our lead off guest tonight, tony pulaski, an investigative reporter with the austin american-statesman. joining us in the moment. it's now reporting the chief of the you've all day school district police department, peter i would know, has not responded to the texas rangers in two days for a follow-up interview from his initial statement immediately after the mass shooting. no one has been fired and no one has resigned. for making false public statements. or for supporting false public statements. and relaying false public statements. by texas authorities, after that mass murder. governor greg abbott, made this fall statement in his first visit to you all day, the day after the mass murder of those children and teachers. >> but the reality is, as horrible as what happened it could've been worse. the reason it was not worse, is because law enforcement officials did what they do. >> that was a lie. and governor abbott now says, that he was lied to by those law enforcement officials. and he is livid, live in. that was his word about being lied to. but not level enough to fire whoever lied

pulaski foundation in poland, diesel. so former polish diplomat and nature official, good heavy, we're the say on the program. congress begin that with the fact that ukraine's president, once weapons and those european leaders and keith today are happy to appoint, give then to him. but what's more important to both sides weapons or e e a membership? well, i think everything is important at this stage. i mean, this visit counts an important time because, you know, the truth is that we've seen was the russian military have been doing it since it's barbaric and they, they, they amos as distraction ukrainians. good. the free 40 is in fact baker's, we also have a remaining president can see at 1st hand on the can can, they can convey to serve more, i'll try you crazy help to defend itself because that's the only way to prevent the barbaric. so yes, added the weapon supplies extremely best with disgust yesterday in russell. but the perspective of the membership is also important because that's about the future of the country. a

. >> and joining us now, tony pulaski, investigator reporter for the austin american-statesman. and guillermo, for the san antonio express news. he animal, it's your reporting that we were reading tonight, the city of uvalde. now very worried about civil lawsuits wrongful deaths 21 of those wrongful deaths, have every right to be filed as soon as possible. this could bankrupt all governing operations in that area. >> yes, there is a potential, we have heard that there is a lot of, lawyers on the ground, as we speak. the sign of planets. i think that, some of the lawyers don't realize that the entities that will probably go after is the manufacturers of the gun used by the gun man, i expect you to possible, possibly that there is some kind of litigation that would be filed. well, that is one of the challenges of these situations. president biden was addressing tonight, is a gun manufacturers have a complete blanket coverage shield from any kind of liability in cases like this. so, they're gonna have to find a way to aim, now anyway those lawsuits in a different direction. tony, t

in 1866 in place called pulaski, tennessee. it starts at its confederate social club. other similarly clubs bring up across the south and they take on an increasingly militaristic tone. you know, is is ron white was saying the big fear was that because the blacks were significant part of the vote in almost all of these southern states and i think in two of them, south carolina and mississippi blacks actually the majority of the population so blacks dared to organize politically. and vote they would, you know come to paris. so ryan white was saying exactly right that the clan violence was targeted against black political organizing and voting and there were thousands of blacks. you know who were murdered in the south of had any prosecutions? in fact, the clan really created such a reign of terror was called the invisible empire. there was no southern sheriff who would dare to arrest a member of the klan. there was no southern right who had testify against a member of the jury that would convict a member of the clans so grant very ingeniously points amos ackerman of geor

his first project out of a west point was to lay foundation for what is, today, fort pulaski in the savannahestuary. he was at the beginning of that. from there, he was assigned to the construction of what was originally known as fort kowloon in the main ship channel of hampton roads. from there he was assigned to st. louis and spent four years in st. louis, focusing on rebuilding the st. louis waterfront. from there, he goes to fort hamilton in new york. there, he is the chief engineer at that post on the tip of long island, where today, it is on a narrow bridge that crosses over to long island. from there, he goes to the mexican war. after the mexican war, it is back to construction. he built for terrell in baltimore harbor. and then he goes to become superintendent of west point which was still an engineering school. this is when he was the superintendent there. he spent a lot of his life as an engineer. i have to give myself a crash course in engineering in order to begin to understand this, especially the particular kind of engineering that lease spent most of his time doing. it is coas