stories this morning. first in nashville. new details about the shooter who killed six people at a christian elementary school. and we ve determined that audrey about seven firearms. from five different local gun stores here legally. ah they were legally purchased. three of those weapons were used yesterday, but parents felt that she should not own weapons. they were under the impression that was when she sold the one weapon that she did not own any more. i said thursday. of course it s wednesday. the parents of audrey hill hill also gave critical insight into hail state of mind will be live in nashville with details just ahead. plus an unprecedented ruling and a new setback for trump s legal team. a judge has ordered former president vice president mike pence to testify. federal grand jury is now getting a chance to ask pence about his conversations with the former president. in the days leading up to january, 6th. we begin this morning, though, in nashville, where cnn s car
neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. that s what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. griff jenkins in eagle pass, texas with the ramifications of that. my friend, to you. griff: neil, that s unbelievable. that s the population of scottsdale and the border agents are exhausted. and let me take you to our drone in the sky and lift you up. in this is where they have more than 160,000 crossings here in this fiscal year so far and that s just one sector alone. as you take a look at this crossing here, title 42, people just going across moments ago. and the video that we shot before th
This was locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago. Bill clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course, not even close. I apologize if anybody was offended. In a tweet concerning the audio, Hillary Clinton said this is horrific. We cannot allow this man to become president. Billy bush also released a statement, obviously im embarrassed and ashamed, thats no excuse. This happened 11 years ago, i was younger and less mature and acted foolishly in playing along. Im very sorry. Tomorrow is trumps meeting with paul ryan signing a bill to protect the rights of Sexual Assault survivors. The chair of the National Committee Reince Priebus said, no woman should ever be discussed about in these terms or talked about in this manner ever. Joining me Charlie Sykes, linda chavez, and ms. Chavez, i guess ill just begin with you in
responding to this. Well, i have said from the moment he announced that this man can be described in one word, and that one word is vil
us a lot. how critical will his testimony be? and what kind of an impact is this going to have on the 2024 race and how he might try to handle all of these issues at once? yeah, well, it would be very critical and look, the reason that mike pence hasn t wanted to testify and he s been fighting it so hard is that he s under the impression that there is an appetite for mike pence to, you know, mike pence run in 2024. he s wrong about that. you know, i talked to voters trump voters, republican voters every week and focus groups. and there is very little appetite or interest in mike pence. in fact, he s kind of in the sour spot with voters where they either don t like him because they don t think he stood up for donald trump. or they think he was to sink a frantic to donald trump. and so what? mike pence. i think really needs to do here is focused on what s best for the country, and that means going in testifying, telling the truth and ultimately doing what he can to block
a lot more of this conversations, a lot more of these interviews and people hunting at it, seeing how people are going to react, but the field is wide open right now. you know, if that were the case and you had that many, you know, going for the republican nomination, doug, you could argue that this is 2016 all over again. donald trump successfully was able to whittle that field down and pick them off one at a time in the battle states where if he has one more percent of the vote than the next guy, he gets the higher plurality of that state s delegates. so i m wondering, does that actually play to his advantage? yes, it absolutely does. you know, the polling now shows head to head he is even with desantis when it s a two-way race. in a multi-candidate field of mike pompeo, nikki haley, mike pence run, trump is well ahead. your scenario is a real world one and may see play out. neil: if it were a battle