any more elections-elections. voters are not just choosing between the candidates but making critical decisions about the basic fundamentals of the democracy. polling in the last knew 2024 primaries show us everything show us that donald trump will defeat nikki haley by significant margins. and super tuesday will perhaps mark this days away from trump clinching the republican nomination officially. that means today will, if nothing else, crystallize the choices that americans face in november. this between two presidents, one current, one former. one president who has an agenda that commands broad public support. his commitment to our democracy and our institutions has never been in doubt. but he s dogged by some lackluster polling that doesn t match up with support for his policies. and the other, well, you know the other. four times indicted, twice impeached ex-president who currently faces 91 felony counts in four jurisdictions. he s been found liable for sexual abuse. set
lives? reporter: ryan, in the report it does mention a few lines about why officer waited. it states they were waiting for the keys. they were waiting for more equipment. but let me take you through it because there are very telling details we did not know before reading this report. according to this report chief pete arredondo actually wrote the active shooter policy. he wrote in himself as the incident commander but, according to this report, he didn t take on that role on that ill-fated day. it says that he not only didn t take the role, he didn t transfer command of the scene to any other officer which, according to this report, could have been done in this case in this jurisdiction. now the report is much broader than this. it does not just point the finger at arredondo. it also says that there were hundreds of police officers who responded to the scene, and it points out those trained police officers then did not question that command. they didn t question that there
i will start with this. i will ask my caller sees if they want to comment as well. audible systemic failures. we don t try to compare, contrast, whatsoever. we laid out the basic facts as we were charged to do. what i said early on about law enforcement, the officers that no or should have known this wasn t active shooter situation should have done more. we are very clear on that. not every officer on the scene had that same information and had that same opportunity to comply with their training. one of the things this committee has not done, we are a three-person committee go through and determine which law enforcement personnel new what, what did they know and when they knew it. i think that that will take many months to go through all the different video, body camera footage and figure out, i think there are other investigatory arms trying to figure out what this person knew, when they knew it and what did they do with it. i think you will need all of that. we do say the
by the austin american statesman and [inaudible] ahead of the report. the graphic footage was edited into shorter clips with some audio removed. it shows police response that day or lack thereof which critics have slammed since its release. the new report reveals there were actually nearly 400 officers who all responded that fatal day from federal, state, and local agencies. about 90 of them were state police. nearly 150 border patrol were there. about two dozen uvalde city police officers and more than a dozen sheriff s deputies and five school district police officers. this was unprecedented for so many reasons. the number of law enforcement that arrive on that day and that police chief that made a fatal decision not to send them in. the police chief square one right there. the question is, should the law enforcement officers known better to storm the building and ignore their chief? the answer is yes. ever since columbine, we don t wait. i want to be clear to the america
surrounding president biden s 2024 prospects, after brutal reports, that members of his own party see him as an anchor that should be cut loose. the times interviewing more than 50 democratic officials. a current dnc member saying, quote, biden should announce his intent not to seek re-election in 24, right after the midterms. oh, that s my prediction date, isn t it? it is. president biden getting no mercy from younger members of his party. listen to this about a second term. he s saying he s going to run again in 2024. will you support him? if the president has a vision, that s something we re willing to entertain and examine when the time comes. that s not a yes. yeah. you know, i think we should endorse when we get to it. democrats set on dumping president biden can point to a laundry list of reasons. national gas prices have sky rocked to over $5 a gallon, inflation on everything from shelter to medical care. some feels it s too late to change things aro