it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that. again, i wasn t there, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there s an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer okay, it s no longer barricaded. you don t have time. and, by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency you re from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene. every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired and keep shooting until the subject is dead, period. but that s not what happened. let s get to cnn s shimon prokupecz. you have been there on the scene trying to get answers for days and this afternoon we got them and they re devastating. reporter: they are truly devastating. and you just feel for these families, to hear the police, the leadi
again, as we do the investigation, we have all thes questions and we want to answer them. be three more questions than answers after officials at the texas department of safety hold a news conference on thursday regarding the shooting at the b elementary school. the officers on the scenery changing as the investigation i ongoing. the spokesperson is joining us in just minutes and we will ask them the questions on everyone mind tonight. let s go right to the scene where we are reporting live fro uvalde. good evening, shannon. so many questions right now. barry few answers to help this community that is becoming rowing lee frustrated what is happening right now. so many of these people are directly impacted by the shooting that unraveled just behind me at rob elementary school. a lot of frustration going back to videos like the ones you re watching right now. they showed shot up the bus dea during this mass shooting and were trying to not only can answers but figure out what
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
uvalde. how school security roundup in the wake of previous mass murders continue to fail and why all of us are concerns about margins keep getting ignored. and as the architects of america s gun crisis meet at the nra convention going all about the potential for congress. why only in the your country, why isn t only in america? why is this exceptionalism so awful? when all in starts right now. . good evening from new york, i m chris hayes what we know happened at ramallah matthew school in uvalde texas is that 90 children and two teachers were shot and killed. they were murdered by an 18-year-old who purchased two weapons as soon as he was legally able. right after his 18th birthday. there s a lot we do not know. in particular, about the timeline of just what happened on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, o
on tuesday. they re a lot of outstanding questions about when the police arrived at the scene, how long the shooter was in the building, how long it was before he went into the building, what officer did, or crucially, didn t do to stop him. this afternoon, local officials held a press conference and was clear that there are still many holes in the story. we re gonna talk more about that later in the show. but something that i am certain of, is that the most wrongheaded downright dystopian response to the murder in the town of uvalde is to call for quote, hardening schools. we have to harden our schools, not soften them up. the most important thing we can do is harden the schools. harden schools. hardening schools. god help us if we don t harden our schools and protect our kids. you ever notice when that happens, like some nasty new bit of lingo that didn t exist before in all like iran is saying it. clearly there was some memmel, somewhere. that was the enraging