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entertainment industry and beyond. we have a powerhouse of folks here to help hash it all out with a new hour of american voices, live from pride begins now. we begin this hour honoring how far we have come in the 50 years since the stonewall riots here in this neighborhood. those riots opened the country's eyes to the demonization of gay people. it was at stonewall in 1969 that far goers refused to -- orders to leave their only safe haven in the city. the refusal led to them being beaten for a number of nights by police. spit upon by anti gay protesters. it was their bravery and bel...

and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn't have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. >> all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn't have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. >> let's bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service...

shield. there also appear to be at least two rifles there. that picture was taken at 11:52 a.m. that's just 19 minutes after the gunman first entered the school. and 58 minutes before officers took him down. now, there's another picture obtained by the texas tribune this time that shows multiple officers armed with rifles there. ballistic shields, multiple shields. and axe-like tools. most of which the tribune reports were never deployed. now, we must note, we do not know at what point in the standoff this image was taken. but it does seem by these images that police were well equipp...

response, while the gunman was inside that classroom. we now know, some of the pictures there, 11 officers responded to the school within three minutes and those images show officers not only heavily armed in the hallway, but also with protective gear. they still waited 58 minutes to enter that classroom, take down the shooter. cnn's rosa flores has the latest on the investigation. >> i find it shameful we had almost 100 officers on the scene and i had to leave work and save my own. >> outrage palpable in uvalde, texas, as first image from inside robb elementary during the shooting i...

we begin with the fallout from the historic supreme court ruling. the conservative majority overturned roe v. wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion. in a narrow vote, this decision reverses nearly 50 years of court precedent. the reaction was swift and emotional. everything from victory celebrations to outrage outside of the nation's highest court. writing for the majority, justice samuel alito argued quote, roe was egregiously wrong from the start, its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and its decision has had damaging consequences, and far from bringing about a nat...