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complete completely reu dick louse. >> as long as we allow nra to dictate policy, we're going to have this issue. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it is friday, february 23rd, 6:00 here in new york. chris is on assignment this morning. john berman joins me. happy friday. >> happy friday. >> great to have you. a major development in the investigation of the florida high school massacre. broward county sheriff says he is devastated and, quote, sick to his stomach after learning the only armed deputy failed to act by never actually going into the building is stop the gunman. this is after it failed to investigate a very specific threat about this killer. we're also learning that police had repeated warnings about the gunman for years. his family, guardians, a counselor, even strangers who

saw his post online tried to alert authorities that he was violent, a threat and potential school shooter. another blow of course for all the families of the victims and the survivors there. >> a staggering systemic failure again and again nearly every step of the way. will the president address this when he speaks to his staunchest supporters. that's just hours from now. president trump has proposed giving bonuses to teachers who carry guns. the nra likes that but they don't like raising the age to buy a gun. for its part, the nra focusing most of its ire on the fbi. and really mostly the media. we begin with rosa flores live in parkland, florida with new, stunning, tragic details. rosa? >> reporter: >> reporter: john, as you

mentioned, this gets more and more disturbing. this killer had very violent behavior had been out there for years. and of course a week ago we learned that the fbi didn't follow on a tip. and now we're learning from the broward county sheriff that he is sick to his stomach because the one resource officer, the one armed police officer that was at the school when shots rang out, stayed outside and didn't go inside the building. >> what i saw was a deputy arrive, and he never went in. >> the only armed police officer stationed in marjory stoneman douglas high school resigned amid revelations that he waited outside as the massacre unfolded. >> what should he have done? >> went in. addressed the killer. killed the killer. >> reporter: he is telling reporters that surveillance shows the deputy, scot peterson, taking a position outside the building for four minutes as

gunshots rang out but failed to stop the attacker. >> devastated. sick to my stomach. there are no words. these families lost their children. we lost coaches. i've been to the funerals. there are no words. >> reporter: peterson retired thursday after being suspended without pay. >> i'm scot peterson. i've been a police officer for 30 years. >> reporter: seen here speaking at a school board meeting in broward county in 2015. he was recently nominated twice for deputy of the year. two other deputies now on restricted duty. they are being investigated for how they handled tips warning about the killer. authorities announcing that they have received 23 calls involving the killer and his family starting in 2008 when the killer was just nine years old. the most serious warnings began two years ago when an anonymous caller alerted police that the

killer threatened to shoot up the school on instagram and posted pictures of himself with the gun. the miami hair ald said seven months later, a peer counselor said he ingested gasoline, cutting himself. days later, an investigator for florida department of children and families determined that he was low risk. later that month, the family that initially took the killer in after his mother's death called police to report a fight. >> 911 emergency. how can i help you? >> yeah. there was a fight in my house with a kid and my son. >> okay. >> punching him and that's when he left the house, but i need somebody here because i'm afraid he comes back and he has a lot of weapons. >> what kind of weapons, ma'am? >> let me ask my son. what kind of weapon did he get? that he's going to get? >> a remington. >> a remington.

>> the family also revealing this disturbing detail. >> he also dug in the backyard because he knew he was not allowed to bring it here and we found that he did (inaudible) he was going to bury the gun there. >> the next day, a tip sister from massachusetts called the sheriff's office to report that the killer was collecting guns and knives. telling them he will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shoot isser in the making. as this community continues to mourn the 17 lives that were lost here, the school district is planning to reopen the school. today teachers and staff return for the very first time. on sunday, there is an orientation scheduled and students scheduled to return on wednesday. john? >> rosa flores in park land, florida for us. rosa, thanks so much. the president with new chances to make clear where he stands on this. will he battle the nra? today he holds a short press

conference with the australian prime minister after an address to the conference. abby phillip live at the white house with the very latest. abby? >> reporter: good morning, john. president trump seems determined to solve this problem of violence in schools his own way. he calls it an offensive posture versus defensive posture. and the centerpiece of this is a controversial proposal to arm teachers inside schools. take a listen to how he explained it yesterday. >> i think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, in my opinion you won't have these shooting. these people are cowards. they're not going to walk into a school if 20% of the teachers have guns. the people that do carry, we give them a bonus. we give them a little bit of a bonus. >> and there are of course millions of teachers in the united states. so such a proposal would likely be pretty sensitive. the white house added no details on how all of this would be made

for or how any of it would work. the president made eyebrow raising comments yesterday about the term active shooter drills. he referenced his own son barren saying he thought those kind of drills are scary for children, and he doesn't like it. he disrupted his education secretary to point that out. now, later on the white house deputy press secretary raj shah had to clean it up saying he was talking about the active preparation. all of this really unwinding as the president has been trying to hold these listening sessions. and we will of course hear from him again two more times today. we'll see how much more we get from this unfolding situation, john and alisyn. >> abby, thank you for all of that. let's bring in cnn analyst david gregory and law enforcement analyst james gagliano.

i want to start with the armed guard at the school. this just shows how flawed the idea that one armed guard could take down a crazed active shooter is. but what do you think happened here? why didn't that armed guard enter? was he scared? how often are these deputies themselves trained for active shooter drills? >> sure, alisyn. this was awe colossal failure of the system. remember, systems are made up of fallible human beings like all of us. but in in instance, i can only describe this with two words. i am shocked and appalled. and listen, everyone in the system is entitled to due process. i understand the sheriff is going to do a deep dive and find out where this breakdown occurred. but, listen, as mark twain famously said, courage is not the absence of fear. it is the mastery or control of it. i can tell you leading s.w.a.t. teams, hostage rescue team and

in combat theaters i was scared of my mind. but our training conditioned us to go to the sound of the guns. what happened here was somebody who elected not to do so. again, he's entitled to due process. but what a disappointing additional piece of this failure of the system we just learned yesterday. >> and whether or not he could have stopped him could have stopped this killer who had an ar-15. >> unknown. >> what we do know is the protocol now is to try. the protocol is now for the officer to go in and try to stop. david gregory, what strikes me is this is the final failure in a string of failures we're learning here. put up this graphic about just how many times authorities were warned about the killer here in very specific terms. february 2016. caller warns of a threat to shoot up the school. you look down, the can killer himself allegedly warns that he wants to shoot up a school.

and then in january 5th, 2018, a specific warning this person could be a school shooter. so the person that everyone warned would be a school shooter turned out to be a school shooter, david. >> right. and i think in the middle of this debate about gun safety we have to keep as much extension on a failure within the system, within the law enforcement community to identify and then do something about this threat. we also have to remember a couple of things. one, you can identify this threat pattern. the question is still what do you do? should he have been incarcerated? was there a reason to take him off the streets? he was in a broken family situation. that becomes a question too that may look clearer in hindsight and maybe not so much at the time, especially if there are mental health issues. but looking at a train of evidence like this that law enforcement is tracking becomes very difficult. the other piece of this goes to

the level of training. this is of course appalling. this is just a horrible thing to learn about a deputy sheriff's on site, officer on site, and not confronting the shooter. you have somebody who is coming in, who is determined. you're telling me this kid wasn't suicidal? you're coming in to shoot up a school you're not worried about dying. and it kind of -- this is the point i think the president needs to be thinking about as he takes a look at school security. you know, you know there's a lot of schools have sheriffs deputies posted outside the school. that is not a sufficient deterrent to someone who brings an ar-15 to school and kill people. they're not going to be moved in the same way. the idea that teachers might be armed i don't think is as much of a deterrent. that really has to be looked at. but there has to be active training as part of a hardening of schools to be able to deal with something that is incredibly difficult, which is

somebody meandering the halls with a high-powered weapon, particularly if it comes near a passing period, or whether it's the end of school or another passing because there are a lot of innocent people walking around. >> why is there one thing we're not talking about. when we talk about this relentless string of red flags that we missed, and there were, why are we not talking about the one place that could have maude a huge difference, the point of purchase? why didn't the seller of these guns -- why wasn't the seller asking questions of are you depressed? you seem sort of strange. are you antisocial? how are you feeling today? why do you need 10 guns? why do you need an ar-15? if there is one place that could have made a difference, where is the seller? why aren't we talking about that? >> alisyn, you know, it's one of those things where if you look at all these pieces that we see

now. obviously in hindsight and it being 20/20, how could we have missed the 39 visits by police. the fbi missing the tip line call. the number of people that came in contact with cruz and said he was absolutely psychotic. there are a number of different places here. as a criminalologist, as we look at these things, these type of mass shootings, the 18 to 20-year-old, this only occurs with an 18 or 20-year-old being involved about 10% of the time. >> okay. but it is still young men. it is suicidal or angry young men. that is a commonality. should gun sellers start asking questions? >> certainly we need to tighten up the universal background check system, and i think that's going to happen. we had this argument many times before, this discussion. if you want to give away civil liberties, i can keep you safe. i will impose martial law.

>> i'm talking about asking more probing questions of a kid like this. >> what if you asked them and the kid lied through their teeth. a lot of times there are evil people, and that is the problem, trying to discern this. >> one second is. the frustration i think alisyn has is we need a system flexible enough to handle when the shooter himself tells you he is going to be a school shooter. when there were multiple warnings to react to that. i get to that. one of the questions now is obviously what to do about it and where the signs will all find common ground here. we're left with this challenge of will the president stand up to the nra on a few of these things where he is different from the nra, raising the age limit, stricter background checks, bump stocks. listen to some of the language yesterday that the president used and the ceo of the nra used. see if you can notice any daylight between them. >> it should not be easier for a

mad man to shoot up a school than a bank or a jewelry store or some hollywood gala. >> i want my schools protected just like my banks are protected. >> we must immediately harden our schools. >> we have to harden our schools not soften them up. >> we drop our kids off at school that are so-called gun-free zones that are wide open targets for any crazy mad man bent on evil to come there first. >> a gun-free zone to a killer or somebody that wants to be a killer, that's like going in for the ice cream. that's like here i am, take me. >> they are singing the same song there. they clearly agree on those points. so will they be at odds on others? >> yeah, i think they probably will. i think if the president wants to pursue tightening up

background checks, the federal system for getting firearms where there has been legislation, the ncic background check system, you know, he can do that. and it sounds like the nra would not back that. we saw after newtown when wayne la pierre was talking about having a good guy with a gun is the best antidote to a bad guy with a gun. i think the point is alisyn is making is why not make it as difficult as possible, profiling. let's come up with a matrix of potential killers and, you know, run that background check against those kinds of people which is not dissimilar to what has been done for travelers coming into the united states. it is an abridgment. the question is whether gun sellers are really in the position to start asking those

questions that are law enforcement questions. but what you want is to make it as difficult as possible to get the deadliest weapons. when you have wayne la pierre who stands up in the wake of this shooting saying people out there who hate the second amendment, he's actually right about that. but he goes on with hyperbole about people who hate freedom. that touches the nerve that takes us way off track from what we're dealing with here. to be fair, we have to have all of these discussions at once. we have to talk about a breakdown in what was known about this shooter, a breakdown in the ability for him to walk in and buy a weapon. >> i'm not just talking about profiling but bearing responsibility. when we have these conversations, yes, the sheriff's deputy who didn't go in, yes, he bears some responsibility. the 23 times the broward sheriff got the phone calls. and the seller bears some

responsibility here. gentlemen, thank you. ahead on "new day", we'll continue this conversation. we're going to be speaking with the nra spokesperson dana loesch about this gun control debate. new fallout for the embattled governor of missouri. indicted in an alleged blackmailing scheme. a live report next. the things we do rising before dawn. sweating it out. tough to do it all. but we can always find time to listen to great thinkers and explorers whose stories take us places our hamstrings can't. all we have to do is listen. download audible to start listening.

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missouri governor, eric greitens, to step down after the once rising republican is indicted on felony invasion of privacy. greitens is being investigated for allegations of blackmail surrounding an affair. cnn's ryan young is in st. louis. this is a very strange story, ryan. >> reporter: it is a strange story. the details are also kind of confusing as well. when you think about this, you have a sitting governor that now has a mug shot. take a look at this mug shot. we know a grand jury in st. louis indicted the governor on the one charge of felony invasion of privacy. it stems back to a 2015 affair that the governor admits. just take a look and think about this part. the ex-husband of the woman he had an affair with secretly recorded her during a conversation. in it she admits she had a sexual affair with the governor. and through that there was a conversation about him showing her how to do a perfect pull-up

when she did partially naked. he took a picture of her blind folded. she said if she ever said anything about the affair, he would spread the photos around. the governor denies this. in a statement he said, as i've said before, i made a personal mistake before i was governor. i did not commit a crime. with today's disappointing misguided political system, my confidence in our system is shaken but not broken. the people of missouri deserve better than a prosecutor who uses the office to score points. think about this, there is also app investigation from the statehouse to figure out whether or not the governor can continue being the governor. he is supposed to be in washington today. that is not going to happen. back at the courthouse next month. ryan, thanks so many. let's bring in david gregory and cnn legal analyst michael

zeldin. david, you first. here you go again. another sitting governor charged with taking naked pictures to use later in blackmail. i haven't heard one quite like this, david. >> maybe in this -- in a new era where certain politicians can seem to escape this scrutiny he can fight it out. he will find out how quickly how difficult it can be if public support collapses as he fights this, even arguing that it is politically motivated. i think it is very hard to hang on under these circumstances. >> legally speaking, a governor indicted sounds complicated. but he doesn't have to step down. >> no, he doesn't. there is a clear law regarding impeachment. we're not sure whether they will find the political will to do so. the statute is pretty clear on

its face. it essentially says if you take a picture of a person who is in a nude in a place where that person has a reasonable expectation of privacy against that person's will and disseminates it, you commit a felony. that is pretty much clear what he did here according to the indictment and what has been reported in the media. so i'm not sure where he comes off with his version of this is a witch-hunt, politically motivated prosecution. we hear that a lot these days. it is generally not effective because it is not a defense. >> the colloquial term is revenge porn. teenagers aren't supposed toen gauge in. >> governors aren't either. you know who we don't have naked pictures of? robert mueller. it wouldn't be for lack of trying. he has turned up about everything else you can possibly

imagine in the russian investigation including this new indictment in virginia on paul manafort and rick gates. we have talked a lot about what they're about, tax crimes, money laundering. one of the interesting things i've heard you say on this, michael, is the nature of these charges, some of these charges at least, it's almost impossible to mount a defense. because you can't bring the charges unless you have these documents that basically prove a crime was committed. >> that's right. in my view, and having prosecuted the money laundering side of this, failure to file a report of your foreign bank account, the prosecution presents a case which is i call a witness from the department of treasury and i say, do you have a record of this report on file and they say no. and then you call irs, does the law state -- does the federal government require you to file such a report. you say yes.

you say is i rest. if he hasn't filed, which he doesn't appear to, and he didn't include it on his tax returns, and he has a tax return preparer and said i asked my client did he have foreign bank accounts and he said no, there's not much room there to defend yourself. maybe you can defend yourself under it's a politically motivated prosecution or a witch-hunt too, but that is not a legal defense. it's a political one. >> the noose appears to be tightening on paul manafort and rick gates, what is the political upshot? >> i think it is still the legal upshot. if you're the special prosecutor, what have you got so far? a plea deal with michael flynn, form or national security adviser. similar ties to ukraine looking for a guy who is a puppet for putin. and his deputy may be willing to make a deal. all of this seems to be with the idea that they have information that can implicate others around

the the president with regard to any kind of collusion to meddle and influence our presidential election. we don't know that that's the case. it may stop with these individuals. there may be a compelling case, as michael was saying, against manafort and gates and separately against flynn for lying to the fbi. maybe it stops there. but i don't think anybody could look at this and not think he is looking for leverage against others who might be in the white house as he investigates. >> is that what you see, leverage? is the idea how long do you want to go with rick gates to defend manafort. >> right. i think so there's a couple of theories. one is these cases as opposed to the failure to file your tax case that we just talked about are not simple cases to prosecute. they take a long time and a lot of witnesses. you know, you never know with a jury.

so one aspect might be the prosecutor wants a plea to avoid having to try this case. but i don't think manafort or gates really face a prosecutor who is afraid to try this case. it seems therefore that a prosecutor here who wants to hear from gates and manafort about the core collusion and also the interference with the election counterintelligence aspects of the mandate that he has, and he needs their testimony. and i think he's pressuring them in a way to try to get that testimony to determine really what happened in the 2016 election because that's his corpsman date. >> okay, gentlemen, thank you for all of that context. michael zeldin, david gregory. >> so there is a new development on the attack of u.s. forces in syria by russian mercenaries. was it carried out with the blessing and even the go ahead of vladimir putin. we have a live report from moscow next. we took legendary,

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new details about an attack on u.s. troops in syria. a russian oligarch believed to control those mercenaries was in touch with the kremlin and syrian officials. he is also among the 13 indicted by robert mueller. fred pleitgen is live with more for us. fred? >> reporter: hi, alisyn. yeah, it's pretty complicated. and the amount of things this guy has allegedly done is quite mind boggling. first of all, he is in charge of the militia. the area they were trying to take in eastern syria controlled by u.s. and pro u.s. forces is one that has a lot of oil fields in it. and now the man who was set to get a lot out of this attack controls an oil company that

would have benefited a great deal is the same guy. we have mentioned he's apparently in charge of the troll factory that middled in the 2016 u.s. elections, the main guy indicted by robert mueller last friday in the massive indictment. the u.s. has come forward and said they believe the russians are still at it. they have warned the russians to cut it out or face serious consequences, john. >> thanks so much, fred. president trump, will he take on the nra and how this might be received? a chance to ask the cpac chair next.

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president trump is set to address cpac in a few hours. he seemed to be conforming his message to the nra's message yesterday, mirroring or parroting the talking points about hardening schools. what will he say today? hi, matt. >> reporter: hi, alisyn. great to be with you.

>> great to have you. before we get to what you expect from the president today, i want to talk about some of the headlines that have come out of cpac. >> sure. >> let's start with wayne la pierre, ceo of nra. he made eyebrow-raising comments yesterday. let's play that for our viewers. >> the elites don't care, not one wit, about america's school system and schoolchildren. if they truly cared, what they would do is they would protect them. for them it's not a safety issue. it's a political issue. their goal is to eliminate the second amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eradicate all individual freedoms. >> matt, do you believe that? do you believe the people calling forex panned background checks, quote, hate freedom and want to take away all individual freedom? >> no. i actually think there's a lot of people, including these

victims's families who their heart is in the right place. they are trying to solve a problem and trying to prevent the next kid from being attacked or killed in a school. i think to wayne's point is a larger point, which is for some people, the whole question of gun control is a bigger flit cal fight, the left versus the right. i think that's unfortunate. this is a time for us to listen more, for us to try to work together. i think what the president did is the right next step. i don't know where this ends up, alisyn. it is good we're going to have the debate. >> why is wayne la pierre stoking that division? >> i don't think he's stoking that division. he is defending the second amendment. it is a cherished right chiseled in our constitution, the bill of rights. the constitution would be nothing without our bill of rights. that is an important thing for us to remember. >> i understand that. let me interrupt for one second. i get it. everybody knows it's the second amendment.

of course the bill of rights are cherished. why does he say people who want some sort is of measure against gun violence, quote, hate freedom and want to take away, all, all is his word, individual freedoms? you don't think that's divisive? >> i think if you understand the antecedent, it makes more sense. there are people who stoke the push for gun control because they think it is good politics. the sad thing, it's false hope for people. where we have the most gun control, we have the highest crime. we're not talking about the violence. >> that's not true, matt. it's just not true. it's not true. >> alisyn -- >> in connecticut, newtown, they made all sorts of different new laws and measures. and now their crime and homicide rate went down, okay? the point is, matt, i'm talking about the message. >> alisyn -- >> wayne la pierre is your chosen speaker -- >> let me respond to that. >> respond to this. >> i live in washington, d.c.

i read the statistics in chicago. they have the highest incidence of gun control. it is not controlling crime. >> because it's coming from indiana where the gun control is lax. you know that, matt. but, listen -- >> you're blaming indiana for the crimes in chicago. that's not fair. >> matt, you know where the guns in chicago come from. >> yeah. they come from the a criminal element that has their guns even though they might be illegal to obtain. >> okay. the larger issue is, is this a moment of unity or a moment of division? if it's a moment of unity, why does wayne la pierre want some measure like the kids in parkland and their parents, some measure of expanded background checks trying to take away all freedom and hate freedom? >> let's get to the iraq. i am forex papded background checks. even nra is forex pannexpanded

background checks. i want to see that happen. i think there are a lot of conservatives at cpac who are willing to have the conversation about people that are prone to violence, prone to violence maybe because there are mental issues or other darker issues. they want to have that conversation. as i said, i don't know where that ends up. >> i'll tell you where it's starting. i understand. we're having this conversation. >> let me just keep going real fast. it is unfair to say that wayne la pierre shouldn't be a part of this conversation. if the leaders of the second amendment groups are cutaway from this conversation, america can't get to a con senn is us is. he represents millions of americans. and the people in the room at cpac deserve to have a chair around that table too. >> matt, listen. nobody is saying he doesn't deserve a seat at the table. >> i think he said why would you -- >> why the message? matt, why the message?

the message is one of division where he claims that people who are trying to solve gun violence hate freedom. i mean, that's what he said. i'm using his words. you just heard them. they hate freedom. they want to take away your individual freedom. that's not helpful. >> i'm responsible for the words that come out of my mouth. >> well, he's your guest. you invited him to cpac. he's your guest. and of course you knew his message. >> you have a lot of guests on your show too. wayne is my friend. i respect wayne la pierre. i'm glad he's in this room. i like people who fight for the bill of rights. they are essential to america being this unique experience in history. it is wrong for people to say there's something hateful about defending the bill of rights. >> the language -- no, matt. you know that. hate freedom.

people who want to protect kids from this school violence hate freedom and want to take away individual freedom. he lumped it all together. those are his words. >> let me use my words. i believe that the people in this room think it is a very legitimate thing -- first of all, they want to comfort the families. this is a terrible tragedy. my kids or your kids. i don't know what i would say or think. >> of course. >> we jump right to the policy, which i understand. we have had too much violence is. >> everybody can agree on that, matt. >> the dark influence in the country. so what wayne la pierre is trying to say, it's unfair and false hope to immediately jump to the idea that a new gun control law will solve this. alisyn, i agree we should try to tighten things up. we have people who try to blow up children and kill children in this country. it is a lurch towards violence. >> of course. >> that is a deeper question

than passing a law. >> i understand. i hear you. >> why is this happening? >> i don't know. that's why we are having this conversation and trying to fix it. i'm not sure that the message some people hate freedom is giving comfort to the families. but let's move on. we can agree to disagree. let's move on. president trump is going to be appearing at the cpac in just a few hours. and his message is -- it's a bit all over the place. help us hone it. >> you don't like his message either. >> you didn't hear me say i didn't like his message. >> come on. give us some credit. >> matt, you didn't hear me -- >> you said it all over the place. >> i'm saying help us understand it. >> i'd love to. >> does he agree with everything the nra wants or is he breaking from the nra from raising the age minimum, the bump stocks, more on background checks? explain. >> alisyn, the one thing i have

to give you credit for is you ask good questions, and that is a good and fair question. and i don't know if we have the answer yet. because what's happening is we opened up a conversation about what should be done with our gun regulations. and the president is opening up the conversation, being willing to consider a lot of options. some of those might make people in the nra a little nervous. they might not support it. i don't know where this ends up. i think he is of goodwill to try to get to a good solution. i think support issers of the second amendment -- actually, they're as despondent as anyone when people use a gun to commit terrible crimes. i think this is good for the country. i think today what the president will do is much like what the vice president did yesterday. i don't know if you saw his remarks. but he started off his speech saying america is hurting. and we have to look at common accepts things that can be done to try to secure our kids. i think the line in his speech that i liked the most he said it is unacceptable that teachers

and kids fear for their safety in schools and america. we spend so much money on education in this country. sit our number one cost. let's protect our kids. there has to be a way to do that. >> on that, we can all agree. matt schlapp, thank you very much. >> we don't know where the president stands. we don't know how far the president will go. we have a leading conservative saying we have to figure this out. >> maybe we will hear him hone the questions. >> you ask excellent questions. >> thank you, john. u.s. figure skaters having a rough go at the olympics.

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conspiracy theorists wasting no time circulating lies about survivors of last week's school shooting less than an hour, false claims that students saw their friends and teachers die were crisis actors. host of reliable sources, brian stelter. this b.s. video about david

hogg, one of the most kwrous spoken survivors. how does youtube explain, justify how it let this video end up on its trending list? >> the company says we have to do better. we will do better next time. the official explanation is that these algorithms increasingly define our daily lives and decide what pops up in our news feeds, they are not perfect. in this case it was designed to figure out if it was a real news story from a reliable source misidentified the content. youtube, facebook, twitter, they are under pressure never before to tamp out, stamp out, to get rid of this pollution in the environment. that's what makes this week different. conspiracy theories are not new. they are as old as human beings. think of roswell, kennedy.

>> i believe all of it, by the way. >> the difference is now social media platforms help it spread in a supercharged way. >> absolutely. social media is toxic when it comes to this stuff. i was just talking to the kids about this yesterday when they said, you know, the good thing about social media is it helps us spread the word about what they're trying to get out. it also spreads the weird. that's what's happening. there's another interesting point is these kids and their reaction. they are in their grief laughing it off when people are insulting them and calling them names and saying they are not genuine. >> they are absolutely being proactive and taking this on as opposed to what we have seen after sandy hook, other tragedies. there is a tendency to ignore this stuff, ignore this pollution. >> you don't want to give it oxygen. >> you don't want to have to respond to it, give it

legitimacy. it is part of this broader attempt to take control of the conversation. >> let's play a few examples how they are doing it differently in resetting the whole script. listen to this. >> sit absolutely ridiculous to say the least. to think i'm a good actor -- i mean, if anything it's a compliment and i hope the academy is watching >> if you had seen me in our school's production of filled her on the roof, you would know nobody would pay me to act anything. >> without those people saying that, we would not nearly have as many people here. >> god bless those kids. flipping the script. >> they are de-fusing it. using comedy is a very smart way to take on something that's disgusting, despicable. it reminds me of -- at the end of this week we call b.s. that is what stands out to me about the entire week of coverage. it is all b.s. that's what the students are

doing in many ways. >> one kid with an iphone is better than any political organization. they get it. they get it more than we do. the people who started these conspiracy theories picked the wrong enemy. we are almost out of time here. there are those in this debate using the media instead of addressing the main core questions at play here choosing just to attack the press. why? >> they would rather talk about us than the issues on the table. we saw it in cpac yesterday. the one thing that unites the conservative movement is media bashing. including nra spokespeople in really awful ways. hopefully most people see through it. it is an attempt to unite an otherwise fractured movement. >> brian stelter, thank you very much. thanks to our international viewers as well for watching. for you, cnn talk is next. for u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> somebody is yards away with a

gun and won't even open the damn door to help children? that's why the guy is there. >> devastated. sick to my stomach. there are no words. these families lost their children. >> disturbing new details about repeated warnings to police about the killer's violent behavior. >> we have to harden our schools, not soften them. >> the elites don't care, not one wit, about america's schoolchildren. >> he doesn't want to talk about the blood that has spilled all over his hands because of the lax policies that he's pushing. >> we don't expect to agree with the nra on every issue. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to our newer day. chris is off. john berman joins me. we have a big two hours ahead. a major development in the investigation of the florida high school massacre. broward county sheriff said he's, quote, devastated and sick to his stomach after learning the only armed deputy failed to