the killer opens fire with a weapon of war. police quickly responding to the scene shooting and killing the gunman quickly. but in those 32 seconds he managed to fire 41 bullets hitting 26 people, nine of them fatally including his sister. the evidence has been debated in both directions with individuals in our organization intimately familiar with the evidence. whether that was intentional or not i think it s unconclusive. reporter: authorities say he was communicating with his sister hours before the massacre through a phone call and text messages. we don t see anyone assisting him in committing this crime. a follow-up investigation seems to strongly suggest that his companion had no idea what he was going to do, nor did he have any knowledge of the weapons that were in the trunk of that vehicle. reporter: john and alison, we were just sitting out here getting ready for this live shot and a man was running by and he
with growing scrutiny over the trump campaign s possible ties to russia, the newly minted secretary of state rex tillerson is in germany for the g20 smum summ summit. let s go live to germany and bring in diplomatic editor nic robertson. nic, what are they going to discuss? reporter: what we have been told by the state department is expect issues of mutual interest. isis and counterterrorism. obviously we heard from president trump talking about how he can see a way to work with russia to tackle the
news conference at the white house. jim acosta was there. reporter: john and alison, the president is supporting michael flynn despite the fact he fired him this week. at the news conference with prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the president slammed the media and leakers in the government about flynn lying about the calls to the vice president. here what is the president had to say. general flynn is a wonderful man. i think he has been treated unfairly by the media. as i call it the fake media in many cases. from intelligence, papers are leaked. things are being leaked. it s criminal action. it s been going on for a long time. before me. now it s really going on. people are trying to cover up for a terrible loss that the democrats had under hillary clinton. reporter: the president declined to answer questions from cnn about reports that
they almost seemed like buddies yesterday compared to netanyahu and obama together. reporter: that is explaining why they chose to do this before the meeting before they talked about substance. it was important to both leaders to show how strong this relationship is from the beginning and dramatically different it is than how the relationship ended between former president obama and netanyahu which was rocky. at appearance, regardless of disagreements on policpolicy, i important for trump and netanyahu to appear to have a strong relationship from the beginning. as they face their own challenges. trump with flynn s resignation and netanyahu facing a criminal investigation. thank you, oren liebermann. the president trying to avoid tough questions at the conference by not calling on
happy with the one they like the best. president trump backing away from decades of u.s. policy in the middle east. saying he would not insist on a two-state solution to resolve the israeli/palestinian conflict. that came at the news conference before the meeting with prime minister netanyahu. in the conference, the president urged the israeli prime minister to curb settlement construction. we have cnn s oren liebermann live in jerusalem for us right now. some factions within the coalition have been pushing for an end to the two-state solution. oren. reporter: john, that is the domestic political pressure that netanyahu was going into the meeting. the two leaders were asked about that. the president said i m fine with and netanyahu when asked the same question refused to commit to a two-state solution. he said that term is more a