hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing a very, very busy news day with us today, a suspected leaker who shook up the world by posting top secret us intelligence documents online. sees the inside of a federal courtroom plus new cnn reporting on an intriguing avenue of investigation for the special counsel jack smith wants to know if donald trump is using an army of lawyers to intimidate potential witnesses telling his version of events and ron desantis just make himself unelectable. florida governor s science, one of the nation s most restrictive abortion laws, barring the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy. it s a priority for the republican base. but it is very much at odds which with where most americans stand up first for us, though. hiking boots and handcuffs. this morning, the 21 year old allegedly behind a global intelligence disaster, appearing for the first time in front of a federal judge today, prosecutors l
in uvalde, texas where president biden will be tomorrow, jeff to you. and the more we learn about the shooting, the more difficult it gets for in community to grasp what exactly happened at robb elementary school. despite what investigators had initially told the public. we learned the shooter was not confronted by anyone from the time he crashed his pickup truck and began shooting at the school. a minute before the suspected shooter crashed that truck, a teacher at the school had walked outside, propped open a door and then went back inside, and left that door propped open. we re learning that 19 officers stood in the hallway of the school for nearly an hour before a border patrol agent showed up with a master key he had found to open up the door to enter and then kill the suspect. and while the clock was ticking for that to happen. investigators disclosed children were calling 911 begging for operators to send in police to help. texas dps say the local incident commander
11:27 a.m. before the suspect entered the school, he immediately unleashed more than 100 rounds, shortly after that, three officers entered the school and two of them were immediately grazed by the gunman s bullets. john: according to texas dps, as many as 19 officer gathered in the hallway as of 12:03:00 p.m. no effort was made to breach the door of the classroom until 40 minutes later. law enforcement facing questions and criticism over the amount of time that passed before they stormed the classroom to stop the carnage. uvalde mayor will join us in the next hour, but we have team coverage this hour on all angles. karl rove will join us in moment. alicia is live in houston where the nra convention is being held. john: bill melugin, what a news conference that was. bill: yeah, john, that is an understatement. i think our jaws hit the floor as well, one of the big highlights we learned from the moment the shooter was first encountered by police in that school until th
lives and the uvalde community coming together as parents of students at the school that survived the shooting say they would like you to take their children home that day. yesterday was full of emotions. it s heartbreaking. my heart goes out to the families that lost their loved ones. they are kids. i just don t understand how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid coming to an 18-year-old. what is he going to use for? but for that purpose. carley: meantime, governor greg abbott releasing chilling details about the shooter s facebook bragging about his planned attack against his grandmother and the school. as the gunman wrote a series of messages saying, i m going to shoot my grandmother, i shot my grandmother, and i m going to shoot an elementary school. after he shot her in the face she was miraculously able to call for help but he stole her car and crash it and walked through a back door with a rifle he bought weeks ago after an 18th birthday. the grandfa
Already on edge. Why we shouldnt believe every number when it comes to joe biden and donald trump. That evening, we are 169 days from the election. Today, new york rested its case in the first criminal trial, i got to be in the courthouse as Michael Cohens marathon testimony ended and trumps team began putting on its case. Reporter former President Trumps team launching a fiery start to the case, taking direct aim at the credibility of Michael Cohen. Calling robert costello, an attorney for rudy giuliani, who advised cohen. He was described as manic. Cohen is implicating mr. Trump and an alleged crime. Costello testified that cohen told him, i dont have anything on donald trump. Directly refuting the testimony that he was directed to pay off Stormy Daniels. Michael cohen said numerous times President Trump knew nothing about it and he did it on his own. The judge repeatedly sustaining objections leading to a heated scolding. The judge at one point saying are you staring me down q he ha