Reporter our antioch, tennessee, suburb of nanshville. Three dead and others injured after a shooting at a waffle house. Police tweeted this. Another shooting nearby that police are saying now is related to that shooting at the waffle house. Our affiliate reporter there at wtvs, Sophie Nelson kalcolding there with details. Reporter Police Called out their s. W. A. T. Team and helicopter to search for this man. They are not sure if he has another gun on him. The waffle house is murfreesboro, the man went and started shooting. We do know a customer, someone who was at this waffle house, actually wrestled that gun away from him but not before he had shot seven people, three dead, four people hurt this morning. So that rifle was left behind at the restaurant before he walked out. Police specifically told us that it was it an ar15. He left, walked away from the scene. Police say that he was naked and he is a white man with short hair. So there was a helicopter up above us right now. Actually, im not sure if you it hear it but they are still searching for this man. We have seen the police tweeting and we hope that the Public Information officer, if he gives us an update we will let you know and give you all of that information. Sophie, thank you. We know the s. W. A. T. Teams and helicopters have been called in to help with the search. As soon as we get more, we will bring that to you. New this morning. This isnt really a trick question. Its pretty straightforward. Will you support donald trump in the 2020 election . There is another high profile republican this morning who is dodging that question. This time its mitt romney telling cnn, quote, i will make that decision down the road. He is joining dozens of house and Senate Republicans who appear reluctant to back the president s reelection bid. I havent thought about that election. It could be a completely different world by 2020. Its a long way off. I think its far too early to make a judgment of that type. Talk about what might happen in that time i think is premature. We have no idea who is going to run. Whether the president runs again or not i think is very questionable, candidly. Why wouldnt he . Ah. I dont know. Why would he . Reporter cnn White House ReporterJeremy Diamond is with us live here. We know the president , jeremy, and romney have had a dicey relationship. That isnt a surprise. Why is this . Reporter certainly the case. Mitt romney is the latest republican to joins these folks in saying they are not sure if they want to support the president in 2020. Its a reflection of the president s current political standing, his Approval Ratings he is facing and the number of scrutiny and suspicion he is facing over Robert Muellers probe, for example, but an example of the tumultuous relationship between the president and mitt romney. I dont think mitt needs lots of money but hell do what is necessary. We need somebody great as a president. Ill be a great president. Being in Donald TrumpsMagnificent Hotel and having his endorse smt a delight. I have a lot of friends. No, i have a lot of friends. By the way, mitt romney is not one of them did he choke . Here is what i know. Donald trump is a phony. A fraud. The last election should have been won, except romney choked like a dog he choked he went i cant breathe i cant breathe, he said ive had a wonderful evening with president elect trump. The discussions ive had with him have been enlightening and engaging and enjoyed them very much. Reporter this has been a love hate and now love again relationship between romney and the president. But mitt romney, despite getting the president s endorsement no recently for his u. S. Senate republican bid he failed to clench the delegate votes he needed yesterday to clempl the nomination outright. Instead he is facing a primary challenge going up in june against another republican in utah for that senate seat. There are a lot of local issues, particularly about the nominating system at play here as far as why mitt romney was not able to clench that vote outright. Still very interesting to see mitt romney now with the president s endorsement and despite his past criticisms of the president , not able to clench that nomination outright. He will he is, however, expected to clench that nomination eventually. He is certainly still the favorite. Jeremy, stay with us. I want to continue this conversation and bring in cnn media correspondent bryant stelter and Deputy Managing Editor at the weekly standard, kelly jane torrance. Kelly, is this a case of mitt romney is both too close to and too far from the president , especially in of all states, utah . United states has seen probably the least amount of support for President Donald Trump in a red state. And i have to say, i mean, romney is echoing what a lot of gop lawmakers and others are saying lately but he does look a little bit opportunistic with this. He had very strong words against President Trump during the primary and as soon as turump ws elected he changed his tune and was a candidate for secretary of state. It seems he is supporting trump when it suits him and his career. I think one thing he has to worry about in utah. He wasnt a shooin for this race and a lot of people see him as a carpet bagger. He has only recently moved to utah and changed his Voter Registration there just within the last few years. I think he has a few things that are all related to the fact that he looks a bit like an opportunistic in many ways. Lets put up the results of the 2012 primary here. Brian, there is the element of the drum beat that goes through the primary season and potentially inevitability. Look at these numbers. 93 mitt romney won the gop primary in 2012 and comes in second to a two term state senator when asked why voters latched on to his message, his answer was, i dont know. I dont know. Its just my message. What happened to mitt romney . Good to see a raucous night of voting in utah, you know . We are seeing the process play out and now we will have an actual primary in the state. I think this is one of the situations where all of the politics is upside down so, as a result, the question of whether the president will run for reelection and his party will support him is an open question. Normally, we wouldnt be having this conversation, of course. It seems to me the parlor game of american politics how long do you think the president will last . 2020 or sometimes before 2020 . It actually makes analyzing the Upcoming Elections harder whether the mid terms or president ial. We are still 88 weeks from the Iowa Caucuses but nobody really knows what is going to happen in those 88 weeks now and then. Finally, button this up for me, jeremy. You dont see maybe you do a scenario in which donald trump goes and rallies or campaigns for mitt romney in this primary season or moving forward . Reporter anything is possible, i would say, victor. Listen. That would be full circle, right . Donald Trump Campaigning for mitt romney after all we have seen . Reporter it definitely would be. But given the relationship that we have seen between the two men the last several years, you know, going from fully supporting mitt romney in the 2023 campaign to bashing him during the 2016 campaign with the return fire from mitt romney calling him a phony and a fraud and then considering him for secretary of state. I dont know that it would be completely out of the question to see him campaigning there. The question is whether mitt romney would want it. Certainly it has helped him to get a little bit of a boost from the president but this is also a state where 21 of voters in 2016 voted for Evan Mcmullen who, you know, ran this independent thirdparty campaign specifically on the premise of opposing donald trump. Utah, you know, deep red state but still a state where there is a serious antitrump speaking of 2020. Brian, brad thor, a conservative author made news this weekend by republican primary moving forward the next cycle. I think this is really interesting, you know . We will hear about a lot of, you know, nontraditional candidates the next two years and probably on the democratic side and apparently on the republican side as well. Brad thor is a famous author of spy thrillers and big trump skeptic and he came reluctantly into the fold but now willing to primary the president if others dont. At the end of the day, yesterday on twitter he was saying that is it, im going to do it and im going to run. Well see how serious he is about this. His message, speaking with the daily caller and speaking with others he does believe the president needs to be primaried. He expects other challenges as well but one of the tweets from thor he said imagine how much america could establish with a stable president who understands how government work and pretty strong words for a wellknown conservative saying the president is unfit for office and needs to be challenged. I think we will see a lot of other challenges on the right but this is one that already like i said 88 wooks befoeeks b Iowa Caucuses is putting his hand in the air and saying ill do it. Kelly, look at it the perspective from donald trump running had nearly 100 , if not 100 , name recognition. Brad thor does not have that. What is the plausibility of thor coming in and being a real contender when the president has been running for reelection from the first day of his administration . Yeah. Victor, i think he does have some problems. He does have more name recognition than your average politician. Is a very wellknown author. The New York Times best seller and he has a lot of fans. Its funny. I think this came as a surprise to people but he has to think about this for a while. I found this q a with his publisher and they are asked him which historical figure do you most identify with . He said ronald reagan. I have a feeling this has been on his mind for a while and he is sort of taking the opportunity. I have to say in the q a they said what do you like to do when youre not writing . He said working out and shooting and not your typical political hobbies there. I think he has been a very strong critic of donald trump and a lot of people like him for that. I will say, though, he does have some baggage and one those is his view of islam. He has a very hard stand against islam and says al qaeda and eye s isis are the true islam. President trump told Anderson Cooper that islam hates us so he was elected and is now, at least the frontrunner, not if you ask some of the republicans on hill, they havent backed the president yet. Let me talk about quickly epa director scott pruitt. Out in the New York Times right now. Pruitt purchased a house in 2003 from a lobbyist Shell Company who works for the epa. Mr. Pruitt will meet with a lobbyist connected with the deal where he was staying in a room. Does this suggest that his tenure at the epa is short . Reporter tit is becoming difficult to imagine a cabinet member still on the job despite the flurry of scandals and allegations of unethical behavior that scott pruitt has faced and this not only shows he has faced these issues currently in his current position but a track record of it going back to his days as a state senator in oklahoma. But despite all of this, what we have seen from the president is, you know, reluctance really to dismiss scott pruitt at all or to put him on ice. The president and scott pruitt have met several times since these stories have come out and the president has come out of that completely backing his epa administrator. A big reason why is because he is accomplishing a lot of his goals on his agenda. You know . The deregulation front has been huge at epa and scott pruitt, of course, has been very much a force behind that. As of now, there is no indication that the president , that anything is actually going to change his mind or his view about his epa administrator despite the continuation of the stories we have seen. Thank you all. Thank you. Good morning. Today on state of the union, Kellyanne Conway and bob coker will join jake tapper at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cnn are are according to the Washington Post the white house is privately skeptical of north koreas plans to halt their nuclear program. Plus, chemical weapons experts have collected samples from douma. We will have the latest next. With expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. Sometimes you need an expert. I got it. And sometimes those experts need experts. On it. [ crash ] and sometimes the expert the expert needed Needs Insurance expertise. Its all good. Steve, youre covered for general liability. And, paul, we got your back with workers comp. Wow, its like a party in here. Where are the hors doeuvres, right . [ clanking ] tartlets . We cover commercial vehicles, too. I think theres something wrong with your sink. A developing situation in afghanistan this morning. A number of people who were killed during this suicide bomb attack on a voting Registration Center in kabul is now 31. Another 54 people have been hurt. This video youre watching just came in minutes ago. Isis has now claimed responsibility. They say they carried out this attack. According to the Washington Post the white house is privatelily doubting north koreas plan to stop all Nuclear Testing ahead of the summit with the u. S. Despite trump calling it a good move and progress in a tweet. They say this would be a move by north korea to bring the u. S. To the negotiating table and ease sanctions on pyongyang and violate the agreement and believe that because its something that has happened in the past. Chemical weapons experts have gotten samples from the attack. Leading to concerns that any chemistry that might have been used could have disintegrated. The u. S. And allies believe chlorine and sarin gas was dumped there and blame assads regime. But assads regime denies an attack happened there. Sam is following this from moscow. There is back and forth between the Trump Administration about possibility imposing further sanctions on russia after the attacks. Where do we stand there . Reporter first of all, on sanctions, as we know, we go being a week ago, nikki haley said new sanctions should be imposed on russia and donald trump didnt impose them the following monday, some suggestion that there was a rourout between him and others in the National Security council. A meeting on friday between Steve Mnuchin and on the fringes of the imf also talking about sanctions. Those, though, focused on existing sanctions. For now, it seems that sanctions, more sanctions are on the back burner but they are something that troubles russia in a way that criticism over the alleged use of chemical weapons and their alliance with the damascus regime really doesnt. The significance now of these inspectors getting to douma and collecting the evidence, the u. S. And uk believe they have evidence that these were gas attacks. Tell us what we are learning about the new investigations. Reporter well, the samples have been collected on saturday. They are being redistributed and transported to europe and tested in labs where Proof Positive or otherwise of what chemicals were used should be forthcoming over the next week or so. Now the russians have already indicated that they probably wouldnt accept those results. Equally, the west has adle they believe russia is trying to sanitize the environment where these attacks allegedly took place. We understand from chemical weapons experts, though, that no amount of attempt to sanitizing can cover it up. If the weapons were used will show up in the traces of the sample taken. Sam kylie, thank you. We will stand by for those reports. Next, maybe the best of friends . Maybe not . Mitt romney seems to repay the president for endorsing his utah bid for him saying whether he is backing him in 2020 election. 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