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fox news alert. nashville police have released shocking security footage of the shooter who stormed into a nashville christian elementary school killing three 9-year-old students and three adult staffers yesterday. the suspect, who identified as a transgender was a former student. authorities, parents and the entire community, in fact, the entire country in shock after the loss of life. the daughter of the school church's pastor is among the dead. >> little kids coming out and that was really tough for me because they looked like a little bit above knee high. they were waving and my heart just dropped. it's like why? why? right? >> ainsley: why 9-year-olds? footage shows 28-year-old audrey hale driving into the parking lot of the covenant school after 10:00 a.m. central time.

and moments later seen blasting through the glass front doors right there of the school to get inside. then, climbs the stairs, goes to the second floor and is seen roaming the halls armed with two rifles and a handgun and that's where hale opened fire. >> brian: at least two of those guns bought legally. hale used the second floor vantage point to fire at responding officers. rex engel burt and michael entered the school approximately 15 minutes after the first shots were fired. they confronted and killed hale. the entire shooting happened just 14 minutes. lawrence jones live in nashville from the scene of yesterday's tragedy with more. lawrence, a different scenario with first responders. this time from the last one you covered, right? >> that's exactly right. good morning, family. as you behind my left shoulder, you will see some activity happening right now as law enforcement officials, that's the fbi, the tennessee bureau of investigation as well as the metro police they were

processing the scene all last night. the movement is starting this morning to pick up where they left off n investigation. i just want to go back because the investigation now has shifted to who is audrey hale, the 28-year-old that did this. investigators recovered a manifesto at her residence. they also were able to look -- if you look 59 her mother's facebook posts back in 2018 talking about the magazine signs -- magazines being banned as well on those facebook posts. but, again, brian, i want to pick up where you left off when it comes to the police response. i was just talking to law enforcement official that described what was going on as those two officers ran toward the gunfire. you may remember, after after school shootings they changed the standard from what after columbine when there is active

shooter situation. the policy is not to go door to door to but to respond directly to the gunfire the law enforcement official told me fired after three being children, three teachers. she was firing from that top leveling at those two responding officers rex and michaels but there was also other law enforcement officials charging the area they could see from the helicopter her firing at the other responding officers. again, guys. cued des to those law enforcement officers that responded to the scene going toward that gunfire. this could have been worse if they didn't do what they did. >> no doubt about it. they responded within 14 minutes and look at the damage done. and we're going to find out a lot about the motive this time. we hear about a map, how much worse it could have been and we hear about the manifesto which i imagine, lawrence, it's been so

transparent so far they will let us know what it says, right? we keep pressing him on that. it does seem like they are going to release it at some point, typically, in criminally investigations they say we are not going to release this because we have a case to prosecute and you will see some of this stuff in court. obviously the suspect is now dead. there won't be any prosecution of the suspect. so, i think the public kind of deserves to know exactly what the motive was and was this church specifically targeted i mean there is a lot of information coming out that we're not prepared to go air about potentially this was the case qui want to see that manifesto. >> steve: we do. it could connect a lot of dots. thank you so much. great reporting. the chief there said there is some belief there was some resentment for this person having to go to that school.

>> ainsley: elementary school. >> steve: here's the thing. there is a map, there is a manifesto and on the map apparently it detailed some of the entry points. apparently this person decided on this school rather than another one that they detailed because the other school or the other location had too much security so we do know the covenant school did have active shooter protocols. all the doors were locked. but, this particular shooter knew to shoot the doors out. she knew with her high powered rifle she could get the door out the question today is since that door was slight -- was hardened. they followed the protocols. they have got to do something else. because what they're doing didn't work yesterday. ultimately though, if you harden the doors, they are going to look at the window. you will do something with the windows, they are going to look at something. so, you know, i'm sure today, upon reflection people are going

to go that's exactly what they were supposed to do. they were supposed to lock the doors and they did. we didn't think about somebody shooting the doors out. >> brian: there is also a ballistic cover can you put over these windows resist most high powered rifles. >> ainsley: obviously we have a mental health crisis because what causes someone to do. this that is something we can deal with long long-term as you said in the show, brian, for now, neable you are right. maybe we need to put bullet proof glass on every window in the front expensive. obviously it's worth it. you can't put a price on a child's life. maybe you need one entry point and then you have an armed officer at that entry point and maybe during the school day you have a doorbell you have to ring. they look at you in the video. they find out why you need to come in. you have to have proof that you are a parent. so that they don't just open the door for anybody. but now schools that have glass doors they locked them. they did the right thing but now they are thinking do we need metal doors? do we need bars on the doors so this doesn't happen again? >> brian: the nashville

president of the fraternal order of police joined lawrence earlier and here's what he said about the response to the shooter. >> i think it was a surprise for everyone. it's difficult to say whether or not she was on any radar until we do a really deep dive. obviously we are still putting all the puzzle pieces together on this. clearly there are mental health issues. i think it's important to remember that evil exists in our world. and as long as that evil exists we are going to need somebody who is willing to charge into the gunfire. what we saw yesterday were brave men and women. first responders who literally ran into gunfire as they were taking it. and went in there to stop the threat from spreading any further. those officers and those first responders, the measures they took were far beyond what anybody ever expects of a regular human being and we just have to thank them for what they did and praise them for the excellent job that they did. you know, we got the call and in 14 minutes we were able to stop the threat. >> ainsley: officer rex engel

burt and officer. they are heroes preventing other parents from getting that phone call that you don't want to hear. our hearts and our prayers are with the families of the victims. one was a top administrator. one was a custodian, one was a substitute teacher and three 9-year-old. one was the daughter of the senior pastor of covenant presbyterian church. >> steve: that school had children as young as pre-k. and apparently the pre-k teacher heard the commotion and they all hid in a closet. and it sounds like and once again they followed of the protocol. they locked the door it. sounds like the shooter tried to get into that particular room. i'm sure there will be a press conference later today. >> biden did speak about it and went on about banning assault weapons. but, before that he was joking about ice cream. i heard there was ice cream being served and people were criticizing him online because maybe that's not appropriate to

talk about when these children have died and is he about to speak about that. he did order all the flags at half-staff. >> brian: first thing we heard from him was about ice cream. 9 minutes after the hour. let's talk about 2024. the leader on the g.o.p. side. former president donald trump looking at four serious investigations. we know that in new york. as well as we're going to get momentum and put out a field that's likely toio. right now it's nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy. we think tim scott could be getting in any day now. we also think that mike pompeo is queued up and mike pence all fate of comply. now governor desantis thought would wait until after may legislative session has emerged in most polls as his number one rival. including leading in two key polls. here is what the president said about ron desantis and why he has been so critical because he remembers how he first met him face to face. >> the question i'm asked the

most about as of late is ron desantis. here's the question. what happened? what happened? >> not friends. i didn't know him well. i knew him as somebody who defended me. so what happened with ron is the following he came to see me, he was getting killed getting crushed. adam putnam, it was over. i my many people who was like a nuclear weapon went off when you endorsed because they considered the race to be over. they had the race. he had millions and millions of dollars beating ron by 30 points. it was over. ron came to see me, tears in his eyes. he said i need you to do you a big favor. would you endorse me? i fought for you. but, again, a lot of people fought for me. >> so, there he is. trying to explain i made sure i

supported him when he was facing putnam. what's interesting when you look at the many dynamic we know that ron desantis knows that donald trump is going to come after him. and the former president has telegraphed that ron desantis is not going to declare until after the legislative session down in florida so he can say look, not only did i win by 20 points in november. but, look at all the stuff we got done for florida. can i do it when i run for president and i'm announcing i'm running for president. so we know that that's his timetable but donald trump would like to essentially neutralize him as soon as possible so he doesn't have to worry about polls like this. a brand new poll from iowa regarding republicans, this is from axios, i believe. ron desantis is actually leading donald trump as you can see right there by 8 points. when you look at new hampshire,

in the republican primary, first primary on the republican side, ron desantis and donald trump are tied. >> ainsley: depends on the polls you look at. last week we were talking about how donald trump was way above loan desantis. ron desantis hasn't gotten in yet too early. it's always interesting to look at the polls but way too early. >> brian: here's the thing. nationally trump is winning and he widened his lead last week. toward of the end of the week when he did the bat picture with alvin bragg. that reversed it. he was on a bit of a roll and then all of a sudden the violence intimated from that picture that he walked back and explained last night. but, think about this. bob dole and georgeburn 41 wanted to tear each other's eyes out. john mccain and george w. bush never got over the amoss city. barack obama and hillary clinton got extremely personal and they have never been close since even though they worked together for

a short period of time. this is not unusual. a usual attack on ron desantis would be i respect him for what he has done but i'm the one with international experience. i'm the one that did the abraham accords. i'm the one that made nato pay i up to 10%. i'm the one that made sure nato wasn't invaded. i gave them weapons to defend themselves not mres. >> ainsley: energy independence. >> brian: ron at # 4 years old has done a lot. buff look at what i have done in four years and these are the same players. i would like to go back and finish the job. and he has been very nice to nikki haley. i think he has been deferential to mike pompeo and tim scott i can't imagine saying something bad about tim scott. with ron desantis, he sees a threat but i think his best offense as the frontrunner would be don't punch down. >> steve: here's the thing, brian, he has been hitting ron desantis on the issue. on the issue of covid he said. >> brian: not vulnerable. i'm saying is he not vulnerable in that area.

>> steve: here's the thing. when he says ron desantis kept florida shut down, that's not accurate. because, when -- remember, at the height of the pandemic, as the world was shutting down. it was the federal government that shut everything down. as we know, famously, i had two weddings in our family that year. we wound up having it in florida because it was the only state that was open at that time. so for the former president to say look, ron desantis screwed up on covid, that is a rewriting history. >> ainsley: get to the point where he doesn't call him names and say you are right, great guy, served our country, very educated, doing a great job in florida but look at what i have done and i do have the international experience and i know what it's like to be president. >> brian: that would be the best one. the pandemic is he not vulnerable. he is actually a super star in that area. >> ainsley: what did you think of the interview. >> brian: i thought it was really good insightful. it there was like seven or eight irrelevancy issues and sean hit

all of them. 15 minutes after the hour and of. ashley strohmier has the latest. >> ashley: wayne state university professor suspended and referred to police for saying stanford students should have killed a conservative judge who was invited to speak at their law school. during the event students heckled federal judge begged to calm the crowd. english professor steven although i do not advocate violating federal and state and criminal codes, i think it is far more admirable to kill a racist homophobic or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down. an independent journalist involved with revealing the twitter files says the irs visited his home the same day he voluntarily testified before congress. the agency reportedly reached out to matt taibbi ahead of the hearing. requesting two previous tax filings because identity theft concerns that was the reason. twitter ceo elon musk is calling the situation very odd.

while senator ted cruz calling it part of the agency's troubling history of targeting the political enemies of democrats. china is condemning house speaker kevin mccarthy over legs to ban tiktok saying quote the u.s. should expect fair competition and stop suppressing foreign companies. jamaal bowman fear as ban could trying ear backlash from gen z. >> 150 million americans many of them young people many of them tend to lean democratic. if the democratic party is a part of shutting down a platform that they have used to build community, it can harm us politically in 2024. >> ashley: the house is set to move forward with the anti-tiktok bill this week. burger king is reportedly laying off 420 workers in michigan as the chain closes 26 stores in the state. the layoffs which started earlier this month impact detroit and highland, pa.

burger king is scaling back business in the state due to unforeseen circumstances. >> steve: you got to wonder what that means. whether or not people just aren't eating out as much or whether or not it's an issue with crime? >> ashley: you never know. because that is going to be what we are about to talk about. >> ashley: that's right. thank you, ashley. closing up cracker barrel becomes the latest business to shut its doors in portland. our next guest runs a neighborhood watch in hopes of curbing crime in liberal cities. >> brian: amazing. as illegal immigrants come through our northern border. republicans in congress exposing the weaknesses of president biden's policies during a hearings today. no one knows that better than physician associates because we don't just see patien we see you. a one-of-a-kind person with one-of-a-kind needs. and we'll never stop going beyon

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>> steve: cracker barrel is now the latest company to call it quits in portland, oregon falling walmart's lead as businesses bail on the crime ridden city. cracker barrel, why they are closing said, quote: we have struggled to staff and properly run these stores despite the extra efforts made we couldn't viablably continue to keep our doors open so they are going to close a number of their locations. joining us right now with their reaction nic the guardian theft recovery. on the program before. nonprofit helping catch car thieves and recover stolen property. nick, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: you know, we talked to you a couple of months ago. explain, first of all, what your organization is and how effective it has been because it doesn't seem like the cops are able to help a lot of people. >> well, what guardian's theft recovery is a group of community members, non-for profit going out and helping actively track down stolen vehicles.

and stolen property for folks in portland whether they contact us or we happen to cross and end up contacting them. to date, we have done 712 sleek recovers and assisted in a few burglary investigations and assisted in portland police and a few other options. operations a situation where a car was stolen with a sleeping 6-year-old girl in the back seat. our crew came out to help portland police call the city and looking for that girl she was later found lawler park. we were active in helping them, assisting working with them to help find her. that was kind of a cool aspect in that realm. >> steve: in what you just said there is a real headline there. your organization, completely volunteer. you have recovered 712 people's stolen cars. i know that in portland, there are something like 1600 reported car thefts every month and so the cops have got their hands full. >> and that's what gets reported

so unfortunately, a lot of folks can't even -- you spend two hours on hold with nonemergency trying to make a police report. some people have to get to work. they can't even report their cars stolen. we are calling people while they are still on hold trying to get a police report nine times out of 10. >> we started this by talking about how walmart pulled out of a number of locations there because, you know, it wasn't profitable, because of the crime problem. and now cracker barrel says it is related to the pandemic. they would not specify exactly what part. but, nonetheless, nick, when you look at portland crime, this past -- the current year, versus two years ago, burglaries are up 17%. robberies are up 70%. property crime up about 20% as well. it just doesn't -- when you look at those numbers. and i know car theft across the country are through the roof. it's because if you steal a car. there is very little consequence for getting caught. >> unfortunately, that's very

true right now. and that's kind of where we, you know, our city governance really kind of shorthanded the citizens on that one in the way they handled the covid situation. you know, when covid hit, they put a lot of the nonviolent offenders out on the street. nowhere to go. and they just started writing them tickets, there was no consequence. and that's what really helped fuel this. >> steve: nick, before you go, give us your facebook page if people would like to join you as a volunteer. >> yes. we are guardians portland on facebook and instagram. feel free to find us, follow us and look us up. we are actually working on getting a tv show out. we are working with all media and hope to find a network to pick it up soon. >> steve: nic haas guardian theft recovery good luck on the tv show and finding cars. >> thank you very much. >> steve: you bet. coming up 7:30 here in the east. we have got that fox news alert for you. investigators are analyzing the school shooter's manifesto in

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reeling this morning after six people are shot inside a nashville christian school. >> steve: the shooter identified as a 2 #-year-old transgender former student at the school who roamed the halls after shooting open the locked doors and taken down by cops after she fired at them 15 minutes after it all started. >> brian: lawrence jones at the scene in nashville. hey, lawrence. >> hey, good morning, family. the investigation is still ongoing right now. as i have been telling you guys all morning, there has been activity behind me where the school is as they continue to process the scene. what we know right now is that they are doing an investigation and it kind of happens in three layers. obviously you have got the atf overseeing the parts of the weapon. we know that they were legally obtained to this point that is true. also, they are going through the forensic, going through her digital footprint looking at past searches, cell phone

records seeing who she contacted as well as how she does she plan this out. and then the last part is that manifesto which we hope is going to be released to the public some time soon. there is a lot of us in the press that have been asking when we do we -- when does the met tremendous police plan on releasing that. there is no investigation from a point of that they plan on prosecuting since the suspect is now deceased. so we are going to be following that all morning. but, again, the key element is why did she do this? we know there was preplanned and was the church a target and for what reason? was it religious? was there a grievance there? that is what we are hoping to find out some time today, guys. i will send it back to you guys. >> brian: bring in forensic psychologist dr. helen snit. i know there is so much we don't know, doctor. in the big picture, from what you have seen from the video as we wait for the manifesto, what

can you conclude-i osee a 28-year-old go to a elementary school? >> well, what i want to start with is female shooters, people saying shooters are very rare there have been 20. one of the first school shooters brenda shot up elementary school this is something that has happened before. it's unusual, again for there to be a female i actually saw an article this morning saying that part of the motive may have been that audrey hale attended the school and that she had disliked school and felt angry that she had to attend there. obviously, perhaps the manifesto will show us or help us understand was there some grievance there. when did i studies in the late 90's on girls who kill or girls who are violent. i found that girls who are feel very lonely, girls who dislike school or girls who hold feel a

great deal of anger tend to lash out at other people. there are many motivations of which sometimes you only know when you understand the mind of one of these women. >> ainsley: dr. smith, sorry, steve, thank you. dr. smith, she wrote a text message to a friend saying i'm going to die today and you're going to hear about it on the news. the friend said, you know, your life is more important than. this i'm going to be praying that god covers you. there about signs that this could happen. what can we learn? what are some of the signs we can see in other children? there are signs when your child seems lonely -- girls do consume a lot of social media and social media we know, you know, as mental health professionals can be sometimes toxic to young people or to people who have emotional problems. and 65% of the cases of mass

shooters who are women they tend to be mentally ill. that illness can be anything from depression, anxiety, but it can also be paranoid schizophrenia that is coming out parent can know these things what is a parent supposed to do? i know families and treated people across the united states who basically don't have anywhere to go. it is hard to get a therapist for anybody to work with you. we have a shortage tout there, we have closed all the mental hospitals, people who need medication can't get it so we are left with situations like people like audrey hale striking out and nobody going to interscreen other than them contacting a friend. one thing we can watch out for if your child, particularly a girl, is looking at a ton of social media, maybe talk with them. this woman, of course, was 28, so it's hard to really do

anything. parents don't have any authorization over a 28-year-old grown up. so i think that's why you do see a lot of young people committing these crimes. there is nobody to really elementary we don't have a system for that anymore. >> steve: perhaps we are hoping that there is a press conference and they are able to reveal more about what motivation could have been involved. dr. helen smith, thank you very much for joining us live today with your analysis. >> thank you very much. >> steve: you bet. >> ainsley: it is odd, 28 years old and going back to elementary school, even if there were grievances think about elementary school. there aren't that many memories. >> steve: it was a church school and her mother worked at a nearby church. >> ainsley: said their faith is very important to them. >> steve: described by the neighbors they were very religious. >> ainsley: she referred to her transgendered child as a daughter in the statement that she said on social media. i might have lost my daughter today. all right. >> fox news alert. more than three dozen migrants

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seen, as the story you just talked about in terms of migration at the southern border, people in the american public are aware of that. they have seen that a lot. what they are less familiar with is the longer the open borders policy the biden administration goes on, the more the dangers and problems metastasize. so, at the northern border, we have seen in one particular sector that touches on new hampshire, maine and new york, 800 percent increase. the numbers aren't as large as southern border. massive increase in the last fiscal year in the terms of illegal immigration between ports of entry. you are seeing migrants have died there. a family of four indian nationals died in north dakota last year of exposure in the frigid cold because a smuggler left them. we are seeing drugs enter. fentanyl, 150-something pounds enough to kill 3.4 million people have entered. so what we are trying to give an opportunities for the american people to see that these problems are metastasizing because the biden border policy

is not getting better. only canada last week canada negotiated an agreement to send people back to the united states but what we're not seeing is policies to protect the united states. >> ainsley: i know you represent north carolina. how is this affecting your state? the fentanyl issue? illegal immigrants moving in? >> absolutely. the fentanyl issue and, ainsley, every time more migrants are vulnerable and subject to the control of cartels and smuggler organizations come into the united states, everywhere in the country begins to see the effects of increasingly organized criminal cartel that is acting everywhere to extort people to get money to put young people to work in factories under assumed identities. it is a catastrophe of for humane treatment of people. it's the opposite of the notion that it is humane to have people enter the country illegally. >> ainsley: what was your reaction on saturday when you saw joe biden's tweet? it says magd ultr maga republico

cut secured. >> so absurd. they have done everything they can to turn our security operations border personnel process everies for illegals to come into the country and be released. the notion that any change down there would impair border security is the opposite of the truth. what we have got to do is return to having cbp. we have got to augment the size of the border patrol. that's not something that will need to be cut. but they have got to return to enforcing border security not processing people into the united states and releasing them with no date even to appear for a hearing. >> ainsley: we have seen 1 # 3% increase in the number of encounters on our northern border if you compare fiscal year '22 to '23 if you just look at october to january. so, thank you for having this hearing today. hopefully we can solve some of these problems.

thank you so much, congressman, great talking to you. >> thank you, ainsley. >> ainsley: you are welcome. let's check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. >> hello, good morning, ainsley. take a look at all of the reports that we had over the last several days with tornado reports, severe weather as well. rolling across portions of the mississippi river valley. so, a 66 tornado reports four tornado emergencies and, the national weather service is still out there. rolling fork is where we had our ef-4 tornado roll through and just devastate this region. we do have the chance for more severe storms on friday and another chance on monday. remember, we are just getting into severe weather season. looks like a severe thunderstorm watch in effect right at the border of louisiana into mississippi. we could see the potential for revie rain in these areas and the severe threat. not a severe weather outbreak including tornadoes but could see some stronger storms and then as we get into friday, that big bulls eye for parts of the south and then some of the areas that were hard-hit over the last

couple of days will get the risk for severe storms on friday. here's your forecast today. so quieter weather. we do have that next storm system moving into the west by the way bringing more heavy rain and mountain snow and some of that energy is what is going to develop the next couple of days bringing next round of severe storms. fox weather.com for all of your latest details. ainsley, over to you. >> ainsley: the chance of us getting snow done, right? >> janice: it is. i'm so sorry for all the kids out there including my own. no snow angel. so depressed. >> ainsley: first year since i lived in new york. it's to birds. former president donald trump sits down for exclusive interview with sean hannity. speaking out on a potential indictment. >> this has never been done like this before in the history of our country to this extent. people are pleading with the prosecutor, don't do it. don't do it. it's wrong. even democrats. >> ainsley: our political panel is going to weigh in, next.

♪ ♪ >> this is never been done like this before in our country to this extent. pleading with the prosecutor. don't do it. don't do it.

even democrats. even people that are traditionally not exactly my fans are saying don't do it. because i didn't do anything wrong. i did nothing wrong. >> an exclusive interview with fox news, former president donald trump unleashing on a potential indictment as the grand jury edgers today with no decision that we know of. fox news contributors tammy bruce, david webb, and jason chaffetz. your thoughts about between talking about his opponent ron desantis, one of them for the border, the court cases, and that banking. what stood out for you in the interview? >> i think the entire process. i don't think he is necessarily surprised that he needs effectively to run again. he needs to address these issues again. he is faced with proteges who are coming up on his flank. he is faced with issues that clearly he had in many ways solved when he was president. this is an opportunity for him to remind people of that. his test is -- in some ways, he

hasn't handled it extremely well, but his test is to be as presidential as possible as he deals with an obvious persecution here in new york. as he deals with proteges who, you know, they learn from him. and he needs to be able to address that. but the real test is to be above it all. that is something that americans would like to see. is something we want to see from every presidential candidate. clearly, he is still doing very well. we remember what he accomplished. i think overall it is the fact that he knows that he must address these things in a steady way. i think he is trying to have them at that. >> brian: jason, he said overall, you thought president trump did a poor job in the interview. why? >> i thought sean hannity did a good job. but i watched at that and i thought, where is donald trump? i voted for donald trump twice. i have defended him countless times. terrific. the worst interview i have seen.

he was complaining he played the victim card, time and time ag again. he complained that someone endorsed was now running against them. i thought he was absolutely horrific. he is the former president of the united states. act like it. he didn't in that interview. >> brian: david webcam i do feel the same way or differently? >> i am less worried about what jason said about how you view the president. i do want to tackle something in his interview that i think is very important for everyone watching. somewhat to what tammy said. the fact is the president addressed an important issue that is not getting the headlines. republicans need to win on the battlefield whether it is mailing ballots in some states, it's all male and/or in some states its makes. if republicans are going to win because first you win, then you make policy. if they are going to get back to

the constitution on the manner and time of elections, and most win elections. republicans need to use the methods that are available to that in the districts are in their states. in this case -- presidential election. >> brian: early voting, mail-in ballots, whatever it takes. one of the big stories that is happening right now is ukraine. we are fully supporting that war, spending billions of dollars to do it. donald trump says it never would've happened if he was there. he knows how to end it. >> this thing isn't solved by the time we have the election which is possibly it won't be. and then it's also possible we will be in world war iii with these idiots that are doing what they are doing good if it is not solved with them and i will have a solid 24 hours with zielinski and with putin. it's a very easy negotiated to take place. i will have it solved within one day, a peace between them. >> brian: let's get everybody to respond quickly. tammy, how do you feel about his 24-hour solution? >> it will be quick.

we know this because he is already delivered. we know what the world is like when he was president. so we know that he's got a plan. and also, world leaders know him. and his actions previously proved that he can handle a world that is a horrible place. that is i think part of what the american people like about the potentiality of a second term for him. >> brian: give up 20% of your country, it sounds like president trump will recommend, jason. >> look, and the president pivots and talks about policy, then he is at its best. he has been there. he did it. the rent has been savored for the economy was better. he is sprite. he's excited about the job. he works hard. the contrast with joe biden is unbelievable. but stop whining and complaining about the process. you know what? you are doing no good to anybody by going out there and telling people that early voting -- i think the quote was something like, every vote is illegitimate. that is not going to help republicans win elections.

>> brian: down the ballot or up the ballot. david, final thought on solution to end the war or war ending. >> in some cases there has to be victory before peace. if russia is given a time to rearm with some negotiated peace or settlement, eventually, there will be something else. the riverside train yard after world war i. this is not an easy one. it would be quicker i believe under trump, because he's a stronger leader than the current administration. i don't think anyone can predict an outcome here without a victory. >> brian: exactly, for ukraine. russia are the bad guys. let's make that clear. meanwhile, straight ahead. three children, three staff members are shot dead inside a tennessee christian school. we have a live report from nashville. the site of the tragedy. m, popc. (alternate voice) denture disaster, darling! we need poligrip before crispy popcorn. (regular voice) let's fix this. (alternate voice) poligrip power hold + seal gives our strongest hold

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