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making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we've seen in this chamber is tough. it's tough to watch. it's tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that's why it's important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] >>...

was holed up frantically called 911. top police officials now admit it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. have a listen. >> why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? >> you know the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and there were no children at risk. of course it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision. >> parents of the victims obviously outraged at these missteps with one father telling cnn he wonders if his daughter and others might have survived if authorities had actually acted more qu...

want answers. >> i was misled. i am livid about what happened. >> reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. >> my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. >> reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. >> it was the wrong decision. period. >> reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. >> a decision was made that this wa...

than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnn's shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject...

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 country's mass shooting epidemic. here they are, they include video games, social media, wokeness, critical race theory, absent fathers, declining church attendance, too many doors at schools, and the list goes on and on. but one thing...