hello and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip in for john king in washington. still no motive minutes ago on cnn, nashville s police chief shares some new details about the shooter who murdered six people, plus the special counsel investigating donald trump wins a courtroom fight to force mike pence to go under oath. and chris christie says hard written , spoken extensively about that day will evaluate the best way forward and make our intentions now have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty and the constitution on january 6th. chris christie says never again to donald trump and tells new hampshire voters that he s the one who can go toe to toe with the former president. better have somebody on that stage. into to him what i did to market do you have to be fearless? because he will come back. and right at you. but up first we have new information on the nashville shooting straight from the police chief himself moments ago, right here on cnn chief john drake run
breaking news. hello i m alex marquardt in washington. thank you so much for joining us today. we do begin with breaking news in the donald trump hush money investigation. we re learning that the manhattan grand jury that has been hearing the case is set to take a break for up to a month and may not hear evidence again until the end of april. let s get straight to cnn s caress canal in new york, keira. this comes after the former president. he predicted that he was gonna be indicted last week. but now, if that indictment comes, it may not be for several more weeks. alex. so we re learning from a court administration source that the grand jury has a scheduled break for the holidays and that they will be breaking after april 5th. that s next wednesday and they would return later in the month of april. what is not clear is whether this grand jury which normally sits on mondays, wednesdays and thursdays, will hear evidence about the trump case before they take that break. they ar
nashville metro police say shot through the doors of the covenant school in a calculated plot. before being neutralized and killed by officers, the former art instructor named maria column in said. for the last year, hale had grieved online over the death of a girl who used to play basketball with her. and calling me also told cnn. it was around this time that he ll wanted to be referred to as he him and go by the name aiden. call me says that hale was apparently suffering now. police have yet to release a motive for the shooting. they re still investigating that going through writings and videos and messages sent by the shooter. but no one person was hails target, they say it s still not clear exactly why hale attack the elementary school. as of right now, we don t have any indication that there was any problems at the at the scol cou8 years old and still living at home with her parents, but we can t confirm any type of problems at this time. we want to take you to nashville
the nashville school shooter, school work or home. this is we learned investigators believe audrey hale had some kind of weapons training before gunning down 39 year olds and three adults. plus a stunning new filing in the dominion lawsuit against fox news, newly revealed emails show, fox news chief executive told staff not to fact check trump s election lies because it was quote bad for business. what about what s good for journalism? just a question and then a parent complaints and now a florida school district is reviewing in 1998 disney movie about ruby bridges, integrating a new orleans school. we re talking with the movie screenwriter. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start today with our national lead in just a few hours from now the city of nashville will come together for a candlelight vigil to honor the three children and three adults gunned down at their school earlier this week, and first lady jill biden, a teacher herself, is also
i m abby phillip in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom, unprecedented political retribution. that is what is on the agenda in the tennessee state house right now , protesters have been at the capitol in support of the so called tennessee three democratic state lawmakers who are on the cusp of being expelled from that chamber. and any minute now the gop dominated chamber will vote on whether to remove them from office because get this. they protested on the house floor calling for stricter gun laws after the nashville shooting that left six people dead. three of whom were children. now, if the vote passes, it would be the first time in that body s entire history more than 200 years that a violation of house rules resulted in members being ousted . and so just to recap these three lawmakers, they may be stripped of their elected positions for speaking out of turn. after 39 year olds were gunned down in their grade school. cnn s ryan young is on the scene for us, ry