hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i m john vause, and this is cnn newsroom. texas officials are facing a growing number of questions as well as increasing criticism of law enforcement s response to the mass shooting at robb elementary. for two days now, the official count has been inconsistent, contradictory, and outright confusing at times with some major changes to some important details. did police exchange gunfire with the shooter as he entered the school? on tuesday and wednesday, the answer was yes. by thursday, no. the shooter was never confronted by a school resource officer or anyone for that matter. it just never happened. authorities say it took up to an hour before the gunman was killed, and during that time, police were calling for backup and evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school, negotiating with the suspect himself, pinning him down in a classroo
One of the moms in that picture saying, quote, my baby would have died if she had stayed in venezuela. Important reminder of the struggles that country is still facing. The photographer here, nachos doche from reuters. You can send me a snapchat or instagram. More news nor from ali vels who only has good things to say. Good afternoon. Ill probably catch you later this afternoon. Thursday august 23rd, lets get smarter. Michael cohen, tell me about your relationship with him. He was a lawyer for me for one of many. They would say the lawyer and they would add the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. Yo i dont know where that term came from. He didnt do big deals. Small deals. Turned out he wasnt that good,
frankly. Did the funds come out of the campaign . They didnt come out of the campaign, they came from me. Its not even a campaign violation. If you look at president obama, he had a Massive Campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general. Almost everybody that runs for off
america s schools it was shown that none of the 43 attacks that they studied in that report was stopped by law enforcement coming from off the campus. so the research shows that it s better to have someone armed on the campus. now, to be clear, stand with parkland believes that should be a security professional or a school resource officer. it should not be an armed teacher. we are against arming teachers. i want you to listen to part of the statement from the nra. it reads, as we gather in houston, we will reflect on the events, pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and redouble our efforts to making our schools secure. here s the white house press secretary to sort of correct the record if you like. here she is. so it s not about the convention. what is inappropriate is that the leadership of the national rifle association has proven time and time again that they are contributing to the problem of gun violence, not trying to solve it. they represent the interest
and he s never going to give him an inch because he s out of a job and out of the mansion and he s finished. how do you get the right to move the president is a fearful man. his whole life you can see he s a fearful man and it shows every day in the white house i think you need to separate this, and there s a bunch of republicans elected office i get that but most gun owners, most nra members in ohio support universal background checks. it s only the professional class that make millions of dollars off a year off lobbying, the gun manufacturers who make tens of hundreds of millions of dollars selling assault weapons and these guns and all the ammunition all the things they do that s a small number of people, but it s the people that have president trump and the republican in the senate and especially mitch mcconnell to have a collar around them. but, again, they ve got to break
support additional education initiatives and mental health, the first thing people like betsy devos or the gun manufacturers or the nra do when there is a shooting like the one who killed my daughter. they say, look at mental health. now they want to take the money from mental health to put guns in schools arming teachers. i have no problem with armed security. right. but somebody tell me how it s going to work arming a teacher. where is the gun? is it on the person? because that s a problem. or is it locked away? and if it s locked away, how does the teacher get to it when somebody is walking around with an ar-15 like happened with my daughter? are they spending time fumbling nervously with a key to open a lock box, not protecting kids who need them in that critical minute? teachers have said many times, a, we re teachers. it s a different set of skills than a security officer or a police officer. b, our instinct is to protect