Louisville shooter left two extensive notes

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The shooter in the Louisville bank left notes detailing his goal was to show how easy it is for someone who is mentally ill to get a gun. Anderson talks about the new development with Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, the founders of "Survivors Empowered.” Their daughter Jessica Ghawi was murdered in the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:02.0	CNN has learned the President Biden's announcement to run for a second term now may
0:05.2	be days away.
0:06.4	He will run a source telling CNN it's no longer helpful or necessary to not just say
0:11.4	the obvious.
0:12.9	The exact day, however, is still being debated.
0:15.0	Already, the oldest person to serve, the president would be weeks away from his 82nd
0:18.8	birthday should he win a second term.
0:21.0	Advisors tell CNN the decision to announce comes at a time when the campaign feels it
0:25.3	needs to energize voters about the president, his policies, and a second term.
0:30.0	Filmedically, our Chief White House correspondent joins me.
0:32.3	So no date has been set.
0:35.4	Not finalized.
0:36.4	I think it's probably the best way to frame things, but advisors have made clear and have
0:40.3	been privately meeting and planning to announce on Tuesday of next week.
0:44.8	And the reason that that's important and it would be through a campaign video, it's
0:48.2	not going to be a major rally, but an official start to things, a launch that we have long
0:52.2	expected Longbin told was coming, but never really had a firm timeline on.
0:56.4	That seems to be shifting pretty clearly.
0:59.1	That date on Tuesday is four years to the day from when the president launched his 2020
1:04.4	campaign, the campaign where he defeated Donald Trump, the campaign, which he framed as
1:09.0	a battle for the soul of the nation, a battle that the president and his team very clearly
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