year what we re learning about the 28 year old woman, police say was responsible. and uproar in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu responds to protest that brought his country to a standstill, postponing a major vote to overhaul the judicial system. blast troubled waters bottled water hard to come by and philadelphia and major american city that can t guarantee how long water will be safe to drink. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start with our national lead with another devastating school, shooting three students and three adult victims. they are dead today after a woman opened fire at the school. according to police. she is now dead. nashville police are scheduled to give another update on this tragic shooting this hour. we re going to bring that to you live. as soon as it happens, but students there at the covenant school our preschool through sixth grade, according to its website, video shows staff as you see right here, ushering so
reelection bid as soon as next week. for the latest details, we turn to cnn s phil mattingly, who joins us now from the white house. so what s the latest phil? you know, pamela four months the president s top advisers have been very clear behind the scenes that the president was going to launch a reelection campaign. what they weren t clear on was when that would actually happen, and it seems like now we have some sense of a timeline that to some degree has taken a lot longer than people expected. the president is planning and may go forward with the decision to launch his reelection campaign as soon as tuesday of next week. now that date is important because it was. it will be the four year anniversary of the day he launched his 2020 campaign, a campaign that he framed as the battle of the soul of that for the soul of the nation and campaign where he eventually defeated then president donald trump somebody who may be his general election opponent again in 2024. now advisors
was. does he wait to get into the race? because there is, i think a benefit to focusing on his agenda and also staying above the fray when it comes to a lot of the republican politics that are playing out. but at the same time, and i think the reason they re trying to announce as early as next week is because they want to get this fundraising operation underway and they really want to start energizing voters around him, especially those who are skeptical about his age and also whether he s progressive enough to continue in the white house. that was going to be one of my questions, which is what changes on tuesday. like what will change for all of us? how will we see we see something different? you know, it s a great question. i think that his his team is trying to figure out how to change president biden and the man in the white house and to campaign biden. i know that the dnc is very involved in trying to make sure that his image is as great as it can be, and also to try and
to give you some idea what change looks like on an issue that some fear is impervious to it. take a look at the front page of today s nashville, tennessee and lee. it reads that republican governor bill lee wants gun law action and beneath it, jones, meaning democratic state representative justin jones expelled after gun violence. protests on the statehouse floor reclaims his seat in the legislature. two major bipartisan developments in the wake of last month school shooting in nashville happening with remarkable speed, creating a front page that might have seemed inconceivable just a few days ago, and that was before local officials voted today to reinstate the second expelled state representative justin j. pearson of memphis last night on this program, representative jones said he saw a change of heart in governor lee and then perhaps another sign of that both his reinstatement and representative pearsons today were unanimous. representative pearson joins us now, representa
from august 2015 to december 2017 the defendant, i m quoting that, obviously, is donald trump orchestrated a scheme with others. the defense the indictment reads to influence the 2016 presidential election by identifying and purchasing negative information about him to suppress its publication and to benefit the defendant s electoral prospects. now according to the statement of facts, which accompanies this actual indictment, which they go through through here, $130,000 were paid to adult film star stormy daniels $30,000 to a doorman and $150,000 to another woman, which it is clear from the statement of facts is karen macdougal. it is an unprecedented chapter in american history. and good afternoon to all. i m erin burnett here in new york, and i m wolf blitzer here in washington. the lead up to trump s arrest was truly a remarkable sight to see the former president of the united states, leaving trump tower early this afternoon. his 11 car motorcade arriving at the manhattan