Tonight, a clear message is being sent to parents all across this country. If you supply your child with a gun, and that child uses to shoot up a school for gods sakes prosecutors will go after you he saw it once in michigan with the parents of Ethan Crumbley, both of whom were convicted. It was considered rare then, but not anymore, because tonight were now seeing it in a place like Georgia Officials have now charged the father of the 14yearold who shot his school and killing classmates and teachers outside of It Land i just over 24 hours ago Police Say the teen admitted to killing two students and two teachers. The gun he used a Police Say that it was an Ar 15 style rifle. And here is the stunning part that leads to the dads arrest Police Say the father, Colin Gray gifted gifted that weapon to his son he is charged with the following four counts of involuntary manslaughter two counts of seconddegree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children mr. Gray, these charges stem from mr.
Newsroom up next good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin the hour with Donald Trump returning in front of a judge this morning as lawyers for the former President And E Jean Carroll are set to square off in manhattans federal Appeals Court Trump is seeking an appeal after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former columnist, awarding her 5 following a trial last year, the case is separate from the related Defamation Trial that was held earlier this year when a jury awarded carroll 83 Million in damages, Youll Recall that cnns Kristen Holmes is with me now. Kristen what do we know about this pill and why is trump expected in court . Hes not expected in court. He has chosen to go to court and just a reminder, after he was awarded a 5 Million that was a twoweek trial. A jury determined that he never once was in the courtroom and he never once called a single witness. So clearly, he is putting on a bit of a show here something that h
Opens fire on classmates. How this suspect got the weapon into school, and why officials warned about him and before the shooting and steeling themselves for a fight, us steel warning, it cant survive in unless a japanese companies plan to purchase it goes through. But President Biden appears ready to kill the deal. Thousands of jobs on the line. Were going to speak to you Unions President about what should happen. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to Cnn News central former President Donald Trump just wrapped up his Economics Speech to Business Leaders in New York, where he touted the strength of the u. S. Economy under his first term. And he vowed that if reelected, he would impose sweeping tariffs on imports. Also wrapping up earlier today, a critical hearing in trumps federal Elections Aversion Case here in washington, dc. Special counsel, prosecutors and trumps attorneys argued in front of Judge Tanya Chutkan about how the case sh
And why both getting mad. Plus special counsel, jack smith has filed his plan for how and when to move forward with his january 6 case? and we alone or not, a former top pentagon ufo hunter. Yeah, i said it makes us stunning claim as he takes us inside the secret program that he once lead. Tonight on laura coates live 67 days to go until the general election and donald trump is struggling to confront, let alone resolve an issue that he created for himself the end of roe roe v. Wade. We find exhibit a in his very home state of florida. Now, there there is a sixweek abortion ban that amendment on the ballot overturn that particular ban yesterday, trump appeared to suggest that he blinked be willing to vote for overturning that ban. When he said this well, i think the six week is too short it s has to be more time now that caused panic among his base. Conservative erick erickson win as far as to put it like this earlier today and if he loses in november yesterday august 29 in the year of
Publisher. He says trump suggests on the recording that they pay cash. I think that just shows how intimately involved Donald Trump was as part of this whole conspiracy, right . He wasnt just somebody who was oh, i dont know what was happening. My lawyers were dealing with it. I dont i dont know that. I think flies in the face of that and actually shows that he was intimately involved. And he was very much part of this group that was coming up with this how to deal with it, and what to do. And the prosecutor, matthew colangelos who is the assistant district attorney, is also alleging the david and presumably were going to see this in a text messages. Tim parlatore starts getting antsy because hes afraid Donald Trumps not going to pay him back. The prosecutor say the jury is going to hear the recording of the call between Cohen And Trump about this mcdougal payment in september remember 2016. So theyre presenting theyre basically giving a preview of the evidence. Theyre going to say sur