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the family members the heartbreaking hallway surveillance video of the school shooting, which this surveillance video was leaked to a texas newspaper and published earlier in the week last week. cnn's shimon propose pez and rosa flores joining us now from uvalde, texas. shimon, you have obtained a copy of this report. tell us what you can so far. >> reporter: well, right off the top it's very clear that this committee found -- and i think this is significant -- that the blame as to what happened here in terms of the lack of law enforcement response, disorganized response, at one poin...

shimon, you've obtained the report and read it. tell us what you've learned. >> reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. we're also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didn't believe there were any kids inside the score because it was awards day. what he said was he looked at an...

Even criminality, and at the sam same time, does it also absolve this school police chief pete arredondo because there were multiple agencies, multiple leaders who this report says failed? >> well, i doubt if it absolves anybody of anything at this point and whether or not anything rises to a criminal level, i'm not an attorney and i can't really comment on that, and i haven't really read the report. but obviously it raises a lot of questions that have to be addressed and fixed. whether it's criminal or not, you just can't have this continue. i think one of the biggest challenges that leadersh...

It's never going to happen to them, what i always say is anyone who's ever been a victim, when they woke up that day, they didn't think they were going to be a victim. we have to empower ourselves, step up, be proactive with our police department and city and state leaders and say how are you going to help us help ourselves. >> and, chief, there's shared blame, right, and this new report underscores that. but of all these 300 law enforcement people who responded, whether it be the local level, uvalde, border patrol, state troopers, how do you suppose they're thinking? what are they thinking, f...

Decisions. while this report does not find that to necessarily be the case, they say there was no leadership on site during the shooting. they say there was lackadaisical approach by authorities. they say that there were shortcomings and failures on the school. they're also putting some of the blame on the school, and i'll get into that in just a minute. they also talk a lot obviously about the different law enforcement agencies responding, and in total, there were probably over 300, perhaps close to 400 law enforcement officials on scene by the end of the shooting. and what we learned is that...