and it s and it s criminal. and and i i couldn t even imagine not not holding those two people responsible. they bought a weapon for their son and had every reason to believe at least the day before and certainly the morning of that he was was very likely going to commit a violent act. and they did nothing. they did nothing. they allowed him to go back to to class and walked out of that building and never once thought or cared enough to say to a school official or anyone else, our son has a gun. karen mcdonald, i appreciate your time. and, you know, we have we have we have answers to give to these parents. we just do. yeah. ms. mcdonald, i really appreciate your time tonight. thank you. coming up next, more on the manhunt and the unprecedented step today of charging the parents. we will talk to jeff and the rest of our legal and law enforcement team. later cnn has just obtained a copy of former white house
he was caught at school. searching online for ammunition and told him, quote, lol, i m not mad at you. you have to learn not to get caught. they remain unaccounted for. the couple was supposed to show up for a 4:00 p.m. arraignment. these were patrol cars staking out their home late today. instead, they dropped off the radar. a manhunt began and though their attorney later said they were on their way back to turn themselves in, we have yet to see them tonight. in a moment, the county prosecutor who charged them. first cnn s aldrufield who joins us from oxpered with new details on the parents. anderson, we are learning investigators had been keeping tabs on those parents. tracking their cell phone pings. at some point, the cell phones were switched off and it seems the trail then went cold. at least temporarily. a law enforcement official also telling cnn s mark morales, we now know the couple withdrew some $4,000 from rochester hills, the city in which they were supposed to show up f
get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! new information tonight about the former president s behavior on january 6th. cnn has just obtained his former chief of staff mark meadows book. in it he accounts a conversation he had with the former president where he called on people to march on the capitol and quote fight like hell. meadows wrote when he got off stage, president trump let me know he had been speaking metaphorically about the walk to the capitol. he knew, as well as anyone, that we couldn t organize a trip like that on such short notice. it was clear the whole time that he didn t actually intend to walk down pennsylvania avenue with the crowd. not sure it was clear to the crowd. joining us now, cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel, john dean. and cnn senior political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod.
reporter: data provided to cnn shows how mentions of critical race theory exploded in right wing media throughout 2021. what republicans are calling critical race theory. critical race theory is critical racism theory. reporter: on fox news, talk of critical race theory spiked around this november s election in virginia. critical race theory is not being taught in k-12 in this county or in the state of virginia. k-12 does not teach theory of anything. but they know that s the dog whistle that you need in order to get the votes. reporter: penny blue was on franklin county s school board for eight years in a seat that she says was specifically created for a member of the black community to address past discrimination. you were in a seat that was created to have an african-american representation.
meeting. one senior administration official who is in the group of aides that was waiting outside the one-on-one meeting said at one point, actually at several points the cardinals were making clear how exceedingly unusual it was that the meeting had gone past 30 minutes and then 40 minutes and then 50 minutes and continued to go. 75 minutes one on one. another 15 minutes exchanging gifts. i think it all just underscores that, one, these two men know one another. they ve communicated since pope francis became pope back in 2013. his visit to the united states back in 2015. and obviously they ve been in contact since the president became the president of the united states. but also i think more broadly on the issues themselves when it comes to the pandemic, when it comes to refugees, when it comes to inequality, these are issues the president obviously has made central to his presidency and the pope has made central to his papacy. and those were all issues that were discussed during thes