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We know the classroom door was not locked. it was open. this is relevant because the cops say they had been waiting for a key, colonel steve mccraw acknowledged there was effectively no lockdown at all in the school. do we know how responding law enforcement got this basic fact so wrong? do we know? >> no. unfortunately, jim, there is still a whole lot we don't know. yesterday's hearing left probably more unanswered questions. we're focusing a lot on these doors. i think that's what some people in the partisan world would like to have us focus on, the fact is we had an 18-year-old with a gun t...

Scene, why did those members did not -- do no -- did not take control of the scene. why if they saw that this was such a debacle, why these other law enforcement officers didn't take control, rush into this classroom, and save these children. what colonel mccraw said was that it is practice and protocol for the highest ranking officer of the jurisdiction, in this case, the school district, for that individual to be the commander of the incident, to take command, to take control. and i checked on this question, poppy, actually, because i was curious as a reporter looking at all of the law enfor...

The texas department of public safety colonel steve mccraw. and i think you can describe it as disgust, right? you can hear it in his voice. in his words he said the on scene commander chose to put the lives of officers before the lives of children. >> yeah. yeah, you could hear when he said one hour, 14 minutes, 8 seconds, those children in the room, 111, essentially said had nothing and then as we bring our rosa flores in here who has been digging and digging for weeks for answers, rosa, the fact that he said they waited for a key that was never needed, that door wasn't locked, they're sayin...

Right now the texas state senate is listening to testimony from the uvalde school shooting, moments ago colonel steve mccraw, the director of the texas department of public safety, gave a compelling statement. listen to what he had to say. >> senators, steve mccraw, director of texas department of public safety. as senator gutierrez noted, it has been 28 days since the senseless massacre at robb elementary school. much has been done, but much more needs to be done before this investigation is completed. and presented to the district attorney. christina mitchell, for her review. we do know this...

Columbine. and, of course, we all have learned this, because we have been covering the stories, and that is when there is an active shooter, law enforcement go and stop the threat. period. and that is exactly what didn't happen here in uvalde. that's why the anger, the heart break is pal posspable in this community because they have been getting drips and drabs of information. the story has changed multiple times and now this is the latest episode in this story, with colonel mccraw delivering this latest timeline before the texas senate. but we have been covering a texas house committee that h...