Stay updated with breaking news from Ex parte. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
that s the focus of tonight s the angle. cutting losses. the goal we send is unobtainable or that the cost of achieving it is too high. instinctively we feel like ending something prematurely may be as a sign of weakness and then quitting is for losers. but especially in politics, the opposites often true. joe biden s president, there are sadly many areas where america needs to cut their losses. we need to cut our losses in ukraine. if you hadn t noticed, the ukrainians aren t winning. our own nation is hurting and we ve allocated more than $53 billion and counting and humanitarian military aid to help them beat back the russians. but now? here s a headline. putin may win in ukraine. but the real war is just starting. russia rather than ukraine is winning the war too. despite that, biden think spending all that money and time is worth it. defending freedom and democracy was not going to go without cost for the american people who are going to have to pay a price as ....
it s only june and there have been at least 247. that s more than one per day. it s closer to two per day. we re still learning more about one of the shootings. two weeks after 19 children and two teachers in you vault, texas were killed inside their grade school. a teacher who was shot multiple times describes the horror of watching every single one of his students get slaughtered as police waited outside. just bullets everywhere, and then i just remember border patrol saying get up, get up. i couldn t get up. did you feel abandoned by the police and the people who were supposed to protect you? absolutely. after everything, i am more angry, because you have a bullet proof vest. i had nothing. i had nothing. you re supposed to protect and serve. there is no excuse for their actions. and i will never forgive them. i lost 11 that day. i say to my parents, i m sorry. i tried my best. that s what i was told to do. please don t be angry with me. a man is a hero. the ....
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, ....
gunman fired more shots and children inside the classroom he was holed up in called 911. top police officials now admit it was a mistake to not engage the shooter earlier. listen. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on-scene commander considered a barricaded subject and there was time and no children at risk. of course it wasn t the wrright decision. it was wrong, period. one father telling cnn he wonders if his daughter and others might have survived if authorities had acted more quickly. i mean, how can you not think about that? we now know the names and faces of all 21 lives cut short. funerals sadly set to begin next week. the texas governor says miss have a lot to answer for. cnn s ed lavandera picks up the story. i was misled. i am livid by what happened. reporter: scexplosive reacti from the texas governor. the information that i was given turned out in part to be inaccurate. and i m absolutely livid ....
she was a good girl? she was. shannon: parents and family members in shock and grieving over lives cut way too short including 8-year-old garcia who loved playing football with his grandpa and 9-year-old ellie garcia who danced along to tiktok videos. we ll tell what you we re learning about the victims who are being remembered tonight at vigils all across country. new details about the investigation into what law enforcement believes was a preplanned attack, what the shooter posted on social media beforehand with his motive still unclear. our law enforcement panel weighs? the american people demand we take action. my colleagues ought to be held accountable. the unlawful purchase of a gun i don t know how i i can t tell people i can t think of a law that would have stopped this particular shooting. shannon: and calls for action to reduce gun violence already ratcheting up, but are there places where members of congress can find common ground? our panel w ....