the private christian school 28 year old shooter killed six people, including 39 year old this is one angry mother interrupts live television demanding answers and that mother is outfront tonight, plus another witness appears before the trump grand jury. david pecker. and publisher of the national enquirer on the hush money payments to stormy daniels is michael cohen is on standby to return to the witness stand. going to attorney is outfront and how tiktok is keeping much needed ammunition from ukraine. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront. tonight we begin with breaking news chilling details emerging tonight about a possible motive after a mass shooting at a private christian elementary school, the nashville police chief, saying the killer who identified as transgender resented having gone to that school. there is some belief that there was some resentment for having to go to that school. don t have all the details to that just yet, and that s why this
david pecker, the former chief of the national enquirer and a longtime personal friend of trump s, was seen leaving the grand jury building this afternoon. after spending an hour and a half there. now, keep in mind. it was pecker who helped broker the hush money deal between daniels and trump s former lawyer, michael cohen. back in 2016. according to court papers from cohen s federal trial. pecker message cohen on an encrypted phone apps, saying, quote we have to coordinate something on the matter. attorney one is calling you about or it could look awfully bad for everyone. two days later , cohen transferred the $130,000 to stormy daniels attorney now packer, of course, had a history of cooperating with trump to catch and kill stories that could damage trump something that cohen even discussed with trump in this recording from 2016. i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david and i spoke to alan about it when it comes time for
as they were talking, chris was he was being very dismissive of those options. he was like, no, i m fine. reporter: the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences released a statement earlier this week, stating that they asked smith to leave, and he refused. a source telling cnn that academy leaders had told smith s publicist to deliver the message to the actor. now packer is saying chris rock did not want smith removed from the show. they were about to physically remove will smith. i said, rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a bad situation worse. reporter: packer praised rock for how he handled the situation. did he save the show that night? i think he did. i think he did. he certainly saved what was left of it at that point. chris handled the moment with such grace and aplomb. reporter: rock told fans during his stand-up show in boston this week that he s still
first-time oscars producer, will p packer says in a new interview that he thought so too. i thought it was a bit like everybody else. once i saw will yelling at the stage with such vitriol, my heart dropped. reporter: packer says he rushed over to rock as he exited the stage. i said, did he really hit you? and he looked at me, and he goes, yeah. he goes, yeah, i just took a punch from muhammud ali, as only chris can. he was immediately in joke mode, but you could tell he was very much still in shock. reporter: smith played the boxer in the 2001 film ali. cnn has obtained new video from a seat filler inside the oscars, showing a new angle of the incident, this time filmed from behind smith s wife, jada pinkett smith. packer says that los angeles police were prepared to arrest smith that night. and they were saying, this is battery. we will go get him. you can press charges. we can arrest him.
film muhammad ali. showing a new angle of the incident this time filmed from behind smith s wife jada pinkett smith. packer says that los angeles police were prepared to arrest smith that night. and they were saying this is battery. we will go get him. you can press charges. you can arrest him. as they were talking chris was, he was being very dismissive of those options. he was like no, i m fine. the academy of motion pictures arts and sciences released a statement this week saying they asked smith to leave and he refused. academy leaders had told smith s publicist to deliver a message to the actor. now packer is saying chris rock did not want smith removed from the show. they were about to physically remove smith. i said rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a