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Let's take a look at this morning's need to know headlines. A lot of news, eight Republican presidential candidates took to the stage last night in Milwaukee for the first Republican primary debate of this 2024 election season. In a debate on Fox News, they discussed several key issues like abortion rights, January 6, the deadly insurrection and whether former president Trump is fit for office, former president Trump is convicted in a court of law. Would you still support him as your party's choice? Please raise your hand if you would just hold on. So just to be clear, Governor Christie, you were kind of late to the game there, but you were up to this. Very interesting. Well, Trump is the current front runner, but he didn't attend the debate. And we'll have a full recap of the biggest moments from last night with our political strategist coming up in just a few moments and while all that was happening, former president Trump could be seen in a pretaped interview with Tucker Carlson on social media network X. It started five minutes before last night's debate began during the interview. Trump explained why he was not at the debate, you see the polls have come out and I'm leading by 50 60 points and, you know, some of them are at one and zero and, uh, two. And I'm saying, do I sit there for an hour or two hours or whatever it's going to be and, uh, get harassed by people that shouldn't even be running for president. Should I be doing that? Trump also discussed the multiple criminal cases that he's facing right now saying, quote, I got indicted four times all trivia nonsense. Trump also said, quote, maybe there will be more, I don't know. Trump is expected to surrender today at the Fulton County jail where he is facing charges that he allegedly attempted to subvert the 2020 Georgia election results. Well, the bodies of Yin and nine other people killed in that Russian jet crash yesterday have been sent to a nearby facility for medical and forensic analysis. According to Russian media, Russian authorities confirmed Prasin, the leader of the Wagner military group was among those who died in the crash in northwest area of Moscow. In June. Wagner Force forces briefly marched on Moscow an apparent rebellion. And just yesterday, a general link togo was reported dismissed as head of the Russian Air Force. The Kremlin and Russia's President Vladimir Putin have yet to comment on the crash. But Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky said, quote, we have nothing to do with the situation, but I think everyone realizes who has a shooter at a biker bar in southern California last night left at least three people dead, six more were injured and two people are currently in critical condition. According to Orange County's undersheriff, the shooter is a retired law enforcement officer. Authorities say they responded to a 911 call shortly after 7 p.m. Reporting shots fired at the bar and restaurant called Cook's corner. No deputies were injured but the shooter was killed at the scene. The undersheriff called it quote an absolute tragic event. And authorities in Oklahoma have named the BTK serial killer as the prime suspect in two unsolved cases. BTK killer Dennis Raider was convicted in 2005 after confessing to 10 murders in Wichita, Kansas from 1974 to 1991. He was sentenced to 10 straight life sentences in prison and he's now the chief suspect in the disappearance of a 16 year old Oklahoma cheerleader in 1976 and the killing of a 22 year old woman in Missouri whose remains were found in 1990. She was not identified until 2021. Well, the Osage County Sheriff's office searched raider's former property yesterday to collect new evidence. Us journalist Evan Gooch's pretrial detention was extended to November 30 in Moscow. Earlier today, his detention was supposed to end on August 30. Gko was arrested on espionage charges in March while on a reporting trip in Russia. Russian Federal security service accused him of collecting information about state secrets and Russia's military industrial complex and his employer of the Wall Street Journal. They are denying these allegations. Russian officials meanwhile have not released any evidence to support the espionage charges. North Korea's second attempt to launch a spy satellite into orbit failed earlier yesterday. Earlier today, excuse me, the state run Korean central news agency blamed an error on the emergency blasting system. Japan reported the satellite broke into multiple parts before falling into the Yellow Sea. The East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Japan ordered its residents to evacuate to safety as the satellite flew over the city of Okinawa, North Korea's aerospace agency said it would make a third attempt in October after investigating what went wrong during today's attempt. The White House National Security Council said the US condemns the launch at in the attempt to involve technology linked to North Korea's ballistic missile program.