audience of any. tv, or any elsewhere. that is why you are here ony aua sunday evening. that is why when i talk to you, i talk to you as smart people. i don t talk down to you.pe i don opt use bumper sticker labels. i talk about substantive things and have substantive guests, tonight, first ary history lesson as i set the stage for further point. thpoine american revolution. t what does that have do with anything, everyone, we wouldevol not have won it without the help of the french, the french paid in treasury they went broke after they helped us. pointed out by history.com. the french were dealt a defeat in 7 years war by the the british and stripped them from their nort american empire. but still they were loathe to declare war to britain asain an official american ally, king louis permitted secret aid to america s cause. the twuse,o most powerful men at the court within thehe monarchy had a dispute on whether to commit to supporting america out right or not. but they did.
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have more to share later on. i want to bring in our senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz shimon, what more are you hearing there? we know that this happened before the bank was open around 8 30, which gives us a little bit of a clue of what may have been going on and who the suspect who is now dead is right. and by all accounts at this point based on what we re hearing from witnesses and law enforcement, this is quite a chaotic scene. police officers arriving and then within minutes that they were there they had encountered . according to police. they were fired upon. there were gunshots , and then we have seen indications where glass has been broken at the front. what appears to be the front of this bank has happened. as you said around 8 30 this morning before the bank was open for business. we re hearing from people inside the bank having to hide inside the vault the bank s vault to try and protect themselves and police. we believe this point encountered
was preparing to open. four people are dead, nine more were wounded and transported to a nearby hospital officials say that police exchanged gunfire when they confronted the shooter. two officers were hurt in the gunfight. the shooter died at the scene, and it s unclear if he was shot by police or by himself. witnesses described chaotic moments. people were running for cover. some inside the bank, even hiding themselves in a vault for safety, and investigators say the gunman was working alone and may have been a former employee or some connection with that bag . president biden and attorney general merrick garland have both been briefed. can tuck ee governor andy bashir revealing that two of those killed today were close. friends were expecting another update in a press briefing in the next hour . cnn s shimon prokupecz is here with more on what we re learning about the circumstances, all the events that took place and the shooter. what do we do? that s the big question the s
in what led to that aggressive unprecedented action taken by the fbi? we know former president trump seemed to be corporating with the feds regarding his presidential records. his team had already transferred 15 boxes earlier this year but the wall street journal reports things started to escalate earlier in the summer. what changed? newsweek claims there was someone inside mar-a-lago that told them exactly where they could find more documents. the magazine writing this, the raid in mar-a-lago was based largely from information from an fbi confidential human source, one who was able to identify what classified documents former president trump was still hiding and even the location of those documents, meanwhile, attorney general merrick garland is under growing pressure after the judge who approved the raid is refusing to let the d.o.j. stay silent. he s not giving the department until monday to answer requests to unseal the search warrant. that sounds like a call for tran