Breaking news, fbi agents shoot and kill a selfdescribed mega trump or who they say made a threats against President Biden. Vice president harris Attorney General garland, and other singled out by the former president. Also, the georgia d a, fani willis, cnn has learned when she has her say next week, shes expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in her Election Interference Probe of donald trump, the former president. Also tonight, a live report from our. You see it there. Walls of flame sweeping the island. At least six people have already been killed. Good evening, everyone john king here tonight, sitting in for anderson. Breaking news tops are. Elliott killing of a utah men of by fbi ages tried to arrest him that and the contents of the governments charging documents, which are frankly beyond chilling. Page after page of Craig Robertson social media postings, describing, at times in lurid, graphic detail, who he would allegedly kill, and how. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz joins us no
now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is tuesday, may 17th. i m john berman. brianna is off this morning. chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me in new york. we have live pictures of the white house this morning, very shortly president biden about to depart for buffalo, to meet with the families of those killed in the racist mass shooting there. moments ago, officials told us the president will condemn, quote, the terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation. and he will call on americans to give hate no safe harbor and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several month
Former fbi did pd director, intermediate. shimon, walk us through exactly what happened today. certainly, a lot of concern given that the president was coming to utah, and that set off a whole chain of events. first, the suspect here, craig robertson, on monday, the fbi saw that he posted a message on facebook, saying that the president was coming to utah. basically, it was time for him to take action. he wrote, i hear biden s coming to utah, digging out my old gillies suit. this is camouflage outfit that you see there. cleaning the dust of the am 24 sniper rifle. he says welcome, buffoon -in-chief. they were ready. seeing this post, the fbi decided it was time to move in and take him off the street. this is a man they had been monitoring since march. because of other threats that he had posted, most significant, what really started all of this, the threat he posted against the manhattan district attorney here in new york city. the alvin bragg. he s been investigating the former pres
Legislation to try to keep guns from the mentally ill. this morning we re getting new details about the suspected shooter. cell phone video taken by an eyewitness at the moment he was taken into custody by police, new evidence shows he spent several months carefully planning the attack. he was here, we found some things that show that he was here in early march, and then again we know that he was here on friday, basically doing a reconnaissance on the area. a manager at the market where this attack took place told abc news she saw the gunman at the store on friday, the day before the attack. he was wearing the same camouflage outfit he wore during the shooting and told him to leave that friday because it looked like he was bothering customers. we re learning more about how the suspect wrote on line he considered attacking churches or elementary schools but hesitated because of the security at schools. he was easily able to purchase a firearm including one he used to
Around. he was walking like he wanted to get stuff done, and it was horrible. now, people describe absolute chaos. they say the shooter was wearing a tactical vest, may have been wearing a camouflage outfit. police say he must have gotten in through a perimeter fence that he used a tool. to get into the garlic festival, you had to go through a metal detector. there was intense security considering it was a food festival. police say, though, that once he was in, it didn t take long for him to open fire, and a lot of questions remaining, what his name is, what his motive is, and police will hold another press conference in just a couple of hours, hopefully with nmore answer. incredibly troubling, especially when you hear about a 6-year-old, people on a sunday afternoon. what s more troubling is all the security in place, he managed to get inside through the perimeter fence.