weekend. >> huge haul. impressive. that's great. a real moment. >> it is. that's going to do it for us. thank you for joining us this morning. i'm rene marsh. >> the evidence is inc incontrovertible. >> the president is adamant he didn't collude. >> with someone like putin he is only together go stop when with. >> i think sit an absurd statement. absurd.

>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers around the united states and around the world. this is off. dave briggs joins me. good to have you. >> good to be here, my friend. >> the news doesn't know it's a holiday. let's get to our starting line. president trump lashing out in a tweet storm about the russia investigation. the president claims once again there was no collusion after robert mueller indicted 13. he appears more about vicinity indicating himself than addressing the threat the kremlin poses to the next

elections. he claims russia never meddled despite we have him numerous times on tape rejecting russian interference. and taking aim at the fbi claiming they were too distracted to pursue a specific lead about the high school massacre. the bureau knits they failed to investigate. they are intensifying their calls to do something about gun control. will they improve background checks for guns. a top donor said he will no longer contribute money to candidates who don't support an assault weapons ban. let's begin with kaitlan live in west palm beach. >> reporter: good morning, dave and alisyn. a weekend full of tweeting for the president in west palm beach.

he was mostly indoors because aides said it would be bad press if he were out too soon after the deadly school shooting. president trump lashing out about the russia investigation, unleashing a series of angry attacks that began with the president blaming his own fbi for the school massacre in florida that left 17 dead. mr. trump tweeting that the fbi missed signals because they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the campaign. >> i think it is an absurd statement. okay, absurd. >> so many folks in the fbi are doing all they can to keep us safe. the reality of it is they are two separate issues. >> the president should be staying out of law enforcement business. >> and ruben gallego said america will regret the day you were ever born.

and president trump going after h.r. mcmaster who said this at a security conference in germany about russia's interference in the 2016 election. >> as you can see with the fbi indictment, the evidence is now real reallycontrovertible. >> he said they were not impacted or changed by the russians, a conclusion that the intelligence community hasn't reached the president hasn't mentioned what if anything they are doing to prevent them from interfering in future elections. the president asserting that the russia probes are creating discord, disruption, and chaos rather than condemning russia. adding they are laughing their asses off in moscow. he also said he did not ma, he .

putin did not meddle in the election. and the obama administration could have done more. >> i have said all along i felt the obama administration should have done more. but none of that is an excuse for this president to sit on his hands. >> schiff challenging the president directly saying if mcmaster can stand up to putin, why can't you? insisting it proves there was no collusion between his campaign and russia despite the fact that mueller's investigation into potential collusion is ongoing. now, the president is heading back to washington to headlines from the l.a. times reporting

that the former campaign aide rick gates is expect to testify against paul manafort and will plead guilty to fraud-related charges within days, dave and alisyn. >> let's bring in kara cordero and john avlon. over the weekend he had a dozen tweets. the one we should talk about this he said i never said russia did not middle in the election. he doesn't know that we have videotape and long memories. i don't know which one to pick to prove that that's wrong. but here's a fun one. let's go with this.

proof the president should play more golf. 20 tweets saturday and sunday, it was a hot mess. let's get back to the

indictment. 13 russians indicted. three entities. what did it show? some call this the largest attack on our country since 9/11. >> well, this was a really big indictment. as you said, 13 russian nationals. it shows the special coup's team is willing to charge russian nationals, russian companies that were operating this against american democracy even if the team knows these kids probably will never actually stand trial in a u.s. court. and so what it shows, it demonstrates the the level of evidence that the united states government has assembled against these russian organizations and individuals. and it shows, i think, that it's more likely that in the future we might see more indictments and charges against individuals perhaps who were involved in the dn tkr hacking, in the podesta

hacking, the leaking of that conversation. if the team was willing to charge russian nationals and russian internationals in this, which was conspiracy to defraud the u.s. government, i think we're going to see more of the same. >> yeah. there's no indication that this was the end for mueller. there is an indication that this is the beginning or somewhere in the middle but not the end. listen, john, back to the tweet storm. there is an interesting back story what was happening that we should get into. maggie haberman has information, as well as cnn. mueller was pleased with the indictment because people in russia, 13 people he doesn't know. they're not connected to the trump campaign. in fact, they said no one wittingly on the trump campaign. so he saw that as good news. skpeplted to play golf. but he was counseled this would not be a good weekend to play golf when parkland, florida is a few miles away and they have

suffered this horrific school shooting. so he was inside and he was watching tv is the story. then he started hearing analysts and people saying in fact, this was not good news for the trump campaign. then he started getting more agitated and tweeting this stuff. >> yeah. look, we know the president is reactive to what he watches on tv, particularly one channel that has a tendency to give talking points to the worst angels of this nature.

but this is not a situation where the president should feel at all vindicated. this is part of a larger mueller investigation. this lays it out real clear for the american people. >> that was the word used by h.r. mcmaster. the evidence now is in kopbt vertible. does it have anything to do with vindicating the president? he said charges deal don a big win. did they? >> i don't think so. and here's why.

what the indictment charged was conspiracy to defraud the united states. that means if there are other americans involved in the political process were also conspireing or were assisting in some way or had knowledge, that conspiracy can actually broaden. so we don't know if there is that evidence yet because we haven't seen that revealed. but the way in which this document was crafted leaves open that possibility. i think also the president's tweets demonstrate he is terrified of this investigation. and he is either terrified of this investigation because there is some kind of evidence that

would implicate those close to him or those involved in his campaign, be or he is worried about this special counsel now with this indictment and the way that the deputy attorney general is conducting oversight of it, that this investigation is now on track and will not be derailed. whether that is financial aspects related to the campaign or the trump administration or whatever else it is that has his so concerned, it is on track and this train is continuing to run. >> yes. . i mean, look, that is one interpretation that he is terrified. and we have reporting that he is just very, very that he doesn't want people to think he had help in winning. he won't hear that. >> this is the small stuff. what are we going to do about it? how are we going to stop it in 2018 and beyond?

that we will address. john? >> we know there is no coordinated effort. they are trying to influence the '18 election. >> now we need to get to this story. the students are slamming the president for blaming the fbi and linking this tragedy somehow to the russia investigation. we have a live report on what the students are doing and saying next. to find my dream abode. -right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. stop. back up again. is this adequate sunlight for a komodo dragon? -yeah. -sure, i want that discount on car insurance just for owning a home, but i'm not compromising. -you're taking a shower? -water pressure's crucial, scott! it's like they say -- location, location, koi pond. -they don't say that.

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students who survived the massacre at that florida high school are slamming president trump, and they're also calling outlaw makers who take donations from the nra. rosa flores is live with more. what's the latest, rosa? >> reporter: alisyn, good morning. there is so much pain and so much emotion here after this massacre that surviving students are taking that energy and they're demanding gun control. and they're not afraid to call out politicians. even if that politician is the president of the united states. >> how dare you? children are dying and their blood is on your hands because of that >> reporter: survivors of last

week's massacre criticizing president trump for his inaction on gun control and voicing their outrage over the president trump's tweet. one student tweeting. 17 of my classmates are gone. but you're right. it always has to be about you. how sill cancer of me to forget. #neveragain. another writing, you are the president of the united states and you have the audacity to put this on russia as an excuse. i guess i should expect that from you. a person close to the killer told the bureau he was erratic, owned guns, had a desire to kill people, and potentially capable of conducting a school shooting. >> on behalf of myself and over 1,000 employees of the miami field office, we truly regret any additional pain this has caused. >> reporter: the parkland

community laying their loved ones to rest. aoe on motions running high. many students turning their grief into calls for action. >> politicians who sit in their guilded house and the senate seats telling us nothing ever could be done to prevent this, we call b.s. >> reporter: cnn also learns an investigation from the department of children and families raised behavioral concerns about the killer in september of 2016. including that he was on snapchat cutting both of his arms. having nazi symbols on his back back and wanted to purchase a gun for unknown reasons. according to the report, he had been diagnosed with autism, ad/hd, depression. a safety assessment ultimately determined the level of risk was low. these documents also show that the killer was cited in over 40 disciplinary incidents at school, including fighting,

profane language, assault, suspension. this new chilling surveillance captures the confessed killer walking calmly down the street minutes after the attack. the family that took in the killer telling the sun sentinel, we had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know. everything even seems to know, we didn't know. they say he followed every house rule but was depressed and took him to a therapist five days before the shooting. this allowed him to keep firearms in the family's locked safe. but they thought they had the only key. the president is expected to meet with state and local officials on thursday. he's also expected to host a listening session with students on wednesday. but at least two students have already told cnn they do not plan to attend. alisyn and dave, the other thing that's expected to happen at the

end of this week, according to the broward public schools, is that expected to allow teachers, staff, to go back into the school. not only are funerals happening and some of these victims being laid to rest, but some of the people inside when the massacre occurred are expected to go back inside. >> rosa, thank you very much. >> it will be a difficult time. they are passionate. they are determined. they are eloquent. we will talk to them in a moment. jimmy, you spent 25 years at the bureau, former special supervisory agent. if i'm a parent who lost a kid and i know the tip went to the fbi that said this kid might shoot up a school, what happened and how do you explain that to the school? >> you and i and alisyn were all down there in florida. the emotion, pain, grief, sorrow was unpalpable.

the news came in friday afternoon that the fbi had received a tip, an actionable lead. it had not been followed up on. it was a gut punch to us. those of us in law enforcement on the job now and retired, with take these things -- this is our worst nightmare. we take these things so seriously. the call came in january 5th on a public access line. that is either 800 number or 888 number. it would have come to the first level of triage. they would have looked at it. this had enough information that it should have been given to an agent. an agent would have screened it and sent it to an office of origin. because this was broward, it would have gone to miami. they are fallible human beings or whether it was systems failu failure, the fbi has to get to

the end of this. i laud director wray for getting out in front of this. my stomach is in knots who had to think about the parents who had to hear this on top of what happened. i trust we can find a way to make sure an error like this never happens again. >> 2,100 calls a day come in a day. it is a call center. sometimes the calls and they said i saw somebody at 7/11 that kind of looked like i saw on a wanted picture. but this one was specific. obviously something broke down at the call center. governor scott is calling for the fbi director chris wray to be fired over this. that is -- i don't know what adjective to use for how misplaced that is. >> often you hear republicans say let's not politicize a

tragedy talking about guns in the wake of these. rake scott is politicizing it by calling for director wray to step down. this is a horrific moment for the country, for the members of the fbi. there needs to be an inquest. pointing the finger at the fbi, as also the president did on twitter trying to say they were distracted from the russia investigati investigation. >> it has nothing to do with the call center. >> nothing. >> so let's be clear about that. the most moral authority and the most clarity are the kids. when is it the right day to talk about gun control in america if it's not the day after a gun shooting, how about march 24th. >> they are future voters. they are future voters. they are taking the bull by the horns here.

everything they're saying and what they plan to do. >> there are 180 congressional districts that have had mass shootings take place. there should be more political awareness and a sense of responsibility by congress. if only for political, if not moral reasons that we have seen. let's see if they finally get off their butts and do something. >> you have to talk about sandy hook. children were slaughtered. we did nothing. democrats were in control of the white house, the house, and the senate, nothing. vegas, no bump stock legislation. you have to consider the past when discussing the president. >> you do. a lot of folks look at sandy hook and say it shows we arie wm tent to do anything. it was bipartisan in the wake of the biggest shooting in vegas. congress waited until people forgot and you got crickets. >> it does feel like we're at a

tipping point. >> you have said that before. >> i have, except all of these kids are teenagers. so unlike the tragedy at sandy hook where they were little, little kids. now there's teenagers, future vote issers. this is florida, not a blue state. >> and it's gun country. >> it's gun country. despite all of that, these kids know what they want to do. march 24th when they have this national march, people will hear their voices. >> people will sit back and go there's nothing we can do and everybody retreats to their corners. folks struggle. listen, as i say all the time, i'm the perfect spokesperson because i'm a veteran, former law enforcement officer, gun owner, i have a concealed carry, a hunter. i'm the exact person that said we invented gun powder in 1700 a.d. the 1791, second amendment comes online. here we are in 2018 and we're hanging onto this and going we

just can't talk about this because if we do that, we're somehow going to take off the founding fathers. they could not envision that an 18-year-old kid can go in a gun store. he can't buy beer but you can buy a semiautomatic weapon, a weapon of war. you're wrong. it is not fully automatic. it has detachable magazines. we have to make sure they don't fall into the hands of somebody like this. >> if there was one positive opening, incident was senator lankford of california. that is major progress. >> there's more. there's also a big republican don donor, former rnc finance chair coming on our show. he raised $600 million for republican candidates and he's not going to do it anymore unless they get on board. cnn is hosting a live townhall this wednesday with students and

parents from parkland, florida, as well as several lawmakers stand up, the students of stone man douglas demand action. this is february 21st, 9:00 p.m. eastern. tune in for that. two student survivors whob "outfront" demanding action from lawmakers and the president. on a lighter note, usa women's hockey cruising into the gold medal game. all the details in the "bleacher report" next. ♪

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the u.s. women's hockey team is back in the gold medal game for the third straight winter olympics. coy wire has highlights from south korea. exciting, coy. >> reporter: good morning to you, alisyn. or good night here from pyeongchang. the thing that jumped out to me, four out of the five goals scored by former university of

minnesota golden gophers. the gophers gone wild. hillary knight was the only nonformer gopher goal for the americans. they will face the winner of canada verses the olympic athletes from russia. u.s. looking to capture their first goal since 1998. listen to this story. 13 days after an emergency appendectomy, american bobsledder did the unimaginable. he pushed an 800 pound bobsled down with his teammate. just three days after arriving. he had surgery. he thought he wouldn't be able to compete in the games. olsen is tough. he's back. now your medal count.

norway leading with 26. germany in second with 18. canada, 16. and the usa, dave, still outside the top five with 10 medals overall despite having a record number of winter olympians here in south korea. >> going to need a late push in pyeongchang. coy wire, thank you, my friend. appreciate it. coming up, president trump lashing out at pretty much everyone over russian election meddling, everyone, that is, except russia. a former u.s. ambassador to russia joining us now. when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue... and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum tum tum tum... smoothies... only from tums

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hillary victory and seeing if they could undermine her relationship. others say it could be he evidence of the fact that there is a russian hold on president trump. they thinks thou protests too much from shakes peer is relevant here. otherwise why do we have 20 tweets. all of that is going on. and that is real. those who looked at the indictment and other things say, well, there isn't a direct connection with the russian government. but that is both hard to assume that things go on of this nature with russia where the russian government is not involved. the old saying the absence of evidence is not the evidence of an is sense in this particular issue. there is something clearly i think there in that regard. and so as we look at this i think there's an old formula

that should apply here. i think that those who say keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer might have some el advance here. because the relationship with russia has really gone to the bottom. that relationship is difficult and trying. the polarization of the u.s. feeling on that relationship is real. and i think it is in reaction to the situation. if that's what the russians intended they have it now in spades. but i don't think it is good for world security and good for the future of u.s./russia relationships. and we ought to think very carefully about that. unfortunately we have a president who doesn't seem to be able to do anything about it. >> that latest characterization was poor, according to rex tillerson. here's what the president's only national security adviser said. listen. >> as you can see with the fbi indictment the evidence is now

incontrovertible and available in the public domain. this is in the arena of a law enforcement investigation, it will be very apparent to everyone. the second reason where i think russia may reevaluate what it's been doing is because it's just not working. >> all right. we'll discuss the not working part in a moment. but he said it is you refutable to everyone. maybe not the president because the president then tweeted about that. general mcmaster forgot to say that the results on the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians and that only collusion was between russia and crooked h. and he goes on and on. you mentioned the 20 tweets of the weekend. 12 were about russia. what was missing in those 12 tweets? >> the recognition of the fact that russia was deeply involved, although he's begun to shift his line on that. and that in fact, we have

perhaps much more attention paid to his views that there was no collusion than any normal person i think would take on at this particular time. and the final point is secretary tillerson was right that russian realizes aren't good. in fact, i think they're worse today. and i'm sure that's an unintended consequence. in the end, neither country profits from having a relation of tension confrontation and indeed accident prone relationship which could lead to serious problems, and we need to be aware of that. >> these 36, 37 pages are not about collusion, not about the president, not about the dnc hack or any of that subject matter. but is there anything that you have seen that would suggest russia will stop doing this? is there anything that would prevent them from coming back in 2018 in the midterms in. >> russia is not going to be assailed by feelings of moral responsibility but any means. intelligence agencies are designed to try to exploit these

kinds of weaknesses. they do it all the time. we need to tighten up our capacity to protect our activities whether they are public later or not, imitations of hillary clinton during the election campaign, attacks to divide american groups one from another are serious and they are very important. and we seem to be flowing into a trap here a little bit of our own making with these divisions that exist in the united states and the in ability of our own people to find awe way to reach across the political divides. that seems to be almost a no-no in washington. to me that is very, very serious. a friend and i did a piece for the "new york times" over the weekend on george washington's birthday pointing out how george washington quite aptly and quite clearly pointed out this danger to our country 240 years ago now and we are still living with that and seem to be paying no

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politicians sit in their guilded house and senate seats telling us there could have been nothing done to prevent this. we call b.s. >> survivors in the marjory stoneman douglas high school are mobilizing with a message for elected officials, enough is enough. the students there are demanding lawmakers take action on gun control so students can be safe at school. two of those students who you will recognize and join us now. guys it is so great to have you back on the show. emma, that clip we just played, that has been viewed as of this morning about 20 million times. cnn posted it on our facebook

page 20 million times around the world. people have clicked on that because they are so interested in what you have to say. to senator marco rubio who said after this shooting, you can pass the law but you will still have these horrible attacks, what do you say to him? >> i say to that that even though -- they say that criminals get guns no matter what laws you have to place. that might be true. but we don't have to encourage them to get those guns. we can make it harder, absolutely make it harder. and we can prevent some seriously nasty crimes and some seriously indescribable tragedies from occurring. and if somebody doesn't want to do that at this point, that's pathetic. >> i would say you can't work through divisions. it is absolutely terrifying the fact that he immediately got up and started to talk about how gun control is not the solution.

every answer is the solution at this point because we haven't tried any of them. we need a multi-faceted approach to this extremely complex program. because if we don't have that, this will never come to an end. >> the president tweeted very sad that the fbi missed all the many signals sent out by the tpl school shooter. this is not acceptable. they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion. get back to the basics. >> i think it is disgusting. my father is ex fbi. he they work every day 24/7 to especially sure the lives of every single american in this country. it is wrong. after all, he is in charge of the fbi. he can't put that off on them. he is in charge of them. these people, what they love to do is push this off on the bureaucracy and say it is not him. he is in charge of the fbi. that's one of the executive branches. it is supposed to enforce laws.

as such, president trump is in charge of that and the fbi. >> and i do want to reiterate fbi were some of the amazing first responders helping us get to safety. and the fact that he wants to discredit them in any way and trying to shift our focus onto them -- >> it's disgusting. >> -- is not acceptable. >> i appreciate that they are the first responders and they go in to dangerous situations. he said he will have a listening session on wednesday with the students. have either of you been invited? >> i believe we have been invited but neither of us are going. we have a preset townhall that we will be attending. >> it is on cnn with jake tapper. >> so you have already committed to that. so you will be doing that. >> from the beginning, yes. >> guys, tell me what's going to happen march 24th with your plan for a big march on washington. what's your vision?

>> my vision is being it from space. this is going to be enormous. i know the word has spread wide and far but i hope we can spread it even farther by that point. i know that's going to be indescribable. >> we have to. we can't stop. these special interest groups are never going to. if we don't stop and we make our voices heard as an american public together, if we make our voices heard as app american public together, we are going to have to do that if we ever want to overcome this horrible tragedy. >> so what do you say to the nra? >> disband, dismantle. >> and don't make another organization. >> don't you dare come back here. the fact that you were in power for so long and that you had so

much influence for so long in america goes to show how much time and effort we still need to spend on fixing our country. >> absolutely. >> and gun control is just the first thing right now. the first thing we are mainly focusing on. >> i don't have to tell you guys that they give millions of dollars to politicians. they have a very powerful tool. how do you expect politicians who need money to keep running for office to say no to the nra? >> because we keep telling them if they accept this blood money they are against the children. they are against the people who are dying. and that is -- there's no other way to put it at this point. you're either funding the killers or you're standing with the children. the children who have no money. we don't have jobs. so we can't pay for your campaign. we hope you would have the decent morality to support us at

this point. >> and not take money who want to keep lessening gun legislation and making it easier for these horrifying to get guns. if you can't get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you run something. >> guys, are you going to be able to go back to school this week or next week? are you going back into the building where this happened? >> well, first of all, the freshman building is being torn down. but the rest of the school is staying up. and as soon as we can we are going to go back into the school. as soon as they say school is on monday, i'm going to be there i'm pretty sure. unless i have interviews -- unless we have interviews or somewhere to be, we are going to be at school with the people who need us. we need to stand with our peers. we haven't had time to stand with our peers through all of this we have been working so hard. >>