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don lemon tonight starts right now. >> quite a different time, laura, than you and i went to elementary high and high school saw the open environment that we had. the carefree environment, e don't remember ever having to worry about a mass shooter. we were at the end of the drill where you kind of had to get under the desk in case i was some sort of missile or something. we don't have to worry about someone coming to our school and shooting our kids or shooting

us. >> i didn't hear part of what you said, don. >> the idea of what we have been seeing is just so unconscionable to think about. the idea that we have got the fear of thinking about a place that used to be a school and a place where we are looking for refuge for children to learn. the role is no longer the same and wondering what's in the mind. it is just something that is so terrifying as a mother and terrifying as a human being. i honestly remember when my daughter was in ckindergarten ad she was so excited showing me her desk. and i remember thinking no, it is right in front of the door. these are things you think about and not wanting the move my child because someone else's kids will be in harm's way. >> in the year of 2022 and the year before it and since sandy

hook and columbine and beyond. these are thoughts of parns. it is where my child safe from a school shooter. >> children and teachers. >> teachers have had such a hard time lately. oh, teachers should not be doing this or that. now they are your kids's biggest protector. we need to honor them. >> thank you for saying that. i see you tomorrow. so this is "don lemon tonight." i am going play something. it is a recorded res imagine and i really want your attention at the top. i want your attention right now. i want you to put yourself in the shoes of a person on the other end of the phone. i want to play a phone call because you are about to listen to uvalde's school district right in the middle of that mass shooting. the recording you are about to be hear now.

this is the first time most parents learn what was happening at that school. >>. >> uvalde, parents, there is an active shooter. try not visit the campus. as soon as more information is gathered, it will be shared. >> the rest of the school district is under a secured sta stay with us out of a precautionary measures. >> we appreciate your cooperation and we'll share more information as it becomes available. thank you. >> can you imagine getting that call, it is chilling? >> would you go? >> you would go to that school. >> you are a parent, how could you? >> imagine how terrified you would be. >> the call went out about 12:17

local time. the gunman had been inside that school for 44 minutes. >> more shots fired at 12:21. law enforcement killing the money began at 2050. we live in a country with gun violence can and does happen any time, anywhere where to any one. even as america mourns. those 19 little kids, two teachers shot to death in their own classroom, a week ago today. >> there were 15 mass shootings, over the memorial day weekend. according to the gun violence archive, the killing just goes on and on. one person dead, three injured by gunfire today. >> a high school graduation had taken place. >> we can't pretend that we

don't know the truth here t. >> with the second amendment, what it means and we have to live in the present. >> that we'll correct and make things better for the entire country, for the good of our country. >> that's what we have to look at. the fact is the utes is an out liar, when it comes to guns. that's the fact. >> this is the only country in the world where civilian's guns out numbered theme. >> athink about that. more guns than people. >> there are 120 guns for every person. 100 people in canada. yemen is a country in the middle

of an armed conflict. four % of the world population, an estimated 46% of all the guns on the planet. >> the united states has the highest firearm homicide rate in the developed world. >> the number of u.s. deaths wwas about 4-100 thousand people. so we can't pretend that it is not an american problem. it is. you can't pretend it is not a gun problem. >> what's the mechanism? guns. mental lelt issues and other issues as well.

we can't make decisions of how we move forward of the tilling. >> which is a gun. >> it is propose rous. those who are telling you that you should not be talking about guns and sensible gun regulation and america ka's obsession with guns, they are lying to you. >> it is heartbreaking. i want you to listens to the pole of gun rye lens in america. >> cnn obtained a smaller, it appears to be a video call of a terrified child saying she had been shot. >> so cnn can't confirm that was a child's voice. it is not clear at what point during the shoogt that bid owe

was sported. >> in the fist of all of this, first, they say a teacher propped open the door and that was supposed to be block. the first of police for the volleyball demore. there is a whole lotto discuss in the hour ahead on this program and beyond. >> i want to bring in cnn's sh sh sh sh sh shimon what are they saying now? >> after frit and for days personneling us the schoolteacher left the door open

and that's how the gun monogot nuds the school. she lays it she's close. the foor dit not lock. all of this information came through life through an foreign two polk with the local newspapers and some time after that. >> the orts here confirming that they obtained new video and new information and that confirms that story. we are learning the chief of the school district police was worn in as a ki council members. >> what have you learned? >> we were total that ichb the and respect for the family, that was not going to happen. >> it turns out, it dit happen. we are leaning this of the last

few minutes here. >> elves sponsor in and he was the mayor's office gaive us the impression this was not going to happen and tonight we are learning that he was sworn in and this was not supposed to be a public ceremony. >> we are going to be allowed there. >> we'll not told this is happening gl the press release came out. >> it anned at some point txdot. >> the person here being why obviously, the other thing that's so interesting. the police here, investigators from department of public safety. they have wanted to follow up and. they have been asking him to come in for ber views. so far, he has refused.

>> shimon coke suppose. >> now, i want to bring in texas state thank you for joining us guns again. >> i want to yoet your reaction that thief ardondo have not yet followed the hur. >> obviously concerns. >> this hole thin r thin we keep getting holder and we keep on getting different reports. >> i am not the one defending arredondo defending him. >> i feel like just make every agency some responsible, tom to bear here. >> no wrol

>>. >> you believe there is a lot of glam going around. >> he's under a lot of pressure. >> goon. >> the falkt that we have this operation in the area, where would they and did they go in. where was the sheriff's office, did they go in and what time? >> we know at 12:03, there were 19 officers. none of those officers we in. two were state troopers. >> i am waiting for a file a record that i hope to receive it. they had the video. there is another door that was not working properly.

>> well, you said -- >> say again want the lock. >> you are told now that door, she removed the rocks, she placed there before he in sin. >> the video indicates. he properly locked the door and we are being told there is another door in the building. there is a lot of responsibilities here. >> i though that monday morning, quarterback does not really help. i get all that. >> at the end of the day, we have to make sure this type of response never happens again. that it does not happen to any school, district or any where in texas or the united states. >> mary do you think the family is serving? >> absolutely. >> you said you hoped this to get by frit. >> do you think we get it then? >> i am so, i don't know why it

should that i can so long quite frankly. i have seen some of the work before and how they are collecting it. >> so it would seem that i get 15. >> i get to deal. >> looking at the video and cameras around the school. piecing teachers together. by the way, we have enough technology to place where every one of those troopers, where they were at the time. >> the students inside the school where you can hear someone say i got shot. it is not clear precisely. we know there were students needed medical attention. what's your reaction to them in.

listen, at 1:03, there were 19 officers in the hall why. >> 911 calls are coming in. >> where is the radio transmissions. i have asked for that today? >> where are the 911, why is dps not getting the 911 call? >> is he the only one listening to the 911 call when kids were saying please spend the police. listen to those calls. >> did troopers and nobody is going in when kids are calling and saying there is a matt guy in here. i am still alive. and nobody goes in. this is a complete failure on every level. >> it is astounding to me that we are here in this space right now. >> i was surprised that you president biden's rate of

demolishing. >> after a lot of these. there is what they dit in sandy lick. >> do you think the community needs that? >> a fresh start? >> parents that pass on. we have siblings, they don't want to have their kids go there. >> it is very traumatic. what does it say about our country that we have a federal grant for schools that arely de crimes? up to $45 million grant. >> it is great that it exists, how pathetic that we have to have it, talk about everybody in austin and had every chance to do something about this and done

nothing. >> seven mass shootings under greg abbott now. >> tohe only thing he's been abe to do for us is $100 million in securing and hardening schools. >> he wasted $4 billion on a trump up-policy that did not work. >> 40 times more he spent on the border and he spent on school hardening. >> my last question to you is that why you are in involved? >> all of the fixes for this or the solution. and, don't vofr guns, it seems from the right. gregg a sot and the others. >> it involves mental health. put guns on the hands of teepers and staffs. >> or you want to put more officers at the school. >> none of that involved a access to gun in this country. >> what is that? >> it is always'ville.

>> certainly it is evil. >> certainly it is mental health. if it is a mental health problem, fund it better. >> it absolutely is having militarize weapons in the hands of 18 years old. >> republican constituents says, this makes no sense. >> how could you by an ar-151, 17. >> there are three fixes. i own guns. i don't own ar-15. we can fix this problem to a certain degree in texas. we can have eight periods and we can create our age. >> call it whatever you want. i don't care. >> during that waiting period. you could have stay agentzs going to interview people and terming they are capable of.

>> senator, thank you. >> just makes zero sense. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, don. more questions tonight about the police responds in uvalde. what's supposed to happen in the active shooter situation? >> what is supposed to happen? >> i am going to ask him that, first. >> former s.w.a.t. salespeople commander, that's next. >> ...an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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. a follow-up interview with the texas rangers. i want to bring in brian higgins right here in new york city. he's the former police chief. thank you so much. >> why is he not responding? >> that's a good question. he's still an employee of the police chief. he would be ordered to speak. >> why do you think he's not doing? >> i think he has some legal present presentization. i played the recorded phone

marriage that parns got, h 4 minutes in the the hoot shooszing. tha -- can you imagine if you were the person on the other end of the phone call? >> twe get questions from parens whether they are houses or worship. >> if i am upstairs and there is an active shooter, think child is downstairs in some sort of service, i am not dpgoing to ge my child. >> my child, the same thing happens. >> the sense we got a he is saj there is something going on. >> they were going to lock the school down. let's take a look at the timeline.

it is troubling. >> 11:33. police officers entered the school two-minutes later. as many as 19 officer s in the hallway at 12:03 p.m. at 12:15, the border patrol tactical arrive. >> 8- to 9 students, still aliv. >> the i am jumping ahead here, there were more 911 calls and more shots fired. it is not until 1250 that they unlock the gdoor and killed the gunman. >> parents wanting to go in. whapz? >> we have a lot of information you have to be delivered. >> the information we was does not appear to be credible. every time we get a piece of information, it changes. >> we didn't get much information about how he entered the school.

we were told it was so there is a lot of information yet to be delivered. but, i hear this discussion about whether or not an active shooter or barricade. >> that does not matter. >> the police are vaked up out the door and fair formulating a plan to go in. >> the standard is, when you hear shooting, when you goes this is a victim, you expedite that plan. >> does it tell you to take whatever situation is to take him down or get rid of the threat? >> and i don't want the get caught up. if he's barricaded with hos sajs at this point. >> there are people in there. >> quite often we may slow it down so we can have a better plan to go in. as soon as you know there are

wounded children and you hear a shot, if that's the information then they're usually a hasty team. >> your mtactical team is ready? >> there phoner police. >> is there a solution? >> you mean as far as active shooters? >> we throw everything on the table. >> i think we need and i have seen it already. >> those who have their levers, in their corners. they all say to the other side, i want you to compromise. >> i think we put everything on the table. we include everyone from educators to laurmz. and mental health professionals and people i hope things like firearms loss.

i think we consider that. >> if it was me and i own firearms, if you told me that ill gif my farm liars tomorrow. i think we need to put everything on the table. >> whatever that looks like. >> i here discussion about. we think that we can come up with keknology to harden our schools. >> thank you, brian. >> thank you verying having me. >> that's a good start. >> appreciate it. the shooting in yauld decame right at the heel of a deadly shooting buffalo. >> the former police officer took on the gunman. >> he was a good guy with a gun. >> he son joins me next. >> what does it feel like to be grieving our yellowstone death and watching this happen again in texas.

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communities across the u.s. continue to suffer from gun violence with over a dozen mass shootings since the killing of r robb elementary in uvalde, texas. >> we are still grieving while another one happened. no one is more impacted of the families than, including the family. a police officer was killed by a gunman who walked into the supermarket and killed.

his son who i spoke to followed the tragedy is part of the community that no one pants to be apart of. >> families lose their loved world cups to gun violence. >> 11 families, aaron, i appreciate you joining us again. i felt like we just talked. >> we did. >> and now this happened. >> how are you? >> i am doing okay. >> you vjust a funeral for your dad, right? >> yes, i did. >> and, oh, it was amazing. it was beautiful. it was so many people there that e hello, so many officers there. >> we sent them home. >> you said you got a call from

your friend about uvalde. >> what did they say? >> i had a buddy called me from work and he told me elves watching the news and i don't know exactly who it was but they were talking about the shooting in uvalde and they were saying they wish hay that had a cop like my dad to be there and protect them. maybe, not a lot of people would not have gotten killed. but they had something like my dad there. >> that really made me struck a scr nerve. >> listen, the shooter there was, we had a lot of ammunitions, big gun and body armor. you said if your dad is out gun. you said if he had not been outside, he would not be matched. >> what did you say to me? >> i said it would have been a

fair fight. >> it was not, he went there, you know, his service and unfortunately, he didn't make it out alive. >> having said what you just said, many times i speak with police officers and they believe that they are out done, right? just people on the street and people are going up against even if it is a mass shooting. >> you are from a member of law enforcement. i am sure you believe swtrongly in the second amendment. >> what dow make of all of this talk about? >> what should happen? >> what should lawmakers be doing? >> talk to me about that. >> i mean -- >> you are going to see something go on. >> and how are these shooting are going on and how fast are they happening.

>> you would thyou would hear something on the news. hey, we'll stop this and that or you know, you can't be 18 to buy aseawall rifles or anything. anything that you can do to combat this gun violence. >> i think i saw something in canada they were doing something from they were banned in the cells. >> for people hand's guns. noint, nol if you will ever happen in the united states. >> two restrict it. >> e rai. >> i think that's something we should look at in this country. >> i do, too. >> you know, your dog need the incident and the one in april.

>> motte toris had a little piece doing it on social media. >> i feel like if people can be a little more vigilant as well. if they see something online is not right. do whatever you have to do, raise awareness. call t9 # 1. sue something. parents we have bethinking about you, people lost their loved ones. >> it is going to be a tough time for everyone. >> moms and dads and kids. >> aaron, you be in tup. you take care of yourself. >> well do, thank you. so there is a major defeat for the investigation of the

investigators. special counsel, john dhram, coming up empathy. >> we are going to tell you what happened in court today that's next.

the investigation of investigators come up empty today. today hillary clinton's campaign lawyer michael susman was acquitted of lying to the fbi. >> thanks for joining me. >> during the durham's investigation, what do they have to show at this point? >> well, not much. i have over seen trials where the results was not what i

wanted. in this case, it looks like it was thin and the jury didn't take a long period of time to determine the right was up. 6 or 7 hours at most. it seems like there was a hard road for the government to plow. we have to show that false statements made and the more importantly in this case based on the facts as i understand them. they're difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. >> in other words, do they cause the investigators to do something differently from what they outher wise who you would have done. >> the durham investigation, he was allowed to go forward,

continue his investigation. s he's allowed to continue his investigation and see it to his, and i think john james said the right thing. sometimes we mercedes agree with t results of jury and we move on. >> it is interesting because we had so many of these that turned out to be nothing, right? >> even a lot of conspiracy theories. and then it curturns out to be nothing and they don't talk about it. >> i don't know how the other network is covering this. they thought it was a big bomb shell and it was a first step leading towards a further inquiry and another investigation of hillary clinton. >> my respect as a lawyer and someone used to be prosecutor,

when paper san fallen, follow your trial. they want your result to have it at the end of the case. >> they cry foul at the end of the case if it is not the outcome they want. >> not too long ago, they were talking about clearance thomas giing the speed. this is another example of an outcome. it was done fairly and scarily. a jury in washington, d.c. and a lot of who were in the side of the spectrum that justice thomas is on. >> don't aapplied the oak. . asking wlerk to turn over -- >> how rare is it? what does it tell you about the

investigation? >> well, this is like many things you and i have discussed over the past year. >> we describe it being unprecedented and highly unfushl, i am not aware of any time in history, ins the advent of cell phone, you can have that a hundred years alg. it is also true that is a response to manager that's unprecedented and never happen before. the leak of a draft opinion. i understand the response, i get it. i am not sure how effective it will be. nong other things. they can't make those requests of the people who publish the report. >> you can't do that because they won't comply because there is a reporter bridge recognized in many jurisdictions. >> it is also the case that if

there was a click or some employees of the court, everyone who works at the court, it is probably the hardest legal job to get in the united states of america to be in a position of justices of the supreme court. they're not dumb. you would imagine it would be fairly clever and widely about it. and not electronic record.

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weapons they have received today. it although not at the systems maximum range. president reiterating that the united states will not send any troops to ukraine, but will work with allies to strengthen nato's eastern flank. with vladimir putin's war in ukraine now in its fourth month, his forces appear to be making new advances in the eastern part of the country. an airstrike on the chemical plant is sending a massive gas cloud into the sky. first they blame a teacher for propping the door open in uvalde, that allow the shooter entry. but now police are correcting themselves. stay with us.

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>> we begin with new developments tie in the investigation into the elementary school shooting in texas that left 19 children and two teachers that. officials are now admitting that the teacher who propped open the door before the shooting actuall