If it's Monday, breaking news, tragedy in Nashville, where three children and three adults are dead after a 28-year-old woman opened fire inside an elementary school before being fatally shot by police.

Plus, former President Trump rallies his supporters with doomsday rhetoric and repeated attacks against the Manhattan DA

as a grand jury hears new witness testimony and weighs criminal charges.

And Israel's Prime Minister backtracks announcing a delay in his party's plan to overhaul the country's judicial system

amid widespread protests and a historic work stoppage that shut down everything from the airport to the McDonald's.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker. We begin with devastating and breaking news out of Nashville, where three children and three adults are dead after a shooter opened fire this morning at a private religious elementary school. Authorities say they have identified the shooter as a 28-year-old white woman from the Nashville area. She appears to have once attended the school. Police say she

gained access through a side entrance, armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun.

Here's how authorities described the police response to this deadly incident.

The police department response was swift. Officers entered the first story of the school, began clearing it. They heard shots

coming from the second level. They immediately went to the gunfire. When the officers got to the

second level, they saw a shooter, a female who was firing. The officers engaged her. She was fatally shot by responding police officers.

A police official says there is video from inside the school that they are analyzing to learn how all of

this happened. And we expect another briefing from authorities, potentially this hour, and we will

bring you that when it happens.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, this is the 129th mass shooting in America in 2023.

And I want to remind you, we're not through the third month of this year.

So that's 129 mass shootings in 86 days.

President Biden addressed the shooting just moments ago, calling it

sick and heartbreaking, while repeating his call for gun reform legislation in Congress.

We have to do more to stop gun violence. It's ripping our communities apart, ripping a soul

of this nation, ripping it's a very soul of the nation. And we have to do more to protect our schools so they aren't turned into prisons.

So I call on Congress again to pass my assault weapons ban.

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