according to state senator roland gutierrez, he did not have a radio at the time. so the question is, did he know that there were children that were still calling 911, describing seeing bodies, seeing their teacher shot, saying things like, they don't want to die? i mean, this is just horrible. and so it's why lawmakers and parents are asking for accountability. here is state senator roland gutierrez. >> a lot of finger pointing in this whole situation. and i think that everybody erred. i think all of those law enforcement officers erred in their judgment, in their ability to follow protocols. i want to know that the ones that work for the state of texas, i want to know which one of them were in that building. >> reporter: in addition to the investigation and the frustration on that side of the issue, there is also the trauma and the community coming together to support the victims and the families. if you take a look behind me, there's already people that are coming to this makeshift mem memorial. i do want to point out and highlight one of the victims, ellie garc

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we will speak with texas state senator roland gutierrez. >> no community should have to go thrgh what the people of uvalde had to deal with. families are shattered we need change in texas, in the united states. it is my hope by keeping up this pressure, greg abbott will do the right thing, change the laws so that no family in texas will have to deal with this again. amy: as calls for investigations grow, we will also look at threats to the press in uvalde by journalists try to cover the funerals being blocked by bikers called in by the police. we will speak to nora lopez the san antonio express news, president of the national association of hispanic journalists. plus we speak to investigative journalist keri blakinger about her new memoir out today, "corrections in ink" describing her journey from addiction to prison to the newsroom. >> i wrotehis to help humanize prisoners and that second chances are possible and show what the barriers are. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. ukraine's government s

our next guest texas state senator roland gutierrez is the only state official who has been trying to find the truth and tell the truth about what happened at robb elementary school. he told the senate and that [inaudible] the head of the state police, stephen mccraw told him that as many as 13 state police officers were told inside the school during the hour when the police did nothing to save children and teachers who were bleeding on the floors of their classrooms. quote, he told me, there was enough people and equipment to breach the door gutierrez said, even as officers continue to wait for more than an hour and some of the children inside the two locked classrooms called 9-1-1 for help. gutierrez said officers in the hallway at one point had as many as three ballistic shields before finally breaching the door to the classrooms. there was enough material in that room to stop this threat he said. and it didn't happen. -- executive editor of the san antonio express news described the harassment that reporters and uvalde are facing from police. quote, they keep threatening to arrest

thank you. >> sure thing. >> joining us now is texas state senator roland gutierrez, representing the 19 district including you've all day. senator, you've been through it every day. and it doesn't get better in your attempts to clarify what has happened inside the school. what is the latest you could tell us about what you know in terms of, certainly, what the state police -- the head of the state police told you, about what was going on during that hour? >> lawrence i had been reporting for at least a week now that there was between two and 13 officers, two different people on the tv media. yesterday, one of the print media, san antonio express news told a story where he reiterated and talked about that there was between two and 13 officers in that hallway at any given time they were dps troopers, the guys accountable to us. this morning, i wake up to a dps spokesman that said that my report is false and that essentially i'm lying. over the course of the day, they walked that back because there was proof that i did have these conversations. and so they took it all back. but it's ver

we spoke last hour with state senator roland gutierrez, who told nbc news that chief pete are in donda did not have his police radio with him during the shooting. no, that has not been publicly confirmed. meanwhile, san antonio, vote for latinos are kicking off a rally for a summer of action. nbc's melissa claflin joining us. now ceo and president marissa to barr, who is also msnbc contributor coming to us from san antonio, texas. welcome to you both ladies, thanks for joining us on this. liz, let me to start with you. as we're getting more and more just about that investigation, police and action leading up to the shooting, and the tragedy at robb elementary. what more are we learning this hour? >> well, of course, yasmin, this community is still mourning the funerals for three children happening today. for three victims of that's tragic shooting, and danger anger is continuing to grow over that police response, and the gaps in knowledge over that police response. there was a school board meeting last night. the first one since this massacre to address anything about the massacre. the

un senador estatal, roland gutiÉrrez, dice que tal vez toda culpa no la tiene pete arredondo. >> hoy demandamos al departamento de seguridad pÚblica de texas para que publiquen la informaciÓn de lo que sucediÓ ese dÍa. reportero: en este momento, un grupo de personas de uvalde estÁn llevando a cabo una especie de movimiento para pedir su destituciÓn. borja: gracias. en estas horribles condiciones vivÍa una niÑa de siete aÑos, a quien la autoridad en texas rescatÓ en una operaciÓn encubierta. la pequeÑa estÁ al juzgado de protecciÓn infantil y sus padres arrestados. en guanajuato, mÉxico, un hombre armado entrÓ a un lugar y comenzÓ a disparar. el cuerpo de una menor ya estÁ llegando a georgia con sus familiares. y queremos hablar de este rescate viral. andrea fuentes, entrenadora de nado hispana, se tirÓ al agua a rescatar a anita Álvarez, una de sus nadadoras que estaba inconsciente en el agua. [habla en inglÉs] borja: esta salvadora de nombre andrea fuentes, anteriormente ganÓ cuatro medallas olÍmpicas para espaÑa. anita se encuentra bien en este momento. una

. >> al mismo tiempo en que hoy comparecÍa el comitÉ del senado varios expertos el senador roland gutiÉrrez presentÓ una demanda para obligar abrir los registros completos de lo que pasÓ al interior de la escuela primaria para acabar con las mentiras, cambios de culpa >>> ninguno tomÓ la ocasiÓn de entrar a ese salÓn >>> simplemente de echarle la culpa a una persona es algo ridÍculo > hubo muchas fallas de comunicaciÓn >>> fallas de tecnologÍa >>> fallas de protocolo. >> otros de s senadores josÉ menÉndez cuestiona de por quÉ 3 minutos despuÉs de entrar a la escuela ya habÍan oficiales con armas ido la puerta en donde estaba el asesino nunca estuvo asegurada. >> totalidad lo que es necesario para que salga la verdad >>> entonces yo quiero ver cuÁntos policÍas del estado estuvieron ahÍ quÉ hicieron >>> tambiÉn estas madres que fueron a protestar se dicen decepcionadas >>> estÁn hablando de salud mental >>> pero no hablan de las armas >>> el alcalde de uvalde exploÓo contra el jefe de seguridad pÚblica del estado a quiÉn acusa sobre la primaria robb afirÓ que serÍa der

the search for answers is why we're speaking to my next guest, texas state senator roland gutierrez is suing the department of public safety to release all records related to the shooting. thank you so much for being here, senator. >> thank you. >> can you give us a sense of why exactly you are seeing the department, what you are hoping to achieve? >> well, everything's been caught up in this so-called investigation, and yet the district attorney now says she's not investigating. and so therefore there should be no reason to release this information. we've asked for this information legally since may 31st. the ten days have passed. we've got response from the department of public safety. yesterday we heard there was 91 troopers in the area. at the 16-minute mark those officers started to show up. they went into the hallway and simply left. they weren't taking orders from arradondo or anyone else. i think that to say one group is at fault here is disingenuous. law enforcement as a whole failed including our own department of public safety. >> you just brought up something about the dist

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texas state senator roland gutierrez. roland, great to have you on. appreciate your time as always. i'm wondering what you make of the comments from school district police chief pete arredondo telling the "texas tribune" that he never considered himself the incident commander. does that square with what you've heard from others? >> well, it's directly in contrast with what dps has said. so now you have these two competing narratives, none of which makes sense. dps has suggested directly, they leaked out that this man didn't have a radio, he acknowledges he doesn't have a radio. so then how is he then the incident commander if he can't communicate commands to other people? i think that what mccraw said early on in this stage is this was a law enforcement failure throughout. i think that every entity that was there failed. from my own perspective, i want to know where dps was in that hallway, where they were stationed outside. i've asked for that information both orally and in writing. i have yet to get that information. and it is now hidden behind a so-called criminal investigation.

. >> joining us now, the texas state senator roland gutierrez, who represents uvalde. senator, thank you so much for joining us. you saw what the uvalde school district's police chief told cnn. he claims to be in touch every day with authorities investigating this shooting. that's not what they say, though. do you have any clarity tonight on whether arredondo is cooperating with authorities? i think we're having trouble connecting with our audio with the state senator. we're going to try to fix that, and as soon as we do, we'll have this interview, an important interview. we'll take a quick break. much more coverage coming up right after this. l®. it's clinically shown to help managege blood sugar levels and containsns high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscscle health. try boboost® today. hitting the road, not all 5g networks are created equal. t-mobile covers more highway miles with 5g than verizon. t-mobile has more 5g bars in more places than anyone. another reason t-mobile is the leader in 5g. time. it's life's most precious commodity, especi

>> joining us now is texas state senator roland gutierrez. he represents texas 19th district which includes uvalde. senator gutierrez, we saw the republican convention this weekend where they had, i think, about 270 or so items of concern. uvalde was not one of them. >> that's right, lawrence. it seems that all rational sense of reason has left in the republican party, i don't know who was in that crowd but certainly, not the party of reagan any longer. the people of uvalde deserve a better response from this partisan group of people, and what we've got. it's my hope that john cornyn continues to make sure that we get some reason, or at least the minimum, which is what we're getting to washington. we need to do more. we're going to see what he's going to provide. >> what is your reaction to the reporting tonight that nine minutes after the gunman entered the school, the police had a protective ballistic shield with them in the school, nine minutes after the gunman got into the school. >> lawrence, you and i spoke last week, where we know that

. >> leading off our discussion tonight is texas state senator roland gutierrez, represents texas 19 district, which includes you've all day. senator, thank you very much for joining us once again tonight. and this is not the only program you have been sharing information with, you have been by far the most available public official, and you bald, a representing of all day, communicating with us, and with your community. why haven't we had another press conference, with another update similar to the false press conference that was filled with what seeeds to be details about the shooting the day after the shooting, why hasn't anyone come back to revisit all of that and go through everything? >> well, thank you lawrence, and as it appears tonight, 5:00, you probably are not gonna get that press conference from the law enforcement authorities. from any of them, quite frankly. because the district attorney has suggested that she is taking over the investigation. there might be at some point, some kind of grand jury, i suppose, i'm not sure who would be indicted in this case. certainly th

christi and boris. >> we'll speak to state senator roland gutierrez. camila bernal, thank you very much. let's dig deeper with analyst andrew mccabe. we appreciate you sharing part of your saturday with us. in the heat of the moment, as you know, witnesses often report inaccurate things. at this point, ten days out from or 11 days out from the incident. there are so many inconsisten as is from police. they said the gunman was confronted by a school resource officer. the list goes on. have you ever confronted an investigation like this where there are so many corrections having to be made? >> this is unique in that respect, boris. you are absolutely right. in the heat of the moment, in the immediate aftermath of the critical incident, the information you get is largely from witnesses and much ends up being inaccurate. you figure those things out in the minutes and hours and days that follows. at this point, especially when you have a detailed record of established facts. established by video coverage or calls to 911 that are dated and time stamped and c

we are back with texas state senator roland gutierrez and kurt anderson. and kurt, you are the cultural critic on the panel. there is something going on here more than public policy argument and more than an argument about the second amendment. there is a culture war going on within this fight over gun safety and gun regulation. talk about the way in which of all the signifiers out there now in the republican party of 2022 being for guns just full stop is kind of what it means to be republican. >> yeah. and it's -- it didn't used to be this way, of course. even as recently as 2016 when jeb bush as he was not becoming nominated for president did that ridiculous famous tweet in which he tweeted a picture of a .45 with his name engraved on it and he was just laughed out of the room and of course, got nominated and his -- his predecessor george h.w. bush, think, resigned from the nra when it got too crazy in the 1990s. at the same time a bun of republican u.s. senators were voting for an assault weapons ban. when republican nominated conservative chief justice

gutierrez, he was very honest with me uncertain large district. i am here now and the amount of people coming up to him saying thank you and give them hell was so many at the service, at the park, at the clinic that we visited, everywhere. everybody is looking for that leadership to step in because they recognize that their grief has to turn and mean something. i often say it's not that texas is a red state, it's a non-voting state. there's 5 million people of color in this state that are eligible to vote and they are sitting it out. we need everybody out. the reason this is such an important moment is i remind votes that texas has a minimum of 48 electoral votes, they can change the direction of the country and literally save democracy and people are fed up. but more than anything it was the space that everybody was grieving and recognizing each other and knowing that they needed to recognize each other and support is from all over the country at the elementary school from packages to flowers to signs is showing that there is an incredible solida

democratic state senator roland gutierrez represents uvalde and he is there now. state senator, thank you so much for being here. i know you have been meeting with the families and talking with a lot of them. can you give us a sense of how they're doing amidst this horribleness? >> the families that i have visited are just devastated. the community is devastated. i've seen little kids that were in that school. that are just -- they can't -- they're frozen. they're just stuck. i get it. i understand it. it was the same kind of shell shock that we had as a state, we had as a country last week but these folks are just living it day after day. william: i can't imagine having to deal with the enormous grief they're having to deal with but also what i imagine must be the anger at what they have been learning about the police response and how are they juggling those two emotions same simultaneously? >> you know, they're very angry at everything that's going on. they're certainly angry at the police response. they're angry at the fact that they're not getting, you know, a

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so let's discuss with texas state senator roland gutierrez who represents uvalde. great to have you on to get your perspective on these things. the chair of the committee looking into the shooting said it is, quote, a question mark about whether the uvalde police department is going to speak to the committee voluntarily. he just gave an update to reporters, he said the committee is continuing to have a dialogue with members of the police department. should they be compelled to give their testimony? >> well, boris, there is a whole lot of problems with all of this. quite honestly we all have been told over the last several days that we can't say anything because the district attorney is investigating. yet last night the local abc affiliate made a report that she said that she is not investigating. and so therefore all of the open records requested, that you asked for, that i asked for, they should be granted because there is no criminal investigation at this time. that same committee that you're talking about should be able to speak freely you because there is no di

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that texas state senator roland gutierrez tells nbc news that according to law enforcement officials, the chief of the uvalde school district police department, this man, pete arredondo, did not have his police radio with him during the shooting. mike baker of the new york times will join us in just a moment and details how that lack of a radioed affected arredondo's actions. as supervisors were grazed by the gunman, he made a decision to fall back, the official said. using a cell phone, the chief of police called a landline with a message that set the stage for what would prove to be a disastrous delay in interrupting the attack. the gunman has an ar-15, he told them, but he is contained. we need more firepower and we need the building surrounded. this new revelation follows news yesterday that pete arredondo was not aware of the repeated 9-1-1 calls from students inside the classroom, including one from a student who warned that her teacher needed medical attention. that's according to the times -- there is a lot of bodies, a ten year olds duty student, chloe torres, quietly told a

joining us now, roland gutierrez, he represents the 19th district, which includes uvalde. you have filed a lawsuit. this is against the texas state department of public safety to get information. what is this lawsuit aimed at? >> first of all, thank you very much. we filed a lawsuit because we filed an open records request back on may 31st, ten days passed, and the agency did not respond to us in any way, nor did they take exception with their response to the attorney generals office. so we have the ability to be able to ask for things that we were asking for. and now we are asking for a court to decide it. we are asking for the logistical information as to where the troopers were, we learned a lot yesterday from the hearing that was in the senate, but clearly it was all an established narrative. we learned that there was 91 state troopers on site. 12 of which were in that hallway. quite frankly, they were not in there for any real length of time. additionally, we learned that those troopers were not directed by arradondo or anyone, quite frankly. we learned that the major

. >> reporter: tonight state senator roland gutierrez sharing stunning new details about a communication break down >> the the 11 calls were not being transferred to the so-called incident commander. >> reporter: gutierrez says those calls first went to uvalde police and not pete arredondo, the school's chief of police in charge of the response, who told officers to wait. >> to know the one person who should have been receiving those 911 calls was not being briefed, how big of a failure do you see here >> this is a tremendous failure isd level, school police, state troopers, federal government, even for the federal agents that were here, they still waited. >> reporter: new search warrants obtained by nbc news painting a grim picture of the gunman's arsenal in his pickup truck alone investigators recovered a smith weston m&p rifle the initials standing for military and police also inside 15 rifle magazines. each loaded and capable of holding up to 30 rounds how heavy is the heart of uvalde? >> extremely heavy >> reporter: local pastor julio moreno lived just blocks from robb elementary wh

roland gutierrez represents uvalde county. >> we've had six massacres in the last two years. six massacres of this proportion. we have to be able to fix the problems. >> it's kind of a gut punch to hear somebody say that there were kids and teachers behind a door for an hour while there were capable law enforcement officers on the other side of that door. i mean, it's just unimaginable. >> reporter: katherine schweitz spent 20 years as an fbi special agent and created the agency's active shooter program after the 2012 shooting at sandy hook elementary. >> after sandy hook, the first priority we had was to teach all law enforcement officers -- federal, state, local, tribal -- that if there was a shooting under way, they needed to neutralize the shooter. that's a simple prime directive. that's lawful enforcement 101. >> reporter: in 2015, she produced "the coming storm," an fbi training video that dramatizes a campus shooting and how law enforcemen respond. she said officials in texas had that knowle e ailure of execution here. when it comes to the door, how can you not haveou

texas state senator roland gutierrez called it a system failure, adding that mistakes were made at every level. >> there is blame enough here to go around. there was human error and there was just a mayor. systemically. you've got some of you have asked for radio transmissions. systemically. we live in rural texas. we're different counties and different entities. contract with different radio companies. and we don't have them talking to one another and one uniform system. that's an absence of leadership. >> and the state senator went on to say that the 9-1-1 calls were being communicated with the uvalde police officer, but not to the commander at the scene. 19 students and 2 teachers were killed in that shooting at robb elementary school last tuesday. president biden, meanwhile, address the nation demanding congress take action against gun violence. that's the story that our basil, john is on for us this morning live from dc now. basil. well, james, good morning. and yes, this comes after the recent string of shootings in buffalo, uvalde and tulsa. >> and the president says enough is eno

senator roland gutierrez says that the did not make their way to school district police chief pete arradondo gutierrez is calling it a system. failure, but the calls were going to city police but not communicated to evrod. the head of the texas department of public safety has said police did not confront the gunman more quickly because arradondo believed the situation had morphed from an active to a hostage situation. 19 children and 2 teachers died. the fbi is assisting the petaluma police department in its investigation of a threat made against casa grande high school. police are trying to track down the person. >> who's allegedly threatened violence on the last day of school. but for sleep gaal spoke with students trying to manage through this distraction. >> looming police investigators are working with the fbi to determine the specific details of a violent threat allegedly made against casa grande high school investigators only sharing that the threat is centered on june 10th, the last day of school and the day seniors graduate. yeah, i was scared that not all students are convinced the

. >> reporter: state senator roland gutierrez says arredondo wasn't told what 911 operators and police officers knew, that there were kids alive in that room with the shooter. >> state authority does not know who uvalde police was communicating the 911 calls to. >> reporter: the chief's decision not to engage the shooter goes against the state's active shooter response training, which school district officers went through in march. it states that officers "immediately move into action to isolate, distract, or neutralize the threat." frederico torres' son, 10-year- old rojelio torres, was inside classroom 111 where those 911 calls were coming from. >> he was a smart boy. >> reporter: torres crosses the border from mexico every day to work the fields around uvalde. are far too much to bear.is mind what was your reaction when you learned that it took police 75 minutes to get into that room? >> it was hard. why didn't they do nothing? they didn't went inside. >> reporter: investigators haven't hinted at a motive. we can confirm, though, the grandmother of the shooter, the first person he s

texas state troopers are leading the investigation, and state senator roland gutierrez is now suing them. he says they're not sharing information with the public, while pointing the finger solely at uvalde school police. >> they want to give us snippets of body cam footage from the local police, but they want to hold on to their own body cam footage. we found out yesterday there was 91 officers on site from the department of public safety. >> reporter: while angry reads continue to fall for the firing of pete arredondo's for his department's lack of response,es mayor don mclaughlin is slamming state authorities mayor, when was the last time you were actually briefed by d.p.s. on the latest on the investigation? >> may the 25th at about 9:20 in the morning. >> reporter: have they contacted you? >> i contact them every day. i don't get a damn thing out of them. >> reporter: even family members, like javier cazares, whose nine-year-old daughter, jacklyn, was killed, feel lost. >> it's always been mixed messages and, yeah, it's frustrating. as a dad, it's just-- it hurts, you know. >> report

senator roland gutierrez calls it a system failure, adding that mistakes were made at every level. funerals began this week for the 19 children and 2 teachers who were killed. it is the deadliest school shooting in almost a decade. here at home. a san mateo county sheriff's department is joining law enforcement agencies across the country and using virtual simulators to train officers on how to respond to an active shooter cloud force. has it made you and shows us how it works? and we do want to warn you some of the simulations can be intense for some viewers because of the violence associated with active shooter situations. >> a deputy sergeant david weidner has demonstrated an active shooter inside of a courthouse scenario using this virtual reality simulators set up here at the 7 tail county sheriff's training facility in belmont. wow. >> he's over down san mateo county sheriff carlos bolanos talks about what he aims to accomplish by putting his deputies through this virtual reality based training. >> i believe it's realistic training that will provide my deputy sheriffs with th

texas state troopers are leading the investigation, and state senator roland gutierrez is now suing them. he says they're not sharing information with the public, while pointing the finger solely at uvalde school police. >> they want to give us snippets of body cam footage from the local police, but they want to hold on to their own body cam footage. we found out yesterday there was 91 officers on site from the department of public safety. >> reporter: while angry reads continue to fall for the firing of pete arredondo's for his department's lack of response, mayor don mclaughlin is slamming state authorities mayor, when was the last time you were actually briefed by d.p.s. on the latest on the investigation? >> may the 25th at about 9:20 in the morning. >> reporter: have they contacted you? >> i contact them every day. i don't get a damn thing out of them. >> reporter: even family members, like javier cazares, whose nine-year-old daughter, jacklyn, was killed, feel lost. >> it's always been mixed messages and, yeah, it's frustrating. as a dad, it's just-- it hurts, you know. >> reporter

. >> reporter: state senator roland gutierrez says arredondo wasn't told what 911 operators and uvalde police knew, that there were kids alive in that room with the shooter. >> the state authority does not who uvalde police was communicating the 911 calls to. >> reporter: the chief's decision not to engage the shooter goes against the state's active shooter response training, which school district officers went through in march. it states that officers immediately move into action to isolate, distract or neutralize the threat. frederico torres' son, 10-year-old rojelio torres was inside classroom 111 where those 911 calls were coming from. >> he was a smart boy. >> reporter: torres crosses the border from mexico every day to work the fields around uvalde. he is back at work, even as he mourns the deepest of losses. the questions flooding his mind are far too much to bear. what was your reaction when you learned that it took police 75 minutes to get into that room? >> it was hard. why did they do nothing? they didn't even went inside. >> reporter: investigators haven't hinted at a motiv

on wednesday, texas state senator roland gutierrez sued texas' department of public safety for withholding documents related to the shooting. the lawsuit states -- "in the wake of the senseless tragedy, the people of uvalde and texas have demanded answers from their government. to date, they have been met with lies, misstatements, and shifts of blame." an advisor to ukraine's president has said the fight for severodonetsk and lysychansk in eastern ukraine is "entering a sort of fearsome climax." if russia succeeds in fully capturing the two cities, it would give russia control of the entire luhansk region. meanwhile, two drones reportedly struck an oil refinery in southwestern russia, sparking a large fire. russia has accused ukraine of carrying out the attack. in other news from the war, reporters without borders has accused russian forces of executing ukrainian photojournalist maks levin in march. levin's work had appeared in bbc, reuters, and other international outlets. president biden has called on congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months in a bid to lower gas prices.

senator roland gutierrez says that pleas for help from people inside robb elementary did not make their way to school district police chief pete arradondo, the democratic senator who represents the city called it a system. failure that the calls were going, 2 city police but then not communicated to the command staff and chief arradondo the head of the texas department of public safety has said that police did not confront the gunman more quickly because arradondo believe that the situation had changed from an active shooter situation to a hostage situation in 19 children and 2 teachers died and funerals continued today. the 18 year-old man accused of killing 10 black people in a racially motivated attack at a buffalo supermarket pleaded not guilty in court today, a grand jury indicted payton gendron yesterday on a state domestic terrorism charge and a hate crime charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted. the suspect has been in police custody since the may 14th shooting. he's also been charged with attempted murders of 3 people who were shot in the attack.

texas state senator roland gutierrez says pete arredondo didn't have a radio with him at the scene, something that may have hindered his ability to communicate directly with police dispatchers. >> i have been told this person did not have, this person being the incident commander, did not have radio communication and i don't know as to why. >> reporter: gutierrez says he learned the school district chief didn't have a radio from a law enforcement official at dps. cnn has reached out to uvalde police and the school district for comment on gutierrez's statements and to chief arredondo to confirm if he had a radio but we have not heard back. >> arredondo is facing serious criticism for making the call to not send officers sooner into the adjoining classrooms where the gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. >> i don't think any of us need to be rational people or policemen to understand active shooter protocol says to go in immediately. >> reporter: gutierrez wants to know more of what was happening at robb elementary school on that day including what information was relayed to first respond

the texas state senator roland gutierrez told cnn that he'd been briefed that the uvalde school's police chief, pete arredondo, he turned into an incident commander, remember, he didn't have a radio on him when he arrived on the scene. >> i have been told that this person did not have -- this person being the incident commander -- did not have radio communication. and i don't know as to why. >> don't know as to why. it's a great question because if it's true, the incident commander on the scene of this mass shooting would not have had a way to directly contact dispatchers. and i wonder did he ever have a radio eventually. cnn reached out to both arredondo and the texas department of safety for a comment, but we haven't received a response. but if chief arredondo did not have a radio that day when he arrived on the scene, he might not have known all those 911 calls were even being made, let alone what was being said on those calls from inside of those classrooms where the gunman was firing. we know as many as 19 officers were in the hallway outside those classrooms. and for more than 45 m

that's according to texas state senator roland gutierrez. i mean, it is almost incredible to think about this. he may have had a cell phone but, of course, the big question is whether or not he knew that there were still children in that classroom calling 911. "the new york times" got a transcript of one of those 911 calls where a girl is saying that she's afraid, that she does not want to die, says, there are bodies, describes her teacher being shot and so, of course, that is the frustrating part we still do not know and there are many gaps in this investigation. we're still asking, but it keeps on changing. officials sending corrections and still a lot of unknowns. that's the problem here in uvalde and, of course, the parents are frustrated. many of them who went to that school board meeting yesterday was the first one after the massacre and the parents saying that they simply want answers, that they want to know how the school district is going to keep their children safe. they're saying that their children don't want to return to school.

with that, let's bring in texas state senator roland gutierrez, whose district includes uvalde. here we are again. it has been two weeks since that tragedy happened. what is the state of daily life for people in uvalde? >> most of it, i mean, it's a scene where people are stuck -- that's putting it lightly. it's just tragic. families are shattered. i saw miss rubio today, in congress. and how strong she was, and how strong her husband was. i am just so impressed with how they are able to cope. but not miss rubio, or anyone, no one was sought to be an advocate in this space. they just want their children back more than anything else. it is just tragedy what's going on in the community. all we can do is just be there for them. and that's what i'm trying to do. >> john cornyn is negotiating in the senate on a possible gonna package. he's obviously negotiating on behalf of republicans. do you think anything is going to get done here? >> well, you know, look, i'm concerned about a lot of things. i mean, we've been hearing a lot about red flags. the fact, is the nra knows that if they

roland gutierrez is suing the state of texas demanding documentation, whether it's communication between law enforcement agencies, body camera footage, anything that will give lawmakers and the public insight into what happened. we found out that dps will be blaming the embattled police chief in the city of uvalde. they said, wait a minute, there are eight law enforcement agencies. still we're getting conflicting information about the painful 74 minutes. >> using posters, maps. the head of the department of public safety called the police response an abject failure. >> the only thing stopping the dedicated officers from entering the classrooms was the on-site demander. >> the police chief said he never considered himself the incident commander. >> you were wrong in the moment. >> reporter: after five hours of closed doors testimony before the texas house. but during an open senate session, pressure evidence from unside robb elementary's hallways, cultivated from surveillance footage, body camera video and audio recording appears to contradict concerns about armor. by 11:35, three uvalde

. >> and i know that the houston chronicle reporting, another paper there, that state senator roland gutierrez, he is accusing -- he's sued the texas department of public safety for withholding records on the shooting. he's alleging the agency denied state open records laws by denying documents. the texas tribune has submitted 70 public information requests. first of all, have you gotten those requests answered and are they cooperating with what you need to do with the reporting and can you tell us about this reporting that there were many, many police officers from whichever department inside that school with long guns and shields? >> yeah. one answer at a time, joy. unfortunately, this is the government at all levels and state and local have been very, very opaque. of the 70 records only a small number have been fulfilled and all texas media are trying to get together right now to see if there's legal action that can be taken to get access to these records. i think the fact that i don't want to say death by a thousand leaks and there have been so many different revelations and news

and leading off our discussion tonight is texas state senator roland gutierrez. he represents texas 19th district, which includes uvalde. senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. and thank you for being the most responsive texas government official, concerned with this, involved with this, who is trying to let all of us know as much as possible, day in, day out with. your reaction to this continued silence from chief arredondo and others, who were all part of putting out a story that has since collapsed in many ways, and have not come forward to correct it, and clarify? >> lawrence, first, off thanks to you for continuing to keep the pressure on law enforcement officials and austin. let's be clear, this is the most infamous day in our state's history. and it will remain crowded as long as greg abbott once it so. we were to believe that a prosecutor, the local republican party -- [inaudible] staff of three or four, asking the tough questions, which agencies where in that hallway? i know very clearly, there was between two, and as many as 13 dps trooper

. >> this is all coming as a bombshell accusation from state senator roland gutierrez, who -- he told nbc news according to a law enforcement official, school police chief pete are john doe, did not have his police radio during the shooting, that hasn't been publicly confirmed. i want to bring in austin american-statesman tony -- who's been doing good reporting on this as well. i. bigot tony, thanks for joining us, at first i want to dig into reporting when it comes -- to the breakdown of it all, tell me what you know about this missing ready of truth or redondo, at what point it is that he put the third officer on the scene, that's when he fell back, what more are you learning as you're digging into this reporting? >>, while this is all consistent with what our own recording -- on taxes has confirmed. which is that law enforcement sources who are part of this investigation to confirm that based on their work, they don't believe that the police chief, again, this is the school district police chief. had his communication equipment with him when he arrived at the school. that is critic

i want to bring in texas state senator roland gutierrez. senator, thank you for joining us once again. i just want to start by getting your reaction to reporting that the chief has yet to respond for requests for an interview that they made several days ago. >> obviously concerned, don. this whole investigation seems to have been for lack of a better word botched. i'm not defending arrendondo at all but i feel like there's a lot of finger pointing here, that every agency has some responsibility here, no protocols were followed that seemed to make any sense. >> you believe there's a lot of blame to go around. he's under a lot of pressure. go on we have dps telling us it was that guy. we have operation lone star that has 60, 70 officers in the area. where were they? did they go in? where was the sheriff's office? did they go in? where was the police? what time did they go in? at 12:03 there was 19 officers and none of those 19 officers went in. i've been told that two of those officers were dps, the state troopers. i'm waiting on a full and f