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 not on their list is the one thing that is unique to the united states of america. hundreds of millions of guns and minimal restrictions for acquiring them. to be sure, gun violence in the u.s. is a multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted solution, but gop leaders are willing to consider every facet, except this glaring one. this debate is raging as a devastating picture emerges about tu
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 door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that
world, i am jim acosta, wolf blitzer is off, you are in the situation room. the fallout is just beginning after the stunning admission by police in texas that a wrong decision was made in response of the school s massacre. governor abbott saying he was misled. our correspondent has our report from uvalde, texas. i was misled. i tonight, greg abbott aiming his anger at law enforcement. 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. reporter: after damming new admissions from texas authorities surrounding the commander who made the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. the decision was made this was a barricaded subject. there was time to retrieve the key to wait for a tactical team to breach the door to take on the subject at that point. that was a wrong decision. reporter: officials exp
i think that they should have secured that door. are you saying your brother went inside and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat until the shooter was down. they were in there the entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, another it was a right decision. there s no ex-use for that. again, i wasn t there. i m telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: the rules didn t change that fateful day this week when 19 students were gunned down and two adults with them. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. piecing together these days after a school attack. growing questions as to what authorities could have done. even the top most of those authorities acknowledging mistakes were made and in the heat of the moment, they lost the opportunity to seize and correct the moment. now questions from families w
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 days after 19 of his youngest constituents and two other teachers were murdered, chose how the hard line stance on guns has become so deeply embedded in the gop. even as the nra is weaker than ever consumed by scandals and lawsuits. as the washington post quotes, nearly a decade ago the massacre of 20 children and six adults through the politics of gun violence into a state of suspension for a f