a side door and blew out the glass to get inside. chief correspondent jonathan has new information. what are we learning? reporter: we are learning that they believe this was a well-planned attack by the 28-year-old shooter. now identified as audrey elizabeth hale who police say was transgender. did she identified as transgender? she does identify as transgender. as a man or a woman? woman. jonathan: and tonight, we are seeing as you mentioned the moment when hale shot out a door of the school to get into the building and then roamed the hallways of covenant school. a private christian academy for about 200 pre-k to sixth grade students. hale killed three children identified as nine world, in dieckhaus, hallie scruggs and william kinney as well as three adults, cynthia peak, 61, katherine koonce, 60, and mike hill, 61. in the shooter s home, police say they discovered clear signs that this was a premeditated attack. we have a manifesto. we have some writings tha
from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there. a chatroom that counts as members some foreign nationals
white house to say they are doing something, but the things i just listed will actually have an effect. they did it in columbia and we can do it again. bill: thank you for your time. michael waltz, thank you, back on the intel leak. apparently there is more coming. when that happens we don t know. but there is more apparent will i out there. that story is not over. et minutes past the hour. npr acquiting twitter after it was labeled as government-funded media. the first major news organization to abandon that platform and fears that the label will hurt their credibility. griff jenkins is watching that story in our d.c. bureau today. good morning. good morning. if you go to npr twitter now you will see that government-funded media and angers the public radio network who quit twitter after musk said they were state-affiliated media. now npr announced yesterday no
new content would be posted to its 52 official twitter feeds adding this, quote, npr s organizational accounts with low longer be active on twitter because the platform is taking actions what undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we re not editorially independent. they says they receive less than 1% of its $3 hundred million annual budget from the public broadcasting fund. musk called for them to be defunded. axios reporting this morning that pbs is also joining them and stopped tweeting on april 8th after musk labeled them government-funded as well. bbc another government that drew the same labels interviewed musk yesterday. does the bbc hold itself at all responsible for
misinformation regarding masking and side effects of vaccinations? and not reporting on that at all? and what about the fact the bbc was put under pressure by the british government to change the editorial policy. are you aware of that? it s clear, bill, labeling war is not over. this comes, by the way, when npr is no stronger to controversy. they refused to cover the hunter biden laptop story during the 2020 election. that story has been authenticated by multiple news organizations. griff jenkins in d.c. dana: a manhunt underway in new york city. police are looking for three suspects caught on camera breaking into a high-end park avenue auction house. bill: we re monitoring a huge fire at a recycling plant in indiana. look at this. evacuation orders are still in place for thousands who live there. a little bit of smoke coming from there. within ten minutes it started to really spread.