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As a reminder, please do not come to christmas hill park. that is where the festival took place. this is still an active crime scene. well be sharing information with the media soon, and thank you for your patience during this rapidly evolving situation. back to you mayor. how important was the response that gilroy being a town of 50,000 got support from san jose and other areas? >> well, its pretty common for all the cities and towns to rely on mutual aide when something this awful happens. and...

A crisis, people have a physiological and psychological strain thats put on them. so this is the challenge for law enforcement. weve heard that, you know, people confirming, no, there was one shooter. now someone saying that there were three. the shots came from over here. the crowd was running over there. the problem is that theres a lot of chaos in the moments of these incidents, so thats the challenge for law enforcement is, how do they take all of this information in, digest it to actually c...

Have shot us. >> reporter: and authorities recovered the weapon at the scene. its been described as some kind of assault rifle. now, in terms of the shooter at this point, we do not have a motive. at this point they cannot say there is a seconds suspect definitively. back to you. >> okay, dan. thank you very much. bring us any updates as you have it. joining now to talk about this is phillip mudd and juliet kyem. i dont know, phil, what the motive could be for somebody to shoot this 6-year-old. ...

Of the seven are needed to convict. but whatever the jury decides, all of this has been unwelcome drama for one of americas most storied and respected military units. dan simon, cnn, san diego. a racist retweet by donald trump jr. is now uniting the democratic presidential field behind senator kamala harris. hear how theyre reacting, next. (burke) at farmers insurance, weve seen almost everything, so we know how to cover almost anything. even a parking splat.

Murdering an iraqi prisoner could soon learn his fate as closing arguments are set to begin on monday for special operations chief eddie gallagher. prosecutors say he stabbed a wound isis prisoner to death. his defense says thats not what happened. cnns dan simon is following the story closely as closing arguments are set to begin. >> reporter: a decorated navy s.e.a.l., selfless war hero and family man. thats the image the defense would like the jury to have as it soon begins deliberating the f...

Preparation the government had put into this case, the one thing that they cant get over is the fact that eddie gallagher is not guilty. so now that all the evidence is in, were going to take the weekend to prepare for closings. and monday morning after closing arguments, the jury will get there case. and then well wait for the murder. >> reporter: the jury of seven military men will decide gallaghers fate, unlike civilian trials it requires a two-thirds slot or five of -- vote or five of seven ...

Credit. he didnt do well certainly. and maybe the facts were unnecessarily on her side. i think she was given too much credit for what she did. it wasnt that outstanding. i think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit. >> that was president trump speaking overnight in japan. there was this more than an hour-long news conference at the g20 summit. we will have snippets of that and the headlines throughout the morning. the president made a lot of news. also, theres this -- a nav...

Breaking overnight, a horrifying accident in new hampshire. seven bikers are dead after colliding with a suspect truck there. police have not released their identities, but an eyewitness told cnn affiliate wmer she saw motorcycles dumped all over the road. >> it was tweeted last night, our prayers and thoughts are with the victims and their families. a navy s.e.a.l. medic says he, not the defendant, chief special warfare operator eddie gallagher, killed an isis fighter in iraq in 2017. >> now ...

Treated really unfairly. >> reporter: gag gllagher is al accused of shooting an elderly man, two women and a crowd of civilians as well as posing with the corpse of the teenager he allegedly killed. a jury of seven will ultimately decide his fate. dan simon, cnn, san diego. >> thanks to you. joining me now, janet johnson, criminal defense attorney. janet, thank you for joining us this morning. i want to talk more about this gallagher case which has this really stunning twist. the prosecutions ...

Getting into position. also this morning, a stunning twist at the trial of a decorated navy s.e.a.l. someone else took the stand and claimed to be the killer. cnns dan simon live with this incredible turn of events. >> reporter: john, this was a total courtroom stunner. here you have this decorated navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher who is on trial for the murder for killing an isis prisoner. and what happens is you have this navy s.e.a.l., this navy s.e.a.l. medic named cory scott and say, no, hes...