horrible mass murder this shooting at a school in nashville, tennessee, tennessee state representative bob freemanis joining us right now, uh, state representative thank you so much for joining us. it's so heartbreaking. we heard the names of these three kids all nine years old, who were shot and killed evelyn dicus. helly scruggs. william kenny. we heard the names of these adults who were shot and killed. cynthia peek a substitute teacher. 61 years old katherine coons, 60 years old and a custodian at the school might kill 61 years old. what goes through your mind? state representative when you hear the mass murder of the 60 year olds and these nine year olds at this school well, thank you for covering the story today, and i'm sorry you're having to do it. it's uh, it's unbearable. i received phone calls. about 10 30 this morning from friends and constituents and friends of friends who got my number in a sheer panic trying to figure out if their child was one of the injured child that that early time we didn't know how many how many children and who had been injured, and, um you know, the parents

representative bob freeman. thank you for your time. and i'm so sorry that this has happened to your community to your home and please take care of those around you. who needs you right now? thank you. thank you, sir. we want to bring in a law enforcement voice into this conversation. joining us now is charles ramsey, a former washington d c police chief. he's also a cnn law enforcement analyst. we also have with a senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe, former fbi deputy director. gentlemen thank you both for being with us chief first to you, obviously, the thing that stands out in all the details that we're getting early on in this investigation a 28 year old woman that the police chief says appears to at one point potentially have been a student at the school. first your impressions on that and then also walk us through what an investigation into her potential motive entails. well, i have no idea what the motive is. that's part of the investigation, and i certainly don't want to speculate on that . as far as being a former stud

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. >>> also joining us now from nashville is tennessee state representative bob freeman, who represents portions of nashville. thank you for being with us this morning. you know folks that send their kids to that school. take us back to yesterday morning. >> it was heartbreaking to receive phone calls from my friends and friends of friends who have shared my number. parents in complete panic trying to find out where their children were because because they were at the spot and the kids weren't there yet. their minds went to some pretty dark places. obviously, three families got word that you neverment to hear, which was your child isn't going to be coming back today. it's heartbreaking seeing the video footage, the camera footage recently released body cam footage. i'm thankful for the police department and the hard work they did. and their quick action, or else it could have been significantly worse. >> it's just how pain, indescribable pain that so many families are feeling today. i know you went to church and you saw the sunday school classmates of one of the girls. >> there were all

. >> sandra: the state rep, bob freeman, whose district includes the covenant school called the shooting an unimaginable tragedy, and so many stories living around of the corner, tight knit community walking past the school and the church every day. russ, what can you tell us about the interactions you've had with residents and people on the ground there since this has happened. how are people doing? >> they are understandably shaken. i just spent time with the children who are awaiting being reunited with their parents, so there is anxiety around that process. the children are doing just fine under the circumstances. it's just, it looks like a school having classes with a bunch of huddles children around there eating, drinking, and sharing stories with one another. the parents are extremely anxious up in the sanctuary, and ready to be reunited. however, there is a process, so it can be done orderly and it can also be done correctly so that the right parent is matched with the right child. so that's the process ongoing as we speak. there also is terrible, terrible tragic consequences and

joining us from nashville, democratic state representative of tennessee, bob freeman. mr.epresentative, i'm so sorry, what's happened in your community. it's a special place to me. i went to college in nashville. i know that area well. i know that church well. tell us how your community is doing this morning on this shocking, shocking day. >> yeah. thanks for having me on. sorry it is under these conditions. yesterday was absolutely horrible. i started receiving phone calls from friends and friends of friends around 10:30, asking for any help i could get to get any information they had on their children. they didn't know, as senator campbell said earlier, they were at the unification site and just didn't know where their kids were. as a parent myself, and a parent of a 10-year-old, right in the same age range, i can't even begin to imagine what that felt like. i was just watching the videos before this came on of the shooter breaking into the school. it's just terrifying, heartbreaking, angering. here in tennessee, we've -- we actually, instead of restricting guns, we actu