responders. we re also talking about the justice department this morning announcing, in fact, it will conduct a review of the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde. it is coming at the request of uvalde s mayor after authorities admitted to a string of failures in their response to the shooting. a justice department spokesperson said in part this, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events. the doj saying after its review, it will publish a report with all of its findings. we are learning more about that chaotic scene that unfolded when agents did finally move in on the shooter. a u.s. customs and border protection official, who spoke to the washington post, describing a chaotic scene, with no one really sure who was in charge. quote this, the agent saw bullet ho
perimeters. texas governor greg abbott, he defended himself in the criticism among his response to the shooting and his praise of police efforts. during his visit to uvalde on friday, the republican governor said he was initially misled by law enforcement officials and was restating what he heard when corroborating their version. i was misled and i am livid about what happened. and as everybody has learned, the information that i was given turned out in part to be inaccurate. and i m absolutely livid about that. and here s my he expectation. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. the governor is saying at that press conference at the cost the funerals for the victims was being taken care of by an anonymous doaner who gave $175,000 to make sure every funeral is paid for. he provided mental health care services for the
is sadly not the first, they responded to. and speaking of calls for action, that s because someone who solving gun crime once could start by convincing a new generation that they re safer without guns. welcome to a new hour of american voices. this sunday the city of uvalde remains in shock struggling to find a way forward after 19 students, and two teachers were killed inside robb elementary behind me on tuesday. the president, just warning remain first responders. he s now heading back to san antonio before heading back to delaware, earlier today president biden and the first lady in town doing what they can to let uvalde know the nation is with them, president biden took the time to take in each of the victims pictures at the memorial behind me, he bostic touching pictures stolen by americas mass shooting, the crowd nearby pleading for action join the president today greg abbott which was all about welcomed in open arms. there people jeering to their governor, looki
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we don t understand exactly what happened, but i think that they should have gone in and secured that are you saying that your brother went inside when he first arrived at the school and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat, and so the shooter was down. they were in there that entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there the, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry. hey, when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: five days after the shooting, still questions as to could a number of them have been prevented. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. for the next two hours, we re going to be exploring exactly what happened in texas and the mixed signals we re getting out of that school and what happened in t