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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

TX Gov: I Was “Mislead” About What Happened And Am “Livid”

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The Texas governor declares he was mislead and is now livid after police make a damning admission of mistakes in the Texas school massacre. One top official revealed to CNN they made the wrong call when they failed to confront the gunman for more than an hour after they entered the school. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world Wolf Blitzer is off tonight. I'm

0:05.2

Jim Acosta in the situation room. Let's discuss what we just heard in that news conference

0:10.4

with the Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He says he was misled about the

0:14.4

police response to the school massacre as authorities are now admitting mistakes

0:18.2

were made. We're joined by CNN Crime and Justice Correspondent

0:22.0

Chamon Prokupes on the ground in Texas.

0:26.1

Shimon, what stood out to you?

0:27.5

I mean, obviously hearing the governor of Texas

0:30.4

say that he was misled and that he's livid, I suppose, with law enforcement

0:34.8

officials about what he was told earlier this week is obviously big news, but he did

0:41.5

seem to be dodging some questions as well again

0:44.1

we're heading into the evening with more questions really than answers.

0:50.0

Right and he I think is saying that he wants every action to be investigated by every

0:56.3

official who was involved and suggesting that it's going to be the Texas Rangers

1:01.5

but then he's also talking about the FBI being involved in this

1:05.2

investigation, which right now they're not. They've been just assisting

1:08.6

authorities here. So we need to get some clarification, certainly the FBI on that is he saying he wants the

1:15.2

FBI to now come in to this investigation I'm not entirely sure some of the nuance on that so that's

1:21.1

something that I think could potentially be interesting.

1:24.5

I don't think I heard him talk about the Department of Public Safety.

1:29.2

This is the head there, Stephen McCraw, he is the one who took to the podium today and

1:34.7

revealed all these new facts the fact that 19 officers were in the hall of

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