domestic violence. were you violent with him? what's your response? >> i was violent with him and like i've told every reporter who's contacted me, i stand by every statement i made to the "the washington post." he called me a very vulgar term that i think that most women in america would probably slap a stranger if she was called that word in a bar. he called me that. i slapped him and he said, look, see, you're violent. kind of smirked at me. i said, no one would call me that name in a bar, no stranger, definitely not my husband. if you call a woman that name, you should expect to be slapped. i told him that. >> and you have said that. >> and that is the extent of the physical violence. that's why i moved on. >> you punched him in the face repeatedly he says. the way his story is is that he was receiving constant punches in the face, multiple punches. did that happen? >> i can answer that and probably your next question in one thing.

it said there were no witnesses or any one who can verify my claim. "the washington post" did speak with a number of people who can verify my claims but they did so off the record out of fear of political retribution. it's one of those reasons i sing from the rooftop this is why women cannot speak up. about the punching on the face incident, i actually was on the phone with a friend a couple of days ago who that story isn't untrue but it's a story that we heard secondhand from friends of ours and like i said, this isn't about revenge and i'm not going to pull innocent parties' names in to this nasty debate on national television, but there are a lot oftivitied half truths and very much -- >> listen -- >> just the way the truth is completely presented and twisted in that statement. that's consider i've been declining to respond to it because those are the manipulation and the lies that i had to spend three years

escaping my marriage and it was the hardest thing i ever did and i've told every reporter very respectfully, i'm only here to talk about relationship violence, how it happens, how it it happens in fron of our faces. why women don't speak up? i don't have any interest in hashing out the fee lashs details of our divorce. whatever he says, he says. >> understood and we appreciate you coming on to highlight how complicated all of this is and how scary it is for people to come forward and talk about domestic violence and of course we're all have this national conversation because now this happened twice in the white house. jessica corbett, thank you for sharing your very personal story of your former marriage with us. thank you. >> thank you for having me on. >> following a lot of news this morning so let's get right to it. good morning, everyone.

welcome to your "new day." we're title in transitions right thousand. monday, february 19th. chris is off this morning. dave briggs joins me. >> whatever. >> president trump lashing out with a twitter rant about the russia investigation. the president claims once again there was no collusion after robert mueller's indictments against 13 russian nationals who meddle in the 2016 election. the president falsely claims that he never challenged the fact that russia meddled in the 2016 election despite the fact that he has repeatedly rejected the notion of russian interference. >> the president taking aim at the fbi suggesting they were too distracted by the russia probe to pursue a lead about the florida massacre killer. survivors of the attack are slamming the president's response and ramping up pressure on congress to do something about gun criminal. let's bring with caitlin collins live in west palm beach, florida.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning, dave. it was a weekend full of tweeting for the president here in west palm beach as he spent most of his time indoors after aides advised him that it would be in poor taste to go golfing so soon and so close to that tragic shooting in parkland, florida. instead we got to watch in realtime as the president's rage only intensified over this growing russia probe. 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 trump campaign. the charge prompting criticism from a number of republicans. >> i think it's an absurd statement, okay. absurd. >> so many folks in the fbi are doing all that they can to keep us safe. the reality of it is that they are two separate issues.

>> the president should be staying out of law enforcement business. >> democratic congressman rubin gallego calling the president a psychopath. america will regret the day you were ever born. president trump also going after his own national security adviser, 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 really incontrovertible. >> reporter: mr. trump publicly scolding mcmaster saying he forgot so say that the results were not impacted by the russians. a conclusion that the intelligence community hasn't reached. the president has not mentioned what, if anything, his administration is doing to retaliate against russia or to prevent them from interfering in future elections. the president asserting that the russia probe are creating chaos rather than condemning russia. they are laughing their asses

off in moscow. falsely claiming that he never said russia did not meddle in the election despite multiple statements that prove otherwise including remarks board air force one when he says he believes vladimir putin when he says that russia did not meadow in the election. mr. trump sarcastically praising democratic adam schiff saying the obama administration could have taken a stronger stance against russia insulting him calling him little and leaking monster of no control. >> this is a president who claims vindication any time someone sneezes. i've said all along the obama administration should have done more. none of that is an excuse for this president to sit on his hands. >> reporter: the president insisting special counsel robert mueller's indictment of 13 russians and three russian entities for attempting to sway the elegislation vindicates him and saying 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 heads back to washington this afternoon with a stunning headline from the l.a. times that that former campaign aid rick gates has agreed to testify against the former campaign chairman paul manafort and is also expected to plead guilty to fraud related charges within days. >> thank you very much for all of that. let's discuss everything. we want to bring in phil mudd and jonathan martin. >> so let's talk about the president saying that he never said jonathan, that -- i don't even know where to begin. he said that as you know many times that he doesn't believe there was any russian meddling. he's called it a hoax. >> witch hunt. >> witch hunt, et cetera. but now he's saying that he never actually said that but so let's just remind people for the record that we have him on video tape saying that.

here it is. >> but i notice any time anything wrong happens they like to say the russians. she doesn't know if it's the russians. maybe there is no hacking. >> i know a lot about hacking and hacking is a very hard thing to prove so it could be somebody else. >> when i said there is i believe he believes that and that's very important for somebody to believe. i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. >> that last one, the he he's talking about is vladimir putin. he was believing vladimir putin's denial over his own intel agency. >> the famous tweet where he floated the joint cyber intelligence with russia -- >> yes, yes exactly. >> i think for two plus years now during the campaign up through now, the president has basically tried to run as something of a dove on russia. he's not been the contra digsal conservative hawk toward russia. he wanted to get along with putin. he said it time and time again. that's why he sounded these

notes over and over again he wanted to have a good relationship with putin. >> he also didn't want any suggestion that he had had any help in winning. he wanted that win to be completely his. he really bristled it. in this indictment it does go further than we had known where it says that all of these fake facebook posts and social media accounts did stir up all of these messages that did end up resonating with voters. >> that's absolutely true. the fact is he's very sensitive to this day about these questions, the reason why he has not challenged putin and made a tough statement about what they did during our election is because he believes if he does so, that will basically echo the suggestion that his win was ill legitimate. the russians tried to suppress hillary clinton's vote especially with black voters by, a, advocating for jill stein who is the green party nominee who

took crucial votes in a handful of other states and secondly by urging folks to stay at home all together which, by the way, which was as important as the stein vote, the folks who didn't show up to vote at all in 2016. >> jill stein the one who sat at the same table at vladimir putin and michael flynn and twitter pointed that out. phil mudd, the president has tweeted 12 times since this indictment came out. no pushback to russia. what would you like to have seen from your president with proof that we were attacked, that our election system, that our democracy was attacked? >> the president has a responsibility not to protect himself but to protect us. he seems to believe that if something criminal puns his victory, something impunes his character for example, that his campaign cooperated with the russians than that's more important than protecting us. the comment, as commander-in-chief of this country my primary responsibility is protecting the american people. i will do a few things at least

three things to accomplish that. i will speak to the american people in advance of 2018 and 2020 elections to tell them how to protect themselves. number two, i will speak bluntly to the russians to tell them to stop this and i'll speak to congress to figure out how to be tougher on the russians and point three i will tell my national security adviser to bring everybody from the cia to the fbi to the federal election commission in to figure out how with we have a one government approach to protecting polling stations during elections. it's not that hard. it's just not that hard. >> it shouldn't be. >> phil, i want to get to what happened in parkland, florida, because obviously everybody still dealing with the very raw aftermath there. we now know that the fbi -- a lot of people missed things. the signals were abundant about this guy and the fbi, we now learned that a very specific call came in to a call center that said that this kid was at risk for becoming a school shooter, that he had stated that he wanted to become a school shooter. there was some disconnect

between the call center that gets 2,100 calls a day we should say and the miami field office that could have dispatched somebody to go and interview this kid or arrest him or something. what do you think about the fbi's role? >> i've talked to fbi officials after that, people who are out of the business like i am now in and police officers. this is a rare moment on "new day." i don't have an answer and my friends don't have an answer. if you look at what you might do as an initial step for example, the quick check to determine whether this guy was already in the fbi records, he was. this is his second phone call. you could've quickly checked social media to say is he posting stuff about violence? he was. i'm not suggesting you had to go to the lengths to listen to his phone calls. the stuff was out there. that said, we're not taking the next step and this is why this conversation has to be part of the fbi and why i blame the congress for saying they're going to have hearings of the fbi. if the fbi visits his house and he says i was just ticked off that day, i'm sorry i didn't mean it, what are they supposed

to do? >> i don't know. >> this is a conversation about the fbi, about mental health. that's what i'm saying. the hearing should be on how do we prevent 17 american citizens, 17 human beings from dying and i think some politicians are viewing this as a parachute out to focus on the fbi instead of saying that's part of a broader problem in america. >> it's a fascinating political moment, here, if i could. typically the gop has tried to establish itself as the party of the cops. we stand with the cops. the democrats, the ones who criticize -- he's a president of law and order but this is squeezing the right. it's creating tensions between their impulses. the other impulse we push back against any gun control laws whatsoever when you do that, though, you have to look for an excuse for why this is happening besides guns and the excuse now is blaming it on the cops. that creates some tensions wen their impulses of how to respond to this kind of stuff. >> on gun legislation it appears this conversations being led by

children, by these kids at this school who are passionate, who are eloquent, who are determined to do something. there was some glimmer of hope sunday on meet the press when james lankford from oklahoma said this about gun control. listen. >> that is the first thing of multiple things that need to be done. that is fixing our background check system to make sure that all information's actually getting in there. we have a lot of warning signs that were out there and people in parkland and all across the country have every reason to be grieved and furious. social services was in this home more than 20 times, expelled from school, posted online. went into a school shooting, warned the fbi. this person was dangerous and nothing was done. >> all right. so is there some hope on background checks? >> i think it's reasonable to think that if you've got the comments like that from a conservative from oklahoma, certainly a red state that you could see some changes made to

background checks but i think it's going to be incremental probably at best. it's going to be the kind of thing that you can find bipartisan consensus. this is a congress that can't find much agreement on anything at all and this is a very contentious issue. i think it's possible to do background checks. the issue is this, is that these episodes in the past have happened and weeks after there is a push to pass some kind of law. as time goes on that kind of fades and the question, once again is, does this energy from these kids keep up a month from now, two months from now? >> we do know that it will keep up till march 24th because that's when they're planning to march on washington and last, phil, it's just the president is saying a couple different things. he's sort of saying that the fbi was too consumed with the russia investigation to focus on what they need to be focused on. we also hear from according to

npr and fox that the president would support a expanded background checks if this bipartisan bill happens. ten seconds, phil. very quickly your final thoughts. >> i do think there will be incremental progress. i don't think it will be huge. as for what the president says, this was not a report on the campaign. it was a report on 13 russians and a few entities. this party's not over yet. >> okay. phil, jonathan, thank you both very much. >> thank you. president trump has yet to say how his administration is combatting any future threats of election meddling from russia. does the president take it seriously enough? we discuss with republican congressman charlie dent next. we're facing 20 billion security events every day. ddos campaigns, ransomware, malware attacks... actually, we just handled all the priority threats. you did that? we did that. really. we analyzed millions of articles and reports. we can identify threats 50% faster. you can do that? we can do that. then do that.

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ready to let go of hep c? ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. survivors are demanding action on gun control from president trump and congress. joining us now charlie dent of pennsylvania who's retiring from congress and a member of the house committee of appropriations. good to see you, congressman. >> great to be with you this morning. >> we've been down this road before, haven't we? sandy hook was an astonishing attack on children and we were certain that there would be something done on background checks, on assault weapons, something, anything. then came vegas. bump stocks. there was universal agreements that these had to be banned. why do you feel this time could be any different? why should the american people

believe that? >> i do believe people are -- i think they've had enough of this. we saw las vegas earlier this year. we all learned about something called the bump stock. i had never known what a bump stock was prior to las vegas. i do now and i support the legislation to ban the bump stock. certainly we need to enhance background checks on private sales. that was the so-called toomey proposal that would also further refine the instant check system to make sure more data is being inputted into the system. we also have had proposals too from senator collins on the no fly list making sure that any person on that list shouldn't be able to purchase a firearm with due process. there are things we can do and should do. i'm not saying any of these proposals by themselves would have prevented any of these terrible attacks but they're good policy. >> if you could pull back the curtain a little bit and share with us, what happens, how does this fail each and every time?

is it as simple as saying the nra is just too powerful and people can't say no to their donations? >> i don't think so. by the way, i think the issue with the nra is the nra's real power is in their members more than money. that's been my view. they have lots of members all around the country and that's what makes them pretty strong but that said, i can't speak as to why leadership does not want to permit a vote on this in the house. i felt for some time that i've been advocating for this ban on the bump stocks and certainly enhancing background heck's for private sales like he we do in pennsylvania. pennsylvania is a pretty pro-gun right state. we do background checks on pistols. we voted for it. we were able at that time to bring together the nra and gun control groups and law enforcement to agree. today in washington, it's hard to do -- it's getting increasingly difficult to do

incremental bipartisan changes on controversial issues. it shouldn't be this difficult. >> you bring up a good point about the nra and people in pennsylvania. there are millions of americans who are responsible and educated gun owners that do not want these weapons, these assault weapons in the hands of 18, 19-year-old kids. but let's talk about the expanded background checks because james lankford on meet the press yesterday says he is open to more work on expanded background checks and we can confirm the president himself is in favor of that. are you at all optimistic on some work of expanded background checks? >> well, dave, i certainly hope so. i think most of us have a good idea what the policy should be, again, background checks on private sales that we could also talk about making sure that after the one texas shooting with that one individual had been -- he had been convicted i guess in the military court of justice, the air force, but that information wasn't transmitted to the system and on the men tal

health side too, sometimes mental health care practitioners are reluctant to share information with the database out of fear of lawsuit under hipaa. there are things we can do to tighten this up and it's long past due. >> your thoughts real quickly on this ar-15 style rifle. should 18 year old kids be able to purchase those across this country? >> i guess the issue is handgun purchases are 21 and long guns are 18. maybe we ought to revisit that law, maybe we ought to make that consistent. make everybody -- make all purchases 21 years of age as opposed to 18 or at least for those types of semi-automatics. maybe a 12 gauge shotgun, an 18-year-old could buy one but maybe not the ar-15. >> i want to get your thoughts on the russia investigation, this 36 page indictment which

came down on friday and adding 13 russian nationals, three russian entities, the president has been very busy reacting to that 12 tweets just about this indictment. but none pushing back on russia, none suggesting how we might punish them or prevent it from happening again in 2018. what do you make of his reaction? >> well, look, the russians meddling in our election is well-known. we've known this for over a year. the debate as to how much -- we don't have any evidence the russia's actually manipulated any kind of tabulation of votes. they've been involved. i think the president has been very soft on russia. his rhetoric, he's been very accommodating to vladimir putin when he should be much more forceful and direct and denouncing russia that wants to undermine american power and influence anywhere in the world. it's trying to break up nato and they're acting in directly in

opposite of what our interests are around the world, and i believe it's time that this administration step up and start fighting fire with fire. we can engage in cyber information warfare too. maybe we should be sharing with the russian people the corrupt nature of the russian regime and how they've all profited. we should be playing much more aggressively in this space so i can't understand why the president seems to be at a different place than many of his national security team who are much more conventional in their view toward russia as a threat. >> so what can and will congress do to make sure the president implements these sanctions? new sanctions to punish russia? >> that's a tough question. i was one of the folks who have been strongly supportive of this greater sanctions against the russians for their very bad behavior. right now i believe it's really on the president, it's on the president to stand up and call out the russians once and for all and say we are going to

respond in kind. that's what vladimir putin understands. that man sees an open door and he will just walk through it and he continues to walk through those only doors. i can't for the life of me understand why the president is so reluctant to pushback much harder on the russians. it seems like his team, his national security team is more than ready to do so. the president needs to unleash them. >> chuck grassley said something similar on twitter. we appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. so dave, what concrete steps will lawmakers in florida take on gun violence? next, very important segment. we have two flax congressman, one democrat and one republican, is there any common ground they can find? we find out next. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden

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survivors of the marjory stoneman douglas high school massacre in florida are speaking out against president trump and lawmakers who take money from the nra and demanding action to stop school shootings. two of them joined us earlier on

"new day." >> 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 are standing with the children. >> if you can't get elected without taking money from child murderers, why are you running? >> this outrage has inspired people across the country to take a stand including this man, scott danny popalardo, he says he legally owns that ar-15 but he decided to post this video on facebook showing him sawing that gun in half. >> on the back of my head, i say, what if one -- whoever buys this weapon, their child gets hold of it and brings it to school one day and shoots a bunch of people. can i live with that?

and i don't think i could. so i've decided today i'm going to make sure this weapon will never be able to take a life the barrel of this gun will never be pointed at someone. >> that video has been viewed more than close to 5 million times. he says his right to own the weapon is not as important as someone's life. so, let's bring in now democratic congressman ted deutsch of florida, parkland. he is -- parkland is part of his congressional district and we really appreciate you both coming on together because this is what it's going to take, right? a bipartisan effort. so we appreciate both of you being here to figure out if there is any common ground. congressman car bello, you're a republican, this is probably harder for you to talk about. what do you think, name the one piece of common ground that you think you can find with your

democratic counterpart? >> thank you, alisyn, good morning and the truth is it's not hard for me because it's the right thing to do. we should all be inspired by all the young people who are reacting to this tragedy with love and desire to get something done and that's what i be want to do and i think there is a lot of common ground and every day there's more. i've been talking to a lot of colleagues both republican and democrat in the last few days and there is a growing sense that something has to be done. some areas where there is a lot of room for common ground is, for example, why is an 18-year-old, a 19-year-old not allowed to purchase a beer at a restaurant, not allowed to purchase a handgun, but can purchase an assault rifle, that makes no sense. that is something that should definitely change. >> okay. so let's start there. you would have the age limit -- the minimum age raised to what, 21? >> definitely. definitely. i think that is a common sense.

something else we should do, i'm backing legislation now to expand background checks so that every transfer of a weapon has to be run through the background check system. we also have to strengthen the background check system because we know there have been failures there and hold the fbi accountable and make sure that threat assessment teams are paying attention to the tips that they're getting because this tragedy could have, it seems, could have been prevented had the fbi paid attention to two different tips they received. >> okay. congressman deutsch, it does sound like there's common ground including this reporting that we just had the white house has just confirmed to cnn that president trump also supports expanded background checks. so this seems like there's at least two points here, what's your response? >> well, then, we should be done talking about this and these should be passed and signed into law next week when we're back in washington. look, i'm introducing

legislation this week. it sounds like my representative will join in to make sure that you have to be 21 to buy any kind of gun, not just a handgun but rifles as well. we ought to do that right now. the universal background checks we ought to do right now. banning bump stocks we ought to get done immediately, all of those things can happen. here's the thing, i appreciate that carlos supports that, i appreciate that there is at least some indication that the president might be willing, but ultimately paul ryan and mitch mcconnell have to be willing to do this and i think people -- members of congress, republican members of congress, republican senators who think this is the right thing to do ought to vow that they're not going to support their leader, they should be done roting for paul ryan unless he's willing to stand on the side of the victims, the families, the kids, the students from stowman douglas which is right behind me who don't view this as something that should be done at some point in the future. it's got to get done now and

then we've got to have the debate and move forward on banning assault rifles like they were until 2004. >> how about that? do you still support your leaders? >> so, alisyn, two things, number one, ted can put me down on his legislation right now. i will add my name to it as soon as he is ready to file it. number two, i have already talked to speaker ryan about allowing the house to debate and consider legislation of this nature and, by the way, i want to thank the speaker because he was receptive. we had a good conversation -- >> is he going to do it? >> did he commit to doing it? >> i also want to stop him for stopping in broward county yesterday and meeting with some of the people who responded to this tragedy. the speaker did say that he was interested in getting something done. now i'm not going to reveal all the details of our conversation, but the speaker is interested in responding to these incidents. he knows that we have a lot of work to do, not just on the gun

side of this discussion but also on mental health, also on making sure law enforcement is doing a better job. >> go ahead, congressman. >> alisyn, there's not a lot of work to do. that excuse is so tired. there's not a lot of work to do. the legislation for universal background checks, the legislation that says if you're too dangerous to get on a plane you shouldn't buy a gun, the legislation to raise the age is introduced this week. all of those will be ready to come to the floor next week. i don't want to hear that it's hard or we'll talk about it at some point and he's committed and engaging in a conversation and eventually having a vote. we should be voting on these things next week and he should come before the cameras and explain if he's not prepared to do that, consider won't he let that happen and then he should be prepared to have the debate that we need to have about banning assault rifles so that the kind of weapon that's used in mass shooting after mass shooting like the one that took place right behind me that slaughtered 17 of my constituents so that that never happens again. >> so congressman, i understand

the speaker is interested. i understand everybody's interested and it's easy to say they're interested and i don't doubt that they're interested but do you you sense that there will be something that happens this week in terms of action, in terms of taking a vote? >> i think that republican leadership is starting to realize that americans aren't going to accept that this is the new normal. americans aren't going to accept that we may drop off our kids at school one day and that they may not come home because someone slaughtered them. so i cannot speak to a timeline. that's not my decision. but i know that they're aware that something has to be done. i've had very productive conversations and whatever we do is going to have to be done in a bipartisan manner in order for anything meaningful to happen unless one party controls 60 votes in the senate, a majority in the house and the white house, it is going to have to be done in a bipartisan manner and what i would propose that rather

than pointing the finger, yelling at each other on television, what the american people want to see right now is that leaders are working together trying to find a way forward and that's what i'm committed to. i'm willing to work with ted or with anyone else who is willing to sit down at the table and figure this out in a constructive way because action is what we need not attacks. >> go ahead, congressman deutsch. >> i completely and i welcome -- i welcome carlos's involvement in what is a movement. i talked to one wf these high school students this morning who views this, knows this is a movement and to all of those who say that this shouldn't be politicized, you bet this is politics. politics is raising your voice. politics is driving debate. politics is bringing about change. that's what the leaders of this movement, these young people, these young adults who have now aged far beyond their years because of what they've endured,

that's what they're demanding and it is not enough to say that we need to start having conversations. the time for conversations is over. the time for action is now. >> all right. gentlemen, on that note, it sounds like we have reached some common ground and we will be very interested to see if congress does move forward these plans to raise the age limit and for expanded background checks. thank you, both. >> thank you, alisyn. >> thank you, alisyn. >> he'll continue this conversation because cnn is going to host a live town hall this wednesday with so many of those students that you've heard from and their parents from parkland, florida, as well as several lawmakers, senator marco rubio says he's in. jake tapper will moderate, the stand up:the students of marjory stoneman douglas demand action. town hall wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> top republican donors taking action against gun violence by

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a top republican donor says he will stop writing checks for candidates and political groups that oppose banning assault weapons. al hoffman jr. has raised millions of dollars in campaign contributions. he was the lead fund raiser for george w. bush's campaigns and he has now reached out to a half

dozen republican leaders including florida governor rick scott about this. he joins us now, mr. hoffman, thank you for being here. >> you're very welcome. >> so what -- what was the tipping point for you? was it this parkland school shooting? was that what made you decide to close your wallet? >> i was actually watching tv when the shooting was developing and the more i heard about it, my heart just dropped into my stomach and i was terrified. for years i was the leading developer of parkland community, my company, wci, i built every is thousands homes there, built the clubs, retirement communities -- >> you know these folks? >> oh, i know a number of them. i was there when the high school was finished and dedicated. but then what i was so terrified what might happen. what if it was my children, my grandchildren. i was picking them up from school. i have children very close from there. i have an affinity for parkland

i only year about an hour away. >> of course it's personal to you. let me ask you this, whaz what has governor rick scott said about you saying you're going to dry up the campaign contributions? >> well, well, you know a good friend of mine finally said to me, why don't you hold up your money and refuse to write a check until they endorse your concept of banning assault weapons which is exactly what they are. this event could have been avoided prevented if we had done something like that in parkland. and think about it. there's got to be a crazy out there some where that's ready for another mass shooting. >> of course. >> can't wait -- >> this is our normal. i'm just curious. since governor rick scott has called for, you know, the director of the fbi to -- he's not talking about guns. he's talking about change at the fbi. so what did he say when you proposed this to him? >> you know, i'm a good friend of rick scott's. i love him deer. i'm a conservative republican.

i want him to win reelection. i want him to win as a senator. i expect to talk with him in the coming days. i have not talked with him about this particular incident. but he said that all options are on the table, i believe, and i really want to try to persuade him to adopt this principle that your two representatives just on carlos and deutsch, they are in line and i think that there's a movement coming. we ought to take a good look at what connecticut is doing right now and the state of florida better get with it and pass this assault weapons ban. >> i hear you and absolutely connecticut can be a role model for what they did after newtown. you've helped raise $600 million for republicans. that's an eyebrow raising number, but just to be -- let me finish this. the nra raises a lot of money -- i should say contributes a lot of money to republicans. 30 million to president trump's campaign, 50 million in high profile senate races. so do you worry they'll get the

money some where else even if your coffers dry up? >> i don't care what the nra is doing. this is not about the nra. this is really about well minded people who have valued and principals to be able to persuade other candidates running for office to ban these assault weapons. that's all they are. they need to be banned. i'm going to work toward that. so, yes, i was republican finance chairman under george w. bush for the 2000 election and the reelection. we did raise over $600 million in those cycles, well over that. >> i know. >> but now i intend to contact every single republican donor that i have in my little rolodex file here and i want to persuade them to hold up their check to their candidates until we can come around and create a movement here that does the right thing. it's important that we do that and it's for the children. it's not for anybody else but

the children. that's what i want to do it for. >> we understand and that's a really ambitious goal. what do you think your other republican donors will say to you when you call and tell them to shut their wallets until this happens? >> look, i've had hundreds of tweets already since this incident and since i wrote the article for alex byrnes and but the majority of them, vast majority of them are in favor of this concept. i believe that the republican majority can create a movement here and do the right thing and i believe that we can do it for america. i'm a conservative republican. i always was and i always will be but i think we can be socially correct here and do the right thing. that's all i'm talking about. >> al hoffman, jr. we like your optimism. thank you very much for coming on "new day" to explain your plan to us. >> you're very welcome. all right. the good stuff is next. stick around.

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ageless time now for the good stuff. elderly man from wyoming using his spare time to make a difference. elmer coke is a 92-year-old volunteer meals on wheels. he hops in the car every day to visit meals to the homebound residence, why? >> it could possibly be your church upbringing, you know, in church, both to help your neighbor. >> he says sure he could use the time for himself but why do that when you can help other people. >> as long as i've got driver's license and are able to get around, i enjoy doing it. >> oh, my gosh, what a gate

story. 92, look at how able he is. >> sounds like a good lesson for us, more volunteering. >> there is a teachable moment in there for us, you're right. dave, thanks so much for being here. >> great to be here on president's day, my friend. >> great to work with you. time for cnn "newsroom" with john berman. good morning, everyone. skrb here this morning. president trump has a message for jiks, no he can't handle the truth, at least not the truth as determined by the intelligence agency, the special counsel and his own national security adviser, the truth that russia meddled and attempted to disrupt the 2016 election. the evidence that the president can handle it, a tring of official statements lashing out about just any one and anything after robert mueller handed up indictments for 13 russian individuals and three companies for ultimately trying