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
deadline that we are now seeing getting closer and closer with no solution, actually saying it out loud, anxious here seriously , and when you ask about what are the cuts, they re still trying to figure that out and right now before the freedom caucus, the staunchest conservatives were saying we need to pass the budget before the debt ceiling or tie both of them together so that we can get what we want here. but now even they re changing their tune saying, you know what? let s just pass the debt ceiling because they understand that defaulting is not the same as a government shutdown, and then we can deal with the budget. so you are starting to see some moves. but still everyone just wants biden and mccarthy to meet and talk, but we don t know if they re going to have something to talk about. and i think this is to your point. if republicans can t coalesce on what their demands are, it s gonna be hard to come to the negotiating table with the vitamin ist rations. who s basically saying
they put this minority staff statement, attempting to rebut the statement of the well he didn t put it off. and then this week, chuck grassley is going to be joining donald trump at a rally in his home state. again, sharing the stage with the man who tried to stab american democracy in the heart. who just yesterday said the real insurrection have not november 3rd, the present election, not on january 6th. we it was lindsey graham, of south carolina, who briefly jumped off those trump train, is right back on it, seeing recently, he hopes trump runs again in 2020. for we ve got former ambassadors united states nikki haley, who obviously harbors presidential aspirations. now after the election he had his hilariously tortured interview saying, trump down a path he shouldn t have, and we should have followed him, and we can t let that ever happen again. in a new interview this week she has changed her tune saying,
of any suggestion that donald trump did not win this election fair and square, so to speak but preventing them from focusing on the bigger picture. you see republicans trying to talk about that and donald trump already tweeting about this saying, quote, are we talking about the same cyberattack where it was revealed the head of the dnc illegally gave hillary the questions to the debate? it s a bit of a change of subject and mitch mcconnell changed his tune saying, this should be really a bipartisan investigation. this is something that should concern all of us, and chris also mentioned donald trump s attack on josh earnest last night at a rally. josh earnest, of course, speaking about this in the briefing room yesterday. take a look at what donald trump had to say about the white house press secretary. this foolish guy, josh earnest, i don t know if he s talking to president obama. you know, having the right press
and we don t find any example of a child in a control tower leading to a crash in the past. however, in 1994, an aeroflop plane, an airbus, was brought down because the pilot let his 12 and 16-year-olds fly the plane and they crashed it. 75 people died. so this is serious stuff. yeah, it is. tom costello in our washington newsroom, thank you for that. well, chilean rescue teams are moving into more towns and villages devastated by saturday s earthquake, searching for the living and the dead beneath the rubble there. nbc s mike taibbi is live for us in santiago, chile this morning. mike, as i understand it, there s been some criticism can about the government efforts here? reporter: yeah, there has been. principally, savannah, because at the beginning, president bachelet said we don t need any outside help, and two days after the earthquake, by monday, she was changing her tune saying, maybe we do, we need some field hospitals, certainly neat some sat phones, that sort of thing an