had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer used to
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 publi
the pop group joined the ranks of many celebrities to appear at the white house press briefing including angelina jolie, owe l olivia rodrigo and gronk. more on these stories all day on cnn and cnn.com. download the 5 things podcast every morning, go to cnn.com/5things. cnn s coverage continues right now. good wednesday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m poppy harlow. glad you re with us. critical new questions this morning about the investigation into the school shooting at robb elementary school that killed 19 children and 2 teachers. texas officials say uvalde school district police chief pedro arredondo is not responding to officials. you ll remember arredondo was identified as the incident commander who made the call to hold off breaching the