works with children from conflict areas who suffered physical and mental harm. arwa, we want to wish you well in everything you're doing going forward. thanks for all of you have done and to our viewers, thank you very much for watching, i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room," erin burnett, "outfront," starts right now. outnext, trump fights back as the january 6th committee presents a devastating case to the former president. what more will the committee reveal. >> i'll ask chairman betnny thompson. as becoming a wanted man in russia, we'll talk about what happens ending up on putin's enemy list. plus the golf summer game, with nine royal pay check and see pro treatment. is the future of golf really in

saudi saudi arabia? good evening tonight, former president trump lashing out and insulting his daughter ivanka in the process after the january 6th committee laid the blame squarely on him, repeatedly playing video of his closest advisers admitting trump lost the election fair and square in fact one of them was his own daughter ivanka trump who said she agreed with attorney general bill barr that the election was not stolen. >> in fact your perspective about the election when attorney general barr made that statement? >> it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr. so i accepted what he was saying. >> trump, tonight, throwing ivanka under the bus after he heard that. as he tries to save himself, writes in part, ivanka trump was not involved in looking at or studying election results.

she had long since checked out. nice thing to say, slamming his own daughter and comes as another trump ally who tried to turn the election behind the scenes trying to fight back tonight after damning proof from the january 6th committee. saying the notion i saw a presidential pardon for myself or other members of congress is a shameless and soulless lie. he can say that, the committee, though, says it has the receipts and perry is not the only one who saw a pardon for his role in trying too overturn the electio. >> as you can see the representative perry contacted the white house in the weeks after january 6th to seek a presidential pardon. multiple other republican congressmen also saw presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. >> well, there are many questions for the committee when it comes to what the members plan to reveal next. obviously, going to be a series of hearings over the next couple

of weeks. who in trump's orbit was communicating with extremist groups prior to january 6th, how high up did that communication go? how did they prove as trump did say he knew they lost the election, point blank knew it even as they continued to spread and propagate lies about fraud and to what extent to did trump himself pressure mike pence to overturn the election, i'll speak to the chairman of the january 6th select committee, congressman benny thompson, is first though, begin with jess quadruple snider on capitol hill. >> reporter: we know the committee will continue to make its case, the second of seven hearings in total and we expect one witness, former fox news political editor a actually fired in the weeks after the election after he called the state of arizona for biden, pushing biden over that 270

electoral vote limit so he says he'll be a witness on monday. will be three hearings next week. we're expecting the committee to focus on trump's month-long effort to overturn the election despite the fact he and fellow aides knew and were told repeatedly that trump had lost. we're also expecting we'll hear from former justice department affiliations who were repeatedly pressured to call the election rigged and who stopped those false claims from going any further. and then, erin, the committee will continue to build on their narrative of those far-right extremist groups, the proud boys and oath keepers and the questions about how preplanned this was and whether trump and his aides were linked, because remember, erin, 17 members of the proud boys and oath keepers already have been charged by the justice department with seditious conspiracy, to try to violently overthrow the government, carries up to 20 years in prison so we know the

thoughts that this was a preplanned event are already out there. the evidence is out there and the committee expected to build on that, erin. >> thank you very much, jessica, i want to go "outfront" now as promised to the january 6th chairman of the committee, benny thompson and i very much appreciate your time. obviously, so many things to ask. i do want to start with former president trump's response today to the video you showed a video last night a clip of his daughter ivanka and clearly she accepted the election results and the former president today said that ivanka, quote, was not involved and had long since checked out. does his response and what he is saying change anything for you? >> no, it doesn't. and by the way, thank you for having me. we have proof about ivanka's participation with her daddy on

a regular basis about what was going on, on january 6th. she was there in the white house, and so what, or who better could have access to what was going on than one's own daughter and so for him to somehow insinuate that his daughter checked out is disingenuous on his part as a father. daughters normally know what their fathers are doing, especially when there's a close relationship. >> so, as you say, you've got the proof that she was involved in briefing him on those election results. i want, also, to ask you something jessica mentioned, of course, these far right extremist groups, the extent to which this is preplanned which i know chairman thompson is core of the entire story you're telling the country.

last night you told my colleague jake tapper you have witnesses that will describe conversations between members of the extremist groups, talking about the proud boys and oathkeepers, conversations of those groups and people in the former president trump's orbit. what were those conversations about? were they specific on the planning? >> well, the planning, the centered primarily around coming to washington, showing their support for the president and based on that engagement, they came. they came in large numbers. as you saw in the video presentation, not only did they set up outside of washington, but for the most part, some of them brought weapons, some brought tear gas, bear spray, a lot of things that is not the

normal things you bring to a rally or demonstration but they brought kevlar vests and other things as if they were prepared for war. but more importantly, they did not even go to the rly. they went to the capitol and the video demonstrated all of that. but our hearing will share the other names of the other individuals who were talking to the proud boys, some of the video you saw them meeting as a group with other oath keepers and others. so there's a lot of sharing of information that we will provide the public with during our next six hearings that will even crystallize more in the minds of

the public as to what the trump administration did to create the narrative for january 6th. >> so, i know you're going to be revealing a lot of these names but to understand where you're going with this, we know a top member of the oath keepers said in court that the leader of the oath keepers had tried to get in touch with trump on january 6th. and the oath keeper's leader, according to his testimony, spoke on the phone to an unidentified person who was close to trump. now this person did not connect the leader of the oath keepers to the president in this conversation as we understand it. my question for you, chairman thompson, is how close was this person to trump? and, you know, was this a core inner circle person, having a conversation with a leader of the oath keepers. >> well just let me say in our investigation, we found close relationship with those elements

in the country, especially the proud boys and oath keepers. i don't want to give her all of what we have. you just have to follow up during the hearing but everything we present, we will be able to verify. if there's anyone who disagrees with what we present, all they have to do is come before the committee, take, we'll swear them, put them under oath, and they can talk. that's from the president on down. so we welcome anyone who disagrees with any evidence we present in our findings to come to the committee and we will gladly entertain them. >> so chairman, i guess at the core of this and there are so many levels obviously if the president not questioned the election, said it was rigged and fraudulent, none of those people would be here to begin with so

if you look at responsibility in a simple way, you've long ago established one did not need a committee to establish that level of responsibility. but when it comes to these specific conversations, are you going to be presenting the president of the united states himself, president trump at that time, having any specific conversations with any of these individuals? >> well, not the president. as far as, we've been able to find. but there are people, as i said, in his orbit that have engaged these groups all along. so we will be able to present certain information around that. but as to whether or not he was briefed on what they were doing, we won't go that far but it's inconceivable that you would invite people to washington on january 6th and tell them it

would be while, as you heard in , that it would be wild, as you heard a vied i won't presentation, a kind of call to arms to the right wing element in this country. so the president is notorious and clear in that going to be wild tweet what he intended to share with the public. so our job over the next six hearings is to tell this story. we will grow the picture of him being told by responsible individuals that the election was not stolen, they had not found any impropriety at all in terms of the conduct and most of the areas, most of the officials were republican, and still, he refused to accept his data

person, his campaign manager, his chief law enforcement official. because he kept pushing this false narrative on the public. he spent money pushing this false narrative. he raised money to push this false narrative, and what we'll show in one of our hearings as to how much money he really raised, but how little he really spent. >> but he didn't, he did not put his money where his mouth is as you're saying. i almost hesitate to ask this question to you, chairman, because obviously, the facts show that what he said happened with the election didn't happen and was told repeatedly by everyone around him so any stable, sane individual, you know, should be able to look at the sky and say okay, i know i've been saying it's green but i get the joke, i know it's not green. but i have to ask you, do you have the proof that he did know

that this was all a lie? that he knew it was all b.s. even as he spread it? >> well, the only thing we have is the firsthand testimony of different witnesses from, as i said, his own attorney general, the election officials who he hired to run his campaign. those are his trusted advisers. and if these are the people you hire to advise you and they give you their professional advice that you've lost the election, why would you go to that runt group of giuliani, powell, and others, who really are just along for the ride? and start following them, relevant of people you've been working with all along.

even when you start going to court, he went to court 60 times and he lost. so at some point in america, when you lose an election, and i tried to show that in the time of the civil war, president lincoln was faced with a similar situation and he rallied the country, rather than divide the country and said if i lose, we will cooperate with the winner. donald trump is the only president in the history of the united states not to cooperate in the peaceful transition of power. >> chairman thompson, i very much appreciate your time. thank you, i know we will all be watching again for the second hearing which is, of course, on monday morning. thank you, chairman. >> thank you. and next, the dow, plunging nearly 900 points. inflation in the united states hits a 40 year high and, you

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new tonight, dow plunging 880 points on the news inflation hit a high in the u.s., 8% increase in may, worse than economists expected and they didn't think it was going to be good. average household paying $460 a month more for the same goods and services compared to a year ago. okay. that's just not money that exists for so many people. groceries are up 12%, i'm sorry, that's the highest increase since 1979. air fare, 38%, biggest hike since 1980, body work for cars up, rent, biggest increase since 1987. fuel oil, more than doubling as the biggest increase ever.

president biden telling americans that putin's invasion of ukraine is to blame and that he is committed to bringing prices down. >> make no mistake about it. i understand inflation is a real challenge to american families. today's inflation report confirmed what americans already know -- putin's price hike is hitting america hard. >> "outfront" now, economic ana ana analyst jim bianco. look, we're talking about price increases that have not been seen in a generation and if anyone has recollection of those dates i was mentioning, you know, that was some of the worst inflation this country has ever seen. right? in the end of the 1970s, beginning 1980s, had more surging double digits, well above because of the horrific inflation that was seen and a lot of these prices we're seeing no at a higher increase than they were even then. so just how bad is it right now?

>> oh, it's bad. let's remember what inflation is. it's a loss of purchasing power that affects every single person in the country. it affects elon musk, space x, tesla, affects people on public assistance, affects everybody in between. that's the thing about inflation. unemployment affects a couple% of the population and it's very unfortunate that when they lose their job but it doesn't affect everybody. so when you think about it in those terms, this is why the inflation rate is such a big deal. and i might add, while you saw another statistic also out today, university of michigan has been doing a consumer confidence survey since 1952 and its worst reading ever was june, this year, this month. it wasn't 1980, it wasn't the stock market crash, it wasn't the tech bubble, wasn't the financial crisis or 911 or the covid shutdowns. the worst reading in 70 years with consumer confidence is right now because of this fear of inflation.

>> now, look, what we've seen in terms of energy prices, that, obviously, is related to ukraine and that has hurt. okay? but this didn't start with ukraine. okay. it started well before ukraine, there's a lot of other reasons for this. president biden has been calling this the putin price hike. he did it today, done it other times. here he is. >> we start with the putin price hike. this is the putin price hike. i'm doing everything in my power to blunt putin's price hike. >> politically, i get why he says that. obviously, it's a lot more complicated than that. how much does putin's invasion of ukraine have to do with the inflation crisis we're seeing in the u.s., jim? >> it has a small impact. it's not zero. the price of crude oil is a big proponent of why gas prices are going up, but gasoline prices at all time high are not consistent with high in crude oil prices, part of that is refining

capacity is down in the country over the last couple of years, first because of covid and then over a lot of green rules as well. also, if we're talking about inflation, there's a lot more going on than just oil prices when it comes to inflation. you mentioned some of the statistics earlier about getting your car repaired or airline tickets. those are not direct oil inputs like crude oil prices would be. so when you add it up, the putin price hike is a factor but it's not a dominant factor in what's going on with inflation. >> something really significant, when you say, not only it is a factor but not even the dominant factor. it's important for people to understand. thank you so much, jim. >> thank you. and next, the uvalde school police chief defending his actions even as he waited more than an hour to enter the classrooms where 19 students and two teachers were killed. reporter spoke to him in his first official interview is "outfront" and wanted by putin, a journalist now the target of the russian government, all

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tonight, new details about the uvalde school massacre leading to new questions and outrage, why police waited more than an hour to engage the shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers. uvalde's school police chief, texas officials say was in command, now claims in his first official interview that he didn't know that. he didn't even consider himself to be incident commander. tells the texas trib youune, i called for extraction tool to open the door. "outfront" now, reporter for the texas tribune, who interviewed chief arredondo, and obviously this is such an important interview you got because he is at the center of finding out what happened and frankly, what didn't happen in this horrific incident. two weeks passed since texas officials first identified chief arredondo as incident commander and only speaking to you publicly for the first time that

he's disputing he was in charge. how does he explain that? >> good evening, erin, that was one of the major reasons chief arredondo wanted to speak with me and my colleague james was to dispute the fact that state officials labelled him the incident commander, the man in charge of the shooting response, he said that simply was the not true. he said he was one of the first officers to respond to rob elementary when the report of the shooting came in, entered the building with another officer, first ones to reach where the shooter was. by that time, he had barricaded himself inside those two adjoining classrooms. at that point, chief arredondo realized that they didn't have a key to enter the classroom so he was going to stay right there at the frontline, so to speak, ready to use his pistol if necessary to keep that shooter contained but was not going to retreat and form a command role. he was going to stay right there and said he never considered himself in charge of the scene

and never gave orders to anyone throughout it. >> so there are been questions for weeks about whether he knew there were children still alive in that classroom calling 911. there were children alive calling 911 and police still waited for more than an hour. telling you he didn't have his radios that he intentionally left them behind as he left the school so let's start with that issue. how does he explain why he would intentionally leave radios behind when he went in the school? >> chief arredondo told us he wanted to be able to confront the shooter as quickly as possible and he left his radios behind because he wanted to have both of his hands free to use his pistol to shoot that gunman if that's what it came to. police experts we talked said they couldn't comprehend why an officer would leave his radio behind. that is the primary tool police use to communicate during an emergency. chief arredondo had said to us, most mass shootings end very

quickly and he didn't want to waste any time and while it is true that this incident as your viewers know lasted more than an hour so the consequence of him bringing his radio means during that whole event he was unable to communicate with the other officers on scene. >> of course, what you're saying in terms of his answer raises the other glaring point here, which is that if he did that, even though it didn't make sense, to get him as quickly as possible to do that, stood outside for an hour. there were people alive at the beginning of that hour who were alive at the end of the hour. what is his answer to that most crucial question of all? which is why he and the other officers didn't go in. >> i agree, that is the crucial question, erin. he had said that once he and the other officers realized the shooter was inside those adjoining classrooms and those doors were locked and had no

quick access to any keys to open them, he decided the safest and most responsible thing to do was to wait until they had secured a key to open that door and this is one of the things that police experts we talked to were most critical of because this campus police, the idea that they would not have a key to open any door of the schools within their primary jurisdiction really struck them as incredibly poor planning and of course, chief arredondo wanted to push back on the narrative that during that hour-long or so period during which they could not enter the classroom through the doors, that officers outside simply did nothing, he said no, that was not true. yes, it was a long delay but we did the best we could with that time. he said he helped coordinate the evacuation of other classrooms where officers could get in and credited that decision with protecting the lives of about 500 people. >> all right, zack, thank you

very much. i really appreciate it. i appreciate you giving us all the details. obviously, it is very important to hear what he is saying. so that we understand as we try to consfrukt, you know, how this happened. thank you so much. >> thanks, erin. next, ominous new warning from putin, and the saudi golf tournament as the pga tour retaliates tonight. raise the jar to all five layeyers. raise the jar to the best gelato... you've ever tasted. talenti.i. raise the jar. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strength and energy. woo hoo! with 27 vitamins and minerals. and ensure cplete with 30 grams of prote. ♪ ♪

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tonight, vladimir putin giving the clearest signal yet that his end game is a full restoration of the russian empire. in a speech to russians, comparing the invasion of ukraine to a time of the russian empire, use that word specifically, to the 7th century russian ruler peter the great, putin saying he is only taking back territory that rightfully belongs to russia much like peter the great did after a brutal and horrifying 21 year war with sweden. putin also says, quote, it's impossible to build a fence around a country like russia and

we ourselves aren't planning to build such a fence around us. matthew chance is on the ground in kyiv, and the carnage in un ukraine continue to see grow, putin's words suggests he has no end in sight. >> reporter: yeah, i mean it was, you know, very symbolic, potentially, and telling that vladimir putin chose this moment to compare himself to peter the great. he was actually, in fairness, at an exhibition about peter the great, drawing parallels from the 7th century to now. said look back then when peter the great invaded western territory, it was not really russian, but in fact, in the past, it was, and russia was just taking back. in some ways saying that's what we're doing now with crimea and with ukraine as well so it's led to all sorts of concerns that

what vladimir putin is really engaged in now isn't the de-naziification of ukraine, he's not concerned about western military expansion. what he's really embarked on is an imperial adventure to regain and regather russian lands that, in the past, were dominated by moscow, whether in the soviet period or imperial period, so it's fueled concerns that the, that that adventure may not stop in ukraine, but could expand elsewhere as well, erin. >> matthew chance, thank you very much, that brings me to a man now wanted for telling the truth, russian investigative journalist and intelligence expert now the target of a criminal probe by the kremlin for his reporting on the inner workings of russian intelligence and putin's war in ukraine. russia calling his reporting, much of which you have seen here if you watch the show, he's been on the program sharing it, they call it deliberately false, his bank accounts now frozen and could face years in prison if

convicted, andre is back with me and andre, obviously deeply unfortunate circumstances to have this conversation with you. how did you find out that you're on russia's wanted list? >> well, hello. i got several strange messages from my bank in moscow telling me that all of a sudden, i owe something like $80,000 and 75,000 euros and i couldn't understand that until i got another message from another bank with the information that now i face a criminal investigation with a number of the case and then, i took some hours to work out and to understand that actually, while investigating the russian investigative committee, appears to spread fake news about the war. >> and you share with us the documents that russia's

investigative committee presented to the court so you shared with us, they lay out their charges against you. they're punishable, andre, up to, going to prison, and what putin has wanted to silence his dissenters, he has found a way to do so. i understand you're not in moscow right now, but are you worried that your freedom or, frankly, andre, your life, is now in danger? >> well, i understand that i cannot travel to certain countries which are, with vladimir putin that is absolutely clear. i also understand my family back in moscow is a potential target and we already see some moves in this direction and obviously, has the idea of the fsb, because it is the fsb which is behind this investigation, is to stop me from reporting, try to

understand, but because i've been doing this for 23 years and the very first time i was investigated by the fsb was exactly 20 years ago so i sort of, i understand what is going on. >> andre, you know, the reason they are targeting you and going after you right now is because of your reporting. you've done some incredible reporting on the fsb, what's been going on in this war specifically, on putin, his strategy, what's going on in his inner circle, on the, you know, fsb members and, you know, whether they have been detained, house arrests, all of this. now i know you're learning more about tactics, new tactics the fsb is using. what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah, what we see now is that the kremlin as fsb is moving against people who already left the country. i'm not the only journalist targeted now by the russian authorities and all of us are now abroad, so the obvious,

well, objective of the russian authorities is to find a way how to get us back or to silence us and we already know that at least several families of people who left visited by the fsb and asked to contact with people who left and that's going to get back. >> wow. all right, andre, i appreciate your taking the time to talk to us. we'll talk to you again soon and again, thank you. >> thank you. >> and next, money talks. another top u.s. golfer leaving the pga tour, joined the controversial saudi-funded league where some golfers have reportedly been offered nine figures to work less. and texas authorities still reeling from their response to uvalde, now facing questions about why some people weren't notified that a convicted murderer was on the loose. bue to work from here, there has to b be someone here making sure everything is safe..

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tonight, senior u.s. officials told saudi arabia the u.s. is ready to move forward with a, quote, reset of the relationship, essentially moving on from the saudi government's murder and dismemberment of journalist jamal kroshogi with a bone saw. a tough talk difference from biden saying he'll isolate the saudis if president. >> he was in dismembered and i made it very clear, we would not sell weapons to them. we will make them pay the price and make them the pariah they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the presidential government in saudi arabia. they have to be held accountable. >> well, that's not happening. in fact, they're now furnishing

their reputation. the saudi regime trying to bolster its reputation founding the new live golf series, shaking the foundation of the sport. major champion deshambo defecting from the pga top tour, going to play in the saudi funded league, being paid a lot of money to do so, some of them reportedly getting nine figures to jump ship and, you know, money talks. "outfront," golf writer for sports illustrated, if you saw he's covering the golf series tournament so in london for us again tonight, bob, i appreciate your time. pga tour comes out today, indefinitely suspending every player who joined the saudi league, certainliy slamming them for selling out. now live is fighting back saying there's expectation they can help the players with legal fees if they sue the pga tour. how nasty can this get? >> yeah, i don't think it's going to calm down anytime soon.

you know, deshambo is a big name in golf some of the other players, including phil nickelson had long careers and maybe moving on to something like this makes sense for them but deshambo just won the u.s. open in 2020, very popular and polarizing player and for him to make this leap is pretty significant and as you noted the live people, greg norman, ceo and commissioner has pledged to support the players if they felt a need to push back legally. you know, there is some question as to whether or not independent contractors can be prohibited from doing things in this case, golf, outside of the pga tour and, you know, the tour will be doing this so matter who is funding it. this is a threat to them. so, but obviously, the saudi involvement just heightens the entire scenario. >> so all that money, that saudi

money being thrown around here is being on display at the golf course and you've been there, you tweeted a photo of london black cabs all lined up to take the players to the course, using the traditional formal black cabs. planes overhead as the players begin to tee off, players dressed as buckingham palace guards on the tea box, the saudis went all out to turn this into a big circumstance event so what is the mood like on the ground there? >> yeah, you know, they've got a lot of bells and whistles and obviously have the fupds nds to such things to try to make it more special. you know, pga tour events do a lot of nice things too but this is a little bit beyond, i mean to have 18 or so of the london taxis shuffling players out to their holes, of course, most golf tournaments at the professional level do not have shotgun starts. most of us who would play in a

shotgun event are taking a golf car out there, not a cab. it's all just a matter of, you know, being different, trying to show that they're different and then once they got started, though, it was golf, you know, it looked like a golf tournament, felt like a golf tournament. >> do you get the feeling that it's just going to be accepted that once you know that people are going to, more and more are going to join once the first guys take the heat for, you know, supporting a regime like this, that this will just take off? >> yeah, i think it's quite possible that you're going to see more guys go. i mean this has been out there now for a while. more than a year, actually. and when it started to take shape last fall, the live golf people thought they had a lot of people on board and yet there was some hiccups along the way and they had to reset and dustin johnson took the leap and so did

phil mickalson and make it easier for other guys. >> when you say the word reset, u.s. government saying the same thing, proof that politics can matter on some level. seems to look the other way then a lot of others can too. thank you so much, really appreciate your time. >> thank you. and next, a texas man and four grand children traveling to their weekend ranch, then killed by a convicted murderer, now texas authorities facing questions about thei

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tonight, texas department of public safety officials still reeling from questions surrounding their response to the uvalde shooting. now under fire again after a houston area family was killed by an escaped convict, ed lavandera is "outfront." >> reporter: gonzalo lopez had a prison made knife and either real or replica hand cuff keys when he pulled off a stunning escape from a texas prison bus on may 12th, according to texas state senator, john whitmeyer who said 15 other inmates helped lopez by singing and jumping up

and down to distract the two officer on the bus. >> the officer in the back was distracted, the driver is watching the road, in the mean time, lopez is releasing his cuffs, breaking out of the cage they had him in and the shoot-out occurred and he took off. >> reporter: texas prison officials say after lopez got free, he stabbed a prison officer and managed to drive away in the bus before crashing it on the side of a country highway between houston and dallas. >> we saw the inmate. >> oh my god. >> what the heck? >> reporter: a family driving by captured the aftermath. >> he's in the woods. >> reporter: when the inmate bus crashed here, lopez took off running into this wooded area outside centerville texas. state and local law enforcement agencies spent three weeks searching this area for him and then mark hollands and his four grand children were found murdered in their home, less than a mile from this very spot. >> the collins family arrived at

their serene ranch last thursday. they lived in the houston area. collins, 66-year-old grandfather and grand children, ages 11 to 18 planned to spend the weekend fishing and hangic ng out on th property, at some point in the two days before, texas prison officials say lopez entered the house on the property next to the collins family ranch. an alert was never sent out to residents in the area. and collins family friends wonder if a warning might have saved their lives. >> i do feel had mark been made aware that he was within a day or two of being on this property, he would have never exposed those kids to that danger. >> texas prison officials say dna confirmation that lopez was inside that home came around the same time investigators were making the horrific discovery that the collins family had been killed. a texas prison official says the alert wasn't shared because dna testing at the scene hasn't been

confirmed. prison officials say they never had reason to believe lopez ever ever managed to escape that area. advocate for houston crime stoppers has met with the collins family, he says lopez was a convicted murder, serving a life sentence, member of mexican drug cartel and never should have been allowed on the bus. >> this was a well thought out, methodical and planned in a cartel like fashion, like watching an el chapo escape scenario in real life that resulted in massacre of five people. >> thanks so much for joining us, ac 360 starts now. after making headlines and getting eyeballs, the question now after a powerful primetime opening night comes down to this -- what's next? what will come of the house january 6th hearings.