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classroom, where all those 21 victims were killed. but in an exclusive interview with cnn this morning, chief arredondo is contradicting that. he says he is in touch with the department of public security. let s go straight to cnn producer aaron cooper, he just spoke with arredondo. aaron, what did he tell you? reporter: it was just that, he told me that he is in touch with the texas department of public safety every day. i asked him about the comments that they had been hoping to speak with him, to have an interview with him, and he had not been responsive, he repeated that he was in contact with them every day. he said he was focusing on the families. he was not did not want to talk about the investigation, did not want to talk about details of what was going on, but wanted to focus on the families. i asked him about being sworn in as city council member here in in his hometown in texas, last night. he told me that was a private affair, not something they wanted ....
clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. let s begin with cnn s shimon prokupecz who is live in uvalde. shimon, you spoke with the police chief. what more did he say about all of these questions that are swirling? reporter: well, he s not answering the key questions as to why he made the decision not to send officers in to take the gunmen down, right, the dps, head of the dps, the department of public safety who was running this investigation told us on friday that he was the on-site commander, that he was the one making decisions, and he was the one who ultimately decided tha ....
times. we have a rogue judge who rules that a property is a tiny infraction, and we have a racist attorney general who is a horror show on the basis that she would get trump before she knew anything about me and she used this to run for governor and failed. she had no following and came back and said, i will go back to get trump again, and this what we have. it is a scam and a sham. just so you know that my financial statements are phenomenal, and they are actually less in terms of the numbers used all right. you are listening to donald trump speaking, and we know for now that this is a campaign event for donald trump exactly. and yes, he is going to be looking to what appears in the courtroom may be incidental compared to what he feels he can get out of it for campaign purposes. you heard him going after the judge and the attorney general in this case, and again, this is no longer a bug of the campaign, but this is the legal operation that he is facing righ ....
though. erin? all right. obviously could be moving here quickly. danny, thank you very much. and thanks to all you have for being with us. ac 360 starts now. reporter: tonight on 360, breaking news on the millions in dollars of legal bills giuliani faces and why tonight s $100,000 a plate dinner might ontario put a dent in them. four flips with the mar-a-lago i.t. special and news about the documents case and what he could be prepared to say in court. new polling on the president. and if age is just a number, so is the stunningly high percentage of democrats who wish they had someone else to vote for. more breaking news. people sheltering in place in pennsylvania where there is a manhunt for the escaped killer who has been on the run for more than a week. good evening. we begin with significant development in and around the president. one of his former advisers peter navarro was convicted of charges on contempt of congress charges. he and steve bannon defi ....
democrat could get, if they would say that a democrat could get a fair trial, bear. the answer is yes, because we will get fair trials all over the country. and the idea that merely because there s a political split that people dead things, criminal justice system falls apart is just nonsense. well, that s a good note to end on. we could talk about this all day, but our time is up. thanks to our panel. thanks to you for being here. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central it s right now this morning we will hear from donald hold trump, the convicted felon, holds a news conference. we might also hear from president biden for the first time since the verdict this new chapter in american history a new, video this morning of the moment, ukrainian drones attack and destroy russian boats, the strike coming as president biden gives you crane, the okay to use us weapons to kill carry out strikes on russian soil. and a police officer ambushed and killed by the v ....