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than an hour passed between the first 911 call and when the shooter was killed. cnn's shimon prokupecz pressed authorities for answers divergent a press conference friday. >> you say there were 19 officers gathered in the hallway or somewhere. what efforts were made to try and break through that door you say was locked? what effort were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? >> none at that time. >> why? >> the on-scene commander at the time believed it had transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject...

purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. an assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society. >> after back to back mass shootings, republicans are looking elsewhere for answers. just in the last two days, gop senators ted cruz and ron johnson and former president donald trump floated a laundry list of reasons for the country's mass shooting epidemic. here they are, they include video games, social media, wokeness, critical race theory, absent fathers, declining church attendance, too many doors at schools, and the list goes on and on. but one thing...

yes, i was misled. >> tonight, what we know about the police failure, and the policy failure that allowed mass murder in a texas school. plus, pandering and a protest at the air on a convention in houston, and with you and i can do to break this uniquely american ritual of violence. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. today, wayne lapierre, head of the national rifle association, hosted a number of republican politicians, including the ex president, at his organization's annual conference in houston. just days after 19 elementary schoo...

>> officials say they had to hold the parents back because of the volatile nature of the situation. and this morning, we are learning the identities of more young victims. leyla salazar, who was 11-years-old, she loved to run, film tiktok videos and dance and ten-year-old alicia ma'am rez wanted to draw. she wanted on the an artist. for many of the young survivors, it left them shaken and scarred. here's how a 2nd grader described his ordeal. >> i was praying thinking what is this happening? i have the fear of guns now. because i'm scared someone might shoot me. >> and again, we are ...

jeff. >> a very frustrating community, and it all goes back to a video that's been making its rounds were about the last 12 hours or so showing parents understandably frustrated, standing outside the school at some point outside the mesh should have, held back by police officers. many parents wanting to go inside and do something and check on their kids. and now texas dps is responding. they tell us really right now they don't have too many details but they started filling in some of the blanks, especially when it comes to this timeline. if the one thing that stuck out is that it onl...