hello and welcome to inside politics. i m abby phillip in for john king in washington. still no motive minutes ago on cnn, nashville s police chief shares some new details about the shooter who murdered six people, plus the special counsel investigating donald trump wins a courtroom fight to force mike pence to go under oath. and chris christie says hard written , spoken extensively about that day will evaluate the best way forward and make our intentions now have nothing to hide. i believe we did our duty and the constitution on january 6th. chris christie says never again to donald trump and tells new hampshire voters that he s the one who can go toe to toe with the former president. better have somebody on that stage. into to him what i did to market do you have to be fearless? because he will come back. and right at you. but up first we have new information on the nashville shooting straight from the police chief himself moments ago, right here on cnn chief john drake run
of the national school shooting gets underway soon. the first lady jill biden, is set to attend, as police revealed the shooter may have had weapons training. also, tonight, we ve learned that the new york grand jury investigating donald trump will take a break for most of april. how might that impact the decision on whether to indict the former president? and the crisis unfolding in israel right now is testing relations big time with the united states. we re tracking the tensions after president biden criticized prime minister benjamin netanyahu s divisive judicial overall plan. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. and let s go right to nashville. right now. we re mourners are gathering to honor the three children and three adults shot dead at the covenant elementary school there . cnn s carlos suarez is joining us right now. he s just outside the school. carlos this vigil is being held tonight
the prosecution never said that they were going to arrest or in charge. charge him on a particular day, and they ve been cautious in the public signals. i agree with evan, though, that all the indicators you have the fact that trump had the opportunity to put a witness. this before the grand jury. that typically happens before charges are filed. you had that witness robert costello. go in. you had a rebuttal witness come in, in the form of david pecker. uh you know as well as i do that these holidays passover easter spring break, those can be disruptive to the calendar in new york. well when we were getting ready to put president trump on trial in the impeachment, nancy pelosi announced we were going to be taking a long break and it occasioned weeks of additional time investigations have their own rhythm. i think it still is every indication charges are coming. all right. we shall see
next week or so it could be another month or so before we learn how this will go, really could abby and it s most important to note that deliberations and everything that happens around a grand jury by law is secret. and so we don t know. number one. what went on in that room number two. what were the basis for which alvin bragg in the d. a. s office put evidence on in the first place in number three. what s driving their decisions now as to whether they re calling additional witnesses and so on. now, look, we can speculate, but you know, but like cara s reporting had noted , part of this was a planned break. that the grand jury was going to take anyway, on account of a number of holidays that are approaching so more information may trickle out over the coming weeks. but it s just hard to know at this moment. why exactly, they re pausing right now. that s right, um and part of the brake. if you look at the calendar, there are some holidays coming up passover easter, etcetera, uh, and i