dickerson, chief election and campaign correspondent robert costa, and "cbs news" legal analyst rikki kliemanhe indictment. what stood out to you? >> reporter: i think what stands out to me is i wanted to know what the nexus was. what is the connection between falsifying business records and what law was concealed? and what we have learned, as the government says, this was a conspiracy, in essence, an agreement of more than two people, to keep information away from the voting public in 2016. so, it's a federal election violation, a state election violation, as well as a mischaracterization for tax purposes. >> norah: and there might be new witnesses, right? >> reporter: i think the new witnesses are the things that intrigue me most, because what we have here in order to prove this agreement or scheme is they talked about the cfo, that's allen weisselberg, they talked about the comptroller, they talk about the accounts payable supervisor, so these witnesses may have already testified or given information to the district attorney's office, and when you look at the allegations concerning weissel

. >> john dickerson, rikki klieman, robert costa, thank you. >>> investigators in nashville today revealed that they found a suicide note when they searched the home of the shooter who killed three students and three staffers at the covenant school last week. now some of the officers who responded to the scene of the shooting are speaking out. we should warn you that some of the video is disturbing. cbs's janet shamlian has the eyewitness accounts. >> reporter: we're hearing for the first time from police officers describing the harrowing moments inside that nashville school. >> it was readily apparent i was going to be the one to make entry. >> reporter: officer rex engelbert was joined inside the school by several others, including detective mike collazo. >> once we started hearing the first shots, that's when everything kicked into overdrive for us. we continued to hear more shots being fired. >> reporter: the police chief said some of the officers had never met but instantly worked as a team with little regard for their safety. >> they formed together. they got prepared and went right

cbs news' legal analyst rikki klieman. >> he will be given a booking number.the time that he receives that booking number, he is officially, quote/unquote, under arrest. >> hopefully this will be as painless and classy as possible for a situation like this. >> reporter: most republicans are offering trump support, including florida governor ron desantis, who slammed manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. >> this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda. that is not the rule of law. >> robert costa joins me now. i know you've been speaking to a number of politicians. how do these criminal charges affect trump's presidential campaign? >> reporter: jericka, many republicans publicly are expressing outrage about the indictment, but privately, there's a lot of political calculation going on with donors and elected officials, wondering if trump is now increasingly vulnerable in the 2024 republican race. some donors told cbs news today that they're thinking about recruiting some new names to jump in. one target, virginia governor glenn youngkin. >> robert costa for

. >> cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman cited new reports would suggests the gun in question may havedified before it was delivered to the set. >> what we have learned is that if this gun had in fact been modified or it could go off without someone pulling the trigger, is that the prosecutors and their first investigation was not thorough. >> prosecutors did not say the decision does not absolve baldwin of criminal culpability and charges may be refiled. charges have not been dropped against hannah gutierrez-reed, the armor were in charge of the weapons on set to. her lawyers say they expect her to be exonerated. speak of the question tonight is what new facts have led to major changes in the charges. gutierrez-reed will appear back in court in august. >> norah: inc. you very much. more severe weather is in the forecast for this weekend after a tornado touched down last night in tyler, texas. authorities say homes and businesses were damaged but thankfully no serious injuries were reported to. officials in oklahoma continued to sit through the damage after a dozen twisters plowed thro

. >> reporter: cbs league news legal analyst rikki klieman citing new reports which suggest the gun ineen modified before it was delivered to the site. >> what we have learned is if there's gun in fact had been modified and that it could go off without someone pulling the trigger, is the prosecutors, in their first investigation, was not thorough. >> reporter: prosecutors say the decision does not absolve baldwin of criminal culpability, and charges may be refiled. charges have not been dropped against hannah gutierrez-reed, the armor in charge of the weapons onset. her lawyers say they expect her to be exonerated. and prosecutors say the shooting was preventable and criminal. for now, all blame is focused on gutierrez-reed, who will appear back in court in august, norah. >> norah: jonathan vigliotti, thank you. back here in washington, all eyes on the supreme court, which is facing a self-imposed deadline of midnight to decide if women will continue to have access to the widely used abortion drug mifepristone. cbs's jan crawford is outside the supreme court as we await this decision.

the three piece my wife rikki klieman, who's in the audience, will be presenting up here shortly, taughtme that as a trial lawyer a jury if you give them more than three things at a time, they're going to solely miss the fourth and fifth. so given three. so i to do things in three. so community has three elements pot a ship, police and community political leadership working together on problems. the second piece what are the problems that you want address? what do you want them prioritize. but in focusing and prioritizing what is the goal? the prevention of crime not the response to it? because in the seventies and eighties we spent most of our time responding to crime measuring our success by how quickly did we answer that 911 call? how many people did we invest how many crimes we clear in crime went up steadily in the seventies and eighties in nineties we embraced and that was one of the leading embraces and in fact one of the creators of community policing concept that the goal should prevention, not one of you would prefer to effectively lob to raped and then the satisfaction of wife

cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. >> as always, i say it's not so much the crime, it's the cover-upwhen alvin bragg has issues is going to be with the court. you are going to have a judge who is going to have to rule on the legality of this case going forward. this is not going to be a simple case. >> reporter: and don't forget, she says, this is just one of several ongoing investigations of the former president, including a special counsel probe of trump's conduct around january 6th. >> donald trump has some very serious legal challenges far more serious than the one in new york. where you are dealing with crimes against the united states of america, that's very different than a scheme involving business records within the trump organization. those are serious crimes. >> reporter: this crossroads is a reckoning not only for trump, but for republicans. many who have had differences with him have rallied to his side. >> and i think it's clear to the overwhelming majority of the american people? nothing short of a political prosecution. >> reporter: why do you think republicans at lea