It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
with the state s top law-enforcement official cult that delay quote the wrong decision. meantime present biden first lady jill biden will visit the devastated community tomorrow to console families and mourn the victims. jeff paul is live in uvalde with more. days of sadness now turning into anger for this community after law enforcement is admitting mistakes were made. one of those being the local on-site incident commander who was in charge at the time change the response from a mass shooting to a man who is barricaded inside the classroom for it as a result you had up to 19 officers for several minutes up to 45 minutes and beyond standing in the hallway trying to figure out a way to get into the classroom. authorities believe as the clock was ticking children were inside the school is that shooting was unfolding calling 911 their begging operators to police and police send police now. eventually border patrol agents showed up and got a master key to open up a classroom d
good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. after days of growing frustration within this community here in uvalde, texas, law enforcement now says mistakes were made. for the first time on the record, texas dps investigators admitting that there were kids inside the classroom with the shooter as the clock was ticking that might have been helped. people hindsight now that of course it was not the right decision. a wrong decision. there is no excuse for that. but, again, i wasn t there. i m just telling you from what we know we believe this should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there is an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer, okay, it s no longer a barricaded. you don t have time. you don t worry about outer perimeters. we are also learning today the shooter entered through open door that had been propped open by a teacher. investigators also say most of the shots being fired in the first few minutes the local incident commander at the time of the shoot
To escape. Marci gonzalez, abc news, lafayette, louisiana. Kimberly this tragedy in louisiana on the mind of families concerned about safety at Movie Theaters in the area. Jonathan human nature. You can understand that. Suzanne kennedy spoke to folks who went to the movie this afternoon and continues the Team Coverage live from Silver Springs. Suzanne well, jonathan kimberly, on a friday an you can imagine a lot of people are thinking about going to the movies, whether tonight or over the weekend. A lot of them will head there with the louisiana Movie Theater shooting in mind. Here locally at the Silver Spring theater that we are at a lot of people were saying that they could feel the incident in their bones as they walk through the door. They say they were concerned about it and shocked a disappointed to hear that the violence happened again in a Movie Theater. Some wonder why Public Places that used to feel safe have become such targets for violence. Its devastating, of course. Its h