witness. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is joining us from capitol hill. ryan, as far as we know, former pence chief of staff mark short is the highest profile witness to tv in the criminal investigation. what can you tell us? that s exactly right, wolf. mark short is among the people that has the most insight into what was happening on january 6th and in the time leading up to january 6th and specifically the pressure campaign on his former boss vice president mike pence and what this all shows is that that criminal investigation won by the department of justice is expanding at the same time the january 6th select committee s work is far from done. the january 6th select committee is far from done. the committee will be in order. reporter: planning hearings for september and promising their august will be spent expanding an already sprawling investigation. we anticipate talking to additional members of the president s cabinet. we anticipate talking to ad
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
money was allocated to reimburse companies for that. that equipment is still sitting there and still in use. the chinese government denies any efforts to spy inside the u.s. huawei said all of its products imported to the u.s. have been tested and certified by the ftc before being deployed. and the company says it s never been involved in any malicious cybersecurity incidents. wolf. brian todd reporting for us. thank you very much. let s discuss all of this with cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd who is with me now. you served in the fbi. how damaging potentially would it be if china could use this equipment to spy on the u.s. military community, including on the nuclear arsenal? i think it s hugely significant. you re not just talking about spying on the nuclear arsenal in the midwest. you re talking about countries like iran and china and russia
accurate. now, what is unclear at the moment is how many of those kids and the teachers died in that 48-minute span between when officers first made contact with the suspected shooter and the time that they stormed in that room and killed them. all of that very much under investigation. and this weekend this community, which is very much broken will welcome a visit from president joe biden and first lady jill biden. bret? bret: you know, jeff, you can hear the emotion in governor abbottens voice there. he was the first one to come out and give information to the media after talking to law enforcement and other people behind the scenes he was giving the wrong information. you could hear many times he said i am lived. you could tell from tps frustration from those investigators because according to them this was information was rock solid.
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