and with me now, cnn legal analyst, elliott williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and elliott, this is a friday night news dump, no question about it. no question. we know them well this this town. the justice department will not charge scavino, not charge mark meadows. they are charging peter navarro. how do you sort this out? you got to look at every case differently, jim, and set aside navarro and steve bannon who s also been charged. number one, the jobs each of these individuals held was different. steve bannon wasn t even a white house aide at the time of the conduct in question. right? number two, the nature of their behavior. there s at least the factual question as to whether meadows and scavino complied at least in part with the committee to a point that it just would have been hard to charge them with a crime. as a justice department, you want to be able to make the decision of do we think we could win this in front of a jury. it s just a cl
to have to arrest me because i m going in there, and i m telling you right now i don t see none of you all in there. you all are standing with snipers, and you all are far away. if you don t go in there, i m going in there. because i m like you all aren t doing [ bleep ]. they could have done something, gone through the window, snaped him through the window. nothing was being done. if anything they were being more aggressive on us parents that were willing to go in there. like i told one of the officers, i don t need you to protect me. i need you to go in there with me to protect my kids. wow. cnn s nick valencia is in uvalde. some of these parents, i mean, they are understandably furious, just an incredible account from that mother, and she like some of the other parnents, they wan accountability. the school board held its first meeting since the shooting yesterday, is this community getting any closer to accountability? what s the latest? reporter: the short answer is
version of that video, and basically saying because of hall s continued possession of that firearm and his continued advancement towards officers, then that the officers were left with no choice but to open fire. again, his parnents maintain moe could have been done to bring this to a peaceful end. they are calling on the fbi, the department of justice to launch a zicivil rights investigation, and calling on the attorney general to look into the matter to provide an objective view of the investigation, and finally they re calling on more training. when it comes to the monroe county district attorney s office, they have not commented after this most recently development and as for law enforcement mainly pennsylvania state highway patrol, they did say that they cannot comment further until this is out of active litigation, but they did assure cnn that they do have ongoing training for their officers with respect to various mental health topics, fred. sad situation. polo sandoval, thank
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