boris johnson resigned as british prime minister. what happened next is as clear as mud. welcome to the lead. we start today with ow national lead. the father of the suspected gunman of the highland park attack said he consented to his son buying guns in 2019 thinking the son would use the weapons at a shooting range. instead the guns were used in monday s mass shooting that killed seven people. the night before the attack the father said his son mentioned the mass shooting in denmark. the father himself could face charges linked to the rampage. reporter: in the mayhem of the shooting at the fourth of july parade new details emerge from a witness that provided key surveillance video. see m running. he is walking. reporter: a sur rail lance camera connected to a building that recorded that crucial moment with the alleyway used to reach the roof top and fired off more than 80 rounds. started to look at the camera here. shows on the film at 10:07 into the alley and 1
his family says he s now paralyzed from the waist down. an eight-year-old boy, his brother, mom, all with the kind of wounds that men and women came home from afghanistan or iraq, signed up knowing it might happen, cooper, luke and keeley, they just went to a parade. friends of the family have set up a gofundme page to help cover ethical expenses and therapy. in the meantime the gunman s father is speaking out telling abc news, he has no regrets about helping his son in 2019 obtain the documentation needed to buy the weapons he did, despite his son suicide attempt , threats to kill his family and police confiscating 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from an earlier that year. filled out the consent form to allow my son to go through the process. whatever that entails. the killer s father told abc news he had no inkling his son would do this and said his threats against the family were taken out of context and that he can t understand why his son did what he did. could the g
security detail tackling the suspect. a local resident in his 40s. the gun he used appears to have been handmade, a motive not known at this time. as brianna said abe was japan s longest serving prime minister and was still a towering figure in japanese and international politics. he had crucial working relationships with both president obama and president trump. this assassination causing shock waves around the world this morning. let s get right to cnn s blake essig who is in tokyo with the very latest. blake, what can you tell us? reporter: brianna, john, devastating news here in japan. doctors at nara medical university hospital have confirmed that japanese former japanese prime minister shinzo abe has died after being shot twice, once in his chst and once in his neck. doctors treating former prime minister said that his heart had actually stopped by the time that he reached the hospital, they said that he was bleeding profusely and that the bullet that killed abe w
police tackled the gunman, you can see there, described as a man in his 40s, state broadcaster nhk quotes police who say he used a homemade gun. we will be live in tokyo in just a moment. we are also keeping a close watch this hour on what s happening in washington. former white house counsel pat cipollone expected on capitol hill for closed door testimony today. he ll speak with the january 6th select committee. again, watching that closely as well as the latest jobs report, just out a short time ago, which shows the economy added 327,000 jobs in the month of june. the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%. a lot going on this morning as you can see. but we do want to begin with this breaking news out of japan, the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. blake essig is in tokyo this morning. what more do we know about this suspect and also what is the reaction throughout the country. reporter: hey, you know, jim, erica, i apologize, i cannot hear you righ
counsel pat cipollone has firsthand knoll of key events before and during the insurrection. let s go to ryan nobody else. he s up on capitol hill. ryan, more than seven hours, certainly one of the longer witness interviews the committee has conducted. tell our viewers what you re learn. that s right. pat cipollone was with the committee for more than eight hours when you take into account the breaks he took. he sat for more than seven hours of testimony. it does compare to some of the more lengthy testimony that we have seen bear fruit for the committee, such as ivanka trump, jared kushner, those were long depositions, then later used in hearings. also jeffrey rosen, richard donahue, members of the department of justice, they also sat for lengthy interviews that the committee was able to use. this would indicate that cipollone was, at least on some level cooperative. there was some concern he may not answer certain questions because of privilege issues. that may be the kay.