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He never considered himself to be in charge on the day of the shootings and never instructed anyone not to try to breach the building. on june 21st dps releases a comprehensive timeline of events and director steve mccraw testifies before the texas state senate. he continues pointing to chief arredondo as the one in charge that day. >> i don't think the chief in any way is a bad person at all. i just think he made some bad decisions. the problem is that he may not want to be the incident commander, but if you issue commands and you're the ranking official, you end up being the incident command...

Official, you end up being the incident commander. let's say the dps captain shows up into a situation and decides he's going to exercise control, you know, first of all, he doesn't have the information, and you know what, he may not be as sharp as the on-seen commander that's there in addition to not having the information so i'm reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over. >> under further questioning, mccraw later explains confronting an active shooter should teague precedence ...

Ranking official, you end up being the incident commander. let's say a dps captain shows up to a situation and decides well, he is going to exercise control. first of all, he doesn't have the information. and you know what? he may not be as sharp as the onscene command they're is there. information to not having the information. so i'm reluctant to encourage or even think of any situation where you would want some level of hierarchy where a larger police department gets to come in and take over, that type of thing. >> under further questioning, mccraw later concerns confronting an active shoot...