paul mannerford, gates, a number of people were a part of that case if you remember so for the former president i'm sure a lot of disappointment in what happened today. >> thank you very much, evan perez reporting for us. thanks very much, i'm wolf blitzer "the situation room," erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the shocking admission from texas officials, we now know the teacher who propped open the door before the school massacre closed that door before the gunman entered that directly contradicts what police told the public days ago. also, a texas republican and longtime gun owner turning in his ar-15 a weapon similar to the weapon used by the uvalde gunman, and what new gun laws does he think our nation needs? he is our guest tonight, plus celebrations in shanghai. millions able to move about freely after two months of

brutal lockdown but will newfound freedoms last? let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone, i'm poppy harlow in for erin burnett, several developments in the investigation of the school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead. texas officials tonight revealing the incident commander during that shooting, pete aradondo is now not repeating to investigator's request for a follow up interview, this comes aztecsous department of public safety tonight confirms the elementary school teacher who propped open the door right before the attack did in fact close it before the gunman entered. the teacher initially propped open the door with a rock then ran back inside to get her phone when the gunman crashed his truck and according to the official, she then removed the rock, closed the door, it just didn't lock and now investigators are looking into why. this information is not what police originally said during their press conference on

friday. >> we know from video evidence, 11:27, the exterior door, suspected, of where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. >> this is a major discrepancy and it comes as we're also getting a clearer picture of exactly what police may have known during the massacre in uvalde, cnn obtaining facebook live video recorded outside the school during the shooting and appears to include a radio call of a child saying they have been shot. now it's unclear at what point during the shooting that video was taken but raises serious questions about why police waited more than an hour to enter the classroom where the

18-year-old gunman was held up with children pleading for help. these are questions that haunt the community now, saying its final goodbyes to the young victim. omar is "outfront" tonight in texas, what more are you learning? >> well, poppy, despite reports to the contrary, texas department of public safety spokesperson is now saying both the uvalde police department and the uvalde independent school district are still cooperating with state investigators. however, the chief of police for the school district has not responded to any follow-up requests for an interview and it has now been days. today, also, though, begins the funerals for 19 children that were killed and the two adults, the beginning of what is going to be a long process here in this town. >> one week ago, 19 families sent their children to school and they never came home, leaving loved ones only memories as community members, even actor

matthew mccauneheigh whose hometown is uvalde pay their respects. they can't help but think about those last moments as they prepare to lay to rest, the funeral for 10-year-old rodriguez is the first, she's remembered by family as sweet, charismatic and loving as seen in this video with her cousin. >> her classmates say she was grabbing all the other student and see telling them where to hide before the gunman turned on her but that she was so brave and courageous to tell the kids to hide. >> reporter: a heartbroken community, attending five services today, two funerals and three visitations for four children and one teacher among the 21 killed, as more details come to light. it's unclear at what point during the shooting this video was taken. the parent radio call video taped by a man who told cnn he

heard the dispatch from radio and customs border patrol vehicle outside the school. the radio traffic audio adding new concerns about what law enforcement knew during that hour they were still waiting to enter the classroom, and before they killed the gunman. one off-duty customs and border patrol agent ran to the school when he heard about shots fired. >> the kids, the police were on the windows outside outside and the kids were jumping out the window. >> reporter: at least two children called 911 multiple times begging police to come while the gunman was still in their classroom. >> information is flowing in, why doesn't dps have that information, the sheriff's office, federal guys, local police, this is a failure at every level. >> reporter: texas department safety director said one child told is a 911 operator, eight or nine students were still alive, audio from the unconfirmed

source revealing at some point, law enforcement was aware kids were inside the classroom. >> he is in a room full of victims. >> at what point do people not use common sense here, listen to n 911 calls coming in, know kids are still alive inside and know they have to go in there and do their jobs. >> reporter: one teacher who escaped the shooting said she wants the blame to focus on the gunman. >> i just hate that we have to look for blame to somebody else besides the person that actually did this to us. >> reporter: but the families are now left with more questions than answers as they focus on the lives that are lost. >> she isn't just another victim. she's a hero. and that ten years wasn't enough. >> reporter: and the funeral for young maite should be starting around now and even as i walked

around today was hard to find people who were not affected by this, if not directly, knew someone who was, grew up with someone, went to school at rob elementary so in the near future while we'll see families mourning it is not an under statement to say this community will be mourning right there will them. >> omar thank you so much for your reporting, now, former ac acting baltimore police commissioner, and former cleveland school security director, commissioner barksdale, the news we got tonight of the texas department of public safety says the school district police chief, the man who was in charge of everything that day, chief aradondo as incident commander has not responded to incident request for follow-up interview, that request made days ago. how can that happen? >> quell it happens when you've screwed up. it happens when you've let so many kids and teachers die

because you did the wrong thing as the incident commander. you wanted to be incident commander, a lot of accountability comes with it. so i'm not surprised that he's in and out become silent or uncooperative. i would guess, based on my experience that he may have found a lawyer that told him to shut up and don't say anything. so it's disturbing, it's not right, it's not fair to those that lost their lives or their families. we need answers and i don't think we're going to get anything from him right now. >> you know, kenneth, you're nodding and one of the real concerns here is the information that keeps changing and directly contradicting what officials said, you know, previously, the director of texas dps said

multiple times, the shooter entered a building propped open door by a teacher, tonight, shows the teacher removed the rock propping open the door and closed it but that door didn't lock. that's very different and it's just not the first major detail that officials have gotten wrong. >> right. this is one of the most chaotic communication situations i have seen if more than three decades, not only firsthand experience but my research at johns hop can'ts on intersection of strategic operations leadership and communications, bottom line is this, you get small chunks of information as you're absolutely confident you got it right. i think the first press conference was a disaster that still haunting them now, and the only thing that's more tragic and stressful to an anxious rural community is mixed information and messages on top of an already tragic situation.

>> mr. barksdale, u.s. custom and see border patrol agent jacob alborato was off-duty at the time of the shooting but know he rushed in to help his wife, teacher at the school, texted him to tell him what was happening. listen to what he told nbc news when he saw what was happening and when he ended up outside of the door of the room where the shooter was. >> i was there at the door, fixing to go in, but once again, didn't have any of my gear, it wouldn't have been a smart move for me. all those guys had their gear and stuff. i believe everyone there was doing everything in their power. >> and he said that those 19 officers waiting outside the classroom door had all their gear, but we know it was over an hour before anyone breached the door, confronted the shooter, still said i think everyone did what was in their power. what do you think when you hear that? >> that's, that's disturbing. because we were told they were

waiting for equipment to come. and now, in, he is saying they had their gear. he knows gear. so gear is whatever weapons you need, maybe ballistic shields, whatever. so if they had it, then why weren't they engaging? >> but -- >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> no, i apologize for interrupting, i'm thinking even if they didn't have their gear, the children had no gear. >> you know, gear, no gear, if you've got a gun, you go. it's just, i'm trying to make sense of this story, and it's too much. if they have gear, engage, if you don't have all your equipment and you can exchange back and forth with this killer, then exchange with him, draw his attention to you and try to kill

him. try to put him down. it's just a complete failure. >> kenneth, we played a little bit earlier, a few minutes of that video that captured what appears to be a radio call from a student inside of the school in the middle of this and you hear someone say i got shot. it is unclear, we don't know at what point in the shooting this took place but the man who recorded that video said the audio came from the radio and a customs and border patrol vehicle outside the school. what does that tell you? >> when you get calls from children begging for help, somebody needs to respond. there have been a number of reports, still many things that need to be confirmed or dismissed, reported that the school police chief, the incident demander may not have had his walky talky, two-way radio on him which is another

issue but the key is the amount of time here. 30 minutes, 60 minutes, we can see the fog of war additionally as you roll up and not 30, 60 minutes later. i have tried for days took of some possible legitimate answer to be fair and objective on this and i just can't have it and when you hear those kids calling, the fact that they called, as a parent, you just, you don't know what to say because you can't think of anything that would be an excuse on, for not going in. look, if there are small departments, which is something we often here, small communities, that's more the reason to beef up your training, have as much gear as you can to at least make an entry, and some tools in your hand and be able to go, because you know, ahead of time, that you're going to have a delayed response in getting your mutual aid from other people. that is not an excuse for not acting. it's -- and it's not an excuse

for not being prepared, to have something in your trunk, in your gear, in your tactics to know, look, it's going to take a while. we might, we're small, but we need to go. that's more the reason than perhaps if you had a large metro area where you had more resources already in place. >> kenneth, trump, thank you anthony barksdale, we appreciate it tonight. so many questions remaining. "outfront" next, he has been nra member most of his life but after the massacre in uvalde, he turned in his a.r. 15 to police, weapon similar to the one used by the texas gunman, why did he do it? my guest next. also, president biden met with fed chair jay powell today, as rates grow, what can the fed do though to tame inflation now. and in eastern ukraine, new video of what appears to be a huge strike in a chemical plant. for what you need.

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security. >> this comes as president biden promises to meet with congress to discuss possible gun reforms but is not saying when that meeting might be, manu raju "outfront" on capitol hill, what are you learning about these talks? >> reporter: these talks aren't just initial, expected to continue in the days ahead because there is significant work ahead if there is to be a bipartisan deal and not guaranteed there will be a bipartisan deal, senator kornen of texas partook in these talks and in the days ahead, will try to hammer out the details that came up in the discussion, kyrsten sinema, the other democrat in the talk along with chris murphy and tillis, the republican, trying to hammer out a deal that will implement narrow changes to gun laws if they were to be implemented, everything as mentioned changing how the background check system

would work, reporting mental health cases but not as far as some democrats would like, such as banning high capacity magazines, ar-15s, perhaps raising the age of ar-15 purchases to 21. unlikely to happen in this package, democrats, though, in the house, do plan to move forward with a more sweeping set of gun control measures but that bill will almost certainly pass the how's judiciary committee as soon as thursday but the problem remains in the united states sce senate where 60 votes needed, need to get 10 republicans on board which is why the bipartisan talk seems to be the only place where a possible law can be made if a deal can first be reached. so all focus, all eyes are on that, poppy, as talks will continue into next week. the deadline set by senate majority leader for a deal to be reached. >> they can do it.

will they do it. huge question, thank you for the reporting. let me bring in richard smaull, long time gun owner, former high school teacher from texas, gave up his ar-15, a weapon similar to the to one used in uvalde. richard, thank you so much for joining me tonight. >> yes, ma'am. >> you call yourself a devout nra republican. those are your words. someone who has owned guns many years, been a member of nra most of your adult life. >> i was raised that way. and i, i'm a member every year. like clockwork. >> so why did you give up your ar-15 after this massacre? >> in the massacre, my wife and i went to uvalde, because she wanted to pay respects as a mother. she understood the pain that they're probably going through after having lost her son to illness and so her heart was just open and so i of course,

told her, yeah, sure, we'll go. so we went the following day and she paid her respects and so did i, and in the process, as the crowds grew i backed off and stepped aside and was watching and at that moment, i pretty much started questioning myself, the fact that this weapon that i know about, the capacity that it can do, the damage that it can do, and i started second guessing myself, like why in the world would you have such a weapon? and that was the moment. >> i know you've had the gun for many years, you know, after newtown, the shooting in sandy hook, for example, that did not move you to do this, but it was this shooting, so close to home, followed by the mass shooting in a church so close to home and then one picture of a little

victim, a little victim, really moved you. >> rohelio torres, his face, his if i can picture, my wife and i, watching this on tv. i said babe, he looks like william, which is my grandson and that pinched a nerve, if you will. and made me realize the magnitude of a young boy that age, his life being ended by such a travesty as this and it just mushroomed after that. >> to be clear, for our viewers, i mean you are still a strong supporter of the second amendment. but you said earlier this week, laws have to change. >> yes. >> what laws? >> i'm all about the constitution. the second amendment. the right to bear arms. but this weapon, people need to realize, cannot be compared to

the common arms that we have. this is an assault rifle, and i don't care what anybody says if that's not what it is, but it is. and i keep bringing up the fact that on the side of my ar, it actually has engraved, for law enforcement only. when i purchased this bushmaster, in the early years when it became legal, i bought it as a, i'm sorry to say, as a novelty, oh, i'd like to have this in my collection, so i bought one. but at this point, i might have taken it out of my safe two, three types, that's it. you don't hunt with it. and if anybody tells you that it's a hunting -- it isn't. it's not a long gun, it's a weapon of war. it's a weapon -- this is why it's the weapon of choice in these massacres. you know, i mean these people know what they're doing. they know what weapon to go to.

so time and time and time again, it happens. and we're still arguing and pointing fingers at each other. >> you know, richard, you voted numerous times for governor abbott. will you support him again if he does not support any new gun laws or regulations in the wake of this shooting? >> his reaction to this event has opened my eyes somewhat. no, i'm not going to. out of just pure conscience and i did that, i do that because i don't care about the "i'm a republican, i'm a democrat. "i want common sense. i want them to come together, and come to some kind of agreed to make some changes. the fact that you can go in and buy an ar with the ability it has at the age of 18 with no license, with no background

check, pretty much, with no, you know, finger printing and registration and, you know, 18 years old, i mean people need to realize. think about it when you were 18, you know, 18-year-olds are still living at home. they're not self-supporting, you know, they're still trying to get on their feet, still trying to struggle and find themselves. it's ridiculous. the age is ridiculous. >> will you -- sorry to interrupt, i wonder because you are still, though, an active nra member, or an nra member. will you stay one? >> i am not going to renew. i am not going to renew, and i'm not saying that because of, you know, grand standing and i didn't turn in my weapon because i wanted to make a stand your ground type thing. i did it for my conscience, i did it because i wanted to, i did it because i am tired of it, i don't want to be associated with the weapon and so therefore

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understand. >> this just hours after president biden met with federal reserve chairman jay powell and said his top priority is addressing inflation. mj lee is "outfront" at the white house, it's really important when we all say we were wrong and we learn from that and we move forward. but i think, you hear it so rarely from administration officials. how significant is it, what we just heard from janet yellin? >> well it just goes to show that the white house and the administration acknowledges and knows that inflation is such a huge problem for it right now, at a moment when the american public has we have seen is deeply pessimistic about the state of the economy, as you know very well, there are certain genuinely positive economic data like jobs growth, like low unemployment rate that simply had a hard time breaking through because when people go to the store, go to fill up their gas tank, everything costs so much more and this is part of the reason why we're seeing the

white house once again try to pivot to this issue and really focus on the issue. one thing they're doing is trying to be empathetic and communicate to the american people that they do understand what they're going through, the other thing is trying to communicate that they do have a plan they're trying to execute and a big part of all of this is addressing the fact that president biden and other top officials going back to last year, had, at one point, said they believed that inflation would be temporary, that it would be transitory and this is part of the reason we saw treasury secretary janet yellin saying that looking back, she did think that she was wrong on the trajectory of inflation, you know, she said things last year like that inflation would be a small risk, that it would be manageable, and she also said that there were some unanticipated events. of course, the ukraine war being one of them but i think critics are going to be sure to point out there were many other things baked into the economy last year, and say administration should have acted sooner and acted more aggressively. >> that's right, mj lee,

reporting outside the white house tonight. let me bring in analyst, former counselor to clinton, let me bring it to you first, treasury secretary yellin with words you rarely here, i was wrong. >> absolutely, well it's what she said to mj, we all make mistakes, now she's the most powerful woman in economic history, chair of the federal economic advisers, chair of the federal reserve, treasury secretary, like the smartest person on the economy and even she gets it wrong once in a while because she's not a politician, actually a really competent economic leader. buys you creditability, doesn't solve the problem but buys you creditability and that's important. >> so let's talk about solving the problem. the reality is there is very little any president can do to fight inflation, actually only so much the fed can do at this point to fight it but you got to

acknowledge the pain in the white houses doing that but i asked the treasury secretary a few times, you know, when we'll get back to a healthy level of inflation around 2%, part of the fed mandate, he said look, i'm not going to make predictions. what do you think, what's your outlook, are you looking at years now, 2023, 2024? >> not years, but a year or two probably. in my view, the reason inflation is so high is the pandemic, it scrambled supply chains, scrambled labor markets and of course the russian invasion of ukraine, agricultural prices, gas prices, commodity prices for instance and it won't be until we're on the other side of the pandemic and russian invasion that inflation will modify to something more comfortable, that's why it's so much uncertainty here, predict the pandemic, predict what's going to happen with the russian

invasion of ukraine, very very difficult to impossible and that's why secretary yellin got it wrong. >> except, mark, it was during the pandemic that they kept using the word transitory over and over again. >> well remember, poppy, look, remember back a year ago, a year ago now, we thought the pandemic was over. we had the vaccines that had been rolled out and you remember the president gave a speech on july 4th, go enjoy your holiday with your family. so we all thought the pandemic was over but it wasn't obviously, the delta wave hit soon thereafter. >> paul this comes not at a great time for the white house, the president, other democrats. a new gallop poll shows just fraentd 14% of americans think economy is in good shape, more than 3/4 of americans think the economy is getting worse. after the latest cnn poll found 60% of the americans said the economy is their most important issue. i mean you cannot sugar coat those numbers. how much time is left for

democrats to, you know, change this outlook in a major away ahead of the had midterms? >> well there's 160 days to the midterms but they can't use every one of those days, i think the next 30 to 60 are going to be critical and you're right -- >> i think we lost paul. there we go, you're back. continue your thought. >> oh i'm back, about to use bad language but i won't, president johnson used to say you can't shine a cow patty and the administration tried that, tried denial, the transitory, job numbers good -- look at that op ed today the president wrote. it is dialed in, a three-part message, first, i feel your pain, that empathy you talked b growing up in a family where gas prices and food prices rail hurt them. second, i can heal your pain, here's my plan. then there's a third piece he kind of winked at that i want him to develop more which is the other guys will increase your pain. he talked about senator rick scott's proposal to raise taxes

on 75 million working and poor americans and then perhaps sunset social security and medicare, an economic platform democrats can run against. need all three legs of that stool. >> mark, let me ask you about something the white house could do now that's not a panacea but would likely help. it's lift at least some of, if not all the trump-era china tariffs, president said three weeks ago he was considering it, got economists saying if you do that rule reduce inflation more than a full percentage point in a year, bring some relief, washington post editorial board said the white house has to do it, has to evolve from a, you know, tough on china standpoint to a smart on china standpoint and roll back some costly tariffs, are they right? >> yeah, you know, there's no easy solution here. there's downsides to all these things, obviously, if you eliminate the tariffs on china you're reducing some of the leverage the administration has in negotiations with china to

get them to do the right things on trade and intellectual property and cyber and all the things that are very important for us in the long run but if i were king for the day, i would say, you know, look, i'd take a percentage point off of inflation at this point and cut those tariffs. and if china doesn't, you know, behave and do the right thing down the road, you can reimpose them. just do it down the road. right now, american people are suffering with very high inflation, and obviously it's got them very depressed and rightfully so and we got to do everything we can, cutting the tariffs makes a lot of sense to me. >> china not living up to that trade agreement anyway, mark zandi, paul, thanks gentlemen very much. up next, deadly battles breaking out across the entire frontline in eastern ukraine has russia is now accused of striking a chem it will plant. also this. look at those images from shanghai tonight. millions finally allowed to leave their homes after two

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russian-controlled cities. those people, hoping to get back to their cities on the other side of that line tonight, poppy, no longer iable to speak to relatives, there's been communications blockout with internet and telephone down as well making that story harder to tell. the free press simply hasn't had access to. those images you saw at the beginning of the port, the car bomb in mariupol, broadcast by russian tv. otherwise, it is from people like that man, the mayor of mariupol now in exile here in zaporizhzhia to know what was happening, he said during the start of the invasion, have been hundreds of russian soldiers killed by resisters. >> thank you to you and your team. "outfront" next, putin's top critic, alexei navalny, already in prison says he could face

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millions in shanghai waking up with the freedom to move freely after two months of strict lock down, selina wang is "outfront." >> reporter: sprinting with shopping bags, residents racing to get out, after more than two months of a brutal city-wide lock down, shanghai is finally cracking open the seal. the city's main train station, packed with people trying to escape. but actually getting out of here is a treacherous journey. the city says it will fully resume transportation today but earlier, people have been seen trekking miles across highways, dragging their luggage or strapping it to bikes, even journeys of dozens of miles or more, not swaying their

determination . the train station parking lot has become a campsite, some leaving days earlier than their departure time, terrified they could be locked down again if they stay at home. the masses outside the train station, a stark contrast to the rest of shanghai, hundreds of thousands still remained locked in but even the lucky ones allowed out face a laundry list of restrictions. there are check points everywhere. >> this is definitely not freedom. >> reporter: this shanghai resident and her son who want to remain anonymous for fear of persecution from authorities were finally allowed out after 80 days. her only solace is seeing her son outside and smiling for the first time in a long time. >> my child now has depression because of the lockdown. he started waking up at night and crying and shouting and saying there were people wearing masks in his bedroom and he stopped eating.

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