to school for the first time since the shooting massacre. still fearful and anxious despite new moves to try to help them feel safe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, as the search for a special master begins, the decision to give former president trump what he wanted is under fire. the former trump attorney general bill barr declaring the judge s opinion is wrong and deeply flawed, once again contradicting his ex-boss. cnn s sara murray is following all the new twists in the legal fight over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. reporter: tonight donald trump s own former attorney general is urging the justice department to appeal. the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. reporter: a judge has put on hold the justice department s review of documents and othe
systematic failures and egregiously poor decision-making resulted in more than an hour of confusion and chaos before police finally confronted and then killed the gunman who had murdered 19 children and 2 teachers. the victims family members got a copy of the report before it went public. vincent salazar, whose granddaughter, you probably remember her picture, was among those young children killed. he reacted with skepticism. we re not going to get the truth. because there is cover-up. everybody s throwing everybody under the bus. the only ones that ain t under the bus is because they re six feet in the ground now, and that s our children. and the two teachers. it is unimaginable heartbreak for these families. it goes on and on. also detailed in this report, major, major lapses in school security leading up to the shooting, including broken locks and a, quote, culture of noncompliance with safety policies. also even poor wi-fi that may have delayed the lockdown alert. we
call for help from inside the classroom while police waited outside. we re going to play that audio for you in a moment. plus, there are new details about a key figure in the response to that shooting, uvalde school district police chief pedro arredondo will not be sworn in to his newly elected city council seat today as originally planned. should he keep his job as police chief? critical question. also today, a bipartisan group of senators will meet on gun reform. president biden is optimistic that this time around he will get republican support. the president says, quote, rational republicans are ready for a deal. we will see. all of this as the uvalde community prepares to bury 10-year-old shooting victim amerie jo garza and maite rodriguez today. little bodies in little caskets. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent nick valencia, near robb elementary school in uvalde, texas. nick, cnn has new audio and video, desperate police radio calls, another warning fr
outside the capital million and later, honoring america s fallen. we have to honor that. a tribute to japanese american heroes from with world war ii. this is the cbs weekend news from new york. with jairmd. i m errol barnett. for the second time in two weeks, president biden and the first lady are consoling rel tifers, listening to their sorrow and anxiouser. this comes as the federal government launches a review of the botched police response to the shooting. cbs s omar villafranca joins us from uvalde, texas. good evening omar. reporter: good evening. thousands waited in 99° heat. they want accountability from law enforcement and lawmakers. president joe biden and the first lady brought flowers for the fallen at robb elementary in uvalde texas, the sight of the second worst school shooting. from there the bidens attended mass, the crowd urged outside urged the president to do something. first system s visit comes as the department of justice announced a review
the airport to meet with grieving families here today. try to bring some comfort to a community traumatized, absolutely traumatized by the loss of 21 innocent people. 19 of them children, as young as 9 years old. they were murdered in their classroom. this is a community just trying to understand not only that, but why 19 law enforcement officials waited an hour outside the classroom as the children made desperate 9-1-1 calls for help. the president lands here as lawmakers in washington and around the country are renewing calls for action again, but it is unclear whether the president and those in power will be able to get anything done. as we watch pictures of the president, i want to bring in arlette saenz. arl arlette, you are also here in uvalde over at the school at robb elementary waiting for the president to arrive with grieving families and arlette, unfortunately, this is the kind of meeting that this president has had all too often in his career. reporter: yeah, th