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around while children are being murdered? joining us now, senior correspondent casey stegall with more. reporter: this was an all hands on deck scenario. the break out how many law enforcement responded to this scene of, 376 to be exact showed up here at robb elementary school. of those 149 were u.s. border patrol agents, 91 state troopers, 25 uvalde city police, 16 county sheriff deputies, and 5 school district police. the rest were u.s. marshals, dea and neighbors county deputies. surveillance video obtained by newspaper and tv shows mass of officers gathering in the hallway, the report questions with so many in and quote, lack of a strong incidents commander, why nobody else with a higher rank or more trains didn t step up sooner, it was not until 12:50 the gunman was taken down. we do not specify which officers should have taken over command in here, that would be a little bit of our opinion as to who should have, i will tell you is there are officers in that buil ....
decision making created an hour of chaos before the shooter was confronted and killed. the 77-page report was the first to criticize both state and federal law enforcement s action or inaction. it laid out in painful detail the amount of failures that day, including that no one assumed special command despite the crowd of officers you see at the scene. a uvalde officer heard about the 911 calls but said it was his understanding officers on one side of the building knew there were people still trapped inside. no one tried to breach the classroom. it also further revealed the actions of uvalde school district police chief on that day. according to the report when he got to the scene, he tried to find a master key for the classroom, but no one checked to see whether the doors were even locked. the report concluded that his, quote, search for a key consumed his attention and wasted precious time delaying the breach of the classrooms. it also said he attempted to negotiate w ....
around while children are being murdered? joining us now, senior correspondent casey stegall with more. reporter: this was an all hands on deck scenario. the break out how many law enforcement responded to this scene of, 376 to be exact showed up here at robb elementary school. of those 149 were u.s. border patrol agents, 91 state troopers, 25 uvalde city police, 16 county sheriff deputies, and 5 school district police. the rest were u.s. marshals, dea and neighbors county deputies. surveillance video obtained by newspaper and tv shows mass of officers gathering in the hallway, the report questions with so many in and quote, lack of a strong incidents commander, why nobody else with a higher rank or more trains didn t step up sooner, it was not until 12:50 the gunman was taken down. we do not specify which officers should have taken over command in here, that would be a little bit of our opinion as to who should have, i will tell you is there are officers in that buil ....
down the rhetoric, despite a wave of violent threats against law enforcement. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 15th. a lot has happened since we got off the air friday, so since we finished coverage friday, we learned the search warrant for mar-a-lago revealed former president trump is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act, tied to the mishandling of national defense information or classified material. now, according to the fbi, 11 sets of classified records were seized from trump s home, including some marked as top secret, meant only to be available in special government facilities. two other laws were also cited as a basis for the warrant pertaining to removing, destroying, or concealing records and obstruction of justice. according to the search warrant for mar-a-lago, agents were allowed to search trump s office, all storage rooms, and all other rooms available to trump, his staff, or anywhere documents cou ....
it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. there s no excuse for that. again, i wasn t there, but i m just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. hey, when there s an active shooter the rules change. it s no longer okay, it s no longer barricaded. you don t have time. and, by the way, texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification, and that doctrine requires officers, we don t care what agency you re from, you don t have to have a leader on the scene. every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired and keep shooting until the subject is dead, period. but that s not what happened. let s get to cnn s shimon prokupecz. you have been there on the scene trying to get answers for days and this afternoon we got them and they re devastating. reporter: they are truly devastating. and you just feel for these families, to hear the police, the ....