stories this morning. first in nashville. new details about the shooter who killed six people at a christian elementary school. and we ve determined that audrey about seven firearms. from five different local gun stores here legally. ah they were legally purchased. three of those weapons were used yesterday, but parents felt that she should not own weapons. they were under the impression that was when she sold the one weapon that she did not own any more. i said thursday. of course it s wednesday. the parents of audrey hill hill also gave critical insight into hail state of mind will be live in nashville with details just ahead. plus an unprecedented ruling and a new setback for trump s legal team. a judge has ordered former president vice president mike pence to testify. federal grand jury is now getting a chance to ask pence about his conversations with the former president. in the days leading up to january, 6th. we begin this morning, though, in nashville, where cnn s car
bank. they were very worried about it. they had provided certain directives. to the bank . um and then the question is could they have taken more recourse earlier, but the reality is, we re still getting to the bottom of this. i hope there s going to be emerging bipartisan consensus that at the very least, we need to change our laws so that we can call back. uh any of the games compensations, you know, from the chief executive officer, top executives that they were they cashed in just before. the bank collapsed because of their own incompetence. so we have some laws in the books to reclaim those monies from the very big banks. but there is a loophole here that i and others are working to close right now. beyond that, if i can just quickly do you believe there should be criminal consequences as well. well there s certainly should be an investigation, and i believe the justice department
yesterday. but i hope it s not true. it looks like it is. reporter: trump referring to comments from former director of national intelligence james clapper. what clapper actually said wasn t that trumps campaign was spied on. but that the fbi was watching ia. was the fbi spying on the campaign? no they were not. they were spying on a term i don t like. but on what the russians were doing. trying to understand where the russians infiltrating trying to gain access and leverage and influence. the president seize lg on the mischaracterization nonetheless. tweeting. they go after phone n collusion with russia. and end up getting caught in major spy scandal. the like of which this country may have never seen before. after ordering the doj to open classified files to review. they ll be in the room
confrontation to go up. president trump is escalating his attacks on the fbi as he tries to discredit the russia investigation. pushing the unsubstantiated claim the fbi spied on his campaign. and we have learned there will be two classified briefings thursday on topic. one with just republicans and another with democrats included. what s more the president son if law and adviser jared kushner had a second interview with special counsel robert mueller. here s pamela brown. reporter: president trump going further than ever in attacking america s law enforcement institution. accusing former president obama justice department of spying on his presidential campaign. i hope it s not so. because if it is there s never been anything like it in the history of the country. i hope shlgs if you look at clapper he admitted they had spies in the campaign.
thank you. we are watching president trump aggressively push his deep state conspiracy theory. of the spy being imbedded in his campaign. by the fbi. despite a lack of evidence to support that. let s listen to what republican senator jeff flake had to say. what do you think when the president uses the phrase criminal deep state? yeah. well, that is completely unfair. and not good to sully the institution like that. without proof. i have seen no evidence there s spying on the trump campaign. it s just simply the fbi following leads on was russia involved or not. how likely is it the people of are buying into trumps conspiracy theory? is his strategy to discredit the russia probe working? part of what we re seeing is