representatives and senate. >> and last republicans left in the metro areas those are the ones out on the limb after this horrific tragedy. >> we'll see what the president does and how much influence. thank you everybody. that's it for me. thanks for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room" "the situation room." erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next breaking news, special counsel announces new charges against paul manafort. this just hours affinalizing stunning plea deal with manafort's deputy that potentially includes undid he ever cover work. could his information lead all the way to the white house. plus breaking news in the florida school shooting. sources telling cnn at least twi more sheriffs deputies were outside the school as that shooting unfolded p and they didn't go in. and a student wounded in the shooting and still recovering, not happy with the president's call to her in the hospital. what did trump say? i'm going to ask her.

let's go outfront. and good evening i'm jim sciutto in for erin burnett. outfront tonight breaking news. one step closer to trump. rick gates, trump's former deputy chairman signing a plea deal with robert mueller. he's highest ranking member of the trump team to cooperate with special counsel pleading guilty today to charges of conspiracy and lying as part of the russia probe. by agreement, gates must now fully cooperate with mueller. that includes his agreement to, quote t participate in under cover activities as directed by law enforcement agents or the special counsel's office. and mueller is not done putting the pressure on trump's close aids. less than two hours affi after finalizing the deal. here is why the gates deal takes this investigation to a whole new level. gates was there during the trump

campaign. he repeatedly traveled a board trump's campaign plane right through the election. he was there during the transition working on the inaugural committee. and since then he helped found a pro trump election committee. what he knows and what he shares with investigators could potentially lead all the way to the oval office. other than manafort and trump's own family, few people were higher in the trump campaign. earlier today president trump was pressed for his reaction to gates plea deal. >> mr. president, any concerns about rick gates? >> thank you very much. >> any concerns about rick gates? >> thank you. >> we will be there. >> thank you, press. >> great place. >> cutting a deal with mueller? >> thank you very much, everybody. >> now, prior to the campaign, gates was paul manafort right hand man for nearly a decade. manafort has already pleaded not gielt i to charges in mueller

probe. manafort issuing a statement lamenting gates plea and throughout showing no sienls of caving into to mueller pressure. statement reading, quote, i continue to maintain my innocence. i had hoped my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. for reasons yet to surface, he chose to do otherwise. this does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me. gates is the fifth person to plead guilty in mule cervix. evan perez is outfront this evening. how does this get them closer is this. >> potentially closer. rick gates is cooperating witness in robert mueller investigation. and that's a big deal not only to paul manafort, gates business partner, but potentially others in the trump campaign still under investigation in this

russian meddling investigation. after all, manafort was the former campaign chairman. and in court today, prosecutors described the scheme in which the two long time business partners laundered $30 million, failed to pay taxes for almost ten years and used real estate to fraudulently secure more than $20 million in loans. gates pleaded guilty to two criminal charges, one was conspiracy to defraud the united states. and the second was making a false statement. now we know that plea negotiations have been going on for about a month. and it was during one of those meetings with prosecutors and fbi agents that gates admits now that he lied. that's one of the charges he pleaded guilty to today. charges we have seen in the last couple of days, jim, shows that the government believes this criminal activity continued during the time of the trump campaign. so as you said, there is no doubt that today's guilty plea brings this closer to the president. >> and gates was cloesz to the president during that campaign. and busy certainly today at the

d.c. court. after two hours you had new charges filed against paul manafort. what else can you tell us about the new charges today? >> right. in court they sort of described a little bit of this. it essentially adds up to a campaign in which they hired former european politicians to act as lobbyists on behalf of ukraine here in the united states. now, again, we were expecting some of this due to the great reporting from the team, so we expect something else was happening. what this clearly shows though, jim, they are trying to pile on the charges to put more pressure on machine a fort and see if he will flip against i don't know who else in the campaign. >> more charges means more potential years in prison. a lot of pressure. thanks. outfront now, former to presidents. independent counsel for the white water, kim, and bush, richard painter.

if i could begin with you, kim, how significant is to see rick gates, someone who worked both closely with paul manafort, but people might forget he worked closely with the president, both to plead guilty now but also to cooperate with robert mueller? >> well, it's significant. because the indictment reads like a me too. that is manafort and gates worked side by side. so it's hard to know what manafort can know now in addition to what gates said. that is gates has ha lot of information. but i think in macro level it's important to keep in mind here. three people close to the president who have now pleaded gie guilty to the felonies. in the white water we accountant come close to this in the level and scope. and it's serious to integrity of the government and i encourage everyone to read the indictments. they read like a crime novel. >> yeah. you make that point. so three people now, david gergen, close to the president, with the association's,

communications, travels with the president. the others being michael flynn, george papadopoulos lower level. should the president be concerned? >> absolutely. everyone in the white house should be concerned. no longer talking about people can be dismissed as coffee boys. these people were actually held important positions chairman and deputy chairman tft campaign t went all the way into the transition into the white house. what we are seeing here is that mueller has piling up multiple charges against people and basically telling them you have a choice, you can spend ts rest of your life in jail, or you can tell me the truth. and gates decided, you know, i'd rather not spend the rest of my time in the slammer and he's going to spends sometime but not as much time as he would have. and that puts pressure on manafort. manafort is i think playing a risky game. i think he's playing for a pardon. and if he hold it is out long

enough maybe the president will pardon him. but when you have this many claims by the special prosecutor whether it's this serious millions of dollars, and by the way, paying people to lobby on pro russian government in ukraine, and pro russian position, that actually smells a lot like some of the things that are being investigated with regard to the campaign. so i this i this is dangerous. i think we do have to caution that we haven't yet seen an underlying crime charged with regard to the russians election in and the collusion and this may not go to the president, it may go into the white house but stops short tft president and makes big difference politically how far you up it goes. >> looks more and more like a mob prosecution. go after them and work your way up the organization. and as david said when george papadopoulos when his name came up they called him a coffee boy. but look at rick gates, deputy campaign chairman, worked for

the trump inaugural committee, helped found a pro trump pac after the campaign. i mean, you cannot argue that gates was a coffee boy. >> no, you cannot. gates is very high up in the organization in the trump cam page and in the transition. what we see here is that president trump has surrounded himself with a lot of people who are very dishonest who have committed crimes who have contacts with the russians. and who have lied about their contacts with the russians. that's what we know at this point. we don't know what crimes, if any, president trump is guilty of, although he certainly has gone out of his way to try to convince people he's guilty of obstruction of justice. but this investigation is certainly making a lot of head way and it's bringing in a lot of president trump's associates. the president should be very worried about this. and paul manafort, if he's holding out for a pardon, and he's going to risk the rest of

his life on the word of donald trump that will get a pardon if such a promise was made, or any implication he'll get a pardon, i think he's taking a risk that's a very big one and one that i certainly wouldn't take because i wouldn't trust president trump. >> well, it's another friday too with the special counsel where you have a series of indictments in this case guilty plea that buildup the idea that the president sold that the whole investigation is a hoax. kim, i have to ask you, because you worked for special counsel, you've worked as a prosecutor. rick gates based on his guilt i plea he lied on february 1st, two or three weeks ago in conversation with special counsel about reaching a deal. i mean, how dumb from a legal standpoint for lack of a better word is it to lie to someone as you are trying to negotiate a deal? >> well, it obviously ended up with additional charge in the indictment so that was dumb. it's illegal to lie to the fbi. but also just shows that he's got something to hide.

and, you know, again, back to the broader constitutional question, the person that he was having a conversation with was a member of congress. and we all have to remember here, we are talking about russians actually interfering with our electoral process. that's integrity of our democracy here. and if it's gone ts ten cals have gone beyond what we know about. it's very, very serious stuff. >> david, just a point here is, as richard brought up, they were doing work for, i think you brought up, pro russian candidate in ukraine. i mean, folks will often imply it was their work before the campaign. totally irrelevant. but there is a russia tie there. i mean, does it reasonably raise the question, again, as you noted we don't know if this is going to lead to trump, and no underlying crime established yet, but does it raise the question why paul manafort was selected as trump's campaign chairman in light of those years of work? >> yes. that was a very good question. yes, the answer to that is yes.

i mean, anybody who hired paul manafort had to know that he came up with a lot of baggage. everybody in politics knows that. so in hiring him they took him despite the baggage. and that suggests that they thought he might not only be effective in the job but suggest maybe he's an ally in some of this other stuff or knows things that we need to keep quiet, whatever. i'll have to tell you, this is still not as big as manafort, i mean not has big as watergate. this is not unprecedented in scope. what is unprecedented i have never sheena campaign been so deeply entangled with the russians of all levels, smacks some sort of corruption that we have political corruption as perhaps financial corruption is that we have not seen with a foreign nation in this way. >> speaks to his judgment. thanks very much. as owls, outfront next breaking news, sources telling cnn that

several broward county deputies did not go into that school as that deadly florida shooting unfolded. this as we learned the tipster told the fbi she feared nikolas cruz shooting the place up. plus a teenager wounded in that shooting. you can see her injuries here. just a young little girl. she's slamming the president as of he called her. she will be my guest. and jared kushner, could the son-in-law be cut off from top secret information tonight? -i've seen lots of homes helping new customers

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the break can news, stunning developments tonight in the florida shooting. sources tell cnn jake tapper not only broward county sheriff scot peterson enter the building as the shooting was happening, three other deputies outside the school and did not rush in when other officers arrived. this comes as we are leerj chilling new information to warning to fbi just weeks before the massacre. martin savage is outfront. >> reporter: the call to fbi tip line about nicolas krkolas cruz not have been cold, warning, cruz is going to explode. cnn reviewed the transcript of the january 2018 call informing the agency about the parkland

shooter. unidentified women talked about post about guns. and was quota frayed something is going to happen. the caller also talked about cruz history of violence in school and said she worried about him, quote, getting into a school and just shooting the place up. 40 days later, cruz did just that. the fbi admits it failed to follow up on the tip. missed call is just one of a growing list of failures by authorities that could have prevented tragedy if only they had been handled differently. they include the case of school resource officer scot peterson seen here in 2015 speaking about his job. >> we are all here fo for the same goal to protect our kids. >> reporter: peterson resigned and retired. broward county scott israel says for at least four minutes as the attack was going on, school surveillance shows him just

standing there instead of going on. >> some say he was more worried about retirement than going in. >> i'm almost on my way out. i'm almost 30 years. >> reporter: only one not acting properly. some coral springs were shokds to see deputies standing outside the school shooting site even as they rushed in. bull at a news conference today the coral police department refused to talk about those accusations. instead, first responders talked about what they did. >> immediately i grabbed my rifle. and i start running. >> reporter: officer tim burton believed to be the first officer on scene. charging alone toward the build zblg i thought i was going to encounter the shooter as soon as i made the left-hand turn in the parking lot. if he was trying to escape or get away are are instead burton found only silence. first coral springs officer to arrive heard no gunfire. but officer jeff heinrich did

hear gunfire. in fact shs he heard it all. recounting the moment the shooting began. >> i hear what i now know to be five or six gunshots. at first, i honestly thought they were fireworks. >> reporter: heinrich was off duty. watering the fields. he knew both were inside. >> kids started to run and scream. at that time i heard a round of another five or six shots. >> reporter: wearing just shorts and a t-shirt heinrich ran in the direction, first helping a student, then as other officers arrived got. >> then we systematically cleared toward the 12 building. >> reporter: jim, i just want to go a little more into this dispute that has now come up between departments, coral springs, and broward county.

a statement came out from broward springs police department has not made any official statement toss the media as it's still an open investigation and is being handled by the broward county sheriff's office. that's true. the lead investigation here is being led by broward county. i should also point out emotions are running high in this community. as you know with the stages of grieve, there is shock, grieve, and anger. it's pouring down out of this community like a tidal wave primarily because they have heard so many miss steps by police and by sheriffs deputies. and by the fbi. . jim. >> no question, and martin makes a good pointment early in this investigation and it is not necessarily the time to definitively assign blame. they are still looking into it. martin savage outfront now broward school superintendent runcy. thanks very much for joining us. you heard the news we had ton

tonight. this account that some four deputies didn't go. school resource officer that didn't go in, at least an account where dwree others stayed outside. i'm curious what your reaction is. and is it your feeling that the first responders failed the students in the school? >> you know, when i heard about lt first situation yesterday when i was briefed by the sheriff, i was just shocked, outraged, angry. today's news just even worsens the pain and grief that this entire community is going through. to realize that more could have been done, that potentially lives could have been saved, this is just outrageous. and, you know, i just can't find words to describe lt disappointment of this type of news coming to us over the last couple of days. >> and, of course, no one can take it more painfully than the

parents of the students who died in there. >> yes. >> we now have the transcript of this call to the fbi in january. and you read it, it's just damming. the caller worried that nikolas cruz was capable of getting into a school and shoot the place up. it goes on to say i know he's going to explode. it just appears that we have evidence that the system failed these students really across the board here. >> yeah, you know, we tell our students, we tell our teachers, people in our community that if you see something, or hear something, tell someone. we have tip lines available. and here we have the key law enforcement entity in the country not following up appropriately on dangerous tips. we have to take every single tip seriously. if 99 of them don't pan out, we don't want to be wrong just one

time. they all have to be taken seriously. they all have to be investigated. and appropriate action needs to be taken. and we have to look at the laws that we have to give law enforcement additional powers and strength to it be able to intervene, take weapons away from individuals who are displaying erratic behavior, maybe signs of mental illness. they should not be allowed to have guns. >> let me ask you this, because we are now aware as well of the entire list of calls about issues with this shooter involving the home where cruz was living. 23 calls. one involving self harm. another involving an allegation of shooting at a chicken. i spoke to a teacher last week who said that people on campus were aware that he was not allowed to come on campus with a backpack. i'm just curious what the school district knew about nikolas cruz

before the horrible events of last week. was this reported to the school district? >> i'm not aware of a report to the district within the past week. i do know that this is a child or a young person that had some serious behavior and mental health concerns. he's been traditional schools. he's been in behavior centers. alternative schools. at the time that he committed this atrocity, he was not enrolled in marjory stoneman douglas and in fact had been out of the school for at least a year in an alternative school. so this, again, i believe that there needs to be a better coordination among all of the various agencies that touch troubled youth and individuals. mental health institutions, law enforcement, school systems, we have to it be able to share information more effectively, be able to provide the right type of interventions, take action as

appropriately, rather than operating in silos which occurs far too often. >> yeah. you heard the president again today defending his proposal of arming teachers or arming at least soma depth teachers as he described them. as a superintendent of schools, do you think that would make your schools in your district safer to have armed teachers? >> absolutely not. that's not a solution to this problem. if we really want to enhance security presence on school grounds, then let us in vest insecurity presence on school grounds. have law enforcement officers. governor put a proposal out today and i need to applaud him to provide more funding for more school resource officers in school districts. that's what we need to do. we need trained officers not teachers. instead of putting guns in the hand of teachers, we need to

provide better compensation for our teachers, better benefits and really do the things that we know we need to do to enhance that profession. so absolutely not. i don't think that's a solution that's going to get us anywhere. more guns in school will create more opportunities for situations that are undesirable. >> we had a teacher on last night from parkland who echoed your thoughts. we know that the broward county sheriff's office is saying deputy scot peterson had been told that cruz had talked about shooting up the school. so the resource officer was aware of it. i'm going to speak to a student injured in the shooting and she told us in that conversation earlier today as we got ready for the interview she wasn't surprised that he didn't come in. he worked there and never seen him in her words doing much. i'm curious if you had any indications that he wasn't doing his job or might not do his job properly? >> no. we work with our law enforcement

agencies. we have agreements with them to staff our schools with individuals who are trained, who are capable. i mean, our schools are some of our must volumenerable sites in our communities. we want to make sure they are safe and secure for every student, every adult that's there. and we need the best law enforcement individuals at those schools. we need to start looking at the quality of the folks being put and placed and assigned to school grounds. i think there also has to be some type of rotation process. some people don't think this is someplace you come to spend the last few years and retire. this is serious. we need to make sure we have the best safety and law enforcement individuals working in our school grounds. >> well, listen, i know you have a tough job going forward as you try to pull that community back together. superintendent transaction for

taking the time with us tonight. >> thank you. >> and outfront next, the shooting left samantha fun test with shrapnel behind an eye, bullet fragments in her legs, tonight she has harsh words about her phone call after the shooting with president trump. she will be my guest. and breaking news, source telling cnn that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein warned white house counsel don mcgahn two weeks ago about continuing issues about jared kushner's security clearance.

telling cnn tonight that during the high school mass shooting, three broward county deputies had not entered the building.

instead, they appeared to stay outside. this is after we learned that the deputy assigned to protect the school campus, he didn't go inside either. and tonight we are hearing from one of the students who was shot during that attack and spoke to president trump while still in the hospital. samantha fuentes is out front. a senior at marjory stoneman high school. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> samantha, i know you lost good friends in the shooting and you are paying a price. you got shot in one leg, and i'm sure viewers as they look at you their heart goes out to you. first quell is how are you doing in the days since this attack? >> you know, just taking it one day at a time. i can't say that i'm not exhausted, but i have all the support in the world by everyone that i love right now. >> well, keep them close to you. so you have just gone through this. you are sitting in your hospital bed. you receive a call from president trump. tell us how that conversation

went. >> it went quite interesting. one of the first things he said to me was that he heard that i was a big fan of his. and that he was a big fan of mine. and he was just trying to console me and let me know that everything was going to be okay. he then commenced to call the shooter a sick puppy. and probably used the word oh, boy probably a solid eight times. i can't say that i was consoled or helped. >> you didn't feel -- well, do you have any idea what gave him the impression that you were a big fan of his, as he said to you? >> i'm not quite sure. it's not like we've had any prior engagements to that phone call. so maybe it was just an assumption. >> you know, it was interesting, and i know you expressed some surprise that he brought up the shooter in the conversation in

light of what you went through. how did that part of the conversation go? >> i don't think he's ever had to have that conversation with someone before, and it was definitely clear in that moment, because he didn't express any real empathy. but it's kind of hard to express empathy when you don't understand. >> i get that. i mean, i imagine, listen, it's a difficult phone call most of all for you in light of what you've been through. you told one of my colleagues before this interview that you've never been so unimpressed by a person in your life. i don't want to put you in an uncomfortable position. but what were your emotions as you said that and experienced that? >> it's just that when you go through a very traumatic experience such as this one, you have to be very delicate in the way that you phrase your words to people. and i don't feel that he took any caution or any regard for what i was going through. and that kind of hurt my feelings. but i can't say that i don't

respect him and i can't say that i don't respect him as a president. though i do appreciate the concern. >> of course. i understand. and you are very respectful. i've noticed this as i've talked to other of your classmates as well. you are young. you've been something horrible that none of us most of us never have, but you are handling this with great poise and maturity. i want to headache sure you are aware of that. i want to ask you if i can about the school response. we are looking more about the school resource officer scot peterson waiting outside the building. and i'm reluctant to blame too many blame on one individual. fear in the moment. i want to play though what peterson said at a 2015 school board meeting about his job. have a listen. >> limp almost on my way out. i'm 30 years. but i have other police officers that they have made homes there. you know, they are part of that community. we are all here for the same

goal, to protect our kids. protect our property. >> you had interactions with him. you saw him at work before this all happened. do you think too much pressure or responsibility is put on folks like this in a situation like this? >> absolutely not. when you become a police officer, you take an oath to protect and serve. and i don't feel that peterson protected and served his children. just as he claimed he would. he broke a promise. and that's obvious in his inaction. >> understood. do you feel, because we've been learning about just other missed signals here, there were warnings about nikolas cruz before this. do you feel let down not just by the school officer and ts police, but other authorities, the fbi, the school district? >> absolutely. i can't say that i'm not disappointed. and i'm not surprised either.

>> goodness. why aren't you surprised? >> well, i mean, everyone in our school, including parents and teachers and faculty and students, everyone, has reported this kid. and we thought that we did everything in our power to get him off of school grounds, get him away from us, because he was a violent and malicious person. and that was obvious. and kids would even joke about how he was going to be the next school shooter. and as students we can only do so much. we thought that if we put it into the hands of the law and into the hands of our government it would be handled. but unfortunately as students now we have to take action because our government is failing us, our system is failing us, and we won't be stopped. >> you are saying that other students used to joke about him becoming a school shooter? >> absolutely. because of how violent he was and erratic he was. >> goodness. you did due all you could do. definitely you and your classmates stepping up now.

classes i know are meant to resume next week, next wednesday at your high school. you are still going through a lot. are you planning to go back? >> no, i don't intend on going back. but that has little to nothing to do with my fear of returning to the campus. this is because i want to take this opportunity to advocate for my cause and recover. i want to take as much time as possible to spread my message. and in doing so i'll be taking myself out of school finishing online and getting out as soon as possible. >> samantha, you and your classmates have captured the attention of a nation and you should be proud of that. i really do wish you the best and swift recovery. i know you have a lot still to go through. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> okay. take care of yourself. >> you too. >> outfront next, can jared kushner do his job without access to top secret information? you may find out tonight. and. and breaking news, damming new details what the fbi knew

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that do not have a complex financial, you know, complicated financials and it's still taking months. it's a broken system and shouldn't take this long. you know how many people on that list? people with not a problem in the world. >> tonight, however, "the washington post" is reporting that it's not merely a broken system. in fact, the white house was told by the deputy attorney general just two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay kushner security clearance process. bradley most, and phil mudd former fbi intelligence adviser. phil, significant information. the white house getting a call from the justice department saying significant information. we are now 13 months into this administration. kushner still doesn't have a permanent clearance. how much more information would you need to not grant it at all?

>> i suspect none. that's a kiss of death, that phone call. look, the fbi can't say how kushner is caught up in the mueller investigation. they can't say in some circumstances what they are developing on kushner. butt let me give you a couple of facts here. 13 months for senior official to get clearance. i got mine in nine months and i'm a joe off the street. you have to understand is is top guys to the president, get it done. i think that phone call after 13 months to the chief of staff doesn't tell him he has to rescind the security clearance. but again that's a kiss of death phone call. because the message to john kelly is this isn't going to end any time soon for someone who is at the top of our list to get him a clearance as soon as possible. that's the fbi and the department of justice saying it's not going to happen, jim. >> now, bradley, the president of course blaming the system here. but jared kushner could have made it a lot easier had he not had to revise his form many

times. . his initial fs 86 did not mention any foreign contacts. updated it in the spring with some 100 foreign meetings but did not crucially mention the june 2016 meeting in trump tower with the russian lawyer offering damaging information on hillary clinton. he then updated it again. there was some further omitted information. i suppose the question is if phil or i or you applied for a clearance had those preeted emissio repeated omissions we would get a clearance? >> i don't know. obstacles let alone getting approved. there are mitigating circumstances of why someone might make omissions. and certainly jared kushner has some explanations he's already put out. but that's the kind of stuff you hear about in an an actual appeals process which comes after you've been denied the security clearance. right now he's getting the benefit of the doubt in the midst of the investigation, despite having made multiple omissions. he submitted it then was given

six months to provide the initial set of foreign contacts and was allowed interim access entire time. phil is right, no one rank and file official, government krotor whose name is not jared kushner would ever been allowed to maintain interim access that long despite that type of omission. >> reminds you have those arguments during the campaign hillary clinton, if anybody like me i would go to pris oon rest my life. the president said today he's going to leave it up to chief of staff to decide whether own son-in-law maintains interim security clearance. have a listen. >> general kelly respects jared a lot. and general kelly will make that call. i won't make that call. i'll let general kelly make that decision. and he's going to do what's right for the country. and i have no doubt he'll make the right decision. >> so the president says kelly will make the decision, but he

also respects jared a lot going to do what's right for the country. phil mudd doesn't sound like he's taken away the right to overrule the staff on his son-in-law? >> no, he just set him up. kelly said we can't have people under indefinite security clear ances like this. what is he going to say about jared? >> i think the real interesting question is not only what kelly does, i think he has to rescind the clearance. this isn't the end of the story. this is the president of the united states. i suspect the president given his words today is going to say, look, i understand what general kelly did, but jared is so important to american security, i'm going to order that he maintain access to top secret information after general kelly decides he can. >> and bradley just to be clear the law does allow the president to do that if he wants to? >> correct. the president can grant access to classified information to anybody he wants. and quite honestly if in the end

exceptions can be made for jared kushner, you almost wonder why they went through this whole or deal in the first place. why go through the share raid of submitting all this documentation 13 months of investigation, if he's going to overrule security in the end. this is why we have the anti-nepotism law that doj threw out for jared kushner. >> brad and phil, thanks for walking through us with this. outfront next, more on ts tip that the fbi received just weeks before the deadly high school shooting. >> and the voices that make this gun control debate very different than the rest so far. >> why do we have to march on washington just to save innocent lives?

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chest in case something does happen. out front now is josh campbell. so this caller clear about her fears here and apparently multiple warning signs coming from multiple directions how does this slip through the cracks? >> has to be a subject of a very extensive review. this is what we ask the public to do. what happens in this situation, information is taken into the tip line. does it have merit or is it clearly not something that we need to look at. and that system broke down. it should have made it to the miami field office where additional steps should have been followed up. the bureau's heart is just

breaking particularly those in miami. >> i just talked to a little girl who survived she said she feels let down. i have to ask you legally, just so folks at home understand, let's say you get a warning and you do take it seriously. what should have the fbi told the field office? what are the options? >> we simply don't know. it is hard to look at it in the abstract. they have to discern what is specific and what is credible. it appears to be specific in credible in this instance. the fbi would have taken the information and look through its holdings and looked at the situation and said we may have something here. that would have been forwarded to the office and they would have done a knock and talk or talk to local law enforcement in

order to follow up and try to assess is this person someone we should be concerned about. fbi agents are paid and trained to talk to people. size them up and determine who they are dealing with. that is the unknown. they didn't have the opportunity to go face to face. >> josh campbell, thanks so much. >> the voices of students turning activists. ♪ our promise will be stronger

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