commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what
she had three children. i have to stop you there, in terms of school shootings it hasn t worked. there are school resource officers. there have been at very high profile school shootings. there was one in uvalde who just wasn t on campus. there was one in parkland who was on campus. there were two hold on. there were two in columbine. buffalo had an armed security officer. the point is congresswoman hold on congresswoman, let me just ask the question and then you can answer. hold on, congresswoman. the point is they can t protect every single entrance and exit. they just can t. they ve tried. well, i think, one, if you had had one exit, which you had one entrance, multiple exits, but one entrance in that school, we don t know whether or not that would have worked. it has worked at other schools. there was not a student a school resource officer at that school, and that was a problem. there was not one there to confront the gunman when they came in. those protocols need to be