children over about an hour? where was law enforcement? those are just fair questions, though they are. they are essential questions. if you want to prevent similar atrocities, you need details, you ve got to find out what exact we happened. if this is a well-known concept. every time a commercial airliner crashes in this country federal investigators painstakingly recruit the final moments of the flight. not because they are ghoulish. want to know what caused it. if and that s the main reason that air travel is so safe. after action reports work. yet somehow our leaders rarely respond as rationally to violent crime, almost never. a mass shooting is just too tempting a moment for them to demagogue. at the public is often grieving and then shock, so it s the perfect moment for the usual opportunists to leap forward and cast blame on the political opponents, to seize all the power they can while the country is too traumatized to notice. if you almost hear anyone in washington a
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today. i m here at the vigil here in uvalde county and the families that came here to honor those that died, the 19 children that died came here they said with broken hearts with just need to be together in a time of morning. you can see everyone is leaving right now. we got a lot of crowds behind us but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town, people were hugging each other as they were saying you know, i knew a child that went to that school and it made sense. if this is population of just over 16,000 people, so everybody knew somebody. everybody was connected to somebody. i did know somebody in this town. i know a family here that i live only about maybe an hour and 40 minutes from uvalde here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughters softball team had been killed in the incident.
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
this fall, through distance learning we have tendency americans who live such fast paced lives to want mover on too fast from crisis. what do i mean by that? isn t resilient approach carrying on good thing? interest rate to be an encouraged. when we talking though about something as profoundly damaging as government pandemic lockdown mandate, the answer is, yes and no. no we should not wol low in lingering misery we can t change but yes we need accountable to ensure in never, ever happens again. and that means holds accountedable any one and any organization that pushed policies that were never grounded in science. and certainly not permissible under constitution. now almost immediately when lockdown began in federal level and then trickling into state, angle was force for protecting vulnerable. and also for reopening the government and especially the schools. there are devastation consequences of keeping children away from school for extended period of time. from medical and
you will remember for the defiant stance made by the ukrainian forces at the start of the invasion, there s new video of a russian helicopter being destroyed by a ukrainian missile strike. ukraine says its forces have destroyed multiple russian assets on the island in recent weeks and that a russian support ship that is named for a famous soviet athlete is on fire, being towed away from the island. a claim that we should note cnn has not been able to verify. cnn does have new reporting that the intelligence community has now launched an internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries. this comes amid criticism that officials failed to make an accurate assessment in afghanistan and in ukraine. joining us now this morning is cnn s katie bow little lis one of the reporters who broke this story as well as david sanger who is a white house and national security correspondent at the new york times. thank you both for being here this morning. katie, i w