why that school wasn t immediately put on lockdown, whether 911 call information was properly relayed to officers here on the scene and, of course, the biggest question about that police chief, why he decided to hold dozens of officers back for over an hour and end that rampage. whit. all right, matt, thank you. the texas dps chief confirming what many parents there in uvalde were so anguished about, that massive delay in storming the classroom. some families wondering if more lives could have been saved and the chilling new revelations from children who survived. how one boy says he played dead so he wouldn t get shot. here s abc s mireya villarreal. reporter: tonight, outrage and anguish in uvalde. the community stunned to learn police were outside the classroom, waiting 77 minutes before going in, believing there were no surviving children inside with the shooter. i m sick. i m sick. i want to throw up. i m angry. reporter: today, authorities saying terrified children were
failures began long before tuesday s raand e cike it is.s. it is tragic. quite frankly, i mean, there shouldn t be anybody here, ideally, we d be able to, you know, identify this guy as a suspect and address it before he even thought about attacking. reporter: and tonight, governor abbott would presented with more than one press conference with inaccurate information saying he was misled and saying the parents deserve answers. . they deserve answers. they re demands answering. matt u. as part of the ongoing investigation of tuesday s massacre you re learning texas authorities are conducting a review of the law enforcement response. reporter: that s right, whit. the investigation will likely focus on multiple suspected failures starting with that school resource officer who initially drove right by the gunman on this street.
has proposed is the same failed policies of the pafst. now it is report to work if you are an ag worker and they criminalized everyone of the 11 misdemeanor people. i think when they understand the magnitude of the demand and the depth of this demand that they continue to call 11 million people criminals and children in our communities see their parents and people at church see people who are sitting in the pews and teachers see their students? they re going to understand that our community really embraces this in a way that is going to be very unforgiving to them. so if they want to be a party of l localities and provinces and make some states, then don t allow a vote. they will never and national party ever again. matt, the point that congressman gut yierrez just ma, isn t that boehner s problem? i want to read something from the washington post if the past is any guide boehner s
read life begins with a new governor. joining me today, salon.com editor at large and msnbc political analyst, joan walsh. business and economics correspondent for slate, matt u ig glasous. joining us from austin, the texas state senator leticia vandeputte. if the bill passes, what s the next step for opponents of the legislation? i am so afraid that this bill will succeed. . the republicans have learned from their errors of the past they re starting early on their timeline. i think that we will see passage maybe in the next two or three weeks and it will really harm the women of texas. i don t know that there is a recourse except maybe at the ballot box because when the ill effects of this legislation are felt across the state, then the