>> i'll finally be able to sleep. >> and high maintenance anchors you deal with. >> she is our hope hicks. we can't live without you. >> our hope hicks. you can't top that. and the high-maintenance anchors huff to deal with here. >> poem picks. >> she's your news whisperer. have a great time in d.c. >> thank you. >> you made us better. >> i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" has a lot of material. see you next week. >> this trade policy will be disastrous. >> it's been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful. >> you hold your breath, they may change their mind on policy

issues. >> this is a shotgun approach. this hits the whole world. >> general mcmaster could leave his position in the white house as soon as the end of this month. >> if you're running people in and out like an nba basketball game, it's not going to work. >> does the president want to get rid of his attorney general? >> not that i know of. >> ivanka trump could be impacted by her own business deal. she could be impacted by her husband. >> it raises profound epic concerns. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". it's friday, march 2nd, 6:00 here in new york. and here's the starting line. trump is doing what he does best, being provocative. it is causing problems around the white house and now the world. global markets yesterday sharply down. look at the futures today, negative territory.

why? fears of a trade war. his announcement that u.s. is going to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. in a new tweet moments ago. we will read it to you in a second. adding to the policy disarray, the president's positions on gun control may be going the way of immigration, which is to say nowhere. after talking tough on guns in that televised meeting with lawmakers, the president met last night with an nra executive. he took to twitter to claim that mr. trump does not want gun control after all. >> so confusion over president trump's policies and the chaos in the west wing leading to questions about what's next. cnn has learned that national security adviser h.r. mcmaster could be leaving by the end of the month. now the president's daughter is under scrutiny.

counterintelligence officials are looking into her getting a security clearance. >> reporter: that's right, alisyn. good morning. the president's hasty announcement of a trade war appears to have been spooking markets. now he is doubling down in a tweet. when a country usa is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country they and get cute, we win. it's easy. it looks like the trade war fears are real and the president is stoking them this morning. >> it will be 25% for steel, 10% for aluminum. it will be for a long period of time. >> reporter: president trump sending shock waves through washington and around the world, announcing his administration will impose punishing tariffs on

steel and aluminum imports despite strong objections from advisers of his own party. >> what's been allowed to go on for decades is disgraceful. it's disgraceful. >> reporter: fears of a trade war ending with the stock marked plummeting and uniting lawmakers. >> we have tried it a whole bunch of times the last two centuries. and every time american families have suffered. it's bad policy. >> reporter: a spokesman for house speaker paul ryan urging the president to consider the unintended consequences of this idea and look at other approaches. senate finance chair orrin hatch worried it's an a tax hike the american people don't need. president trump's chief economic adviser gary cohn is threaten to

go resign if tariffs are imposed. another bizarre policy twist, the nra's to be lobbyist, chris cox, signals that may be backing down from his surprising support for gun control one day after saying this. >> some of you people are petrified of the nra. you can't be petrified. it doesn't make sense i have to wait until i'm 21 to get a handgun but i can get this weapon at 18. i don't know. take the guns first. go through due process second. >> reporter: after meeting with the president, cox tweeted he supported due process and does not want gun control. the president believes in the second amendment which asked about the shift. president trump tweeting that the nra meeting was great. >> i think he is just entertaining both sides. i think he is listening to hear what both sides have to say. >> reporter: fueling questions about the president's ability to govern, given the chaos inside the west wing. after months of tension with president trump, an administration official tells

cnn that national security adviser h.r. mcmaster could be out by the end of this month, joining a growing list of staffers that left the administration. the white house denies his departure is imminent. but there are a number of names being floated as replacements. and the fbi is scrutinizing negotiations and financing surrounding the trump international hotel and tower in vancouver. the president's daughter ivanka played a key role in getting the deal off the ground. the federal broken could prevent ivanka from obtaining a full security clearance, something her lawyer refutes. troubles keep mounting for ivanka trump and jared kushner. ethical questions are mounting about the $500 billion in loans his real estate company received from businessmen who met with him at the white house. meanwhile, president trump is expected to leave this morning to head to billy graham's funeral this afternoon.

>> all right, abby, thank you very much. let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and brian karen. good to see you. we are doing politics by tweet this morning. it is important because it has literally global reverberations and implications. let's read this tweet again. abby had it in her piece, but really you need to hear it. it came out very, very recently. when a country, us, is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good. now, you have never heard a u.s. president say that before because they listen to their advisers, specifically the economic advisers, who would never say this. then he goes on to say, and easy to win. which we have almost never experienced with one of these. example, when we are down 100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don't trade anymore. we win big. it's easy. okay. bri brian, none of this is really accurate in terms of the

economists and the advisers who are surrounding the president. why is he being so impulsive to do something people are asking him not to do? >> because that's who donald trump is. he is as impulsive as he wants to be. if he has a thought, he tweets it. you're right. the big point is there have been advisers, many of whom we see on a daily basis in the white house, that have been giving him advice what to do, how to tweet, how to conduct himself, and he doesn't listen. bottom line is, if he wants to tweet it, if he feels it, he does it. >> "the wall street journal" as an editorial out today. president trump made the biggest blunder by announcing next week he will eupl invite retaliation that will harm u.s. exports. who does it work for?

>> it works for the protectionist base that bannon advocated for and trump appealed to. this has been a core of his message. he has never been a free trader. he is alienating key advisers like gary cohn. forgotten men and women of western pennsylvania, eastern ohio. we will have more protectionist trade policy. we're going to fight for you. you have been screwed over by bad deals in the past. it is offensive to the consumers who finally have to confront he has never been on their side. >> it is certainly not a conservative policy. they are not in favor of these traditionally. look at the markets right now, okay. here are your futures. the markets were down yesterday. here they are right now. red arrows are bad. we all know that. what is going on in terms of the metrics of the tariff also is important. steel, the tariff is going to be less of an impact because we take in -- we import less of our

steel. aluminum is really the game here that he is playing on. and the layers of implications distress all the all the different constituencies. you hear them say it will hurt workers. you may see layoffs because that's what companies do when the bottom line is affected. they will pass on the cost, decide to swallow it, which we almost never see, or on the supply side of their own saving. the question becomes, what happens next? he does this. what are all of his advisers worried about happening? >> i think what you should be worried about is those advisers who are going to flee. the best and the brightest, it's becoming increasingly difficult to attract decent help at the white house if you can't get the guy who is in charge to listen to what you're saying and you're the expert in saying it. >> what do they think is going to happen after this tariff that is unacceptable? >> most economists will tell you

it may work in a very short run. but when you look at the long game a year or two years out, what you have talked about is exactly what the problem is going to be. it will tank the economy. increase costs. it will hurt the very workers that he claims he wants to help. and that's the end game. >> yeah. you know, look, there are deep divisions inside this white house in the republican party. protectionist advisers like navarro, free traders like cohn. there is a pennsylvania special election coming up. did that, the prospect of that lead him impulsively to this decision. sounds crazy, but that's the trump white house. >> let's talk about policy. today we are promised i think by saur ra sanders, we would get actual specifics on where the president is on gun policy. the whole country has been used since parkland. it was the boardroom.

but now it sounds like because of that meeting and lawmakers were left feeling confused by where the president said, now it is being pushed back in terms of policy specifics. and we know the president last night met with the nra. and as we all know, there is a feeling that whoever has the president's ear last is who wins. >> that is exactly what ben sasse said in a statement after that meeting. you know, we're not going to change policy and principles based on who spoke to the president last. the tphar tphar called that bluff. then the president sounds like niece back in the fold.nra call. then the president sounds like niece back in the fold. the last person to have talked to him has been the nra. and cornyn's bill, has 49 cosponsors, has stalled. >> that's why you have the qualifier of cautiously optimistic. it was good tv. now you can't be distracted by the tv quality because the

policy implications often fall short. this was an compact repeat of what we saw with the daca meeting. feinstein all giddy. he gets it, he gets it. this is great. >> is that your feinstein? >> he gives her the high fold. he yeah, i'd be good with that. then we will do the other stuff. and the republicans, no, no, no, we can't do any of this stuff. then nothing happens. look, it is so offensive to the people who are pushing for this kind of change. immigration lives on the line. you know that. you reported on it. literally lives lost. kids coming forward. him saying he wants to do something. if you wind up with the same impasse, this is a double insult. >> put it in perspective. this is a presidency that pretends it is transparent but is as opaque as it comes.

everything is staged. it looks like an episode -- you go back to the reality of the situation. we're not getting our questions in, not finding out real solutions. at the end of the day, chaos reigns. it only seems to be a accelerating. >> it is clearly having a toll on white house personnel too. there are reports of germ kpaufrgz. gary cohn upset about the steel deal. but h.r. mcmaster looking -- >> that's over the nuclear arms thing. that's been going on two weeks ago. two weeks ago. he walked into that briefing room, mulvaney, and told us we would spend $50 billion upgrading and enhancing our nuclear policy. on the same day or the day before the president came out in one of his speeches said, listen, we're going to have the biggest and best nuclear defense

system and they abandoned what has been a traditional leading role for the u.s. the last 50 years, banning nuclear disarmament. we're not going to lead. and that is the source of some of the friction between mcmaster and the president. the rest of it, as we're told by those close to the source, is that he doesn't want to listen when someone tells him specifically what's going on. i'm sorry. but just to finish the point. yesterday you had anthony scaramucci on here who outlined something we all know from covering the white house. morale has never been lower. i told jim before, it's like you walk into that white house and it's like somebody stole their dog. they are walking around with looks on their face. they're overworked, underpaid and can't get anything done. and they can't attract people to get it done. that's the problem. >> the first two things, overworked, underpaid is typical. can't get anything done is different. and the best people are leaving. the people who have the courage

to tell president what he needs to know, it is not only bad for the president but it's bad for the country. >> who should play him on saturday night live. alex baldwin, which is not exactly his name, whose dieing, not spelled right, mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on "snl" now says playing deejay t was agnew for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch. you were additional. bring back darrell hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. i think he should resubmit for spelling errors. >> you were president of the united states. they put out everything you write for months taeurts. >> the president of the united states woke up at 5:42 this morning and the first thing he

is thinking is who should play him on saturday night live. it is beneath the office and shows he should be in the role he's happy with. being famous for famous sake. responsibility doesn't seem to suit him. >> as a newspaper editor, i just want to say blech. somebody teach the man grammar and spelling. i'm just praying somebody does. >> i'm sure it was just auto correct. the true demon in all grammatical errors. you have to surrender the me to the we. i get tariffs send like a good strength. you mess with us, we mess with you. that's not the way it works. when he focuses, on this, we're going to move on. it winds up disrupting the rest of the agenda. >> thank you. the uphaoefl in the west wing,

the national security adviser may be the next one out. there is reporting behind that. can the president stop this revolving door? we take a look at that next. . like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters.

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h.r. mcmaster may be out by the end of the month. let's bring back john avlon and karem. it sounds like people on both sides were excited about this. he was somebody who everybody admired. he had a great reputation. so if he's out, who replaces him? what do we think happens next, john? >> names are being floated, including john bolton. it makes people nervous. extreme right hawk. look, this is a real loss potentially for the west wing. mcmaster is widely admired, he had the cajones to tell the president what he needed to hear whether he liked it or not. >> he's very professional. i've known him since the gulf war. the first time i ran him him was during a tank battle. straight up one of the nicest,

most professional guys. when he conducts a briefing in the white house, it's straeurbgts to the point. when he's talking to you, he's on on point. he's not spinning. the guy, as you said, has had the reputation of going straight to the president and tells him what he needs to hear, not necessarily what he wants to hear. >> if he waves you off, he tells you why i'm waving you off. he doesn't say that's a bad question or that's fake news. he stays straight. even if you don't believe any of what was just said, the timing is terrible. hopefully what the president said yesterday about being fake news that nbc reported. he looked at mcmaster and said, you're doing a great job. doing a great job. hopefully that's truish. he's doubling up whether you should do something against

north korea. you have putin basically for an audience of one looking at donald trump saying i'm the big dog. you need a associate mind right now. >> more than ever. >> he is a thoughtful man. even when he disagrees with the president, he's trying to be loyal. he is keeping the constitution in mind. his strong national security experience in conjunction with mat his and chief of staff. if someone new comes in, it will be problematic for the country. >> we look at hope hicks leaving and the turnover. >> let's pull it up. to remind everybody of the important people in the white house who have left. look at the white house departures. starting with mike flynn. you forget some of these people. sean spicer, reince priebus, anthony scaramucci, steve bannon. it goes all the way down to hope hicks. and omarosa is also featured.

>> we still don't know what she did there. >> this is, to your point, not politics. >> i'd like to think that he stays. having known the man, i respect him deeply. but that guy leaving is -- on the hope hicks scale. this is a global scale. particularly when you have problems with north korea and syria. we have been pressing that question. >> and russia. >> that has been pushed in the press briefing the past month.

>> we all have an interest in the key apparatus being run by professionals. the cost of captain chaos and control is 34% of high-level appointments gone in the first year. now, they'll say this is insider concern. this is what he does. he likes people in and out. it is having an impact on people. we have poll numbers that show where people's relative sense of concern is about things. let's put up some of it. >> well, here's the has trump done a good job choosing top advisers? >> i think this is a generous number. that he has 35% positive, i don't know who people are liking outside the general. >> are you concerned about employees working without security clearance? 70% of respondents say, yes, they are concerned. that leads us to ivanka. here is the new reporting. she is being scrutinized for one

of her international business deals, trump hotel, in vancouver. we're not sure why they are skraout needing this. that is preventing her from having a full security clearance. she and jared now both don't. what does this mean? >> i have news for you. it might be nothing. the president of the united states certainly it is within his purview to hand to ivanka and to jared his daily briefing if he so desires. so while it may be nice and may give us a comfort level if they have the security clearances, at the end of the day it may mean absolutely nothing to the operation of the white house. and that's the frightening part. that's why you have nepotism laws. they all throw up robert and john ken did you. but, you know, robert kennedy and jared, not really. >> the problem is they would

echo each other's politics no matter what. >> right. >> you're not talking about what external things they may be arguing. we have never seen sophisticated people like this before. they hold stock in a company. you can put it in a trust. they're fine, they're clean. but also it's about what your priority is. if she's cutting deals for herself while she's working with america, you're going to have a problem. her husband is in the same boat. >> that's what we heard with jared yesterday. thank you, john avlon. brian, thank you. this major storm is targeting the northeast. residents along the new england coast are urged to evacuate. we are tracking this powerful nor'easter. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job from any one else. why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. flonase.

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this rain and wind. at the same time, alisyn, as you know, what they are worried about is the consecutive high tide hitting this area later this afternoon. this could be interesting as the day continues. >> take cover. that one looks like a nasty one. so thank you very much for the reporting. we'll check back with you. this powerful storm is forcing the federal government in washington, d.c. to close today. cnn meteorologist jennifer gray has our forecast. what are you seeing, jennifer? >> alisyn, this is a big one. in places like scituate, boston, things will deteriorate throughout the day. they could be the hardest hit when all is said and done. rain for the big cities. we will see heavy, wet snow. upstate new york could pick up a foot of snow. downed trees and power outages as well. gusts up to 70 miles per hour along these areas, especially like new york, boston, eastern massachusetts, and eastern long

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trump's business deals at the trump tower and hotel in vancouver. let's bring in walter shaub. great to see you. >> good morning. >> so, listen, i i remember you were trying to sound the alarm even before the inauguration of the possible ethical red flags that you saw coming down the pipeline. what do you think of this news today that the fbi is looking into one of ivanka trump's business deals? >> sometimes it's just no fun to be right. but this administration has lived up to every dire warning i gave a year ago. this is yet another fruit of nepotism. that is the gift that just keeps on on giving if you like gifts of disaster. here they brought ivanka trump into the white house, same with

her husband jared kushner, and allowed them to keep the types of assets that you don't normally let a senior white house presidential adviser keep. and there's a reason you don't let them keep them. it causes conflicts of interest. it raises security clearance concerns. and of course the types of products they kept involved licensing deals, which are very complex things. you have to raise capital for the real estate deals. and often that involves foreign companies or foreign countries. and you have to work with partners overseas on licenses and trademarks. she is heavily entangled because of the choice they made because of nepotism. >> is that why you think ivanka trump doesn't have full security clearance? >> i'm sure it's a piece of it. we know that because of the

reports that the fbi is looking into this. the fbi is not looking into this as far as we can tell, as some criminal matter they have gotten involved in because they heard an allegation of wrongdoing. the fbi conducts the security clearance background investigations for white house officials. so you could literally say the fbi is investigating every white house official or every top official and that would sound worse than it is if you didn't know it was part of the background investigation. but the report that they have zeroed in means there's details that are concerning. >> that is part and parcel of the background check. ben carson, the hud secretary, he ordered a $31,000 dining set, piece of furniture. it's all mahogany, apparently

beautiful. on what planet is that okay? his budget was 5,000 for the entire office. >> this is all from the top. i said in my speech back in january when i sounded warning the tone from the top was going to have an effect on his top officials and could trickle down lower. so you've got the president spending tons of money going to mar-a-lago about every other weekend and officials flying around on luxury jets, coins with secretary zinke's name, or the cone of silence that pruitt installed straight out of maxwell smart. so now you have ben carson taking his turn living like a french noble before the

revolution. i think they are a pointed to be french nobles. there is no reflection of the sentiment that in a republic, you're a public servant. you're not nobility. you're not supposed to be splurging with taxpayer money on these kind of luxuries. and if i could just add the most ridiculous line in ben carson's statement was he was told the $25,000 that they added to the original 5,000 pot for redecorating was money that would have been, as he put it, lost if he didn't spend it on this dining room set. that goes to show how little he knows about government. it wouldn't be lost. it would be put back into the pot of money used for other important taxpayer projects. it would only be lost to anyone who wanted to pwaou a fabulous dining room set. >> we are happy to report he has canceled that dining set and

says that was that a mistake. walter, thank you for giving us your thoughts on this. >> thanks. >> a college baseball coach is refuse to go consider a recruit from colorado because of the state's marijuana laws. now the school is taking action. the "bleacher report" next. -yeah. -sure, i want that discount on car insurance just for owning a home, but i'm not compromising. -you're taking a shower? -water pressure's crucial, scott! it's like they say -- location, location, koi pond. -they don't say that. it's like they say -- location, location, koi pond. want us to do about what woulthis president?fathers i'm tom steyer, and when those patriots wrote the constitution here in philadelphia, they had just repelled an invading foreign power. so they created the commander in chief

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arizona's coach returning to the sidelines saying he did nothing wrong. andy scholes has more in the "bleacher report". what have you got? >> sean miller did not coach last weekend after an espn report claiming the fbi had a wiretap of miller discussing payment to deandre aiden. after weeks of discussions with the school, miller returning to the sidelines last night. before the game he proclaimed his innocence, slamming that espn report. >> let me be very, very clear. i have never discussed with christian dawkins paying deandre aiden to attend the university of arizona. any reporting to the contrary is inaccurate, false, and

defamatory. i'm outraged by the media statements made and the acceptance by many that these statements were true. there was no such conversation. >> despite miller's denial, espn is standing by its original reporting. texas wesleyan baseball coach. he said he was not looking at recruiting players in colorado and how he feared they wouldn't pass drug tests. he said you can thank your liberal politicians. the school said it does not discriminate on the basis of the public policy of any state. >> i guess they don't anymore, if they ever did. but that was quite a story yesterday, andy. thank you very much. so after her teacher fired a gun inside her school, a georgia

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in the wake of the florida school massacre, president trump and the nra are push to go arm teachers as one way to prevent mass shootings. this week a georgia high school teacher was arrested after barricading himself in a classroom and firing a handgun out of a window. cnn's gary tuckman has all the details. >> reporter: for those who support arming school teachers, jesse randall davidson would not be the role model they're looking for. the 53-year-old social studies teacher at dalton high school in north georgia locked himself in his otherwise empty classroom and then is accused of shooting his handgun. >> this is the classroom where the teacher was at. and this is the window where he fired his gun. and it's now boarded up. >> reporter: the school principal said he went to the

classroom twice after he heard he was not coming out. >> he told me he had a gun. shortly after that i heard a gunshot. >> reporter: nobody was hit by the single gunshot, but panicked ensued. the school went into lockdown. if police know the motive of the shooting, they're not saying. >> i was shaking is and crying and hold anything best friend's hands and strangers's hands. we were just communicating with everybody, trying to see what happened. >> all you hear is the footsteps. we didn't know who it was in the hall way. we were scared every time we heard footsteps. we didn't know who was going to come from us. if it was good people, be bad people. >> reporter: the teacher is not unknown to police. he threatwasn't arrested but re medical treatment. the school says it is aware of

his medical history. >> sir, according to a police repo report, this teacher had said he was involved in the murder of a person who turned out to be a fictional person. did you know about that and if you did, why would he be allowed to continue teaching here? >> i'm aware of the police report. but as far as i'm aware, he was fit to be at work yesterday. >> does that concern you knowing the specifics about that police report? >> again, i'm aware of the report, but he was fit to be at work yesterday. >> why would he have been fit if that was the police report? >> i can't answer why. >> the police report is not medical information. >> any information about his condition is. and that's your question, sir. >> reporter: gary tuckman, cnn, dalton, georgia. >> we have two different things going on. there is a school who has to make sure their behavior was okay, not exposing themselves to liability. that happens at an institutional level. how can you change the rules so

they do know he is in distress. he has had problems like this. when will that start counting in the process of who gets access to weapons and who does not? so when the story broke a junior from the school tweeted the nra, quote, my favorite teacher at dalton high school just blockaded his door and proceeded to shoot. we had to run out the back of the school in the rain. students were being trampled and screaming. i dare you to tell me arming teachers will make us safe. she joins us now. can you hear us? >> hi. yeah, i can. >> thank you for joining us. how are you feeling this morning? how are your friends doing? in it's hard for all of us, but we are all staying together and staying strong. >> so when this happened yesterday, first, let's talk about the moment and what that meant and then your reaction afterwards. when you got the signal that you needed to evacuate, what did

people think was going on and what was going through your head? >> based on the events that have been happening around us, everyone thought that it was a shooting. and so we were all just terrified and running for what we thought was our lives. >> and when you found out who was involved, you know this teacher. you like this teacher. what did you think about that? >> i was completely shocked. i did not expect this at all from him. and now that i know more of the story, i feel like -- i just feel bad for him. >> it seems like he is dealing with some serious personal issues. but when he would be in the classroom or dealing with you at school, tell us about the man that you knew, the teacher you knew. >> he was always really kind and funny. if he saw kids being bullied, he

would stop it. if he saw quiet kids, he would always try to include them. he was just a great guy. >> the reason i'm asking you is there is this temptation in society to say if somebody has mental health there's something bad about them. they are somehow inherently dangerous. we know that's not true in terms of statistics, but i just wanted to get a sense of what kind on of man this was. you said this was a good person. he liked the kids. it's important that somebody know that even though they wind up doing something like this. in the aftermath, you decided to do something. you wanted to tweet the nra. why the nra? why did it matter to you so much? what motivated that tweet? >> i already knew that it was a bad idea to arm teachers with guns. i just thought that it didn't sound very logical. and after this happened, this just goes to prove that it's not good. i know that mr. davidson would never try to hurt anyone and i

just fear if it was a different teacher -- if more teachers have guns, this could have been a lot more tragic than it was. >> the other thing, the other side of this is, well, god forbid, if this were a shooter inside the school. if you had a number of your teachers who were skilled and wanted to volunteer and knew how to use a weapon, it might take that shooter out before he could take other people's lives. why doesn't that mean enough to you? >> you never know -- if you give a teacher a gun, they could be fined whenever they're issued it. maybe they might stphapl. i hope this doesn't happen, but they could do something. if there was a shooter in the school and we need to be protected, i think maybe we should have more sisters in the school. we go to a school with over 1,000 kids -- almost 2,000 kids. we have one police officer in our school. so maybe