hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
had been under a doctor s care for an emotional disorder. law enforcement also revealed that the shooter s parents cannot think that 28-year-olds should own weapons. the disturbing details putting a renewed focus on the nation s gun laws. president biden pointing some fingers at the same time. i, again, call on congress to pass the assault weapons ban. this should not be a partisan issue. it s a common sense issue. i want you to know who isn t doing it. who isn t helping. ahead, i ll talk to a tennessee state representative who rushed to the scene after the shooting. why he says thoughts and prayers are never enough. plus, former vice president mike pence in iowa fueling more 2024 speculation, even as both he and his former boss face a major legal blow. a federal judge has ruled pence must testify in the justice department s probe of donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. the latest on how pence is responding. and a perfect storm of devastation in missi
i am harris faulkner with kayleigh mcenany, emily compagno, also joining us fox business correspondent gerri willis and fox news contributor douglas murray. the former president is flying out of florida to new york. he has had to spend the night at trump tower in manhattan the head of his court appearance. criminal court tomorrow. and he is scheduled to face charges related to the money payments made to an adult film worker, stormy daniels, in the run-up into the 2016 election. new polling shows nearly half of all americans believe these charges are politically motivated. kayleigh mcenany, i don t know that you would be able to look at them because of the timing of all of this. the fact that this case has been dropped so many times. kayleigh: jeb bush making that point. it s interesting the unlikely allies. some of them political opponents. jeb bush, former florida governor saying that bragg s predecessor didn t take up the case and bragg said he would not take up the case.
and we heard those five rounds going off and then a series of other rounds. you can see people screaming, panicked, scrambling, figuring out a way to get out of the mall. people rushing to nearby stores hiding. as you mention, up to two hours waiting on this police process to take into effect as they go through this large facility, this large outlet mall complex and clear it room by room. those are aerial images right there of police escorting customers having their hands raised in a calm and orderly fashion out of that mall. as they were to understand in those moments what exactly happened. as we later figured out, just one shooter. we did also speak with texas representative keith self who represents allen. he says his prayers are with the victims, with their families,