thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 begins now. good evening from orlando. john berman here in for anderson. there is a memorial just down the street from where we're standing right now. it's not the only one, not by any stretch. looking at live pictures now of people paying their respects. it has been a seering week here. it will be a somber weekend for funerals and remembrances, and of course full of regular moments, moments that will be missed by the 49 people killed at the pulse nightclub last weekend. that's the worst of it. behind me at orlando regional medical center this weekend will be very busy, still very busy.

as of the latest update, they're still treating nearly two dozen badly wounded patients with six in critical condition. we will be joined shortly by a doctor that runs the trauma unit and who, like the shooter, is an immigrant's child. we begin with breaking news, new information about the troubled past of the man that took all these lives. cnn senior investigative correspondent drew griffin just obtained details, and joins us from the killer's home in fort pierce. drew, we are hearing about missed signals all week, seems to be adding up. >> reporter: yeah, this is another glaring example of that. in 2007, john, we have been reporting the shooter was expelled from a law enforcement academy at the same time he was fired from his job at the florida department of corrections. fellow students said it involved some sort of perceived threat. the school, the indian river state college was refusing to give up records. tonight we have the records and it could explain the reluctance

of officials. not only was this killer falling asleep in class multiple times but shortly after the virginia tech massacre he engaged in a conversation with another cadet in which he talked about bringing a gun to school. the report we have says in light of recent tragedy events at virginia tech, talk of bringing a weapon to class is at best extremely disturbing. this event took place in 2007. we also have new details, disturbing details about what was going on in the planning up to this. now, john, it appears not only was this killer planning his attack, he was also planning for his death. law enforcement sources say in weeks leading up to the attack, the killer made numerous preparations, including making sure his wife had access to bank accounts and adding her name to important documents like his life insurance policy. he bought his wife an expensive piece of jewelry and transferred

his share of a home where his sister and brother-in-law currently reside for $10. fbi agents visited the mosque where the orlando shooter prayed. mosque officials telling cnn the agents were looking for anyone who knew him or know anyone he associated with. and the fbi director visited the crime scene in orlando for the first time as his investigators continue to examine what the killer's wife knew about his attack and when. cnn has learned the couple communicated during the attack. according to law enforcement sources, noor salman called her husband multiple times after news broke of the shooting. around 4:00 a.m., two hours after the shooting began he texted her asking if she saw the news. at one point she responded telling him she loved him. police notified the gunman's family, first knocking on his sister's door at 4:00 a.m. she called her parents breaking the news to the rest of the

family. sources tell us in weeks leading up to the attack, the gunman spent a significant amount of money, including money spent on weapons used for the attack. and we are learning more about his background. according to school records obtained by cnn, the orlando shooter was disciplined 31 times in elementary school. one report from third grade called him, quote, verbally abusive, rude, aggressive, much talk about violence and sex. in high school he was suspended a total of 48 days. among the incidents are two that involve, quote, fighting with injury. meanwhile in orlando officer omar delgado was one of the first responders to pulse nightclub and pulled several victims from the club. >> i had my flashlight, we kind of looked around and somebody yelled out this person is moving. >> reporter: a co-worker told him one of the victims he pulled to safety was in a press conference at the hospital. >> one of the ones that helped you get out of harm's way. i need a big hug, come here,

man. >> reporter: the two reunited on thursday. >> it was amazing. it was a feeling that you can't describe, knowing that you helped save someone. >> reporter: all right, we are also learning about the friend that the killer called during the rampage. do we know anything about who the friend was? >> reporter: the information comes from law enforcement sources. the friend, a person in the medical profession in washington, d.c. noticed facebook posts from his friend, the shooter, during the attack and reached out to him. they had a phone conversation. the fbi has talked to that friend. they don't believe he had any advanced knowledge of the attack. the conversation, john, centered around medications, we're told. john? >> all right, drew griffin, thanks so much. joining us now, cnn law

enforcement analyst ard rod eric, and cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney mark o'mara, and julia kiem, and former secretary of homeland security. let me start with you. we are learning so much about the killer as far back as elementary school now, high school, all of the discipline problems, spoken to the fbi in 2013, 2014. yet it doesn't seem like there's any new information, any more information of a direct link with the terror group or isis other than consuming a lot of terror propaganda. is that surprising at this point and of what value is all of this information about his past? >> it is not surprising at all. i think early on it was clear that he was isis inspired in part. there's a lot going on with him but not isis directed and that he was a passive recipient of what he viewed as what isis

would have wanted him to do. isis now is more than happy to take credit for anyone that does something like this, in particular someone who has a successful attack in the united states. so none of this is surprising that he had no sort of active involvement with isis, but remember you know as i said yesterday he's a guy that was buying hate and isis was selling it, but he was -- you know, he wanted -- he was getting hate from everyone, al qaeda at one stage, hezbollah at one stage. his hatred of the lgbt, which may have something to do with his own background. i don't think we find a direct link to isis except the one he wants us to know about. >> all of this information we're getting perhaps can be a value. shows you what kind of person might be susceptible to their propaganda and rhetoric. mark, let me ask about the news we are getting that the killer had been planning for some time this attack, including making

financial preparations, for his wife, spending a lot of money the past few weeks. when you add this up, add up that he was texting with his wife. all the data points the wife was involved. >> here's what the fbi is doing. this is like having pieces of a puzzle without knowing the picture yet. they take each one, place it where they think it goes, wait until they get enough to come up with a picture. the picture they're focusing on is her culpability or liability. so i'll give awe quick example. if he added her on the bank statements, little different if she had to go to the bank to sign a signature card, like usual. the fact she may have been aware of life insurance, the fact that she got an expensive piece of jewelry, all of that will start working as circumstantial evidence, then evidence to prove she knew what was going on and she cannot use the excuse of being willfully blind of it. that's what she's going to try and argue, i presume.

>> haven't put the puzzle together yet, but one thing is clear, she's connected to a lot of pieces in it. >> a lot of them. >> art, i don't know if you know but the fbi has surveillance footage from inside the nightclub, extensive footage. they're looking at it now. what are they doing with this, how will they use this. >> the first thing, the video gives a blow by blow, second by second view of what occurred in there. you put that together with the commander's interview, i am sure the bir happen lengthy interviews, along with chief minas' interview, gives you a complete picture of what happened inside. generally companies and businesses go to expense of putting video cameras in the facility, generally put them outside chlts i wouldn't be

surprised to hear they have exterior video also which would give a complete picture of what occurred on the outside as well as what occurred on the inside. the secondary point to the video which i think it going to be very helpful to law enforcement, law enforcement will look at this as training. okay, what did we do right, what did we do wrong. i think as it did in the active shooter training where we changed from standing back, waiting, assessing to going into neutralize the threat, this could have effect on standard operating procedures of s.w.a.t. teams around the united states. should they have waited, should they not have. standard procedure now is to wait. because of vocalizing, calling 911, they thought they might be able to negotiate. this could change s.w.a.t. tactics, make them go in sooner. >> julia, as you look at the information, we talked about some of it, the question of missed signals, missed opportunities to stop this.

over the last few years are there any that are glaring that jump out to you? >> well, there's a couple of questions i still have and i think we deserve answers in these action reports that we are talking. first, it is not clear to me how much the orlando police knew about not one, not two, but three interviews by the fbi of one of their citizens. i am not saying this would have stopped him but part of what the intelligence staring apparatus is supposed to do is give local police officers some constructive knowledge of who in their orbit is someone the fbi is concerned about. i think that's one of the sort of unanswered questions at this stage. the second is about the employer. we are talking it raises privacy concerns. we have to figure stuff out. but the fbi has done not one, two, but three interviews, it is more than one, and they know that he is employed by a security company that has

federal contracts, they were never notified directly by the fbi. in fact, they only knew of interviews from him himself. those are two major questions i still have. >> all right. julia kiem, mark roderick, mark o'mara, thank you very much. flags are half staff, people around the country and around the world have chosen to express sadness and show oneness with the people here. it is true in every state, to the best of our knowledge every county in eve state except baldwin county, alabama. president obama ordered flags lowered at federal offices nationwide. alabama's governor did the same for his state, and a county economicser in bamd win county, alabama said no. joining us with details on why he have said no and what he said about uproar over it, jean casarez.

>> he said it doesn't meet criteria to lower the flag to half staff. saying that, the alabama governor asked automaker counties in the state to fom orders until noon yesterday. it is a moot issue. they can't retract and change the decision. one other county we know of in the country, comb county missouri made a decision not to lower to half staff, and they hitd the roof. there was feedback. they said we need to listen to constituents. we are going to lower the flag to half staff. >> this is not the first time this county commissioner in baldwin county has done this, correct? >> no, it is not. he didn't do it for san bernardino or for parachuting, he is saying there's an emotional argument and statute argument. he is saying emotionally when we lower the american flag to half staff that we are lowering ourselves to the level of the terrorist. here's what he said on his facebook posting.

it says when the flag is at half staff, our country's head is figuratively held low, and quite frankly i am not willing to hang my head down because of a terrorist attack against our people and our allies. i am not willing to hang my head down because evil shoots up a church, school or movie theater. we need more than a gesture as a response. as far as the flag statute, the flag code, he says the flag should only be half staff for presidents, government officials, memorial day, and the 9/11 first responders, john. >> jean casarez, curious thing to take a stand on. thanks. people why they stand-alone in denying that gesture of solidari solidarity, we may have the answer. the doctor at the trauma unit, may be his first televised interview and we are honored to

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you may notice our next guest speaks with hint of an accent, a tennessee accent. he is also the son of a muslims immigra immigrant. he won't speak of the tennessee upbringing or egyptian roots, he will say thank you. he and the trauma unit at the orlando center have roots far and wide, serve a diverse community. in the hours after the shooting served with every ounce of skill and humanity they could muster. he joins me now. thanks for being with us. thank you for everything that you do.

i want to take you back to last week. you were here when you first heard what you were dealing with was a terrorist attack. what was your first thought? >> honestly the first thought is i hope the name is not involved, it is commonly involved in this day and age. we didn't realize the magnitude. we were taking care of patients. we knew that basically after it was over, realized it was larger than we'd seen before. >> you didn't want your name to be the name of the guy that did this. >> of course. >> when you are doing your job dealing with so many patients here, are you just dealing with the operating table or are you aware of the greater magnitude of the event. do you have any time to think of the larger impact? >> at the moment, especially when that many patients are coming in and that severely injured, you don't have time.

you're addressing what the needs are, trying to get them stabilized, to the proper location, deal with the rest later. >> how many patients do you think you interacted with yourself? >> probably eight or nine, i mean immediately. >> and dozens and dozens came through over the course of the night. it is remarkable that you take a moment to think i know how people are going to react to this. are you surprised at the greater national reaction to this? >> a little bit. a little bit surprised at the amount of support we have gotten. you know obviously there's controversy that goes along with -- potentially a muslim terrorist large portion of the injured are from the lgbt community, so you just never know, but the outpouring has been amazing. >> you have a diverse staff. this is a diverse city.

that's an understatement. the patients you were dealing with are an example of diversity as well. speaks to what orlando is about. >> absolutely. people from multiple different countries, their families, some we need interpreters to speak with their families, but that's not anything new to us. we have to do that a lot because as you mention the city is diverse, frequently visited city. get people from all over the globe, we have direct flights from dubai here. it is something we are used to dealing with. hospital has a lot of things in place to help with that. but you're absolutely right, a very diverse group. even the workers themselves is a very diverse group. >> so you no doubt are aware what's going on in the political landscape. some are suggesting a ban on muslim immigrants all together. had that been the case, decades ago your father never would have come to this country, you would

never be here in theory. how does that make you feel? >> it is very difficult. you know, i never thought of myself as really the son of an i am grant, i'm an american. i was born here, grew up here, my friends are american,grewup in a small town in tennessee. great people there. treated me just like one of them. you know, but then you hear about the political ramifications of all these things, again, i don't know why they can't see some of the other side. there are a lot of people like myself that are no threat, that maybe are not even muslim faith or at least radical muslim faith that can contribute greatly to this nation. i have a lot of christian friends, myself included, who are egyptian or arab descent and we all get along well,

mr. muslmr. -- whether muslim, christian, whatever. >> we have five patients left in critical. thank you for being with us. thank you for the work you have done in the last week and that you always do at this hospital. >> thank you, thanks for having me. >> honor to have you with us. tonight there are wounds that will take more than stitches to heal. for that, there's counseling, psychiatrists and psychologists that specialize in trauma and grieving, their service is deeply welcome. there are those services everywhere. tonight we want you to meet a different breed of healer. gary tuckman provides the introduction. >> reporter: look at these eyes. and multiply them by 11. specially trained golden retrievers arrived in orlando to help those suffering emotionally after the weekend shooting

rampage. these are canine ambassadors of kindness. these are the comfort dogs. children at the orlando summer camp are ages five to nine. not all understand what happened this weekend but many do. darcy is one of the counselors. >> one little girl has been crying, devastated at home, headaches, migraines, mini anxiety attacks. today it was just so wonderful to see her with the dogs and finally move past a little bit. >> reporter: how do the dogs make people feel better? >> they're comfort rugs with a heartbeat. >> reporter: tim is president of the charity that runs this. this is 30 retrievers that travel to disasters in the

country. >> used to have a dog in elementary school every day since the school opened up. >> reporter: an orlando hospital took video of comfort dogs brightening the days of patience carter, one of those injured in the shootings. >> they have been busy last couple days. >> reporter: dogs brought out smiles for people that work at an orlando theater company that volunteered to help victims and families with food and supplies. megan is one of the volunteers. >> tell me how you felt being with the dogs today. >> i rushed here. i knew they would be here. and i just lost my dog yesterday morning. so i'm very happy to see the dogs, even for five minutes. >> reporter: lola is also helping families and is realizing the emotional toll. >> it was awesome. it was nice to be able to just hold them and feel them lean

against you, hug you back. it was really nice. >> reporter: tim says the reason this works is because. >> dogs have this capacity that they're great listeners, they're confidential, don't keep records of right and wrong and nonjudgmental. how many friends do you have with all those characteristics all the time. >> reporter: indeed, no one stands by those characteristics better than man's best friend and little girl's best friend, too. >> gary tuckman joins us now. gary, any sense how long these comfort dogs will be in town? >> reporter: they'll head out monday, another group will come in next week and the week after that, depending on the emotional needs of the community. what's interesting and sad, they're constantly on the go because they go to every major disaster in the united states and lots of minor disasters, too. this all started in 2008 only 8 years ago with four dogs. now 130 dogs. they live in 23 states and get

to places by going on planes with owners, sit in the main cabin and great dogs on planes, they're trained never to bark. >> i met with people that have seen the dogs, they're very welcome here. they would like to have them for some time. gary tuckman, thanks so much. gary's point about the dogs being dizzy, hard lessness from too many mass shootings. we will walk you through a training course designed to show people what to do in an active shooter situation.

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no one who went to pulse nightclub could have imagined it would end up in an active shooter situation. each time something like this happens there are difficult questions to confront. what would you do if you found yourself in a situation like that? what should you do? there are no easy answers but there are lessons that have been learned. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: as disturbing as this looks, it's only a simulation. a training video designed to teach people how to respond to an active shooter threat.

no plan and experts say chances of surviving drop dramatically. a training program known as alice was developed by a police officer whose wife was an elementary school principal. alice is the first training program of its kind that teaches proactive survival strategies. it stands foray lert, lockdown, inform, counter, evacuate. worst things victims can do is wait. once you're aware of the shooter, alert others and call police if you're in a safe place. >> is this 911? yeah. there's shooters i think outside the building, everybody is screaming. >> reporter: dozens at pulse nightclub did the right thing and quietly contacted loved ones and police. >> she was calling and on the phone with the cops. >> reporter: lockdown is also

key. silence cell phones, lock doors, barricade rooms. in orlando, bathroom doors didn't lock, allowing the gunman to barricade himself in there with club goers. victims are also supposed to inform law enforcement about injuries and location of the shooter which those at the pulse nightclub did. experts also suggest trying to negotiate with the gunman. club goers did that, too. >> begging him, please, please, don't shoot. we haven't seen your face, we don't know what you look like, you haven't spoken, we don't know anything. please let us go. >> reporter: if that doesn't work, try to hide or play dead. >> i was prepared to stay there laying down so he won't know i'm alive. >> reporter: he survived, others that played dead at the club were killed. only as a last resort should you counter the shooter, throw anything you can to distract him. they don't encourage you to overpower the shooter, but in life and death situation, countering the suspect may be

their only chance to survive. it is unclear if anyone inside the orlando club tried to take down the shooter. lastly, if you have an opening, make a run for it, evacuate, even if others don't go with you. sadly some who did get out safely from pulse ran back in to find friends and loved ones only to be killed. but if you do get out, remember keep your hands up outside where officers can see them so they don't mistake you for the shooter. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> sad anyone has to even think about this, but it seems as if we do. here in orlando, funerals are just beginning. there were 11 funerals and visitations today. they'll continue through the weekend and days to come. coming up for us next, we're going to take a moment to end the week the way we started by honoring each of the victims of the nightclub massacre. 49 names, 49 faces, 49 lives.

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the attention of the nation has been focused squarely in orlando the past week as it should be, but this is an election year and the political show goes on. donald trump has been using the aftermath of the massacre to repeat his claim that hillary clinton wants to abolish the second amendment, which she doesn't. now with the republican convention just a month away, we are getting word that the never trump movement is alive and well, with some republicans looking for new ways to block his nomination. tonight trump is campaigning in the houston area. jason carroll joins me now. jason, i think donald trump has yet to take the stage but did he give any sense what he would talk about tonight? >> reporter: if what he said

yesterday is any indication, expect him to step up criticism of hillary clinton and the president as you mentioned there. he has been going after clinton not just yesterday's rally in dallas but previous rallies, telling audiences she wants to abolish the second amendment, which is not true as you mentioned, she does not want to do that, she wants to strengthen gun laws, doesn't want to abolish the second amendment, but it is popular when he says it here. he has been going after the president saying he doesn't know what he is doing, call him weak on issues like terrorism. he hasn't taken the stage yet, i expect him to step up similar criticisms when he does take the stage. >> jason, during the primary donald trump loved to talk about the polls which he was usually leading in during the primary. it is a different situation now. he seems to be trailing in many polls. has he been bringing it up lately? >> reporter: he does have a tendency to bring up polls at a number of rallies. he tweeted out earlier today

that he is just a few points behind hillary clinton and one of the polls saying we haven't even gotten started on clinton yet. at the end of the day, this early in the election cycle, polls don't mean that much. it would be a mistake for any candidate to hang his or her hat on a poll at this stage in the game. the reality is he is not polling well against clinton, not polling well with key groups like latinos and african americans and lgbt community, he is going to have some work to do, in fact struggling in his own party to bring in people to unify the party. as you mention, some of the gop delegates making some sort of effort to try to stop him at the convention but trump weighing in on that as well saying that move would be illegal and would disenfranchise millions upon millions of people, people like those showing up here who actively support him. john? >> all right, jason carroll in

the houston area. sounds like donald trump is getting close to taking the stage. we will keep our eye on that. on the subject of polls, donald trump has the highest unfavorability rate of any major party candidate ever, 70% according to "the washington post" and abc news poll. it is some high level republicans trying to distance from trump and others looking for ways to stop it. jeff zeleny reports. >> i am going to save your second amendment, folks. >> reporter: donald trump in search of a life line, trying to rally republicans behind his full threaded support of the second amendment. florida governor rick scott, a trump ally, telling cnn's pamela brown the orlando shooting calls for a different conversation. >> the second amendment has been around over 200 years. that's not what killed innocent people. let's have a conversation about how we destroy isis.

>> reporter: the orlando massacre thrust the gun debate to the front of the political agenda. a new gallup poll shows 79% say it is an act of islamic terrorism, 60% of democrats interpret it as domestic gun violence. with republicans increasingly divided over his candidacy, trump hopes guns galvanize support in the gop and beyond. >> hillary wants to abolish the second amendment, remember that. >> reporter: but hillary clinton never said that. she does say she wants new and stronger gun laws, but that's far from abolishing the second amendment. >> these are demonstrably lies. like he feels compelled to tell them because he has to distract us from the fact he has nothing substantive to say. >> reporter: what he is saying is riling up republicans. on nbc's "meet the press" house speaker paul ryan offering a permission slip to vote their

conscience for or against trump. >> the last thing i would do is tell somebody to do something contrary to their conscience. of course i wouldn't do that. >> reporter: he is not rescinding his endorsement but that doesn't mean he likes what he is doing to the party. >> he is a unique nominee, but i feel a responsibility institutionally as speaker of the house i shouldn't leave a chasm in the middle of the party. >> reporter: the chasm is widening, several top republicans are looking beyond trump in hopes of salvaging the senate majority. former president george w. bush who said he will not support trump is campaigning for vulnerable republican senate candidates across the country. some republicans are focusing on trump, exploring last ditch efforts to block his nomination at next month's convention in cleveland. cnn learned a plan is under way to push some delegates to break allegiance to trump. one organizer is new jersey republican and former cruz supporter steve lonegan who told cnn the delegates have a moral

obligation to nominate a candidate who best represents the values of the republican party. right now donald trump is taking the party into a catastrophic loss. and john, rnc chairman reince priebus is reaching out to state gop leaders to see how serious block trump talks really are, but with 31 days before the republican convention in cleveland, they're running out of time and have no single alternative yet to trump. as for trump, he released a statement a short time ago saying any move to block him would be totally illegal and rebuke to the 14 million that voted for him in the primaries. john? >> jeff zeleny, thanks so much. donald trump did just take the stage now in texas. he says he is ready to run with or without backing of his party. and big question does loom over never trump circles, if not trump, who. joined by cnn politics anchor john king. i have to say in the last 24 hours, i heard more real concern

from republicans than i heard to date during the campaign. so there is real concern. the question, is there a real path to blocking donald trump at this point? >> john, we lived through the primaries. the stop trump movement failed. then never trump. would find a third party alternative. that failed. now dumb trump at the convention. as we speak tonight, it is a month away. odds are slightly better than winning powerball. that doesn't make it insignificant. these are serious people trying to do this. shows you the disaffection, disillusionment, fear among republicans. shawn spicer tweeting it is a media creation. he knows that's not the case. it is a republican creation, mostly by people that opposed trump in the primaries that couldn't beat him making a last ditch effort. odds are against them, he has an overwhelming delegate lead, but shows you trump had a hostile takeover of the republican party, a lot of people that got beat are still mad.

>> one in a million chance. you say there's a chance, that's the logic there. john, there are a lot of republicans that wish he would just act a certain way, they could fall in behind him. is there anyone that trump would listen to, any party elder that has influence? >> most party elders, not that they won't keep trying have given up he will listen. has a good friend, real estate tom barrett. reince priebus told mr. trump we cannot win without nonwhite voters. trump told him i get it, don't worry. then he says things that offend those very voters. speaker ryan talked to him about this, mcconnell talked to him about it. talk to them privately, people close to them, every tim he promises don't worry, i got it, collapses when the top campaign team says he will moderate, calibrate, might last one or two hours, then it is back to it.

they think they're stuck with him. going to try to ride it out. >> there's a new candidate on the trail soon, not for donald trump but in some ways in lieu of donald trump. george w. bush is planning to campaign for senate candidates, almost circumventing trump. what is this going to do? >> shows the level of disillusionment in the party. each of the key battleground straights, ohio, pennsylvania, new hampshire, each of those states trump's numbers dropped significantly. some cases precipitously. inside those states they're worried, even if rob portman runs a perfect campaign, if trump loses ohio by six or eight points, portman will be washed away. given the provocative, controversial nature of what trump says, republican candidates think bush can come

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>> we lost a great person, a caring person. i don't understand why god took him away. ♪ filled with such wonder ♪ >> that's my baby and i won't see him again. ♪ shouldn't decide how you will be treated. >> i come home and listen to salsa, he is right here. ♪

>> i'll never forget his name. i'll never forget what he did for me and my family. >> mother of 11. just super hero. ♪ ♪ >> he just loved life and he constantly went out of his way to make sure that everyone was having the best possible time and enjoying every adventure for the most it could give you in life. ♪ ♪

>> she had everything going for her, everything, perfect student. ♪ ♪ >> it's just love, no other word you could use to describe it. you were talking earlier, when they were together, no matter how many people were in the room, it was like one person was there. >> he was fun, he was happy. he was orlando's child. ♪ when i was young i would look in the mirror ♪ [woodworker] i live in the fine details.

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that does it for us from orlando. time for cnn tonight with don lemon. so what if the only people that could stop donald trump from getting the nomination got together and did? this is cnn tonight, i am don lemon. a group of gop deleg