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with gunshots going off. >> and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. >> welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. >> for the benefit of hindsight, where i'm sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. >> that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom ...

neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he'll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz's decision to appear at the nra convention just ...

a killer, we just don't want any part of that. history should not remember this person's name. instead, history should remember, and we all should hear the names of those murdered here, the children and their teacher. they are the ones that matter. amory joe garza matters. she was 10 years old. her dad is going to join us in just a few minutes. he says his daughter was full of life, always telling jokes, always smiling. on social media this monk, he wrote, please don't take a second for granted. hug your family. tell them you love them. i love you, amerie jo, he said. javier lopez ma...

>> john: fox team coverage from across the country. >> bill will begin things for us on the ground in uvalde, texas for us. our coverage continues. bill. >> bill: sandra, a lot of conflicting reporting whether or not there was a school police officer on campus when the shooting took place. texas d.p.s. tells me there was a school officer on campus who exchanged gunfire with this gunman. i'm told that the officer was shot and injured and that is when the shooter ran inside the school, got into a classroom, barricaded himself and started shooting in discrimnatly, shows the 18-year-old ...

the killer exchanged gunfire with police wounding two officers before being shot and killed by law enforcement. the 18-year-old used a rifle to carry out the nation's deadliest school attack in a decade. these photos were posted to an instagram account linked to it. one of his social media posts read, quote, kids be scared. a fire fighter on the scene says the gunman was inside that school for about 30 minutes before law enforcement ended the siege. >> to figure he was in there for so long in that classroom and the officers initially on scene couldn't do anything. >> well, you got to...