. two minutes later a teacher sent a text message saying there was an active shooter at the s...

gunman walked into robb elementary unobstructed and in the building for approximately an hour. >> katie: it started 11:28 a.m. when he crashed his car and shot at onlookers across the street. 11:40 he entered the campus. 40 minutes later they entered confronted backed up. an hour later border patrol entered shot dead. >> brian: wow, is that different than what we heard yesterday. one girl spread blood on herself and went to survival mode friend of hers who had been shot. one student pr...

for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now were being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. >> bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the ...

minutes outside the school. he then entered unobstructed through an unlocked door. here is the texas dps walking back those initial -- they werent true, they were lies. lets watch. >> it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. so from the grandmothers house to the school into the school he was not confronted by anybody. there was not an officer readily available armed, no. >> har...