welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with breaking news in our national lead. moments ago, the 15-year-old suspected gunman in the michigan high school shooting appeared in court. prosecutors have charged ethan crumbley as an adult in the killing of four students in oxford, michigan. prosecutors are considering charging his parents as well. let s go straight to cnn s adrian broaddus live in oakland, michigan. moments before the court hearing, the sheriff released new details about how exactly the shooting unfolded. tell us what you can. jake, moments ago, the sheriff revealed that school officials met with the parents of ethan crumbley the morning of the shooting for what they called, quote, behavior in the classroom they felt was concerning. the sheriff also told us that the day before the shooting, staff here at the high school
trying to pull the levers of power, including speaking in the name of vice president pence, issuing a statement in his name in defiance of where pence actually stood in an effort to push this process forward. it was all about unraveling the certification process. what we still need to learn that s why this committee s work is critical is to figure out what else don t we know? it took us months to figure out that this war room was happening a the willard and that bannon and giuliani were working together. what else don t we though about the eve of january 5th, the morning of january 6th? about all of these different personalities and intertwining story lines. ben, rose that s a perfect question to set up what this is about. this is about chairman bennie thompson, his vice chair liz cheney articulating that all those questions must be answered not for a single political purpose but for the protection of our democracy so our democracy continues to exist.
around a problem. a big one. a neighbor of adam s came forward with some information. what d he tell you? on the day that adam left, the morning of, he believed he observed a black female standing outside of the frasch s residence. reporter: he said she was tall and thin. who did he think it was? never really led on to say this is samira frasch. he just said that he saw a black female standing outside of the frasch s residence. but he thought it probably was her? i think he did. yeah. what time? he said that he and his daughter were taking a walk in the neighborhood. and this was a time period about 20 minutes before gerald gardner had discovered her. wait a minute. that would be, like, 10:30, or 10:20, or something like that? correct. reporter: and he was very sure about the time. very sure.
irresponsible to not do this in a bipartisan way but they re going to prevent democrats from doing that, and that s going to hurt the country, and it s going to hurt voters. and sahil, to jeff s point, because the effects of this are already being felt, that s one of the reasons why the majority leader chuck schumer sent out a letter saying that congress has to pass this debt ceiling hike by the end of the week. this is not one of these things that can wait until the night before, the morning of. you heard the president there talking about this process that democrats already suggested trying to raise the debt limit first using unanimous consent, and then using their 50 plus one vote threshold. help us understand how this would all work potentially. sure, jeff, it appears democrats and president biden are all on the same page here that reconciliation, that s that budget process, should not be used to lift the debt ceiling. you just heard president biden there call it an incredibly c
abortion bill in texas. that is why on the morning of september 6 i provided an abortion to a woman who though still in her first trimester was beyond the state s new limit. a doctor going public there with his challenge to the texas law daring anti-abortion rights to sue him. we ll have much more on that. major conversation top of the 4:00 hour. we do want to begin with that breaking news out of the north texas where a military aircraft crashed into lakewort police held a press conference. two people did eject from the aircraft and one of them was seriously injured after becoming tangled up in power lines. also saying three homes are quote heavily damaged. take a look at this picture of this badly mangled plane that