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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 should move forward following the supreme Courts Landmark ruling on president ial immunity will get you more on that hearing in a moment, but lets begin with cnn national correspondent kristen holmes, covering former President Trumps economic speech in New York today. Kristen, what more did we hear from the former president this morning yeah, boris, just forgive me. Im going to be talking a little bit softer here we are in a small room. Donald trump is still speaking. He was outlined his economic proposes course in intrude from fashion. Hes spent doherty of the first part of the Speech Bashing Kamala Harris, her economic policies under the harris administration, excuse me, the biden administration obviously, she is the Vice Prime president there, but then he laid down on ac six point in policy of how he envisions the economy. If he was to be reelected among the things he talked about was tackling Government Regulation at one point, he said, for every new regulation that was cut too old regulations, then he said he had regulations for every one regulation which he said the money. The other thing were talking about was something we had previously reported was going to come up with its creating this Government Efficiency Commission proposed first by Elon Musk take a listen to what he said about that i will create a Government Efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and Performance Audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms need to do it. Cant go on the way we are now and ilan because hes not very busy has agreed to hit that Task Force again, as we said, this is something that musk had proposed Donald Trump and google, theyre being supported a senior advisors to eliminate waste and fraud. Some of the other things he talked about was a national Emergency Declaration that he would impose immediately going if he was elected to increase the Energy Supply domestically. Again, one of the things you mentioned boris was adding sweeping tariffs on imports. Now it is important to note that some economists and said this would actually hurt the economy cause more inflation. Donald trump addressed that directly saying smart tariffs were something that would have been bad, inflation, not encourage more inflation missing would have to wait and see how that would play out in talked to more economists about that the other part that was interesting here, he wanted to make the Trump Tax cuts permanent essentially saying i do even her talk and then going back to what we heard him say before about no toxic security as well as in taxes on tips to policies that they believe very popular among voters. Just one quick note. Boris is all because Donald Trumps campaign believes its Core Issue in this election is the Economy Weve seen that obviously in polling among voters and they do believe at The End Of Day Donald Trump can pull ahead of Kamala Harris when it comes to the economy. They want him stressing this every opportunity that they get thats why you see him herE Today. A laying out this kind of Policy Proposals interesting to contrast his proposals with the Vice President who was also laying out her economic vision for the country. Kristen holmes live for us in New York. Thank you so much for the update. Lets take you now outside the federal courthouse here in washington with cnn chief legal Affairs Correspondent Paula reid. Paula, obviously a Big Day in court. The supreme Court Kind hitting the Reset Button on this federal Election Subversion Case with their unity ruling what got sorted out today . Well, not many things. Were resolved in court today, but this was the first hearing since that historic supreme Court Decision limiting what prosecutors can charge former President Trump with, and what evidence and they can use an boris. I was little surprised by just how contentious this hearing was at times, especially the exchanges between Judge Tanya Chutkan and lawyers for former President Trump the judge outright rejecting a suggestion by trump lawyers that she should just toss the indictment entirely against their client. She made it clear that as not going to happen she also made it clear that she is not taking into consideration the date of the election as she moves forward with this case. Now shes been pretty consistent about that, that she does not take politics into consideration as she decides how this criminal case will proceed with the one thing that everyone seemed to agree on is that they have to first resolve these outstanding questions about immunity. The judge needs to look at the supreme Court Case, look at this revised indictment that was filed last week and make decisions about how the supreme Courts Decision could impact this case. That has to happen before they can move on and litigate. Many the other issues that they are going to challenge. For example, the Defense Attorneys will likely try to challenge the legitimacy of the Special Counsel. The Judge Signaling that is not likely to succeed in her courtroom. Also, questions about Obstruction Of Justice and January 6 and discovery issues. So theres a lot to do in this case, and now we are watching and waiting for judge to release her schedule that will lay out exactly how she is going to tackle these issues. But the one thing she is not ready to do is set a Trial Date, boris today. She said theres just too much to do before she can even contemplate that, but sources close to the case say, look, if this he then goes to trial. It wouldnt happen until likely next fall at the earliest Paula Reid live outside the federal courthouse in dc. Thank you so much. All right lets talk more. About this now with former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams and former trump attorney Tim Parlatore okay. Elliott who prevailed morE Today. What do you think . Well see and a lot of that is going to and on this first wave of decisions or rulings that comes from the judge in terms of the timeline. Now certainly shes not going to set a schedule. This is as paula had noted, but how are they going to decide these some of these questions about immunity . Which evidence is going to be in and out, how in the process for which she sets up there is really going to decide to the big winner as today. But look, this isnt going anywhere anytime soon. Theres a lot of big decisions that need to be made tim, whats your take on . Who had the Advantage Today in arguments in court i agree with elie. Its one of those things where they made the arguments the judge didnt decide and ultimately the thing thats the most immediate concern is what is the next Briefing Schedule going to be in both sides have argued feud over essentially whos going to file their brief first on the immunity issue. Traditionally, it is something where the defense will file a motion first, the government then responds the defense gets reply. Heres Special Counsels office has suggested kind of reversing the order, letting them go first and having the Defense Reply and then giving Special Counsel the last word. And i think that the subtext that they were trying to get into there is if you do it that way right now, this close to the election, youre essentially dictating which side gets to put their argument not only before the court, but also before the public in what order before the election. So ultimately, well see what the judge decides on that tim, do you think the judge seems inclined to accept the indictment as it is or do you think that the Special Counsel is going to have to do some significant tinkering with it well, shes definitely not going to accept that just simply as is without proper briefing and potentially hearings that that i think she made very clear that this is something the Supreme Court once her to go through a detailed analysis before she even gets to that point and i do think that they have theyve cut it down significantly. Theres a lot of things that were immune under the supreme Court Case law that have been taken out but there may still be a few things that she decides to cut out a little bit further. So i do think that theres going to be just a little bit more shaving to go on elliot on how this is weighed. It seems like the Special Counsel says we can do this through legal briefings. The Trump Team is like no, lets have hearings. Lets discuss this further. Obviously, one would put the case back even further than it is now, as paula pointed out, potentially into next fall is there going to be a mix . How do you foresee that plane its i think the judge has acknowledged that were not seeing a trial anytime soon. Thats why shes very clear about not setting a Trial Date because of the number of issues. Now, the prosecutors have been clear that they can that they ought to be able to just lay out this is the evidence that we think ought to support the indictment that weve supported here. Whats put that on paper . And then after that, we can debate whats immune and what isnt the defense wants to drag things out a little bit more by sort of having a series in effect many hearings are many disputes. Again, thats all the things that the judge has to sort out in the next we might even see something today. I want to get too excited, but just at least in terms of a preliminary an eerie outlining what the next timeline is going to be, what did you think elliot about how she said this court is not concerned with the timing . The election, and how realistic that is when you cant ignore, at least politically that there is an election. Its like getting the band back together, brianna, because you and i and boards, we talked about theres a lot in the Spring And Fall and i have long taken the view that we have a political calendar, but also the legal system doesnt need to bend the knee to that. But of course, we dont live in fantasy lawyer land. We live in a world where there are elections and people well care about what happens in these legal cases and so shes right that anybody would pardon me, anybody who believes or says that we ought to think about elections is right . Its true, its, its a reality, but the judge has a job to do and her job is to make decisions that adhere to the Rule Of Law and not do whats best for voters on november to me, it seems like one of the angles of attack for the Trump Team on this is going to mimic what we saw play out in florida and the classified documents case, one of the arguments is going to be that special Counsel Jack Smith was unduly appointed that that his appointment itself is illegal how successful do you think that argument is going to be before Judge Chutkan oh, its not going to be successful at all in front of her. The Dc Circuit Case Law on this is very unfavorable to the president s position but the reason he was successful in florida is in part because that dc Case Law wasnt binding on florida. And so i think that for that argument, old but at least succeed is not going to succeed in front of Judge Chutkan is not going to succeed at the Dc Circuit. It may succeed in the, in the Florida Case on appeal up to the up to the circuit, and then ultimately to the Supreme Court to where if they prevail, there than that decision can essentially be dropped. Back down to chuck him, but as far as succeeding in this courtroom, not a chance tim just turning to a different Highprofile Case here, which is hunter Bidens Felony Tax Evasion Case in california, supposed to start today with Jury Selection and then moments before that started, his lawyers offered to change his plea to avoid trial. What did you think of what bidens lawyers were asking here and why are they asking this tim its a very unconventional ask what theyre, what theyre looking for here is something called an Alford Plea, where essentially he wants to plead guilty to the indictment while at the same time maintaining his innocence, essentially saying that he hes unable to contest him at trial, but he still wants to be able to publicly say that hes innocent. Its something that, you know, its very uncommon for these types of pleas to happen. Usually when they do happen, it is something thats negotiated with the prosecutors where you get least some form of reduction in your sentence, but to do an Alford Plea to the indictment without any agreement whatsoever from the government. I think it actually is something that can backfire forum significantly because while he avoids the trial, he essentially then go straight into sentencing well be sentenced on the full freight as if he was found guilty of everything at trial, but with no credit for acceptance of responsibility or any of the bargain for benefit so it is very unusual and not something i was expecting at all elliot, what do you make of this month . I agree fully with tim. Here is number one. It is very much in hunter Bidens Interest to try to plead guilty, to get out of going to trial. The evidence is against him. And if hes convicted of everything, hes going to face a significant amount of time in prison. Now to tims point point, were he to strike a deal with the government . He could agree to plead to some charges, but not all. And so im really curious to see what the what the prosecution agrees to do here. They dont have to. And frankly, they can use this to almost turn the screws on him im a little bit and get an even tougher Plea Deal than they would have have they agreed to one several weeks ago. But again criminal defendants across the united states, it is always sadly many ways in their interest to plead guilty because of the penalties in effect that you get. If you do go to trial and cost the government all the resources of trying, to, notably, he had a Plea Deal in place thank you yeah. One fell apart so even more resources, all the more reason to these cases, Elliot Williams,