Our teacher went to look out the window and said everybody get down. We go hear pop, pop, pop. I remember being in class and heard boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Bill all these memories you dont want to have. Georgia students describing the moment a chart unleashed a hail of gunfire inside their High School. The f. B. I. Had the suspect on its radar for more than a year. Were digging through this today. Thursday, bill hemmer. Welcome to our program today. Good morning. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. We have covered entirely too many of these. The Horror Unfolding Yesterday at apalachee high School East of atlanta. The shooter killed four people. Two students and two teachers. Nine others wounded. Bill a 14yearold Student at The School was the shooter. He surrendered to School Resource officers and is now in custody. Authorities revealing they invested him last year for making violent threats online. They conducted the investigation and no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional Law Enforcement action. We wanted to bring it to your attention. Were pursuing that. Working with the f. B. I. On that and any connection to that incident that could be connected. Dana were getting new video from Inside One of the classrooms showing officers in full Body Armor responding to the scene and pulling students to safety. Dana Marie Mcnicholl is live in winder, georgia, this morning. Good morning. Good morning, dana. As this tight community remains in Mourning Apalachee High School is still a crime scene. We do know that flags here are at Half Staff and so many questions remain here this morning but the gun used was an ar15style rifle. According to the Georgia Bureau of investigation. We spoke to students here saying they fear returning to work. I dont want to come back and i dont our Safety Isnt guaranteed as you can see. They brought a Big Gun. Not even a pistol. They brought a Big Gun that can kill numerous people. Now Law Enforcement are calling the School Resource officers heroes who engaged with 14yearold Colt Gray and got him to the ground and took him into custody. We learned the names of the four people who lost their lives. Mason, a 14yearold Student. Christian, a 14yearold Student, two teachers, richard and christina. Now according to the Schools Website the adults killed were both math teachers. The man was also an assistant football coach. We spoke to one student who was in one of those classrooms where a teacher was shot and a warning. This is difficult to listen to. He did have a Gunshot Wound to the bottom of his chest. He was bleeding out. Some other kids got up and they dragged his body inside and closed the door. After they dragged him in i started barricading the door with all the things i could find. Me and some other kids lifted up his shirt to see where the Gunshot Wound was and put pressure on it. The bleeding would not stop. We just stopped until the cops got there. Questions still remain about how gray got the gun inside The School. The teenager was on the f. B. I. Radar since last year. The 13yearold at the time was flagged after making online threats tied to the shooting. Threats clued photos of the gun. They went to the Shooters Home and spoke to the father and had Hunting Guns in the House And Son never had unsupervised access to the guns and the teenager denied making those threats online. F. B. I. Said at that time there was no probable cause to arrest him or take any further action. Nine people hospitalized are expected to survive. Law enforcement say the shooter is in Police Custody and will be tried as an adult for murder. A Couple Gofundmes have been set up for the victims. It looks like over 1 Hundred Thousand has already been raised. Now in terms of The School, it will be closed for the rest of the week as this investigation continues. Dana. Dana thank you. Bill on the wall, apalachee high School Midway between atlanta and athens, georgia, in the peach state. Classes start at 8 30. Hour and 15 minutes later Law Enforcement gets the notice by telephone. Lets go to 10 23. Three minutes later officers dispatch to The School and respond quickly. 10 45 Lockdown Message received by the parents of all the students at The School. Right before 12 noon then the suspect surrenders and is now in custody. Will be charged as an adult. Could the f. B. I. Have done anything . Kelly, former new York City Police Commissioner with us now. What is your hunch about the lead with the f. B. I. From more than a year ago . Well, i think more should have been done. Quite frankly, georgia should look into Red Flag law. Only 16 states have it. That monilate if it was in effect the police could have taken those guns. Until the investigation was finished. It was not in play in georgia at the time so they did what they could do. I think it is something that all states should have, quite frankly. Dana the f. B. I. Statement out of atlanta said this yesterday. The father stated he had Hunting Guns in the house but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson county alerted local schools for continued monitoring. No probable cause for arrest or take additional Law Enforcement action. Feels like Law Enforcement and school administrators, parents, kids, innocent ones are up against it. You are trying to find the smallest needle in the largest Hay Stack and privacy rights and rules. Here we are again talking about another School Shooting, sir. Absolutely. It is not easy. Particularly you are dealing with juveniles. It is problematic. No easy answer. No panacea. The Red Flag laws in effect in 16 states should be seriously looked at by georgia and its legislature. It is a working in other places. There is a period of time where the guns are out of the potential shooters hands and an investigation can be done. They dont have that in georgia but it is something to look at. It is a difficult area, no question about it. Bill roll the sound bite. The sheriff in the county yesterday. You talk about these initial interactions whoever was able to stop the shooter. Describe it to us. How did it go down and what exactly happened . The shooter was armed and our School Resource officers engaged him. The shooter quickly realized that if he did not give up, that it would end with an oif. Officers involved shooting. He gave up and got on the ground. Bill you get in these debates about guns in america and how you defend about that and whether or not you can take all the guns away. The answer here was to put a guard at The School. This guard did not stop everything but may have prevented further loss of life. Point number one. Point number two. If the f. B. I. Went to the home and the father said this is the case where i keep my guns, i have a lock on it, it is a code. My son doesnt have the key or code, under that scenario, would that be sufficient for the f. B. I. To be satisfied on a visit like that . Yeah. I think its reasonable to say that would have been sufficient. Talking to this father, its a person of responsibility, he has a case, as you say that is locked and he says that the child does not have access to the case, yeah, i think its something that they could accept. It is just, you know, as i say, i think you needed some process where Police Or F. B. I. Can hold onto the weapons for a period of time. In certain states they have it based on a Judges Determination or just based on a police department determination. It is something that i think should be seriously considered. As far as the School Resource officer, yeah, they did a great job. We need a lot more of them and these two officers, i believe are members of the Sheriffs Department and did a great job. They did not shoot and captured this individual. Bill just to be clear before we let you go here. We dont know if thats what happened with the f. B. I. At the house but it is a possibility and will come up as a question when we get the next briefing. Dana thank you so much for being with us today and well follow this and any new developments that are coming. Thank you. The point is not the message itself. The point is the hidden hand of the russian government which deceives americans into thinking they are getting information from american sources when in fact it is coming from the russian government. Dana the biden administration formally accusing the kremlin of Election Interference two months until Election Day. There are growing concerns about how big Tech Companies are influencing american voters. Mark meredith is following all of this from the White House. Hi, mark. Good morning to you. The biden administration says russia, china, iran all tried to influence the upcoming election but right now its worried most about russia and its proxies. That it is focusing its time on. Yesterday the administration announced it is taking over 32 Internet Demains used by the russians to trick people thinking they were reading or viewing accurate u. S. News. It is also imposing new sanctions against some russian officials. But the White House admits this is going to be an ongoing issue. Well constantly monitor, as i said, these threats and be able to thwart them and identify and hold the actors accountability. Russian President Putin has a favorite in the race. It may not be who you suspect. He was speaking at an economic conference in russia. Since President Biden is now backing Vice President harris, he will, too. He advised all his supporters to support mrs. Harris. Thats what well do. Well support her as well. Thats the first thing. Secondly, her laugh is so expressive and infectious, that means she is doing well. Speaking of the election conservatives outraged at Amazons Voice Assistant when prompted would list multiple reasons why voters should support harris. When asked about former President Trump the device stayed quiet. Lindsey graham is among those fired up about the controversy saying he wont let it go unaddressed. He sent a letter to the ceo of amazon saying he wants answers how this could happen. Amazon says it fixed the issue. Conservatives continue to warn Big Tech could have an influence on this election. They go back to what happened four years ago with the Hunter Biden Laptop story. They claim similar issues could pop up again. Dana thank you. Bill moments ago if you were watching before we came on the air, the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Making News On Fox And Friends denying reports that negotiators are closing in on a ceasefire deal. Give this a listen. Post is reporting you are 90 there in negotiations with hamas towards a ceasefire deal. Would you say thats accurate . No, it is exactly inaccurate. There is a story, a narrative out there there is a deal out there. In fact, while we agreed in july and in may and july and in august to a deal and to an american proposal, hamas has consistently said no to every one of them. Bill all this after six hostages including one american found dead, executed by hamas inside of gaza. So were watching more fallout from that now. To colorado we roll. Police arresting several suspected Venezuelan Gang members. Question now whether or not this will bring an end to the siege of apartment complexes that residents are claiming in that state. Plus well get to this coming up. [shouting] dana No End In Sight for Hunter Bidens legal saga. Jury selection in his Tax Fraud Trial set to begin today. 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Dana Aurora Police arrested four suspects with possible ties to the gang tren de aragua. Theyre facing charts from Evidence Tampering to attempted murder. Heavily armed men were seen rolling the halls and residents claim they were part of the Venezuelan Gang and they found a stolen vehicle and drugs while patrolling the area last month. You let the Trump Tax cuts expire, which she wants to do. Terminate them. If you do that, you will suffer the biggest Tax Increase in history. There has never been a Tax Increase like it. On top of which she wants to add a lot of tax. This country will end up ive said this a lot i mean it. This country will end up in a depression if she becomes president. Dana former President Donald Trump taking questions on key issues weighing on voters at a Town Hall in Battleground Pennsylvania yesterday. Today he will unveil his economic agenda in deeper detail at an event here in new York City. Lets bring in Trump Campaign senior advisor tim murtaugh. Great to have you on the show today. Want to play a little bit from Kamala Harris releasing her economic proposal in New Hampshire. Watch. My vision of an Opportunity Economy is one where everyone can compete and have a real chance to succeed. Part of my plan is we will expand the Tax Deduction for startups to 50,000. Its essentially a Tax Cut for starting a Small Business. If you earn A Million Dollars a year or more, the Tax Rate on your longterm Capital Gains will be 28 under my plan. Dana reuters Reports Goldman Sachs sees biggest boost to u. S. Economy from harris win. One of their analysts yesterday. President trump will lay out his agenda today. What can we expect . Well, President Trump is going to talk about his plan to make life more affordable for everyday americans. What you just heard from Kamala Harris, this is one of the things that people are expected to believe that they know is not true. Everything that she has touched has gotten more expensive. President trump has while he was president supported Small Business Tax Cuts and tax exceptions like she is talking about and it passed the republican house. It was democrats in congress who didnt support that. What you will hear from President Trump today will be many things. He will talk about a broad plan to make life more affordable for everyday americans. Talking about reducing taxes, cutting Energy Costs in half for americans. Attacking excessive regulations. You remember during his first term for every new Regulation Put on the books he removed two of them. He is going to take up what Elon Musk suggested and form a commission and more aggressive in tackling those regulations. He will get crazy spending under control. Do away and actually finally kill ideas, bad ideas like the Green New Deal and address the rising costs of housing. All of these things are major problems because of the bidenharris administration. She has cast the deciding vote as Vice President for much of the spending that has super fueled and supercharged all of the inflation that americans are dealing with. Again, the president will lay out his Plan Today to make life more affordable for everyday americans i think will make a lot of news and i think people will like it. Dana i will pay attention to the news. Do you have some examples of where he would cut spending . I wont give details of his speech at noon. I think he will talk about things that laid the Ground Work in the Green New Deal. She was an original cosponsor of that and he will completely give that off the tracks and scuttle that. There will be a lot of identifiedable things. A lot of Government Efficiencies as well. The idea he discussed with musk is an interesting idea. I wont sit here on your show and write a federal budget. President Donald Trump will lay out his vision reduce regulation and unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of this Country And Release american energy and make life more affordable for everyday america. Dana yesterday the attorney general Merrick Garland went after some russian influence here is Merrick Garland yesterday. Its an acceleration of and an increased sophistication of and it is, you know, use of a. I. And cyber techniques that were not available in earlier elections. So were just seeing more and more. It is coming faster and faster. It is now a. I. Fueled. They are now using bot farms in the way that was not possible before. Dana how is the Trump Campaign taking in this information and thinking about going forward the next 8 1 2 weeks . Well look, if Kamala Harris if her candidacy is a Sit Com thats about nothing the biden administration and democrats talking about russian interference is a rerun as a matter of fact. We heard this in 2016 and in 2020. Heck, they dragged the entire country through the Russia Hoax for two entire years and tied up congress and tied up President Trump in the early days of the administration with just t