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 about
line. our next guest is a senior researcher in russian studies. are you working on a book about this set to come out next year called russia s war. and you ve been down right forensic about how propaganda has systemically supported the war. what about young people on social media. you say they are certainly trying to look at history and make it relevant to them, how and why has that been effective? thank you, paula. one of the things oi v i ve bee looking into for the book is analysis of where the people are getting from information. they make for quite depressing results in the sense that, you know, soldiers with children,
things they don t support but they still feel fear to stand against it. for them it s to lose everything. so these people are now in a very difficult lose lose situation. they stay there and they sell their soul to the devil. or they leave and their life is ruined as well. ijust wonder, because you know russia well, i m wondering whether you have some sympathy for people who feel that they are stuck in russia right now, they don t have the option, maybe economically or other reasons to leave the country, they are living in a nation where the state run media is bombarding them with a particular version of what is happening in this war, which frankly is propaganda and it s very difficult to get an alternative view. do you not understand why some people would say, this is putin s war, it s not russia s war ? iwould.
i would accept this point of view if it was just out of the blue, all of a sudden but it s not. all of these people were silent when putin came to power, all of these people were silent when he started a war in chechnya which was absolutely let s say, unnecessary and bloody war which destroyed somebody lives without having any even political but most importantly human aspect. all wars are inhuman but there are some that can justify using military power for some righteous reasons, that was not the one. they accepted russian war against georgia