Burnett outfront starts, right now outfront next, the breaking news, the harris campaign announcing a massive fundraising haul, more than double humbling trump's as attack dog, walz and vance hold dueling rallies tonight breaking news of the investigation to the deadly georgia school shooting at this hour, a source is telling cnn cnn that the alleged gunman's father told investigators that he bought the gun as a gift for his son months after sun was investigated for a school shooting, breath plus a cnn exclusive, who was cruelty on display video of executions at the hands of ruthless russian soldiers. Let's go outfront and good evening. I'm erin burnett, the breaking news tonight. Kamala harris with jaw dropping fundraising numbers, just coming out cnn is reporting that harris more than doubled what trump raised in august we know that trump raised $130 million. So just to state the obvious, that means harris did better than $260 million in just one month and that is a sign of what we have seen. Of course, in polling the enthusiasm around her campaign. Clearly very much alive and well, six weeks after she rose to the top top of the ticket. Tonight, her running mate, tim walz and j. D. Vance, trump's running mate are holding dueling rallies, as i mentioned in crucial swing states, tim walz is in pennsylvania right now, dead heat in the latest cnn poll, j. D. Vance wrapping up his remarks in arizona, where trump is marginally ahead in our poll, both on the attack now, i'm going to quote, which i think is a brilliant quote by your great governor josh shapiro. He often says, and i hear him say this whenever donald trump's talking about america, he talking america he does not believe in the promise of america, and he continues to put this country down whether it's our veterans or working people continues could do it. And you know why he does it. You know why he does that because he can only think of himself all right so those are the lines walz's using and vance for his part is going after harris's campaign message the democratic national convention was all about joy and i thought to myself, what does kamala harris have? to be especially joyful about? she's been the vice president for threeandahalf years, americans can't afford groceries. Americans can't afford to buy a home and as for harris herself, she is in pennsylvania in pittsburgh for debate prep. While trump today delivered what they had billed as a major economic speech at the economic club of new york it's a crucial place to give such an address. The president though, did veer off topic a number of times at one point going to the whole topic of harris, he says tried to put him in jail. Here's what he said. She and her party are censoring speech, weaponizing the justice system, and trying to throw their political opponents me, in jail it hasn't happened i didn't do that to crooked hillary. I said that would be a terrible thing, wouldn't it putting the wife of the president of the united states? jail, but they view it differently, i guess nowadays, but that's okay they always have to remember that two can play the game obviously, not even unveiled as a threat. There, trump though for years of course, has been the one threatening to put a pin on a political opponents by name in jail hillary clinton has to go to jail. Ok, chest to go to jail, lock her up is right for what she's done. They should lock her up. You should lock them up lock up the block a pillar lock her up, of course, was the regular can you all remember at trump's rallies as for harris, this is what her response was when supporters chanted lock him up well, you know what? the courts are going to handle that and we will handle november even, mckend is outfront live. She's in pittsburgh, whereas i mentioned harris is right now and full debate mood prepping. So even what more are you learning about this massive fundraising haul that the harris team brought in? they saved for just the month of august well, erin, that fundraising report is due september 20th, so not before long. We will know exactly how much that number is. But a source telling cnn that it is quite substantial. And to give you a sense of where the campaign is spending their money. A lot of it is on ads ads like one that again, airing today in the battleground state of georgia targeting black voters, talking about the conservative blueprint project 2025, warning voters about the further erosion of reproductive rights and the possible elimination of the department of education. But the vice president is here in pennsylvania but to get critical time, critical facetime with voters ahead of the debate, i've been speaking to voters here in pittsburgh, and they have their head on a swivel to see if they ultimately spot the vice president. Many of them that i spoke to at the university of pittsburgh and near the campus told me that a number of issues are top of mind for them as we head towards november, including the economy, including lgbtq rights, including reproductive rights. And i'll end with this, erin i spoke to one young man and he is from new york. He just moved to pennsylvania for brands school at carnegie mellon. And he told me that he changed his his voter registration to be able to vote in this critical state. And he told me, listen pennsylvania is a state that could go either way and i want my vote to have an impact aaron. Well you know, people who live in states that are all red or all blue, it's an incredible opportunity when they move to a state where we're their vote can truly move the needle. Thank you much, eva. Alright, so everyone here with me. I said, i wanted to rid the fundraising, but first just, you know, when you see walz and you see vance on stage and they're both being sent to these crucial swing states, pennsylvania excuse me arizona favorability numbers though, aren't the same. You've got walz as doing better 40 to 31 vance's at 32, 44. I mean, you know, usually wouldn't actually say 42 is great, but it's a hell of a lot better than 31. Absolutely. I mean, what does this mean? i think for two candidates? sorry, looking to expand their map, that's where the vp could have marginal differences. We know that people usually vote at the top of the ticket are usually voting for a spate of issues are what the kind of lead nominee is saying. But we know that they were chosen as this as points of expanding their base. Harris chose walz with a specific idea to underscore normality, to underscore kind of sense a pitch to the middle of the country vance was chosen, i think not for reasons to expand the map overall a double down of ideology kind of furtherance of a maga viewpoint, a frankly, a hardiness from the trump campaign who fraught, who thought that they were on course for victory. And it was picked when biden was the rival ad that rnc where if there was republican confidence that they were going to win this race. We have seen vance slip further and further into that unfavorability zone. And i think even more so than that triggering specifically important groups of voters that was childless cat lady comments are not just a oneoff, right example of someone who spent so much time and that masculinity maga, ecosystem. And that turns gauff a crucial group that i think he's going to have to win over, come to cover mentioning cats and dogs. They're actually relevant to this conversation. Margaret, in the sense that vance did bring his fans emily and he has been trying to humanize himself in that way to the rally he brought his family, they've been with him over the past few days. Here's some of what he said we brought the whole crew to arizona. I got my lovely wife, usha usha, where they were they but we we brought our three kids there, 74 and tune. We even brought our dog you say, i mean, if you really wanted to connect with people and kind of breakthrough, he would have said i brought both my cats i mean, but, it does just show right that he's putting everything going but also in a sense that it is correct j. D. Vance was not picked because the trump campaign thought they would win the popular vote. And when the electoral college i mean, trump's strategy has actually never been to win broadly and to have a broad bipartisan coalition that has always been to get just enough votes to win the electoral college. That's, that was the strategy and 16, that was a strategy in 20. And that's a strategy again. So jd vance's lack of popularity was just never are popularity or likability or frankly authenticity was never part of the calculus and i would just say to centrist republicans are center right people who, who are trying so hard to become comfortable with trump. Again, even though they're not and they know better that thing they tell themselves and the they look in the mirror as they say, he'll be ok. If you surrounds himself with the right people but he couldn't even pick a vice president candidate as somebody to be on the ticket with him, who engender is confidence or could do the job and they know that and then max wait, voters at least small donors see this is reflected in the fundraising we just saw. So yesterday, $130 million from trump, they were saying, i believe if i remember the wire correctly, 98% of it was coming from small donors, right? harris is coming out and i don't know the exact number. I don't know the breakdown, but more than double the overall hall. Yeah. The problem shoot if you raise $300 million, its really virtually impossible to accomplish that with large it's donors, but that, that is a small donor fee and at this point, the fundraising is yes, a metric for your ammunition to get your message out in a campaign. But at this point, it is also a metric for enthusiasm because many of the people who are doing those small dollar donations, they're also knocking on doors they're also talking to their neighbors. Then there's this constant effort over these 60 days of who has that energy and what we've seen over prior presidential elections is the statistic that matters more than anything, is enthusiasm in this highly polarized country that we live in, that, that is really good kind of thousands more mean, it's exponentially more in terms of just people volunteering for the harris campaign versus trump campaign. Said it is interesting though that now both, each candidate is trying to talk about their support that they have from the other side of the aisle there has been as to the extent you want to say that's trying to reach across the aisle or not. Here's what vance said about that. Just a couple minutes ago we've got people like nikki haley, and brian kemp, and we've also got rfk jr. And tulsi gabbard. You know why? common sits down for harris? liz cheney announcing her backing of harris last night so does does that matter? i mean, i'm not talking about the messenger i'm talking about the reality that he is correct. Nikki hit those people are behind trump, liz cheney is now bind harris. Does that move any votes? i think it speaks to the change in coalitions that are true for both parties. Donald trump is not trying to put together a george w bush's or mitt romney's or whoever insert previous republican of the past coalition is not even trying to put together his 2016 coalition he thinks that he can build together a more multiracial working class base, but also bringing the republican party together in the end, we know that brian kemp, nikki haley, those are people he has targeted personally. There has been a lot of infighting in the republican party round, unity around trump for the past year. His bet, this is where you see this with evangelicals also on abortion rights is that they will come back to him in the end from a sense of negative polarization are antidemocratic this, while he expands himself to the middle, we haven't seen him be the best messenger for that, but that's clearly the strategy on the democratic side. They have a consistent story. They've been telling about reaching out to maybe your non maga republicans. We saw worked for them in the midterms and we see kind of harris and walz making a concerted effort in india see you to be for independence, to be for the middle of the base. Because if there's a warning sign for harris right now, is that she certainly made up the enthusiasm gap among our base, to put her in the game that biden was frankly, it's completely out of but we haven't fully seen the independence the swing, the kind of middle of the road to be able to expand those margins. In particular, swingstates, that's what she our task is now she's shored up the base, but she has to reach out to the side and i think her policy message has been geared to that doug emhoff, his campaign for her. You see vance's family on the trail, walz, his family has been on the trail trump's been kind of along margaret, in terms of that money or we haven't heard much from today. She did release a black and white to promote her new memoir so let me play some of that video. Great writing his memoir has been a deeply personal and reflective journey for me as a private person who has often been the subject of public scrutiny and misrepresentations i feel a responsibility i think to clarify the facts i believe it is important to share my perspective. The truth who is the audience for that? i don't know what the next modeling agency that might pick her up after they lose the election. I mean, look, i'm so sorry. But like i just that makes my head explode because that is i watched the whole lot and i went to melania trump. Com. You can do it too. Here's what's on melania trump. Com. You can go buy the book. You can buy melania jewelry. You can buy melania collectibles. You can buy a millennia christmas ornaments. You can learn a little bit about a charitable organization that helps foster care scholarships, which i'm sure does has the intention of doing good work. I don't know if it actually does good work because it trump 501c3 tend to not be as effect efficacious as other nonprofits in this country. So all it does is a scream commoditization of money of the presidency and of public service. And i find i not incredibly ugly and beneath the office of the presidency it appears and smells and looks like a grift. But if she wants to tell her story, what it was like to be on the sidelines of a trump presidency. I invite her to do that on cnn, on my program on pbs, on anyone she can do that for free if voters need to be he able to consider what she would like to say an offer for this campaign so we can take that into consideration as we go to the polls in november. Maxwell yeah she has every right to tell her story. It's a story worth telling, but there are really serious questions as to whether or not she wants her husband to win this election. Because if she did, she would be campaigning with him and she has been present at nearly zero events. Maybe you've just a few minutes of the convention and that to me is what is telling here. All right? thank you all very much. And we are just days away from that first presidential debate between harris and trump on tuesday. And as we mentioned, harris has been doing debate prep in pittsburgh. You can watch the abc news presidential debate. Simon cas here on cnn as well. It will air at nine eastern and we'll have coverage before and after the debate next here tonight outfront, the first ballots actually go out tomorrow in the mustwin state of north carolina for trump and for rfk junior's name for now is still on them. So how much does it actually matter harry enten here to go beyond the numbers plus breaking news, the father of the alleged gunman in the georgia school shooting, buying his son, magen. He used in the massacre as a holiday gift. And trump now wants to give elon musk sweeping powers to oversee government spending laura coates live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn psoriasis all over. I couldn't get my hair done then. Suri chadha courts rights concentric swartz on both fronts people with psoriasis on the scalp of a four times higher risk for psoriatic arthritis serious allergic reactions, severe skin reactions that look like eczema and an increased risk of infections some fatal have occurred. 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And all three of those particular states have early voting. And that voting starts in september. In fact, in north carolina, the ballots are scheduled to go out tomorrow. And as of now, because they're scheduled to go out tomorrow, that means that they are printed and ready to go. Definitionally, that means kennedy's name is on those ballots. And harry enten is here with me to go beyond the numbers. I want to talk about that specifically in a moment, harry, because this route could be really crucial. I mean, trump pass to win north carolina his path to victory so let's talk about this six weeks after harris gets to the top of the ticket and rfk gets out you still got this name on the ballot. How much of an impact it's early voting. All in when you hear about it starting this month, going to have, you know, when i was a kid, the idea essentially was we all go and vote on election day you can take that and chuck at right out the window, we have this fantastic timeline that can sort of chart what percentage of the vote is either cast inperson early are cast by absentee. You go back 40 years ago. It was well less than 10%. It was only about 5% of the electorate. You look back 20 years ago, you see that number go up, but it's up to one think 21%. Look at this planning to vote either early or by mail in 2024, 53% in an average of polls, i should know, wow, that, that is lower than 2020 with the pandemic. But forget the pandemic for a second and you just look at that trend line, just a clear trend towards people voting early or by absentee, much more so than ever before that is just stunning. That's more than half of people. Just another i mean, i'm saving basic math here, but somehow that putting it that way really makes my eyes bulge out. And it's not i mean, north carolina is a must win for trump. So we're mentioning that the ballots go out tomorrow. But where else do these people start voting so early? yeah, absentee ballots a, you know, we took a look at across the seven key battleground states that we've all been following. In fact, the majority of them have either earlier absentee ballot and starting this month, michigan, north carolina, pennsylvania, and wisconsin all of them start absentee ballot voting in this month. So the bottom line is this election doesn't start on november 5. This election for a lot of folks starts now or this month, right? and amazing. I mean, again, we got to this debate next week. But if those ballots really, when you get to people who've already voted before, even something like a debate happens. I mean, absolutely possible, especially if there's a second debate between these two. Right. And when you think about what happened to summer in just the space of a few weeks. Thanks, nation attempt at ticket changes and all of a sudden, i mean, to put it in context. All right so now in the context of north carolina, at this concept that kennedy could be a spoiler, right? that his name could be on the ballot and those ballots going out. Therefore, that's going to come views people are somehow just take away from trump is that a thing no, no, the new york times pulled us. We pull up with kennedy on the ballot poll without kennedy on the ballot, kamala harris, up in that poll by two points with kennedy on the ballot or without, i should note no clear leader. But the bottom line is kennedy was getting such a small fraction of the vote. And even if trump picks up a little bit more than half harris would, it's just so small, it doesn't really make much of a difference, right? and when you look at a state that trump had in the bank and i know it's within the margin of error, but she's now up to he has to win that state to win. There's going to be very difficult if he doesn't write. All right. Harry, thank you very much. Harry enten beyond the numbers and next breaking news, we are just learning what the suspected school shooter told investigators after the massacre is in custody. Of course. Plus trump going out of his way to make it clear that he and vance are not as the democrats like to say, we're jb is not weird. He's a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. Were not weird were other things perhaps not weird i need a vehicle a mad. 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Now i'm pete muntean at reagan national airport. This is cnn breaking news in the georgia school shooting investigation. Cnn is just obtaining the audio of the sheriff's questioning the alleged 14yearold shooter last year before he allegedly carried out yesterday's mass shooting at his high school in georgia in which he killed four people and injured nine more. Here's what he said when investigators asked him about tips at the time last year in school that he was allegedly threatening a school shooting have you heard anybody on this court when you were using it? say something like that. Remember? like at that time yeah. I don't thanks. So i me i'm not trying to get him, but this is some serious stuff. Oh, he knows. How service trust me because that hate to my bosses i don't know how old this information is. And if you want to wait till monday to follow up on i'd rather do it now because so the way because god forbid so i'm having my job that i feel pretty bad about this i mean it's just words now it's hard to hear, god forbid, something had happened. And now something has and it has come as cnn is learning that grazed father told investigators first that he purchased the gun that was used in the killings as a holiday president present for his son, isabel rosales is outfront sow colt in custody with handcuffs on he is cooperating with as far as i'm know, no talking they still talking barrow county sheriff jud smith was one of the first responders on campus yesterday. It was very nerve wracking going there, not knowing what i was about to walk into, what else about to see and what the situation was supposed he and the entire school staff are crediting the fast response from law enforcement to a new security system that was implemented at the school just one week ago, 26 i think 26 alerts during the anthony when he started within five minutes of the first alert going off, we had this suspect in custody, this system called son tjx works with i. D. Badges that include a peg button, the teachers and staff can press in an emergency situation, an i. D. Card and the teachers can alert and lock the school down and we got mostly well, alerts at told us where this was going on. The 14yearold suspect spent the night behind bars at a youth detention center. But on friday, when he makes his first court appearance, he will be charged with murder and he will be tried as an adult. Handled as an adult according to a source familiar with the investigation, new details have emerged from the search of the suspect's home. Documents found in his bedroom, believed to be written by him reference past school shootings, including the 2018 massacre in parkland, florida. But this wasn't the first time the suspect had a runin with law enforcement, a 2023 investigative report says that last year the local sheriff's office received a tip from the fbi about a series of anonymous threats on the chat platform, discord, quote shoot up a middleschool tomorrow. The tip included photo attachments with a profile name in russian, the translated to adam lanza, the sandy hook shooter, the suspect and his father were both interviewed and while his father acknowledged hunting rifles existed in the home he said his son did not have unsupervised access to them. The suspect denied making the threats to shoot up a school, stating that he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner. The case was ultimately cleared because law enforcement couldn't substantiate the threats. Now, we've learned grace, father told investigators he bought the ar15 first son after that investigation, and several months before he transferred into apalachee high school authorities are trying to figure out how the suspect managed to get that rifle into the school, especially because he was so new, he is enrolled in school two weeks ago, twoandahalf weeks ago, and only been in school two days an aaron, we have breaking news, just dropping here in the last minute that the georgia bureau of investigation has arrested calls all in great, age 54. That is cool. Grace, father in connection to this deadly shooting at apalachee high school again, that is cold grace. Father, he's been charged with the following four counts of involuntary manslaughter or two counts of seconddegree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. The gbi will be having a press conference here in the next half hour or so we expect to get more details and an understanding of what led them to these charges here. Very soon. And aaron, i do want to leave you with this yeah. Right here. A community united here as the sun is setting in grief, there laying flowers, balloons paying their respects to again, the four dead two teachers to students at apalachee high school it's cool and isabel, just in this this breaking news, we're now hearing the audio which was just so chilling of the fbi asking questions of the shooter his prior school about these threats, that one line, god forbid something happened and i didn't do my job but when that investigators that i brought him in to ask these questions, now, i didn't wait over the weekend and of course here we are are you learning anything more about collin gray? i mean, do we even know if he's in custody as you get all of these charges, which obviously are extremely significant especially in the context of the fact that he gave his son this gun and he is the other voice we hear that there in that question. He was there with his son right. And we have stunning reporting from my colleagues, mark morales and ryan young that found that again investigators spoke with the father with the sun back in may of last year but then about six to seven months later as a holiday or christmas gift, he bought the same gun that was used to carry out this attack as a gift to his son. I spoke with the sheriff earlier who told me that anything was on the table including possible charges against colin gray, his father, colt grace, father who had custody of his son. And here we are hours later and he's in charge. The biggest question again is how cold allegedly got access to this gun, right? how it wasn't unlawful on how he managed to get it inside of the school that is what led to these charges. And we hope to find out more from the gbi here in the next halfhour all right. Isabel, as you get about, of course, we're going to come back to you as we get more information. Thank you very much. And i think also just important to emphasize isabel, ryan mics reporting. And as she's laying that out, that you hear that questioning here, the father brought in with his son for that questioning and it was after that questioning sink six months after when he gave his child the gun that his child then used to murder people yesterday in georgia. I want to go to tim clemente now, former fbi special agent and s. W. A. T. Team member, tim i just as we're hearing this audio, as i said, it is hard to listen to. You heard that agent and the sheriff says, say, look, i just god forbid thing happened. I do my job. I want to bring you in now. I want to do this questioning. Let me play a bit more of the audio that we've obtained you have i've woken him they all having there's nothing loaded, but they are down we actually we do a lot of shooting. We do a lot there on he shot his first year this year so some pretty much in shock. Maybe oscillator. Well, come a little off to be even really honest if that is what was said at that tim, that he's referring to are the threats about shooting a school that they brought in colt gray, the alleged shooter here to ask him about seven months after that conversation when they're talking. That's the father talking about his son's access to guns seven months after that conversation he gives him a gun he gives him a gun for christmas, and that is the gun that his son used to kill people yesterday how do you even process this you know, aaron, it's almost impossible to process. Obviously, the father didn't take those threats seriously, didn't consider as some as the suspect that may have made those threats the visit by the local sheriff's department investigators to talk to the sun and the father as a 13yearold kid that possibly made those threats, you would think that it might wake the father up, that maybe he didn't know everything he should know about his son and it's disheartening that he would be so stupid as to, you know, he says in the interview that i saw him does have access to weapons and they're not loaded, but he has access to them and then he just increases that access with an additional rifle that tragically used yesterday i mean, it is it is really an incredible so you heard the investigator say my supervisor said, are you going to do this today or do you want to wait through the weekend in terms of the questioning of this kid? the alleged shooter cold, who had now is 14 at the time was 13 because god forbid something happened. I didn't do my job. That'd be i'd feel pretty bad about that now you hear there in the followup the 13yearold i'm saying, oh, i would never make such a threat. I would never do anything you know, i know this is serious. I knew. So then it just it all went away. When you hear all of this, does it make sense to you that it kind of went away? i mean, this kid then transferred to a new school. I don't know what level hello. Of awareness they had about any of this history erin, that's the biggest question that i have is what awareness did the new school have? good his teachers have that maybe this is a kid they should be looking at more closely. Now obviously a threat is significant enough that it goes from the fbi to local authorities to investigate further but it's not enough to arrest the good because they really can't tie his fingerprints to that threat, even though it may have come from his hug be ip address, his email address, whatever the connections were. They may not have had enough to actually charge him with anything if they were able to prove that it was his threat but it doesn't mean you don't look more closely at the kid as a parent, as a teacher, a school administrators everyone should have been looking more closely at this kid and his behavior. And obviously they weren't. No. And i mean, i was talking to the kid who sits next to him, who was sitting next to him and algebra when he got up to leave? and she said, well, i didn't think anything of it because he's always skipping class. Right already this year, one month into school the kid who sits next to him knew that this kid had had issues and problems just because of that, no other interaction. But these are things that in the context of what we of what they knew obviously should have should have stood out, tim. Thank you very much. I am grateful for your time. Well, when we think about the people who died because of what happened, a beloved football coach and a math teacher, richard aspinwall, he was among the four victims killed at apalachee high school the students mason schermerhorn, christian angulo also killed teacher christina air me tributes are pouring in for them tonight. Now, aspinall was known as coach a by his students many calling him a hero tonight, 39yearsold, killed, protecting his students according to a gofundme set up by his family he leaves behind his wife, shayna too, young daughters nick block joins me now he's been friends with aspinall for more than a decade. They coach together for five years for aspinall began teaching at apalachee high school nic i'll just start by saying, i'm so sorry for this unbelievable moment that you are in. That you you you know, with everything that we here in this country with these shootings that you never would've thought would touch you in this way you'd texted your friend yesterday when you heard about the shooting and he didn't respond what did you think in that moment honestly, at that moment, i thought the odds are got to be super low. It can't possibly be him. I mean, there's probably 2000 kids thousand other people walking around that building you know, we're down to one and 3,000, but that's still crazy odds. There's no way. And then maybe 2030 minutes later i started getting a few text from fellow coaches that we all work together. We were all really close and a couple of guys started saying that they were hearing that maybe it was him and then i just started shaking and kind of speechless and didn't know what to do for a few hours mixed messages coming in at that point. So that's that's that's kind of how the first couple of hours went nic i don't i don't know how it must feel to you when you hear what we were just playing. But yet you. Know allegedly made these threats a year ago and his prior school and then they they actually call them in and investigators interviewed him and his father was there and the investigator says, god forbid something happens and do my job. I feel pretty bad about that. He was saying that as to why he's gonna do this interview on a friday and not wait over the weekend. I mean, they took it seriously and yet the father then after that interview gives gives his son a gun seven months later i mean, i don't know when you're literally hearing all this right now, if you were plugged in a few minutes early, i mean, are you even able to process that information and how does it make you feel to hear that? i'm honestly not able to process too much of it certainly infuriating a little bit kind of makes me, it makes my stomach turn at the same time like i just heard it a few seconds ago and i'm just really here to honor my friend and he great he was when you talk to his wife and i know you did have a chance to talk to her yesterday and today. And her daughters, you were at their wedding, these known them a long time. You've coached with him? we've got a picture of you fishing together. I mean, just in terms of the regular things that you love to do, that you do together yeah. What was he like? just the best. I mean, the best human most beautiful soul you've ever met would go so far above and beyond for everybody around them. I mean, for the students and his math classes for teachers and his department coach's. I mean, you'd ever had to ask him to do anything. He just did it because he just wanted everybody around them to be great. And i think that was his calling. It was just in his dna to help everybody around him so he was just so good at that. He just made us all admire and love them. So that's why we're also broken up right now his wife and daughters, their losses is truly unimaginable over the years from their wedding, you would have you with him when those those girls were born. What do they mean to him that's the hardest part about it i've told a few people today how he was how he was with my daughter because she was very young in the field house. When i was coaching there and she was just a magnet to him, how he was like the biggest toy she'd ever seen, and he just smile and she'd sit like right next to him and they'll take up all the space. I just want to be near them and we just knew he would be the best daughter. Dad ever. We all just we're so pleased when he had little girls because he was born to do that. And that is the part that is the most tragic because i mean, he had some time but he she should have been here for all of it with them yes, he should have well, nick, thank you very much. I know it's hard to do this and i appreciate your doing it coming on and talking about him thank you. No problem. Thank you. And just wanted to make sure we try to support the family as much as we can. Yes thank you very much. Neck and neck we're going to be talking about how trump says he's going to put elon musk in charge of government spending announcement. Trump just made today we'll tell you exactly what he says. He'll do. 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I will create a government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms need to do it. And ilan, because he's not very busy has agreed to hit that task force claiming that musk's commission could save trillions of dollars and not affect any services this is musk has gone fullon in his support of trump with his in embrace, his endorsement of him, and the maga movement must just last night tweeting in part quote, i think civilization as we know it is on the line. If we want to preserve freedom and a meritocracy in america than trump must win here's more of that came from you other path to prosperity. And i think kamala is the opposite. I think we need to take the right path and and i think you're the right path american needs a strong leader. They'll think twice about messing with trump moscow has also pushed and embrace to host of unfounded conspiracy theories. I've run now the former republican governor of maryland and u. S. Senate candidate now, larry hogan and of course your race governor very well could determine which party controls the senate, which now is a real very important question for this country. So governor, i just want to start with that news now, trump saying, you know what the new york economic club today that elon musk is going to be in charge of this commission if he wins would you be comfortable with that? if if trump wins that elon musk would have such a major role in u. S. Policy and spending well, i obviously i never heard anything about this. We're out there busy campaigning here in maryland. I just heard it just now sitting on your show, i really had no time to follow that. I don't have much reaction to it at all other than look, i'm i'm all for government efficiency and it's the kind of thing that we focused on for eight years when i was governor of maryland, but i i don't really have any details about what trump said today. I don't pay much attention to what he says actually. All right. So to that point, you're not paying too much attention to what trump says. That's true and to the extent that you do, you have often been on the others side of it, governor mean and you've been very open about that. Your campaign actually just released a series of new ads and i just wanted to play two of them parts of two of them here they are and early critic of donald trump, one of the few republicans who never caved an on january 6. As we watched in horror just talk about defending democracy. He did something sending in the maryland national guard to protect the capitol. You're attacking him as anti antiwomen. Nothing could be further from the truth it's governor dad kept his word to provide birth control at no cost, and his supports choice by restoring roe in every state that last hour, governor, featuring your daughter is just hit the air tonight, you know, song watching these ads if i hadn't introduced you as foreign problem governor of maryland might've thought those were ads for democrats, right? that these are ads democrats could be running how do you feel about that? but said that in that is the environment that we're in. Well, look, this is this is all nothing new. I mean, i've been the same person for the past decade and i ran i was elected as a republican governor in the bluest state in america. And then reelected as only the second one in 248 year. So my positions haven't changed i actually, my my two daughters actually did an ad like that in 2014 and in 2018. So were they keep running the same kind of false attacks against u. S. Which is disheartening that they tried to use issues as important as reproductive rights, as, you you know, falsely attacking me. But we have to keep defending ourselves. But look, it's no secret that i'm the one that sent the maryland national guard and the mental state police to defend democracy and send them to the capitol we were the first ones to arrive. And so it's not switching tactics or me saying things that are unusual. I mean, i've been probably the most outspoken critic of donald trump since the day he came down here. The escalator and my record as governor is pretty clear on all of these issues is, you know, a few moments ago, i played a clip and i'm sure you weren't plugged in for this, but trump was it was just trump being a comment saying, oh, j. D. Vance and i are weird. We may be many other things, but but we're not weird but i'm sort of playing on that fact that that word and being called weird has gotten some it's trended and it's gotten picked up, right? and he's noticed it to the extent that he tried to make that sort of flip comment to acknowledge it, but make it go away i just want to play it for you a part of it of what he said here it is jd is not weird. He's a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock. Were not weird were other things, perhaps not weird? it does seem governor that for him to bring that up and do that in that way, it's under his skin. That's often how he responds when something is just their festering. Do you think that means it's been effective? well, i mean, it's certainly got some traction, but it seems like it did get under his skin, but look, i think the whole kind of the election season is weird and everything that's happening in our broken politics is weird and you know i don't, i don't blame donald trump for pushing back on that, but, you know, i think people are tired of weird and they're tired of extremist the rhetoric from both sides. And i think one of the reasons why i'm doing so well in a deepblue state is that people think i'm normal and maybe it's about, it's time we just focus on regular folks that actually want to solve problems and bring people together and fix some of the serious problems facing the nation just i, it's not a serious campaign on either side. We're just kind of typical politics as usual, rhetoric. And i think people want straight talk instead of all the nonsense we're hearing from all over the place. Here, as you say, governor hogan, i'm normal good ad right there. Knew all right. Well, governor it's great to see you. Thanks so much. I appreciate it thank you, erin. All right. And next, an outfront exclusive, we have some new video and what this video shows, the sheer brutality of the front line. Putin's military murdering ukrainians as they tried to surrender hi, or shipping breaks may be the cost of doing business. But at what cost? turned shipping? thanks to your advantage with low cost ground shipping from the united states postal service i wanted my car to feel like me a cars a reflection of its owner, right? my dream car was out there. I just needed to find it at a price less fantasy, more reality. Look at me now, your dreams might be this isn't you think hard to get it with jurors you know, crazy. But you have a dream. A dream that people tell you is impossible over again. 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Nick paton walsh is outfront tonight the scene all too common on ukraine's and peril eastern front smoke billowing, a position over run ukrainian troops staggering out, adhering to surrender to advancing russians a brief close up on ukrainian drone video seen here for the first time shows them on their knees maybe none the drone operators ask each other for a better view. And then seconds later, it is too late. The three fall to the ground dust nearby, suggesting gunfire executed in cold blood, ukrainian official familiar with the incident said, despite hoping to be taken prisoner by the russians it is from near the besieged city of pokrovsk in late august. The source said, the hottest spot on the front now where russia is persistently advancing and follows a horrific pattern. Prosecutors say they're investigating a total of 28 cases in which 62 ukrainian soldiers were killed after surrender on the battlefield. If prisoner's of war surrender, if they showed that they surrender, if there without weapons in their hand in their hands, than summary execution is the war crime it has worsened in the past ten months, cnn obtaining from ukrainian intelligence officials a detailed list of 15 incidents. Most backed up by drone video or audio intercepts now, united nations investigators have scrutinized for many of these killings. And the u. N. Investigative source said to me, quote, there are many there is a pattern and the killings are war crimes individually. They said in their opinion. And together could amount to crimes against humanity. New reporting, the site of some of the fiercest fighting this year in zaporizhzhia. Another ukrainian drone filmed in may. These images that are upsetting to watch ukrainian soldiers emerge one by one from the dugout ukraine's defense intelligence said they intercepted the russian commanders, ordered to execute all zero them, and gave us this transcript. Take them in down. Zero them, take them zero them. The officer says, got it. Plus comes the reply once you zero then report back. He adds once they're all out, face down, the russians fire ukrainians we. Spoke to left asking why to just terrify them or is it simply sport for the russians the main reason is to made russian soldiers believe they, it's very dangerous to surrender ukrainian forces because ukrainian soldiers will kill them. Like russians killing ukrainian prisoners of war these force them not to surrender, but to go forward to their deaths a horror, not always publicize nice