"black panther" roars past $700 million worldwide. this record is a watershed moment for hollywood. i am told it is wonderful. it getting 97% on rotten tomatoes. i'm going to go see it. >> i have a 7-year-old aching to get to the theater. >> i'm worried about the violence but i'm told it is cartoonish. >> "new day" starts right now. >> one person didn't do what he should have done. it makes sick to my stomach. >> whoever didn't do their job is, they have to be accountable. >> if we don't fix it now, when will it? >> i'm hopeful that the president may be willing to take on the nra. if he does, there may be a bunch of republicans who will follow.

>> the memo was a nothing. >> i'm not surprised they tried to bury this memo. >> they are advocating it is okay for the fbi and doj to use political dirt paid for by one campaign. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". it is monday, february 2 he 6th. 6:00 here in new york. here is the starting line. stone man douglas students are preparing to return to school this wednesday. lawmakers are back in session in d.c. today. so the question remains, will they do anything to stop the shootings? now there is a shift in this investigation in florida. the governor, rick scott, who did make some recommendations for raising the age of access to re weapons, is ordering a response to the police shootin.

the sheriff grilled in a cnn interview from jake tapper about the red flags that were definitely missed on the shooter. he defended his office citing his amazing leadership and insisting he will not resign. >> so congress goes back to work today under pressure to address school safety and gun violence. a new cnn poll suggests that the parkland massacre has changed americans's views on guns in a way no other mass shooting has. 70% of people now favor tighter gun laws as compared to 52% who felt that way after the las vegas massacre in october. and as president trump face this is issue, the russia investigation still hands over his head. he is dismissing a democratic rebuttal memo . the president called it a nothing and blasts adam schiff, the man behind this memo.

schiff claims the white house tried to bury his memo. we have it all covered for you. first to caylkaylee hartung. >> reporter: president trump will meet with many of the nation's governors at the white house. he said parkland will be first on their list to discuss. here in parkland, as we hear disturbing details of what happened in the immediate reaction to the attack, many are demanding answers. >> we have to do a thorough investigation and whoever didn't do their job has to be held accountable. >> florida's governor ordering an investigation into law enforcement's response to last week's deadly shooting. sheriff skcott israel coming under scrutiny. >> i've given amazing leadership to this agency. >> amazing leadership?

>> yes, jake. you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy not going into -- these deputies received the training they needed. >> maybe you measure somebody's leadership by whether they protect the community. >> corcoran and 73 others sending a letter demanding sheriff israel be suspended for incompetence and dereliction of data after bill haeger wrote a letter to governor scott just a day before. >> it was a shameful letter. of course i won't resign. i never met that man. he doesn't know anything about me. and the letter was full of misinformation. >> sources telling cnn when coral springs police officers arrived at the scene they were shocked to find three other broward county sheriff's deputies who had not yet entered the building. broward county disputes this saying it was only the resource officer, and he has resigned.

lawmakers returning to work under national pressure to act on on gun reform. 70% of people say they favor stricter gun laws. with congress already looking at a list of options on the table, including improving federal background check system, changing the legal age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21, restricting the size of gun magazines or an all-out ban on the purchase of ar-15 style weapons. >> i think that having a teacher who is armed, who cares deeply about her students or his students and who is capable and qualified to bear arms is not a bad idea but an idea that needs to be discussed. >> amid all the political fall jut, a somber first day back on campus as students returned for orientation sunday, their first time on school grounds since surviving the massacre >> it was really scary. i didn't know how i was going to feel when i went in and saw the

fence armed the freshman building and all the windows were covered. i can't believe something like this happened. >> reporter: the freshman building the gunman attacked is fenced off. one student said he felt an intense sadness. but then on that fence he saw banners of support extent to stone man douglas from schools and organizations around the country. and he found that uplift anything a difficult moment. teachers today are giving the opportunity if they choose to do so, to go into that freshman building. >> it is ironic for lawmakers to call dereliction of duty for the sheriff after doing nothing. the polls show it. the momentum in the society shows it. if the president is walking this morning, good morning, sir, your poll numbers show it.

trump had gotten to 40%. now 58% disapprove. it could be seen as people are waiting for action here. a.b., let's start with this investigation into the police down there, the response. obviously had there been no person like this who could get access to a weapon there would have been no shooting. it is not the primary concern. the sheriff not helping his cause. here's an excerpt from the interview with jake. >> do you think that if the broward sheriff's office had done things differently this shooting might not have happened? >> listen, if it were candy and nuts, o.j. simpson would still be -- >> i don't know what that means. there's 17 dead people and a whole long list of things your department could have done different my. >> he's glib, not handling it well. where does this take us?

>> there are two separate things going on here. systemic failures are state and federal and local levels that make us question whether this cast kerr could have been prevented. certainly sheriff israel is an elected official. his defiance is not helping him. on a separate track, there is energy behind sort of a hunger for new examination of our gun controls that exist, a search for more -- because it is a cumulative effect built up over all the mass shootings that you just mentioned. not just because nikolas cruz was deeply disturbed and law enforcement missed signals to stop him from this shooting. so there's two things going on here. do we need to address the systemic failures? of course we do. could that prevent aid shooting? of course it might have.

but on the other side, you're looking at a society examining the access to weapons of war that are intended only to mutilate as many humans as possible as quickly as possible and whether or not someone who is stable should have them without a serious background check or a licensing process or a course or something like that, let alone someone who is 18 years old and has serious mental problems. those are two things republicans have to face when they're look act this. just getting upset with the sheriff is not going to solve the problem. >> as a law enforcement person as yourself, the sheriff is saying there had been a lot of intervention with this kid. this was not a kid that was unknown to deputies and to department of social services and to the school safety officer and to school administrators. he had seen counselors. he had gotten medication.

he had been counseled. he had been talked to. and the sheriff was basically saying if you make a threat on social media that says you want to shoot up a school, you can't be arrested for that. what could they have done? >> there is a different question. in the heat of battle you have to make sure you keep your mission objectives clear. i can think of at least three. how do you secure a school? what do you do about weapons. and the the category we're looking at now, the mental health of a student. some states have red flag laws, short of taking away weapons permanently, short of putting them in a prison. is there a process to temporarily remove a weapon or weapons from an individual when someone, probably a judge, maybe a mental health board, judges that person is not capable of having the responsibility of keeping a weapon. >> that's the law that came up in florida? >> they are called red flag laws. for example, california has them. should school officials, mental

health officials, and law enforcement have the ability to take somebody's weapon away without charging them with a crime. >> if you make a threat against a person, it triggers authority on the point of law enforcement. if it is against a place, like a school, it doesn't. >> that was a problem. >> that was a problem also. what is flagged in the universe of information? see, this is the only part i don't like about this conversation. the idea of putting self sis on you know all of these things. they don't get absorbed in the current background check system. that is the concern, a.b. the nra is pushing this. surrogates out there saying look at the police work, all the things they knew. they are not absorbed in the system. if you change the system, which democrats will have a problem with also because it gets into privacy rights and people in medical treatment, if you change that, you have a legitimate

argument. you should have known these things. it should have been part of the analysis of whether or not he had access. but that is not the state of the law right now. >> right. as you know, chris, for the nra, this is zero sum. they will resist what he is called cbc, comprehensive background checks. they don't have any idea what the president means yet because he hasn't been specific on what a comprehensive background check is. there is a real battle on what to include when you assess criteria for a gun purchase in someone's background. and we have seen it in the polling. it is incredibly popular. most people want this. but that doesn't mean that republicans on capitol hill facing headwinds already in a midterm, are going to go out on a limb unless president trump leads on this issue. unlike on the tax debate in

which he took a few positions on corporate tax cuts and different things, unlike on obamacare and on this dreamer issue, president trump has to pick a position and stay on a position if he expects republicans on capitol hill to do anything about this. my feeling is if they look at this in july and see incredible energy, new gun control legislation going into the midterms, they might do something. but the default position right now is to wait and see. president trump, if he doesn't make this happen, he won't happen. >> it is interesting to look at the public opinion polls. something has changed. so october, 52% of americans favor stricter gun laws. that was after the las vegas massacre, which as you know, had a huge body count. and still 52% then. now with these kids at the, you know, in parkland, it is 70%. it does feel like something has

shifted and this is a tipping point. >> it does. and i think there's another statistic i would look at. we just passed tax legislation saying we have to be more competitive with the globe. if you look at how the globe looks at not only mental health in terms of background check and who has access to a weapon, look at pure countries. take japan and the uk. if we want to look at ourselves as a country in a globalized world that has competitors in asia and aourp you would ask a simple question. how do we protect our country in ways that countries that are more successfully protect their people. they have different ways of looking at mental health before they get a weapon. take the same group of countries and ask how they look at gun law. the answer is they look at it a lot differently. >> and they have relative rates

of mental health issues. that's an important thing. before we just demonize the mentally ill. they are more likely to be victims is than pepper traeurpts other than these school shootings. we have more guns. that is the differentiating characteristic. how we deal with it, we'll see. >> thank you very much. so this republican memo alleging surveillance abuses by the fbi, you remember this. well, it was rebutted now in this newly released democratic memo. which party has the facts on their side? we dig in next. it's all pop-culture trivia, but it gets pretty intense. -ahh. -the new guy. -whoa, he looks -- -he looks exactly like me. -no. -separated at birth much? we should switch name tags, and no one would know who was who. jamie, you seriously think you look like him? uh, i'm pretty good with comparisons. like how progressive helps people save money by comparing rates, even if we're not the lowest. even if we're not the lowest. whoa!

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infamous dossier by christopher steele. in the memo written by devin nguyens, they say essential part of the fisa application was the information from the dossier. the schiff memo released saturday night says the department of justice used that but very narrowly. secondly, the nunes memo says there was no mention that in this application to surveil carter page that christopher steele was working on be haft of the clinton campaign. schiff argues that the fbi said they had reasons to believe steele was being funded by someone trying to discredit donald trump. they said that information was not verified when the application was first submitted.

schiff memo said parts were corroborated during the several renewals that happened. the president has not responded kindly to this. he has been attacking the democrat who wrote this memo and called into fox saturday night. and here's what he had to say about this. >> he'll have a committee meeting and he'll leak all sorts of information and, you know, he's a bad guy. but is certainly, the memo was a nothing. >> reporter: one more difference here, chris, that is important to point out is how the white house handled these two memos. the doj said not to release the republican memo but they did so quickly. the president was saying he was going to release it before he had even read it. they blocked its release two weeks ago. it came out after hag he elling over redactions in this memo, chris. >> thank you very much. let's bring back phil mudd and a.b. stoddard.

we were going after republicans saying you're stalling. they said, no, we're following the process. it was a delay game. what is your take on what this memo reveals. i know you're not a politician. but was this savvy for the democrats to rekindle this conversation after the nunes memo fell flat? >> i thought they should have just left it sit. people in the national security world, i don't know about the public sphere. i'm not a great politician. but they look and said this is a joke. why even were bother to respond. you're giving it more credibility than it has. one thing that is fascinating just a few weeks ago people were taking shots at the investigation. it's a hoax. it's a reduce. people taking shots at mueller. in the interim, gates is flipping. remarkable indictment of 13 russians and russian entities. if you haven't read it, you have to read it. and the deputy attorney general calling the white house saying is we cannot confirm that it is

going to be clearance for jared kushner any time soon. the debate nunes was trying to start about the credibility and the investigation of mueller, just in the few weeks has died away. nobody is talking about that because the investigation has proven so solid in the indictments and the information that mueller is uncovering. >> hey, a.b., i just want to dive into one of the details. i think it is ill lust active in terms of where we are. nunes folks said fisa court wasn't told that it was the dnc and that's why christopher steele was hired. that's who hired him. according to all the background in the schiff memo, the doj was informed there was candidate one and candidate two. steele was hired by politically motivated persons and his research appeared, quote, intended for use to discredit trump's campaign. so i don't know how much more explicit the doj needed to be. but why can't devin nunes

connect those dots? why does it still think it was mystery who hired steele? >> devin nunes is speaking to a choir and they love what he is singing. you could see that at cpac when he was awarded for his bravery and his courage. conservative media treated the nunes memo like a triumph, bigger than watergate. phil was right, it was intended to cast doubt and impugn the motives and the work of the fbi and the doj. alisyn, not only did we learn that was opposition research, which as we know is worth nothing if it isn't true, but it was not the only intel as a basis for the warrant and the application. you can't get a fisa warrant with one piece of intelligence. we knew that weeks ago. and we also knew if kelly app

conway and others dismissed carter page as no longer with the campaign, never influential, never really part of the team at all, starting a warrant in secret, is no way to take down donald trump as a candidate for president. phil is right. the mueller investigation is completely overwhelmed. the memo wars, no one really wins the memo wars. robert mueller's indictments are telling the story that really matters. incontravertable evidence that people can read. so this memo thing has gone by the wayside, anyway. >> it does come down to matter of fact. nunes was pushing. incident was all about the dossier. they have closet quotes from people who suggested that. forget about who wrote the memo. we call it nunes, schiff, because they're identifiable names. the investigation, according to the fbi, had started almost two months before they got the dossier.

and you had four different judges, independent judges who looked at this and decided to approve or stepped it. i don't see how the facts are helpful. and the president tweeted, oh, it says the fbi never told them who paid for it. no, mr. president. the fbi did tell the court. he's talking about michael steele, another point the president brought up but didn't mean to. steele, according to the fbi, was never told who he was doing the research for. he wasn't told who the clients were by the company. the facts just don't seem helpful to the republican cause. >> i'll take a step further. if you look at the detail out of the indictments, how often is steele mentioned? steele doesn't come up. if you look in the flip by the associate of paul manafort by gates, you look at the financial

documentation, it is incredible. we are having a debate about whether the investigation is based on false information, and the information in the indictments doesn't even talk about steele. one more quick thing. i have talked to the fisa court about sensitive issues. i remember having a conversation about them once about information not detailed in a fisa were application. i have one fact for you. has anybody ever asked the fisa court whether they knew where this was coming from? that's an easy question. i doubt they want to talk. the investigators actually have pretty detailed conversations with them when they hand over the fisa court applications. that's not considered here. >> we wish the fisa court would talk. it would be helpful. the stories they could tell about phil mudd. >> another thing they cast that fisa court is as a secret court. congress created the fisa court as an oversight mechanism. it is all such a b.s. distraction. >> something we talk about every day is hard to be a secret.

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at least five people are dead after severe thunderstorms ripped through the central u.s. spawning a tornado, as you can see on your screen, and widespread flooding. severe weather set to batter the midwest and the northeast this week. cnn meteorologist chad myers is live in the weather center. >> alisyn, officially 12 tornados over the weekend. we did have fatalities, three fatalities from tornados directly. that was the first tornado death in 283 days. now, that is a new record for length of time between tornado deaths. that's one record that is good. eventually it had to break.

we did it this weekend. lots of rainfall too. some spots in arkansas picked up 12 inches of rain in 48 hours. so there will be more flood threat. the storm is moving away. it is moving through the southeast. the storm system, as it moves away, builds another one. watch what happens here for tuesday and wednesday. another storm over the top of where the last one was. we expect more tornados for wednesday, thursday, through the midwest and the southeast. chris? >> all right, buddy. keep us aware of what we need to do. president trump reportedly wants the death penalty for major drug dealers. key get such a harsh punishment passed? wait until you hear what inspired this latest idea, next.

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rick gates pleads guilty. what does this mean about where special counsel is headed and what is the incomes step in the russia probe? let's discuss. we have michael zeldin and

carrie cordero. good to see you both. the hoax. we have like the fifth guy getting involved with the special counsel. what does the gates indictment mean to you in terms of where mueller is headed? >> it means a couple things. gates was on the campaign himself. gates was working closely with him on the campaign. so there is a lot potentially that he knows independent of paul manafort, that gates knows regarding activities that went on in the campaign, if there were communications with russian surrogates. he was there. he was very involved in his own right. and it also has consequences for the prosecution of manafort because he was husband business partner. money laundering, failure to

register, conspiracy, tax evasion, all of those laundry list of charges against manafort, gates will be a primary witness now against him. >> all right. so, michael, let's go with this again. this isn't a good thing when they are agreeing with the prosecutor. he was with the campaign much longer than manafort. up until he november i think he was on the campaign plane. the pushback is this is all about manafort. it is not about the campaign. it doesn't show anything about the campaign in collusion with russia. your take? >> i think that's right. within the four corners of the indictment, this does not speak to the collusion aspect of on mueller's investigation, nor does it speak to the counterintelligence aspect directly. the question is, as carrie said, what testimony do these people, manafort and gates, have to offer. and i say manafort has to offer because ultimately i think he

testifies and cooperates with mueller. gates convicts him of all counts in the virginia conspiracy rather speedily. i think ultimately you get manafort and gates's testimony. that will let us know, chris, whether there is anything to the collusion allegations and what if any role americans played in cooperating with the russians. we have seen what the russians did in the indictment against the 13 russians. now we will see the witting other u.s. side to it. >> carrie, when you're looking at what the scope of the purview is, he can look at both these things, right? it's all crimes. any criminal activity. it would be fine to look back and say, okay, this has nothing to do with the campaign. these guys were involved. they were moving money around in the wrong way.

it's criminal. that's why i went after them. is there a responsibility on the back of the special prosecutor to do things that are really about the campaign or are they all equal? >> so the mandate that special counsel was given in the department of justice regulation is that he can look into issues involving russian influence on the campaign and other matters that may arise. and so that is a broad mandate for him to go where the investigation takes him. that being said, he does have to report to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein for purposes of this investigation. if mueller went too far afield the dag has made it clear he is exercising that oversight authority. i think the key with manafort and gates is that these are guys who know how to move money around the world.

and they have obviously, as alleged in the indictments, have been doing so in a way that evades law enforcement for a very long time. so if special counsel's investigation -- we don't know yet. but if one angle they are looking at is whether or not there are any foreign monies that were either attempted to come into the campaign or did come into that campaign, manafort and gates are the guys who would know about it. that might be one angle they are looking at. >> michael, topic switch. do you think trump will be able to pass a federal death sentence for drug dealers? >> i certainly hope not. >> why? >> during my tenure at justice, i was deputy chief of the narcotics and dangerous drugs section during the reagan years. nancy reagan more or less had it right, saying we in the united states need to focus on the demand side. why is there such a demand for

drugs? why do we have such high drug usage. focusing our attention on the seller's side and ratcheting up that. we saw the three strikes laws in new york. and those draconian laws do not affect the seller's side if there is a big drug use. to model this after singapore, which does put people to death, is just, to me, frightening. singapore is not a democracy in the sense that the united states is. you can be charged for same-sex activity. two years criminal. you have no right to prevent a warrant into your house. chewing gum is a crime. modeling ourselves after singapore to get a death penalty in respect to drug sales for

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amid the allegations that president trump had affairs. what have you learned? >> she will actually address the gun issue at this luncheon and not shy away from talking about the shooting in parkland, florida. it is unusual to hear her speak building a policy issue. 2018 has been a no good, horrible, very bad year for the first lady, especially involving the allegations with her husband. she has been stoic. we have certainly not heard from her very much. she has given several nonverbal cues. she has shown perz to be independent as well as mysterious. she has not expressed emotion that much. she has not gone on speaking tours. she made a handful of day trips.

she was in asia for part of the president's trip, in europe last year. but, again, mostly silent, not giving a lot of speaking opportunities. so today is an interesting day for the first lady. >> i think mysterious is the right word to describe how she's feeling through all of this and that she's doing. considering what the headlines have been, she's also done little to disspell the stories. so what do you make of that? >> that's true too. sometimes i think in presidential marriages. we can look at the clintons. even jfk and jackie. how the first couple handles headlines and rumors is indicative of how they are individually. this is not a first couple that we're used to. we're used to the obamas sending mushy text messages and marking anniversaries. this isn't the case with donald and medical hrarllaania trump.

she drove separately to the state of the union address. even taking a separate motorcade to the plane after another salacious headline broke. we canceled her trip to the davos, spitzer land. the office said these are scheduling issues. but one cannot help but wonder. >> none of that seems typical. but we just don't know how to handle this. >> kate, thank you. we're looking for clues as to whether or not there could be -- remember all of this stuff. >> when she slapped this stuff. >> look no further. >> whatever happens, happens.

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north korea now says it's open to talking with the united states. a senior north korean regime official tells south korea that the doors are open for dialogue with the u.s. it follows new sanctions up posed by the trump administration on north korea. joining us now is former director of the cia and nsa, general michael hayden. good morning. >> good morning. >> pictures speak a thousand words, as you know. this is very interesting stuff. this was vice president pence and mrs. pence at the opening ceremony of the olympics. here when the delegation from north korea of athletes and south korea together walked out, you see the north koreans, sort of jubilant but mike pence and his wife still sitting. contrast that to this picture,

which is not the one that i wanted. this is the one of the closing ceremonies of ivanka. you see her standing when the north korean and associate soerbg an desouth korean delegation came out, she's standing and applauding. i think the general that was sent from north korea was also in this group. here it is. she appears to be smiling in his general direction. that's the general from north korea. also known as a spy. and he is smiling had her general direction. what do we make of any of these optics? >> the first is we have mixed messages with regard to how the vice president behaves and how ivanka trump behaves fpltd look, put me in the second column. that's fine to acknowledge the presence of a human being

doesn't carry that deep a diplomatic measure. frankly, her stepping up and cheering the combined korean team is a better choice than not doing it because most of the team is composed of south koreans. i'm quite content there. back, alisyn, to the original thought. mixed messages. the north koreans are looking for signals from us. the second signal is better but not the same as the first, is it? >> it's not. and that's confusing. look, these things are, as you know, from the government, tightly orchestrated and choreographed. eiowa srapbg qaa standing up would signal they are open to talks. >> you got that emotive content there. the vice president said they

would be open to talking to the north without preseasons. it is an important policy statement and one i hope that continues to be the policy of the united states. >> isn't the precondition that they want a denuclearization? >> that is the overarching goal but not the preseason for talks. you're correct, alisyn. last summer, that's how we formulated this. we would not begin to talk with the north koreans if they had not agreed with regard to denuclearization. that is our ultimate objective. we are now committed, and i hope we continue to be committed to begin talks without our agreeing to stop our exercise program, without their agreeing to stop missile testing and imposing very harsh sanctions and we don't ease up as a precondition to get them to the table. >> what's the very best that can come out of the talks

realistically? >> in my view, and i know the trump administration will find it difficult to accept this, that we cap slow, make more transparent a nuclear program in north korea that the regime is incapable of giving up. >> okay. let's move on to mexico. the president was supposed to come to the white house for a visit. that has now been canceled because of this tense phone call as reported by the "washington post" and cnn, over, again, who would pay for the wall between the u.s. and mexico. and the president wanted to say that mexico would not pay for it. what are the implications of this? >> i totally understand it. there is a presidential election in mexico this year. to have their president come here and be publicly humiliated

calling for mexico to pay for the wall would have serious harm on his party. i understand why he didn't do it. i think there is a broader lesson here. actions have consequences. the president has publicly humiliated mexico for the better part of the last three years with this i'm going to build a wall and they're going to pay for it. that has effect on the mexican body politic. and now it has made it harder for us to get to a good place with the current mexican government. >> great to talk to you. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you cnn talk is next. for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> that firearm did not walk itself into the school. >> of course i won't resign. the school resource officer was behind a stairwell wall just stan