baltimore police commissioner. nice to have you with us. i know you have been following this from the very beginning. i want to start with d.o.j. said. quote, the goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare and to respond to active shooter events. we ve seen these types of reviews before in pulse, in san bernardino. where do they ultimately lead, though? they re going back and they re looking at the incident from beginning to end. but ultimately, we ve learned our lessons at columbine. we ve learned that you don t have time to waste, that you ve got to get in there. so with this investigation, i really don t know what will be gained. i feel that this is more of an effort to play hot potato with failure and stall. we know that there are answers that the public, these poor parents, everyone deserves right now. so the federal governm
good morning. and welcome to your new day. it is sunday, may 29th. we re grateful that you re starting your week with us. i m boris sanchez, live from uvalde, texas. i m christi paul. boris, there in uvalde, you ve seen people just even last hour at 5:00 a.m. where you are come out to that memorial that is behind you. and you re probably standing in a place where you re soon going to see at some point today president biden. potentially, yeah. you re right. president biden headed to uvalde, texas, coming to comfort grief-stricken community following the latest mass shooting in the united states. just a few hours from now, president biden set to visit this area and a memorial at robb elementary school where 19 students and 2 teachers were killed. in a commencement address delivered yesterday, the president spoke of the grief that the families here are experiencing. here is some of what he said. we re heading to uvalde, texas, to meet with each of those families. and as
wanting to offer some type of solace, some type of comfort to the families who lost so many loved ones in that horrific massacre here at robb elementary school behind me earlier this week. now the president right now is privately meeting with survivors and the family members of victims. he s been meeting with them for almost two and a half hours. the white house really blocking off a significant amount of his time here on the ground in uvalde to hear directly from those family members who lost loved ones. but first president biden stopped here at the memorial site at robb elementary. he and first lady jill biden took about 20 minutes reading each of the names, seeing and taking in the life-sized photos of these 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down during the school day on tuesday. the president, while he s also been here in uvalde, has also been hearing really from the local community members issuing calls to action both here at the elementary school and as he wa
11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunman s bullets. john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they stormed the classroom to stop the carnage. uvalde mayor will join us in the next hour, but we have team coverage this hour on all angles. karl rove will join us in moment. alicia is live in houston where the nra convention is being held. john: bill melugin, what a news conference that was. bill: yeah, john, that is an understatement. i think our jaws hit the floor as well, one of the big highlights we learned from the moment the shooter was first encountered by police in that school until th
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