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shimon, you ve obtained the report and read it. tell us what you ve learned. reporter: the lackadaisical response, they talk about how there was no command, no control, no leadership essentially on the scene of the shooting. it was just truly chaos, every officer doing their own thing. we re also learning what the police chief, the school police chief, pete arredondo, told the committee. he appeared before the committee. he explained his thinking. he said at one point he didn t believe there were any kids inside the score because it was awards day. what he said was he looked at an adjacent room, room 110, and when he went in there, there was no one in there, and it made himly were no babies as he said inside the room. of course, we know that was not the case. he also describes how initially his thinking was that this was an active shooter situation, but then what happens is he starts to believe that the subject, the gunman, is barricaded, and that in order to rescue t ....
Then what happens is he starts to believe that the subject, the gunman, is barricaded, and that in order to rescue the other kids that are in the other classrooms, they needed to contain the gunman, kind of make sure he doesn t leave that room so he can get the other kids out of the school. and, of course, the committee knows that that was a mistake. that thinking was a mistake. they also talk about all the different law enforcement agencies that were on scene and the number of law enforcement officers, some 400 in total by the end of the incident. specifically 149 border patrol agents that s a large number, of course. 91 state troopers. these are the officers with the department of public safety. and then the uvalde police department, 25 of them. and then other law enforcement officials, some coming in on their day off. they were off duty. they heard the call and they ....