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minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterday's attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this year alone. 213 incident where is four or more people have been shot. to put that into perspective, to...

Texas attorney general, ken paxton, asked the states department of public safety to provide a list of individuals who had changed their gender on their drivers licenses and other department records. that's according to a copy of -- the public records request. the dps official told the post that ultimately no data was provided because an accurate count was not possible. is not clear why paxton's office of the information. his office hasn't responded to requests from the washington post, or nbc. the implications of what was attempted are chilling. joining me now is legal director at the national...

>> it would take a full day before another dps official south texas regional director victor corrected the record. >> one more thing i forgot to mention, that i want to clear up that came out early on, it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. he was not confronted by anybody. to clear the record on that. >> that is even more clear in the surveillance video inside the school. at 11:33 a.m., the gunman opens the unlocked door and walks inside. he heads down a hallway to classrooms 111 an...

Is exactly what happened here. >> spokesman for the texas department of public safety -- >> hours after victor's news conference another dps official seems to give yet another explanation as to why police did not follow active shooter protocols. >> don't best practices, lieutenant, call for overs to disable a shooter as quickly as possible regardless of how many officers are actually on site? >> correct. the active shooter situation. you want to stop the killing and want to preserve life and also one thing that, of course, the american people need to understand is that officers are making entr...

Law enforcement people understand what it's like to have to respond to crisis events, how confusing it is, how oftentimes the early information that you get from the scene is inaccurate. we get it. these are like the worst and hardest decisions you'll ever have to make as a law enforcement officer, so we are a community that's reluctant to like immediately criticize each oh, and i certainly felt that way in uvalde. nevertheless, there are all kind of things here that really didn't add up. >> it would take a full day before another dps official, south texas regional director escalon corrected t...