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the capitol riot committee s primetime hearing laying out in detail how the insurrection unfolded. the politicians, the pundits who say that january 6th was anything short of a violent insurrection are lying. the committee is promising many more details that we haven t learned before. just justin bieber taking a break after getting a rare virus that has paralyzed half his face. i can t smile on this side of my face. i m pamela brown. you are in the cnn newsroom. a call to action under a ban hear the sums up the high stakes, march for your lives. in more than 400 cities across the country today that s rallies demanded that lawmakers confront the explosion of gun violence and mass shootings. the largest was in washington where significant gun reform has stalled for years in the senate of the right now, senate negotiator working on a bptd package are expressing some optimism for compromise. our correspondents are fanned out across the country to cover these urgent
we begin with uvalde, a conversation with the school s police chief, the state says made that decision not to storm the classroom when 19 students and two teachers were slaughtered. the chief tells cnn he is quote in contact with dps every day. that is contrary to what they said yesterday. the chief repeatedly declining to explain his action. what dpa calls his wrong decision and storm that classroom. cnn has spoke with the chief. shimone, critical important reporting. what did the chief say? yeah, john, it s really critical. we need to get his side of the story. we have been looking for him, trying to get his side of the story after it was revealed that he was the man who made the decision not to storm that room, that classroom where the gunman was and it took over an hour for the police to eventually take him out. we spotted him, we are found him going into work this morning. we asked him those questions. he obviously dodged this. he didn t want to answer any of those que