robot and goodbye to scooping the smart appliance that helps without asking prime time, trump. destinations live tonight at nine. seven different guns bought from five different gunshots. lead starts right now. we re getting the first look at the moments when police entered a nashville school where 39 year olds and three adults were gunned down this as we learn the parents of the shooter did not want their child to the weapons at all. then. we re not going to fix it. criminals are going to be criminals not get into politics. alright, let s not get into emotion. here we go again. what will it take for lawmakers to address the number one killer of american children? plus unprecedented developments in the trump investigation. executive privilege cannot shield former vice president mike pence, has been ordered to testify before the federal grand jury focused on january six. welcome to the lead. i m phil mattingly in for jake tapper, and we start today with our national lead and a
questions should be off limits because of the executive privilege? question we did get a statement from the former president s spokesman who said accused of justice department of being weaponized and he said there is no factual or legal basis or substance. to any case against president trump. of course, this is part of the special counsel s investigation , phil and we know it is definitely accelerating you. no you listen to pence sound almost seems like you might run for president. it almost seems interesting at seven barrows somehow keeping us in the loop on all these details. thanks so much. cnn senior legal analyst joins me now and ellie looked at the judge did offer the former vice presidents and protections about what he has to share about what happened on january 6th when he was operating as ever noted as the president of the senate, but he did have to testify about his conversations with former president trump in, but does he have to testify about this conversations leading up t
investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. joining us now is joe lockhart. he was president clinton s former pres sform press secretary. and bianna fwoegolodryga. we don t know exactly what he will say, but what do democrats and the investigators on here most want out of him? what would they consider an accomplishment? if they get gordon sondland to say everything he was going to say was directed by president trump in. i think ultimately that s what they re looking for. what they re going to do in the first instance is be the first witness that really ties someone to the president of the united states who can say the president of the united states told me x or told me y. because we haven t really had that. we ve had a bunch of, you know, sort of mid-level staffers talking about the policy, talking about the process, but not with a lot of insight to the president being on the phone
next here this evening, deal or no deal? last night, president trump inviting democratic leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi to the white house. afterwards, schumer and pelosi saying they reached a deal on the dreamers, the undocumented immigrants brought here as children. even the president tweeting, does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military. really? that tweet, after his own attorney general called those protected by d.a.c.a. illegal aliens stealing american jobs. abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega, traveling with the president. reporter: president trump in florida today surveying the damage on the ground. we are there for you 100%. reporter: and talking to reporters about his bombshell support of a deal with the democrats to protect the dreamers. we re talking about taking care of people, people that were brought here, people that have done a good job and were not broug