how many more children have to die before we make them a priority? >> democratic congresswoman angie craig opens up about being assaulted in her d.c. apartment building last week. >> i was assaulted violently, punched in the face. he grabbed my neck. he wasn't going to let me out of that elevator if i hadn't fought my way out. i reached over and poured the hot coffee on him. i jumped out. and started screaming for help. >> a bit of a lighter ending to this story. craig tweeting last night, tha thanking amy klobuchar for stopping by with beer after the attack. >> first lady jill biden is spreading the love this valentine's day with a holiday display at the white house. it's called valentine to the country. mrs. biden's message is reach out with open hearts and helping hands. thanks for your time today. we'll see you again tomorrow. kasie hunt picks up our coverage

right now. good afternoon. i'm kasie hunt in washington. right now, new disturbing details about the man who went on a deadly rampage at michigan state university, killing at least three students. police saying he had a note in his pocket. his father calling him evil, bitter, and angry. last night, the campus in terror. students, staff, running, barricading themselves in rooms after he entered a classroom and attacked. >> right when that first gunshot went off, i booked it to the far corner of the class. i was sitting right next to the door where he came in. >> i could hear gunshots like directly behind my head. and i could see this smoke and gun powder or something from the weapon firing, and then i could smell. i knew immediately, i dropped to the floor with all my classmates and someone was yelling there was a shooter, and everybody needed to get down on the ground. and at that moment, i thought

that i was going to die. i was so scared. i will never forget the screams of my classmates. they were screaming in pain for help. >> police say the 43-year-old anthony mcrae then fled to another building where he shot another student to death. we're told he had no ties to the school. and he killed himself after a caller's tip led police directly to him. the campus is shattered. all eight victims were msu students. and we just learned two of their names. sophomore brian frazer and uni. alexander verner were killed. the five students who survivored are still in the hospital. the doctor in charge of their care and state leaders overcome with emotion. >> all five individuals remain in critical condition this morning. we received a lot of texts that were just, you know, i'm on my way. just within people showing up, where do you need me? >> parents across michigan were

on pins and needles, calling their kids to tell them they loved them. >> we have children in michigan who are living through their second school shooting in under a year and a half. if this is not a wake-up call to do something, i don't know what is. >> that second school shooting the congresswoman referred to was oxford high school in 2021. as for this year, so far, at least 67 u.s. mass shootings in just 45 days. cnn national security analyst and msu professor shaun turner is standing by for us in east lansing. first, senior crime and justice correspondent shipone prokupecz has more details on the gunman from his own father. shimon. >> yeah, so part of what law enforcement has been doing is trying to figure out what was going on in this gunman's life. so they have talked to the father. they have talked to friends, they have talked to the sister. we here at cnn have talked to his father as well. and certainly, the dad is painting a picture of someone

who was very troubled. and he points to the fact that his mother died just about two years ago, and that since then, the gunman has not been the same. but this doesn't really give any more clarity as to the motive here. let me tell you what the dad has been telling reporters and certainly law enforcement. he describes that his son at some point became isolated and evil and angry. and that he was getting more bitter. angry and bitter and that he let himself go, and sort of indications of that was his son stopped cutting his hair, stopped taking care of himself. he even said that his teeth started falling out. so he lived with the dad, but certainly, the dad is painting a picture of someone who was very troubled. other indications of whether or not the dad may have known that something like this or that the son was thinking of something like this is really unclear, and what steps he did to alert authorities to any concerns over his son, and also the fact that

it appears that he had at least three guns on him at the time. you know, and were any steps taken to let law enforcement know that this man possessed these weapons. these are all questions certainly that law enforcement is going to try to answer. i just want to highlight that none of this, even though we know this was an individual who was troubled and was having some difficulty in life, does not give really any explanation hereupon as to the motive yet. >> all right, shipone, thanks very much for updating us on that reporting. >> shaun turner is a national security analyst for cnn, but he's also a professor of st strategic communication on michigan state and he was on campus leaving for the night when the alert went out. thank you very much for taking some time to be with us. we're just learning all of this information, but i wanted to check in and see, how are you personally feeling and doing right now? this is your community. >> yeah, kasie, it is my

community, and i will tell you for me personally frrx my family, this is just a devastating day. this community is not just part of michigan state university. east lansing is michigan state university. mish misstate university is east lansing. so everyone here is waking up this morning in a bit of shock. and trying to figure out what happened here and how we're going to cope with it. so thank you for asking, but this is just a devastating day for everyone here. >> yeah. of course. so take us back to that moment when you first saw this alert go out. what went through your mind and what steps did you immediately take? >> yeah, so as i said, it was about 8:15 last night. i had gone back to campus after leaving. i needed to pick up some paperwork. just as i was arriving at my office, the alert went out. an alert telling us there was an active shooter on campus. and to be really candid, at the time, what i thought was that this is probably, you know,

nothing all that serious, but i decided i was going to leave campus anyway. i'll tell you, as i left campus, it was unlike anything i had ever seen. it only takes a couple minutes to get off campus. by the time i was at the edge of campus, law enforcement officials from several jurisdictions had converged on campus and it was clear to me at that point that something serious was happening. like a lot of folks, i got back home and began to listen in to scanners to try to understand what was going on. it took just a few minutes to realize we had an extremely serious situation here. so then a lot of people started to turn to making sure our students, our faculty, our staff were all safe. and as you know, that went on well into the morning last night here on campus. >> really is the worst nightmare to get something that you, i know, on capitol hill, for example, you get false alarms regularly, but if you discover that something is really happening, that's just absolutely devastating. we know that eight of the victims, there are eight victims

total, three of them lost their lives, and they were all students. have you checked in with your students? how are they doing? i mean, when will they be ready to go back inside a classroom? >> yeah, you know, that's one of the real challenges here. there is a lot of uncertainty amongst students here, but throughout the morning today and last night, faculty, staff, the administration here at michigan state university, they have come together to really come up with a plan for what's next, to acknowledge the uncertainty that our students and that our teams here are feeling. i reached out to my students last night. i have sent an email just to make sure that everyone is okay. i was actually supposed to teach later on today. the university has decided that there will not be any classes today or the rest of the week. so we're just making sure that students understand that we understand just how tragic and devastating this event is. and what we're going to do now is we're going to focus on taking care of them and making sure that we give them the care

they need so that we can come back to class and turn our attention back to education. and i think that you're going to see that throughout this community. as i said before, this campus behind me is part of this community, and this community is inseparable from that campus. so we're devastated, but we are fortunate in that we are part of a community that's really going to wrap their arms around us and help us get through this. >> many of my family members actually are michigan state spartans, and i know the campus well. my sister was there, and our hearts really are with you and with your students and with the entire msu community. shaun turner, thank you very much for joining us today. we're going to continue the conversation with cnn law enforcement analyst, jonathan wackrow, and charles ramsey. thank you both for being here. chief ramsey, let me start with you. we have heard some stunning details from the father of the gunman about what was going on.

what goes through your mind, what do you hear when you learn these details? >> well, i mean, it's another example of someone who is certainly going through some kind of mental health crisis, has access to a gun, and uses that gun unfortunately to commit a very horrific crime. let me just offer my condolences to the families of those students that were murdered yesterday. i mean, these sorts of things should not hap nl but they continue to happen over and over and over again. and of course, we'll be dissecting all this as they go to take a deeper dive in this individual, his history and so forth, but the bottom line is he was able to get his hands on a gun. and use it. and it's just another example of the horrific gun violence that happens in this country every day. >> it is indeed, and speaking of other incidents of gun violence, jonathan, what do you make of the fact the shooter left his two-page note, and it referenced

other shootings? >> well, listen. this is what investigators are actually looking at. they're going to look at in the investigative process now, what is that motive? the challenge is that there's not a typical model of individuals who engage in these type of violent acts. they come from different backgrounds and have various motives. the note, as shimon stated earlier, the comments by the father around how the suspect let himself go, those are all indicators, those are all behavioral indicators that law enforcement is looking at. think about it this way. it is not normal to wake up, walk into a location, and actively kill somebody. right? people just don't do that. there has to have been some red flags, some behavioral anomalies that precipitated this event. that's where we as a community need to get smarter and be able to quickly identify those behavioral anomalies, especially

if someone has access to weapons. you know, weapons, guns, long guns. handguns, they're all the common denominator in these mass attacks. we have to get ahead of that and look at what the warning signs are. >> what else, jonathan, will police be digging through besides the things we have already heard about? will they be interviewing family members, digging through social media? what are some of the other examples of things they're going to be doing? >> absolutely. they are going to absolutely do that. they're going to look at everything that is connected to this suspect. you know, who did they talk to? were they influenced? did they express what's known as concerning communication before this event? secret service has done numerous studies by the national threat assessment center. in a majority of mass attacks, the perpetrator actually telegraphed through concerning communications that there was some type of grievance, that they were going to engage in some type of violent act.

who did they speak to? was it family members. friends, coworkers, and really hone in on why this occurred and then again, how to prevent this in the future. >> so chief ramsey, the police tweeted out a photo of the suspect. and just a short time later, there was an alert citizen who gave the police a tip, and that led directly to him. and from what we know, he took his own life. there was no altercation with the police. i saw the police really thanking the public for doing this. how significant was that tip? >> it was very significant. the police response in this case was very good. multiple jurisdictions responded very, very quickly. they did a thorough search of buildings and campus grounds. once they got information from a video of the individual, a photo of the individual, they got it out quickly to the public. again, they really, really, i

thought, acted in a way in which you want to see police respond. and they do respond that way in the vast majority of cases. that led to this individual at least being located. now, he took his own life, which is not uncommon when you have people who do this kind of thing that this individual did, but the fact that it alerted a member of the public who could then provide them with the information to find this individual, it would not have happened had the police not put that information out as quickly as they did. >> yeah. chief, so the suspect did have a criminal record in michigan. he pled guilty to this firearm charge in 2019. he got off probation in 2021. he had at least two weapons on him, a handgun, another one in the backpack that he was carrying. we're just learning inside the note, he wrote that he was going to, quote, finish off lancing, end quote. that just in to cnn. what do those details tell you? >> well, i mean, he had more

violence planned, obviously. you know, we'll never know exactly what it is that he had planned. but i think just based on what he did at michigan state, it's pretty safe to assume that more people would have died had he not taken his own life, had police not been able to locate him, and really cause him to take his own life. so you know, again, this is an example of an individual who should not have access to firearms. there are millions of people in this country, millions of firearms. most people are responsible gun owners, but guns still fall into the hands of the wrong people. we just refuse as a society to sit down and talk about it and try to come up with something that won't be 100% effective, but it will be better than it is now. 67 already this year. it's only the 14th of february. i can almost guarantee you that that number will be in the hundreds before the year is out, unfortunately. because we just won't do anything, and it's just going to continue and go on and on and

on. and that's not counting the day-to-day gun violence that happens on the streets of our cities every day where one or two people get shot to death and the media don't talk about it. >> the fact it is in fact february 14th, valentine's day and this is what we're talking about, just underscores the devastation. jonathan wackrow, chief ramsey, thank you very much. we really appreciate it. a violent mob of trump supporters wanted to hang him, so why is former vice president mike pence planning to fight a subpoena from the special counsel investigating january 6th? plus, she said she wouldn't run against former president trump, but that is apparently not the case anymore. why nikki haley says she's running for the white house. and today's inflation report revealing some good news on price hikes, but there's still a lot of bad in there. especially if you happen to love eggs. out not overpaying for glasses. two pairs and a free, quality eye exam starting at just $79.95? yes! the exam alone is worth...

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pence apparently tried to duck out of testifying before the special counsel in the probe into donald trump. a source tells cnn pence's lawyers plan to fight the subpoena with an unexpected strategy. they're going to argue that since the vice president serves as president of the senate, he is covered by the constitution's speech or debate clause. that protects legislators from having to testify in these kinds of situations. you may remember that senator lindsey graham tried to use that argument in the georgia trump investigation. graham is of course an actual elected member of the legislative branch, and that argument got rejected in that case. cnn legal analyst elliot williams is here to help us break it all down. elliot, obviously, i'm not a lawyer. i do cover politics so i have plenty of theories about why from a political perspective he wants to fight this subpoena. but from a legal perspective, is this a long shot, does pence have a case with this argument?

>> it is not a long shot, kasie. believe it or not. you have to go right back to the constitution. so look, article i, section 3 of the constitution says like you said, the vice president shall be the president of the senate. the person who is in effect controlling or running the senate, sort of why kamala harris over the last two years cast so many tiebreak votes because she was in a role as president of the senate. you read a little further into the constitution, there's this speech or debate clause. article 1, section 6. it says members of congress shall not be questioned, and that's interpreted to mean in court over actions that come in their official duties. the question is does mike pence count under the law as qu quote/unquote a member of congress when he's seated at the dais. you and i both know he's vice president of the united states, number two of the president, but that role as the principal leader of the senate might come into some legal questioning. and courts have to sort that out. >> yeah, i mean, it really is

fascinating. i mean, what we were expecting, i think, was questions and discussion of executive privilege. we know former president trump does plan to assert that privilege over pence's testimony or at least to try to do that. i guess my question to you is, was that already settled? does the biden white house need to formally waive privilege? can they do that? how will we see that piece play out? >> right, because privileges, if we're talking about executive privilege, that would rest with the president, the sitting president of the united states. >> the current president. >> its own complicated legal fight. the challenge with this speech or debate clause issue is its far more iron clad than executive privilege. virtually everything protects what happens on the floors of congress, including perhaps what the vice president does when he or she is seated in that seat, or preparing to sit in that seat as might have been the case in the lead-up to january 6th. pence certainly can't have every conversation he had protected

because the grand jury subpoena for the information here is broader than just his role as envir vice president. it will be interesting to see what the courts do with this one. >> fascinating. elliot williams, i bet we're going to check in with you quite a bit on this topic. thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you. mike pence's legal maneuvering on this subpoena may have a lot to do, as i mentioned, with his 2024 maneuvering. let's talk about that more with cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein and margaret talive. ron, let me start with you. so pence is making a show of fighting this subpoena, which quite frankly, is a political move. and the reality is he talked a lot about his trump conversations, his conversations with trump around this in his memoir. i mean, he's been trying to basically have it both ways, kind of all along here, pleasing all sides of the gop, but honestly, i really struggle to see where the lane is for him

right now. how tough is dealing with the subpoena for him from a political perspective? >> there was a novel in the '70s, 7% solution. i feel like he's on track for a 7% performance in the republican race. precisely because of what you are outlining. he really has not been able to decide whether he wants to run as kind of an extension of trump or defining himself in greater opposition than he's done so far. he did his duty on january 6th. there's a question about whether he has done his duty since january 6th. because certainly, no one has a closer, up front and personal view of whether trump's actions rendered after the election of 2020, render him unfit to be president. that's something he's not been willing to address. i don't think prosecutors need it, the january 6th committee didn't need it to present a

strong case, but it is indicative of the larger political problem that you're outlining, that he really has not been able to pick a lane in this emerging race. >> margaret, the reality here, my sense is he needs to be seen fighting this, if he hopes to be competitive in a gop primary. so that's part of why we're seeing this. but, the reality is that fighting this in the courts, you know, as elliot was kind of outlining, it's not been fought before. it's going to take a lot of time. i realize it's only february, but we've got another person jumping into the 2024 campaign that we're going to talk about in a second. it's not like he's got all the time in the world here before he's in the middle of campaign season having to answer questions about this. >> well, kasie, that's right, but it does seem that the former vice president wants to be able to get into that campaign season suggesting that he's not a political turn-coat or traitor so he can not lose that part of

the base that in theory might still care about donald trump but be interested in mike pence too. to ron's point, i don't know what percentage of inparty that is, but there is, mike pence is not the only figure thinking about 2024 who is trying to figure out kind of how to have it both ways. i think nikki haley with her campaign video today and her expected announcement tomorrow in charleston, is to some extent dealing with a similar problem, which is that at first she was completely against donald trump. then when he became president, she joined his administration, served as his u.n. ambassador. then said she wouldn't run if he ran. but then was against his handling of january 6th and said he was too tainted. then said if he ran, she wouldn't run, but she's running. again, people have a right to change their mind, to say i meant it when i tdz, i just changed my mind. whether the argument is generational change or strong moral compass, if that's the

tack you're going to take, what you're saying is donald trump shouldn't be president again, but you don't come out and say it. that's going to be a messaging problem for the base, and if you become the nominee, it would become a problem in the general election. >> you're a little ahead of me. i want to show all of our viewers a little of nikki haley's announcement from today before we dig into the arguments you were making. >> republicans have lost the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections. that has to change. joe biden's record is abysmal. but that shouldn't come as a surprise. the washington establishment has failed us over and over and over again. it's time for a new generation of leadership. >> so ron, a lot of the points that margaret was just making are on display there. if you didn't hear her talk about donald trump, she did say

republicans keep losing the popular vote. if that's not a dig at donald trump, i don't know what is. she's making a generational argument. if that's not an argument against trump, i don't know what is. that said, she won't say his name. how can she be effective if she won't do that? >> well, look, i also think whatever she frames her argument, her entry into the race is on balance a gift for donald trump. the fundamental, the core divide, the key dynamic in the republican race is the difference, the divergence between republican voters with and without a college education. each about half of the primary electorate, almost exactly half. in 2016, donald trump dominated among the non-college republicans. but he won only about a third, kasie, of college educated republicans even as he marched toward the nomination. his situation, i think, in 2024 is not that different. he is still much stronger among non-college than college

republicans. so anything that splinters the vote among those college republicans who are the most resistant to him and who i think would have to be the foundation of a desantis candidacy, benefits donald trump. and nikki haley, like tim scott, like chris sununu, like larry hogan, like glenn youngkin, are all candidates who are likely to drum more of their support from the college side of the party than the non-college side, with the risk that those voters again splinter among too many candidates to power a true alternative to trump's strength among the blue collar side of the story. >> bottom line, this helps explain why when nikki haley previously said she wasn't going to run against trump and apparently they talked ahead of this and he's all fine with it now, it's because it all accrues to him in the end. thank you very much for a great conversation. >> coming up here, senators just got a classified briefing on those objects that were shot out of the sky, but they say that they still don't have a lot of

answers. and it comes as we learn that some of those objects might never be found.

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we're seeing new images of parts of a chinese spy balloon being recovered by the u.s. navy off the coast of south carolina. a u.s. fighter jet of course shot it down on february 4th.

we're also learning that the u.s. and canada may not be able to recover debris from the three other airborne objects shot down by the u.s. military over the weekend. that's according to a senior biden administration official. a short time ago, senators got a classified briefing on those identified objects -- unidentified objects, i should say, and afterward, some said that they still need more answers. >> the briefing was helpful today. again, i'm not unnerved by anything. i'm confident this wasn't an attack on the country. i think it probably served the country well to have the president explain what's going on. >> i am not in any way afraid that we are under a threat of attack or physical harm to our homeland. that's my personal feeling. but the american people need to be reassured with more facts. >> cnn national security reporter natasha bertrand joins us now. natasha, thanks for being here. so what more are you learning

today about these unidentified objects that clearly these senators are still saying, we need more information about them? >> i think everyone wants more information about these objects, including the biden administration, right? even they don't seem to know what these things actually are. look, john kirby who is the spokesperson for the national security council, he did give us new information this morning, telling reporters that the intelligence community is considering as a leading explanation that these could just be balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose. that is the furthest that the administration has gone in recent days in saying that these objects may not be tied to a nation state and they might just be commercial. now, obviously, that is -- it still remains unclear why these objects were shot down. if they're just commercial, if they're considered benign. the official explanation has been that they posed a potential risk to civilian aircraft because of the altitude each one of them were traveling at. as far as whether or not these objects had surveillance capabilities, for example, all signs right now are pointing to

no. according to u.s. officials. now, some of those objects including the one that was shot down over northern canada, did have some kind of payload, you know, which would be the equipment essentially that's kind of underneath that main structure, but it is very unclear at this point whether the administration is even going to be able to recover the debris in order to properly analyze it. so the biggest question they have also been getting is are we going to just be shooting these kinds of things out of the sky as a policy moving forward? the administration has said they're going to consider that on a case-by-case basis but that they will move to protect obviously u.s. air space when they have to, kasie. >> all right, natasha bertrand, thank you very much for that reporting. let's bring in now beth saner, cnn national security analyst, and former deputy director of national intelligence, to help us understand a little more about this. so thank you so much for being with us. we're hearing that the debris from some of these objects might just never be recovered. does that mean that we just

never know what they actually were? >> i feel like we're watching an x-files episode. maybe. >> i'm not the only one. >> maybe we won't ever know. maybe it will be in the unknown, but let me tell you, there's so much of this kind of unidentified aerial phenomena, as the new term for ufos is, up in our sky, that i suspect we might have another opportunity to shoot something down. but you know, i think that the big picture here is that number one, this doesn't pose -- these don't pose a military threat. number two, weather balloons, other kinds of balloons by the weather service and other research agencies, tens of thousands of these go up into the air every year. they have payloads. this could be that. and i just think we need to be methodical, and i welcome the

biden administration's setting up some new bodies to look a little more deeply into this. we already have a military intel organization looking at these as we speak. >> right. so one of the three objects reportedly passed near sensitive u.s. sites before it got shot down. so you just mentioned weather balloons, all these other possibilities of what this could be. does proximity to these sensitive sites make it more difficult to dismiss that kind of an object as benign as the white house is suggesting or does it seem like it could easily be a coincidence? >> well, there are lots of sayings about not putting nefarious activities ahead of the theory of something that's just coincidence. and i think that, you know, we have a lot of these sites. it could be coincidence. it could be something. so look, you know, the intel implication of this is not --

it's not a non-zero implication. it matters. and we should look into it, but we shouldn't panic either. >> fair enough. and let me just kind of walk you through this one, the other detail that we do have here. the balloon that -- or the airborne object that was shot down over the yukon, so that's in canada, is being described as a small metallic balloon with a tethered payload below it. small metallic balloon. does that mean anything to you as someone who has seen intelligence on reports on these kinds of things? >> it could be a commercial balloon. it could be a research balloon. it could be a weather balloon. all of these balloons have payloads like that, that are tethered payloads because they're collecting data. and again, like a lot of this is about wind speed and atmosphere conditions and the environment and all different things.

so yeah, it could be something as john kirby said, completely benign. i hope we can get these, but you know, there's more up there to look at. the recent report by the intelligence community released in january on unidentified aerial phenomena indicated that, you know, half of about 250 things sighted by u.s. pilots over the last 18 months or so are still unknown. half are balloon or balloon-like objects. this is something we need to start digging into a lot more. >> for sure. all right, beth, thanks very much for your time and expertise. we really appreciate it. coming up, the cost of gas and groceries still putting a major dent in household budgets, but a new inflation report does offer some encouragement. we're going to underscore that word, some.

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a hotter than expected inflation report sparking fears that rate hikes are here to stay. according to the labor department's consumer price index, inflation continues to slow to an annual rate of 6.4% in january. but some prices are still red hot. cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa urkavcic joins us. >> the good news is that inflation is at about 6.4%. that's good news because that's the seventh straight month that year over year inflation has fallen. but that number still too hot.

but let's also look at month over month inflation. inflation in january up .5%. that is significant and that is where the concern is coming from. we heard president biden today saying that overall, the report is good news because of the year over year inflation. but the concern, and he said there is still work to do, is because of this month over month inflation. let's break it down. where did the increases come? food up 10% year over year. energy, a big, big driver. gasoline up 1.5% from last year. and shelter, 7.9%. this is a record. that is because as americans, we spend the most on shelter when it comes to our everyday budget. americans really feel this day-to-day probably most when they go to fill up their tank for their gars and also at the grocery store. look at this, eggs still skyrocketing to 70% from last year. butter up 26.3%.

lettuce up 17.2% from last year. and what does that mean for our wallets? well, according to moody's analytics, an average family is spending about $400 more per month on the same goods and services this year than they did last year. kasie, what this all really means is that the federal reserve has more work to do. we can expect more interest rate hikes to try to get inflation under control for american families, kasie. >> yeah, and that number is really tough on many family budgets. $400 a month is nothing to sneeze at. thank you very much for that report. just in here to cnn, the family of gabby petito wants a jury to see what they're calling a damning letter that was written to brian laundrie from his mother. a letter that allegedly said burn after reading.

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this just in. gabby petito's family attorney just revealing in court that they want a jury to see what they call a damning letter written to brian laundrie from his mother. the letter's envelope allegedly says, burn after reading. cnn's jean kassares joins us. what else does the letter say? >> reporter: well, this is the first time we have heard this in open court and the civil hearing just concluded moments ago. what it says is that the plaintiff's attorney, gabby's family's attorney stood up in court and said, your honor, we are aware of a letter that roberta laundrie sent to her son brian laundrie that, quote, things were expressed including helping getting him out of of prison, getting a shovel, and

other things. that letter was found in its envelope according to the plaintiff -- >> all right. so sorry i have to cut jean off there. we have to listen to the president of the united states making remarks in washington, d.c. we want to listen in. this is the first time we'll hear from him since last night's mass shooting at michigan state university. >> you're right. i'm a county guy. one of the things you learn when you start off and i had the great honor of being a county council person in new castle county. one county has about 60% of the state's population. so a county commissioner or council person has a district seven times larger than a state rep and three bigger than a state senator. what i learned early on if you are in the county you got to go through someone else to get help. you got to go to the governor, go to your state legislator, the state senators.

and guess what? i stopped that. no kidding. because i'm telling you, you know, one of the things that we expect people to do is we think people are like us, very familiar with all the detail of how government works. they don't know whether there is a pothole in their side street, whether it's a county, state, they don't know who is responsible. and they come to the county all the time as was my experience in new castle county. when you don't have the funding you have for the other programs you find it is just hard. one of the things i found out early on was we always did better when there was direct

funding for the things that related to the county. it is one of the hardest jobs, i really mean it. i'm not being solicitous. i think it is one of the hardest jobs in politics. how many of you have knocked on a door and said my name is so and so. i'm running for county commissioner and they look at you and go, oh, yeah. you are wondering what the county commissioner does, aren't you? >> yeah. i sincerely mean it. i want to thank, begin by thanking you all for what you do. thank you, thank you, thank you. i ran for the united states senate because being in the county council was too hard. [ laughter ] look, i am glad to be here with all of you. before i begin i want to take a moment to say our hearts are with the students and families of michigan state university. last night i spoke with governor whitmer and the fbi and additional federal law enforcement are on the ground assisting the state and local

folks. three lives have been lost and five seriously injured. it is a family's worst nightmare that's happening far too often in this country. far too often. while we gather more information there is one thing we know to be true. we have to do something to stop gun violence from ripping apart our communities. [ applause ] and today marks five years to the day when 14 students and three educators lost their lives in parkland, florida. i met every one of those families. spent time with them all. and a lot of you here have to confront violence in your communities every single day. we took a big step toward passing the most significant bipartisan gun legislation in 30 years.

but there is a lot more work to do. i'm committing to getting it done with all of you. some of you know that i'm going to say something that is always controversial, but there is no rationale for assault weapons and magazines that hold 50, 70 bullets. [ applause ] we got it done once. we're going to do it again. but look. some of you know, as i said, i started as a councilman in delaware and county executive, new castle county. >> all right. we've been listening to president joe biden, who offered words of condolence to the families of those who lost loved ones in that tragic mass shooting at michigan state

university and of course talked about the guns that were used in that shooting. we're going to take a quick break here. don't go anywhere. we'll have much more news right after this .

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