we re getting new reaction to his message and whether it ll make a difference with the all important mid-term elections just 12 days away. also this hour a secret hearing involving the trump team and the mar-a-lago document dispute. it ended just a short while ago. we re learning also that the january 6th select committee is now moving forward with interviews of top secret service agents and officials. standby for the details, reported first right here on cnn. and we ll have an exclusive report from inside the bunker of a ukrainian powerplant targeted by the russians. i ll discuss the war and the new taunts from vladimir putin and iran going on right now with key white house official john kirby. he s standing by live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with issue number one for so many american voters, the u.s. economy. president biden is seizing at a new report showing a re
reporter: but still refused to talk about resigning. dps as an institution did not fail the community, plain and simple. reporter: we spoke with brett cross after the meeting. we had 91 people sit outside for 77 minutes. i consider that a huge failure, institutionally. reporter: do you find he s not willing to take any responsibility? absolutely, nobody wants to. reporter: with no answers, mccraw faced more questions outside the meeting. sir, what happened to the director s report? there was no response. cnn s shimon prokupecz always pushing for answers. still ahead, the first of his kind, douglas imhoff blazing the trail as the first secondly gentleman in history. a preview of his sitdown with cnn s dana bash, next. among my p patients, i often see them have
steve, the time is now. if you re a man of your word, you ll resign. i did make that statement to cnn. i can tell you this, if dps as an institution failed the families, failed the schools or failed the community of uvalde, then absolutely, i need to go. reporter: but still refused to talk about resigning. dps as an institution did not fail the community, plain and simple. reporter: we spoke with brett cross after the meeting. you had 91 people sit outside for 77 minutes, i consider that a huge failure institutionally. do you find he s not willing to take any responsibility? absolutely. nobody wants to. reporter: with no new answers, mcdraw faced more questions. what happened to the director s report? there was no response. reporter: with that the director went behind closed doors. there was an executive session where he said he was going to
Of cruelty, in addition to the loss they have to live with for the rest of their lives. it s unlike just about anything we ve ever seen in the wake of any other such tragedy, never mind accountability. in many points since may 4th, these families haven t even gotten the simplest answers from anyone involved in what was by any measure, in almost every imaginable way a colossal failure. and that cruelty of officials playing keepaway with the truth, it continues. at a meeting today of the texas public safety commission, public safety director steve mcgraw was supposed to have a report on uvalde, containing updated timeline and other new information. instead, he provided neither. with the families of the murdered victims in the room, he did not deliver a director s report. he failed to deliver on that promise and family members in the audience responded. you have disgraced the state, your position, and the people. the officers are still under
Defensive again over his agency, over what the department of public safety did that day. and again, laying blame on others and saying it was more than just one person. there was several factors and mistakes that were made. and that s sort of been his tone. you know, i tried to ask him even off camera at one point, he was walking around, i went over to talk to him, where s the director s report? at one point he said well, today we wanted it to be about the families. well, the only reason why the families came, because they were expecting to get some kind of information from him. and, you know, it s just time and time again, anderson, we keep talking about this. and i don t understand how it is that they don t understand what these families are going through and what it is they want. the families have been very clear about this. it s so cruel for them for these families to have to sit there and explain themselves time and time again, and then wind up with nothing. they get nothing out