joining us is uvalde mayor don mclaughlin.to jump in. we laid this out here because we reached out to d.a. mitchell to get her point of view on this. she did not respond yet. but i want to read what she told the san antonio express on wednesday after you filed the suit. she said, it's a distraction, an attempt to keep me as a district attorney from completing my mandate to see that justice is done to the best of my ability under the law with the facts and evidence that i have. so what's your response to the idea that this is just a way to distract her from what she needs to be doing? >> no, it's not a distraction. what d.a. mitchell forgets, i said in the first meeting with our investigator who told miss mitchell that anything that he found criminal, whether it be local, state, or federal authorities, he would turn over to her to prosecute. that's why we hired outside investigators to look at every avenue of what happened that day, especially our police department and our policies. >> what is the state of your own investigatio