Good evening, welcome to washington. Breaking Tonight Murder at school, as school starts all around the country, a School Shooting in georgia dominating the news today. At least four people are dead, two students, two teachers, nine others injured after a shooting at a Georgia High School about 50 miles northeast of atlanta. The Georgia Bureau of investigation has identified the suspect as a 14yearold Student at that school. He surrendered to School Resource officers and is now charged with murder. Law enforcement agencies swarmed the campus earlier today as students sheltered inside The School at first and then The Schools football stadium. Correspondent Steve Harrigan is at Appalachia High School in georgia tonight. Good evening, steve. Good evening, bret. The numbers could change right now it stands at four dead. 30 people wounded. Nine of those wounded with Gunshot Wounds in the hospital. Many other injuries from trying to flee the scene when that shooting began. The real number of
Battles for former president donald trump. There were two big developments last night. Maine decided donald trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the ballot. The Secretary Of State citing the 14th Amendment which bans from office those who engage in insurrection. On the west coast, the california Secretary Of State deciding to keep trump on the ballot. All this putting even more pressure on the Supreme Court to weigh in. We want to bring in Vaughn Hillyard and former rnc executive Committee Member jennifer horn. Vaughn, start us off with maine. Reporter in the state of maine the decision of the Secretary Of State last night was much awaited. She had heard challenges in her role as Secretary Of State. This is where you get into the differences in what state law allows or puts the onus on a Secretary Of State to ultimately agent on. Thats where the role of the maine Secretary Of State says it is her responsibility to determine whether a candidate is qualified to run for presi
into acting as though they are congress itself. this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don t say gay caucus. i hope very strongly that the president s next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. gillian: within hours the court s decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was
palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of andrea mitchell reports with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history, the 2019 walmart shooting, where the shooter pleaded guilty to federal murder and hate crime charges for targeting hispanic migrants. family members of his 23 victims are making impact statements in court later today. the gunman is likely to be sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. in philadelphia, a 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder after allegedly opening fire
new hampshire and defeat crooking joe biden and we re going to make america great again. can you hear that sound? [cheers and applause] that s the sound of a two-person race. [cheers and applause] bill: here we go, election eve in beautiful bedford, new hampshire. just like the painting drew it up. republican field is down to two in this election. the outcome could be a game changer going forward. good morning. hope you had a great weekend. monday and we re live in new hampshire. i m bill hemmer. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it s wonderful to come back to bedford, new hampshire, a beautiful and wonderful state. they have had a lot of politics here before we arrived. bill: everybody is engaged and what we love to see. dana: the latest poll shows former president trump leading nikki haley by nearly 20 points. the race narrowed to a one-on-one match-up after yesterday s surprise resignation by florida governor ron desantis.