himself. >> reyes says she has four children of her own and often helped comfort babies on the long flights. i'm sure the mother and the other passengers were grateful. i'm dana. here's shep. >> shepard: if there was ever any question, even a single question, there is no more. russia attacked the united states of america. coordinated government sponsored campaign to undermine america's democracy, eventually in support of donald trump and against hillary clinton. i'm shepard smith in new york. a brand new indictment indicates the russians elaborate job line operations convinced us americans to attend political rallies that the russians organized. the russians set up websites and facebook pages and twitter accounts pretending to be americans. and dooped us into following them and friending them and retweeting them. the russians infiltrated our

system, manipulated us on behalf of vladimir putin and they did it online and in person on our soil. russians came to swing states in the united states, pretending to be americans and tried to convince us americans that they're part of the system. not working against it. and the russians say this indictment posed as americans and communicated with unwitting people associated with the trump campaign to try to coordinate political activities. that's a blockbuster charge. russians, thought to be americans, working with trump supporters or allies to do politics together. the russian investigation is the opposite of a hoax. and now indictments against russian organizations and persons have been handed up. this afternoon, the deputy

attorney general rod rosenstein announced the indictment of 13 russian nationals and three russian companies with setting up an intricate and elaborate million-dollar plus plot to influence american voters. now we know how vulnerable we were and how effective the russians became. >> the defendants allegedly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states. with the stated goal of spreading distrust toward the candidates and the political system in general. >> shepard: the feds charge the russians set up the elaborate system made to appear to originate in the united states, operated by americans but actually controlled from and paid for by russian leadership. coordinated out of a large bot farm in st. petersburg, russia. this dated back to 2013. a coordinated on-the-ground

effort. they bought properties in the united states, set up systems in the united states in a bold attack on the united states with a long-term vision. >> in order to hide the russian origins of their activities, the defendants allegedly purchased space on computer servers located here in the united states in order to set up a virtual private network. the defendants allegedly used that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks such as facebook, instagram and twitter making it appear that those accounts were controlled by persons located in the united states. >> shepard: one day they set up two rallies. one in support of the republican candidate, one in opposition to the republican candidate in the same city. new york. at the same time. the russian defendants allegedly used the infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on facebook, instagram and

twitter. russian bots are very very real. they engaged in information warfare. they attacked our democracy, attacking it now and coming for us in the 2018 mid-terms. the 38-page indictment makes it perfectly clear, u.s. investigators have since infiltrated this system on the ground in st. petersburg, russia. th they bested the russians cold. we do not know what comes next. the chances that they'll ever actually face justice, that's another matter. but they have been called out. we cannot know what gorge papadopoulos and mike flynn are doing. we don't know what rick gates notes in connect shun with his reported plea deal. we don't know what information

or documents they offered to the prosecutor to get a plea deal to cooperating. now just today, in the last hour, there's a four cooperator. his name is richard pineto. we learned of him 45 minutes ago. he was indicted two weeks ago. he's a california man that pleaded guilty to identity fraud, knowingly using the ids of other people in connection with unlawful activity and paid for doing so. he bought and sold bank account numbers to get around online payment security systems for three years. in exchange for pleading guilty, he's cooperating with mueller. that's four people with knowledge cooperating. one more thing. mueller has identified at least 30 communications between campaign officials of the trump organization and the russians. we do not know if any of those that were contacted were

indicted today. information warfare. our chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge from the justice department. that was extraordinary. >> it was, shepard. i want you to get this concept into you remember mind, which is something called the gray zone. this is the battle space between peace and conventional warfare and where bad actors like russia and north korea and china go to play. they cannot compete directly with the united states militarily or economically. what this indictment laid out today is a classic example of gray zone warfare. the use of information. the russians play the long game. this indictment statements clearly that they started seeding this operation back in 2013 and 2014, and then they ramped it up in 2016 taking about five or six dozen employees just to focus on this issue of russian interference in the election. here's the deputy attorney general from earlier today.

>> use stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. >> the u.s. intelligence community assessment about the election said the russians were aiming to help candidate trump and to hurt or disparage hillary clinton. that is repeated in the indictment today, but it's amplified with additional evidence that raised a high enough bar that they could pursue a criminal prosecution. the key question among reporters is today is whether anyone on the trump campaign knew they were dealing with russians at the time or they thought they were dealing with american citizens. here's the deputy attorney general once again. >> there's no allegation in this indictment that any american was

a knowing participant in this illegal activity. there is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. >> the indictment makes a point that you mentioned earlier. after the election, the russians and through these cut-outs that appeared to be americans organized rallies to support the newly-elected president of the united states, but then also rallies to work against his election. if you look at some of the fine print in the indictment, you see it's an allegation that they also wanted to not help candidate cruz and not help candidate rubio and they wanted to help bernie sanders who was hillary clinton's direct opponent, shep. >> shepard: i'm looking at some of the names of these accounts. some of them have been retweeted by members of the first family. one of them had purported to be the gop spot of the state of tennessee. tngop. it's a bot.

it's russians. it's been tweeting at us and trying to influence us with thousands and thousands of followers for years. >> well, one of the issues that came through to me at the justice department is that the deputy attorney general made the point of operations in the future. you know from earlier this week, all of the intelligence officials made the case there's evidence that the russians are targeting the mid-term elections. what we heard today is not in a vacuum. but the russians played a long game, they are chess players and they also see this as an inexpensive way to create chaos and discord within the system and undermine the democratic process. i asked the deputy attorney general what the chances were of these russians being brought to the united states for prosecution. here it's his answer. >> no communication with the russians about this. we'll follow the ordinary process of seeking cooperation

and extradition. >> in my experience, an indictment like this has two functions. it puts out in the public square information that every american can read and make their own decisions about what happened in the 2016 election and there's enough evidence to bring criminal charges. if they're indicted, there would be a platform to bring charges against them. >> shepard: you asked about that. extradition is out there. >> we're waiting for edward snowden, right? >> shepard: yeah. so it's not as if you can them. >> no. >> shepard: catherine, this document, have you ever seen anything like it? >> i have never seen a document white like this. i have never seen -- this is a lot of leg work and a lot of good old fashioned shoe leather investigation that went into this document. what also struck me at the news conference today is that this deputy attorney general had a

tone that was very sort of politically neutral in many ways. he answered the questions that people had about whether people on the trump campaign knew they were dealing with russians and he was quite category that they thought they were dealing with american citizens. we'll leave that for others to decide. that was his position today and this was a national security issue with a pending mid-term election. i have never seen a document like this. i think it speaks to this level of sophistication with the russians. remember this term "the gray zone", this is the theme going forward. this is where the russians go to play when they cannot compete with us and one of their goals is to sow discord and chaos and undermine our faith in the democratic process. most of all, to divide us. i think you can make the argument that is one of the objectives that they have achieved in this. >> shepard: no doubt. thank you, catherine. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: if you look at the

indictment and you should, the russians have engaged in information warfare to disrupt hour democracy. it's worth looking into. every time the prosecutors use the word "defendant" or defendants they follow it by co conspirators. we don't know if they're americans. we don't know if they're members of the trump campaign. we don't have any of that information yet. this is not over. there's much more to go here. there's two cooperating now -- there's three cooperating now. another about to cooperate. rick gates deal is about to come through and we'll know more. the russia investigation will continue and we will ask the question, the congress of the united states has said vladimir putin must be sanctioned for all he's done against the united states of america. the president has said no.

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>> shepard: continuing coverage on the indictment issued by the special counsel and the deputy attorney general. just getting video. the president has deported and

of course -- listen. the reporters will ask him questions. >> will you punish russia? >> come over and talk. >> do you feel vindicated? >> will you put sanctions on russia. >> nothing on russia, mr. president? >> mr. president. >> shepard: sanctions on russia, mr. president? will there be sanctions on russia? they attacked our democracy. congress recommended sanctions. will you sanction? these are live pictures from joint base andrews. the indictment claims the defendants and others that worked with them. as i said to you, we continue to watch this, the defendants and they've co conspirators. if they work to communicate with unwitting members of the trump

campaign and as well as their volunteers. there's no indication that anyone in the trump campaign was aware of the russian activity. let's go to jeffery cramer and former u.s. assistant attorney general. what do these indictments say to you? >> a few things. first, i think it's safe to say that you can put the phrase "russian hoax" to the side. that's been established. the other thing that struck me after a couple readings of the indictment is how well-coordinated they were. >> shepard: incredible. >> it's been years. they set up what they needed to set up with respect to servers. they figure out how to get the money in. mueller did a good job of tieing that individual up with a bow and a plea agreement. and they played the lawn game. if this wasn't disrespected, this would have continued going forward. if you have to look at it stepping back for a second, as

any sort of conspiracy, very well constructed, very well-funded and very well-executed. >> shepard: and out of moscow. the bot farm is in st. petersburg but the money is coming from vlad. >> it's safe to say. there's some things that looks like they had russian corporate records which usually in this case, a mutual lateral assistance treaty which is how u.s. authorities get information from foreign governments. that's not how they got that here. they had an address, a semblance of information in russia. there's no doubt that this has a hand of the state government. >> shepard: jeffery, from my reading of this, they didn't solve this, didn't connect the dots online. this seems to indicate our folks infiltrated this operation in st. petersburg, russia, on the ground. >> that's a safe interpretation. certainly they had some inside information, which indicated

they had some data in st. petersburg. it started to unravel and they had somebody on the inside. you go out from there. you follow the money. sooner or later, the money has to get out. in this case it went through paypal. that's how they found this individual in california. >> shepard: this is not the end. obviously they still have the cooperating witnesses. ones that were close to the president. mike flynn, rick gates about to be there, the banking. what could someone offer and to what end to get a plea deal from this man? >> there's certainly -- it's a mosaic when you put these things together. there's individuals that have pled guilty. maybe they have information. maybe papadopoulos has information. maybe he doesn't. certainly they're going to try to extract what they can. we don't know yet where the individuals who have been indicted, some of whom have pled guilty figure into this or is it

more tangential. one thing is safe to say, if you look at what mueller and his team have done to date, it's impressive. they're moving at light speed, putting together sophisticated cases, not just this but the manafort case and the flynn matter as well. and they're moving forward. this is a north south indictment and they're going forward. >> shepard: from all that i have read, it is absolutely certain, according to the indictment, that thousands and thousands of you that went to rallies across this nation in support of, in opposition to, if you went to rallies across this nation, many of those rallies, jeffery, were not set up by americans. they were set up by russians. promoted by russians, advertised by russians, paid for by russians and americans came to yell at each other at the russian -- at russian manipulation. >> if it wasn't so tragic, could

be comical. we were our own worst enemies here. we were easy doops. retweeting information organized by the russians, originated with the bots and in st. petersburg and a foreign entity. >> shepard: one other thing they tried to do, discourage minorities from voting. particular hype and hatred for trump is misleading the people and forcing blacks to vote killery. we cannot resort to the lesser of two evils. then we would be better off not voting at all. one example from the instagram account called woke blacks. they went to michigan, florida, swing states. they had our system down pat. you have to wonder if somebody was helping them.

>> unwittingly or purposely, somebody was helping them. there's several take-aways from this. you're spot on. if you just step back, one seems clearly not to elect hillary clinton and to elect donald trump. although there's a reference to bernie sanders and jill stein in there as well. >> shepard: second thing is -- we want to listen to the president. he has tweeted. i'll tell you in a moment. >> shepard: we've all seen at times he will come to the cameras. the president has tweeted and here's the new tweet that just

came out. it says russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014 long before i announced that i would run for president. that's true. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong. no collusion. thanks very much, jeffery cramer, a former federal prosecutor, u.s. assistant to attorney. i want to go to chris wallace from "fox news sunday." your thoughts on this out of the gate. >> well, i think we have to be very careful about what this indictment says and what it doesn't say and what its political significance we're prepared to say at this point. in terms of what it says, it clearly indicates that there was a sophisticated russian campaign to use our social media, to use our political system to try to interfere in that political system. on the other hand, rosenstein, the deputy attorney general was

asked several times, and he said there's no allegation in this indictment that any american wittingly helped the russians. now, he's not saying that they didn't help them, but there's no allegation that they did help them. so you know, people can jump to conclusions all they want, but there's no evidence at this point that has been presented that there was any collusion between the trump campaign, trump associates and this russian effort to disrespect the election. on the other hand, i think it's very significant and largely because there had been such a push by the white house and by republicans on the house intelligence committee to in effect say that the special counsel investigation was going nowhere. the president, of course, talked about the russian hoax and even talked about the fbi and the clinton campaign and the obama white house, all of this was really an effort of them to undermine candidate trump and

president trump. this indicates no, the russians were involved in something, something very serious. does not point to collusion between the russians and the trump campaign, but it does indicate that what this really was about, for all the talk about the effort to get us to look at other things, what this is really about is russian interference in the u.s. presidential election and we need to remember that. >> shepard: and the congress has acknowledged that and suggested sanctions, which the president has not imposed. might there be increased pressure now to do so? >> well, yeah. i suppose. there's a lot of evidence of russian involvement. i'm not sure this ads tremendously to it. we knew the russians -- remember, this is something completely separate from what we knew about to a large degree. we didn't know about facebook and all of those things, which i guess this was involved with. there's a whole other questions, which has seemed to be the much more intrusive area and more

damaging area and that is the hacking of the dnc e-mail operation, the hacking of john podesta, the weaponization of that information on wikileaks. so that seems to be a completely different, maybe related, but a different arm of russian intrusion to the election and we've known about that. the sanctions have been passed and not imposed. >> shepard: it's clear there's separate sections of the investigation is ongoing. we know mike flynn is operating. we now know about this new guilty plea today in exchange, we would presume, for leniency of a guy facilitating the financing of all of the previous stuff announced by mueller but a plea agreement reached two weeks ago. we now know there's more that we don't know. >> yeah. i don't make a lot of this

fellow in california that pleaded guilty probably involved in identity theft. he was the conduit of being able to provide money to pay for all of the social information. in terms of any collaboration with any political campaigns, i can't imagine that he's a significant player. again, it's important to remember, yes, you have george papadopoulos as a cooperating witness. yes, you have michael flynn as a cooperating witness. perhaps. we don't know. we may have rick gates. we don't know what they're going to say and there's no evidence at this point of any evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> shepard: no, there isn't. what we don't know is what they have offered up. you don't get a plea deal unless you have something that is provable because if you lie about something, you give misinformation, you chances would be worse than previously or prior to a plea deal or very high. >> i agree with that. we don't know what it is. >> shepard: we don't.

>> one of the things i felt all along in this, let's not jump to conclusions and let's wait. your previous guest said, mueller is moving fast. i've always felt we ought to just wait for mueller like -- instead of what we hear from various politicians in congress. we should wait for the inspector general from the justice department to find out what the fbi and the fisa warrant, what they did wrong, what they didn't do wrong, what these two fbi officials, page and strzok did or didn't do. let's not jump to conclusions. >> shepard: no one is jumping. we're trying to figure out what we know and what we don't know. we covered those topics. internally at the white house, is the chaos surrounding the chief of staff still there or is there now -- has it settled? >> well, i don't know. i know there was a great deal of distress about the way rob porter case was handled and the

changing stories about who knew what when, what acted when. you openly had members of the white house staff saying that john kelly, the chief of staff, was putting out a false story line that seemed to indicate that he acted much more proactively than in fact according to these people he did act and getting rid of rob porter to a certain degree and it's a horrible way in which it's happened, because of the school shooting in florida, that has taken some of the attention away and the heat away from that story. so we'll see where that picks up next week. you know, clearly this is a white house to some degree in a level of disarray and seeing if they can find their center of gravity again. >> shepard: and then we heard from the president. mike pence. he did some distancing of his own but made it clear the chief of staff, john kelly is there to stay. get this, the pool just reported that john kelly is on the plane

with the president to florida. >> listen, a lot of times -- this is way i say don't jump to conclusions. how many of us wrote off jeff sessions last summer? how many of us wrote off rex tillerson this fall? rex tillerson is still the secretary of state and planning trips into march. jeff sessions just made a speech yesterday about the florida school shooting. they're still in power. you know, you can be in and out of the president's inner circle and it doesn't by any stretch of the imagination mean that you're out until it's officially announced. >> shepard: we'll know when we know. chris wallace, looking forward to sunday on "fox news sunday." he has an exclusive interview with rush limbaugh, host of the rush limbaugh show. there's a big get. and mark kelly whose wife, the former congress woman gabby giffords who survived a gunshot to the head.

that's this sunday on "fox news sunday." check that out. schedules available locally. that's the president taking about from j.b.a., joint base andrews. the president will arrive in florida. at least check, before we came on the air, i didn't have available specifics of his schedule, which sometimes they're vague about for security reasons. makes sense. the president has suggested he may go down to broward county to see some of the survivors of the school shooting. he said he wants to do something that is real, something that is not just talked about, something to try to get society wrapped around the idea of maybe not so many of these school shootings. he will have some ears there in broward county. it's the bottom of the hour. we need to get top of the news headlines in and we'll be back to reset on an extremely busy news day from fox news channel.

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statement from the white house. the white house released a statement moments ago during that commercial break in response to this special counsel robert mueller bringing charges against russian nationals and russian groups for interfering in the u.s. election. kevin corke is in west palm beach. specifically, what does this statement say? >> it's fairly lengthy. i'm just going to read you part of the statement, shepard. you'll find it very instructive because it points out the fact that the russians interference, should we call it that, actually began in 2014. let me read you part of what sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary had to say about it this afternoon. she has this statement. it reads "president trump has been briefed on this matter and indications there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia and the election outcome was not changed

or affected." it goes on to say, "president trump says it's more important than ever before to come together as americans. we cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion to be successful. it's time to stop the far-fetched theorys to serve the agendas of bad actors like russia and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions." it reads "we must unite as americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and elections." that's from sarah sanders. very pointed, shepard. the contention that there was no collusion. we don't know how high up the food chain it will reach. >> shepard: we'll know when we know. did they mention the sanctions? congress has authorized

sanctions. the white house has refused to impose them. have they changed their stance on that after we learned that the russians have interfered? >> excellent point. it was president obama that upped the ante on the sanctions for the russian regime based on what they learned after the election. the trump administration has been hesitant to follow suit. given what we learned today from rod rosenstein it would seem to beg the question, if not now, when? >> shepard: kevin work in florida awaiting the president's arri arrival. coming up, more on the indictments regarding the russian interference. we'll speak with a reporter from the associated press with what the big take-aways here and what we don't yet know that could be important going forward. after all, this is not over. no conclusions can be drawn. the investigation continues with

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>> shepard: so here we are. we know that members of the trump campaign unwittingly worked with the russians in coordination regarding political activity. unwittingly. it's the russian investigation and it's not a hoax. russians have been indicted for interfering in our elections, which takes us back to february 3 after the issuance of the memo. remember the republican memo, the distraction memo from devin nunes? the president tweeted about that on february 3. do we have that tweet? here it is. for the screen. there it is. the memo totally vindicates trump in probe. now it says, but the russian witch hunt goes on and on. there was no collusion and there was no obstruction. the word now used because after

one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing, collusion is dead. this is an american disgrace. no, it's an american investigation and this is not a hoax. the russians interfered, the russians were given sanctions by the according. the president has not put the sanctions into place and why. now more on the robert mueller indictment for the russian internationals interfering in the operation. the president said there was no collusion and the outcome of the election was not affected. fox news cannot confirm these matters. these are answers that we do not have. let's bring in ken thomas, reporter for the a.p. we cannot draw the conclusions. we know the russians have been indicted. >> the white house is happy with this outcome. they feel it shows a timeline and which this happened in 2014 and that it started back then,

long before the president was a candidate. this is a part of a process that supports what the president has said all along. you know, his campaign and his administration has nothing to do with this. the term you use unwitting is very important here as far as the white house is concerned. >> shepard: in reality, the indictment goes on to say very specifically that members of the trump campaign were unwittingly involved but specifically that the goal of the russians once they got to the point where donald trump was the candidate, the goal of the russians was to help trump run the and to hurt hillary clinton's efforts. that is not in question. that is what we did. the question is whether these co-conspirators they mentioned might have been americans or in any way connected to the trump campaign and that's what we're waiting to find out as the investigation continues. >> right.

we don't know the answers at this point. this doesn't lay any new information on some of the other important chapters of this investigation. the trump tower meeting that happened during the campaign. you know, some of the other things that happened during the administration. any questions of whether there might have been obstruction. so this does show a very sophisticated effort by the russians to interfere. the president has often argued that this is a russian hoax, it's a much more difficult or argument to make now that you've had this very specific indictment laid out. >> shepard: ken thomas, thanks. he mentioned the meeting in trump tower. remember the context. the context is important. when jared kushner, who is still in the mix here, but has not been indicted or charged or questioned about anything or charged with anything, when

jared kushner filled out his application to get his security clearance, which he still does not have, he did not mention any connection or conversation with any russians. he's then gone back to add 100 in there and he's updated that form three different times. we don't know yet where this investigation is going. we don't know yet whether any of that will be questioned. this investigation appears to be moving forward. the attorney general jeff sessions has ordered a review after the fbi admitted they failed to follow up on a tip after the accused high school killer last month. this is a new specific warning that suspect had a gun and might use it to shoot up the school. a tip that could have saved lives. that's next. 350 for $339 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

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>> shepard: we're learning more

about the accused gunman in florida. i need to update you on a mayor change to his background. yesterday the associated press reported that a leader of a white nationalist group in florida said the accused shooter had ties to his group and that the shooter took part in drills in tallahassee, florida. today the associated press reports that leader appears to be backing away from what he said. according to the a.p., somebody posted under the leader's name on a social media site popular with far-right extremists. that person reportedly complained about getting criticized over a prank claiming there was a misunderstanding and said he received a bunch of conflicting information. there's no link between the suspect and the white nationalist group, say police. i reported yesterday on this program on links to white supremacists. now our reporting indicates there's no links. i reget the error and apologize.

jeff sessions has ordered a review of the fbi and justice department after the bureau admitted that it failed to act on a tip about the accused killer's wednesday high school massacre just last month. this is new information today. the attorney general saying we see the tragic consequences of those failures. the fbi in conjunction with our state and local partners must act flawlessly to prevent further attacks. the fbi reports a person closest to the accused shooter called its tipline january 5 and said the shooter had a gun and might shoot people at a school. the bureau admits it did not take proper steps to follow up on that tip. steve harrigan is on the scene this afternoon. steve? >> shep, the reaction in this possible major failure has been sharp and angry and in

particular calling for the fbi director to resign. governor scott said the following. we constantly promote see something and say something and a person did that to the fbi and the fbi failed to act. the call came six weeks ago before the attack. the fbi director wray says that they are still investigating the facts of the matter and he has vowed to get to the very bottom of it, shepard. >> shepard: we're learning about the shooter's past and potential warning signs. >> it appears to have been a very violent home. police were called to the home 36 times from 2010 to 2016. that's about once every two months over a six-year period for things like punching holes in the wall, throwing chairs at each other. a violent household. news we're just getting now. that building behind me where the shooting took place, that will be torn down and rebuilt amount lot of parents and children say they can't go in that building where the shooting

took place anymore. shepard back to you. >> shepard: steve harrigan, live in parkland, floor. while the investigation is john going, it's important not to lose sight of the victims. the 17 innocents gone and their family and friends left to grieve. >> i feel weak thinking about my beloved high school and this tragedy occurring. >> i'm going to read the 17 names of the victims. carm carmen, meadow pollack. peter wang. nicholas george. >> the family is heart broken and devastated to have lost nicholas. he was a happy, young man full of joy and life.

>> mr. christopher hickson. mr. aaron feis. >> i'm distract. i can't wrap my finger around it, exactly what happened. just sad to see my friends gone. coach is gone. elena put did. jam jamie guttenburg. >> jamie was a special kid. all of the kids here are. what is unfathomable is jamie took a bullet and is dead. i don't know what i do next.

>> martin, alissa. >> i know alisa is in heaven with god. she is safe there. >> alaina ramsey. mr. scott vigo. joaquin oliver. >> she's never going to graduate. she will never graduate high school. >> cara logran. >> our city's collective heart today is extremely heavy. >> alexander schacter. >> we will always remember february 14, 2018 at 2:35 p.m.

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>> neil: we're awaiting a press conference from broward county sheriff scott israel. this is the first briefing after the fbi said they did not follow some key tips about six weeks ago. this has nothing to do with the youtube posting about nikolas cruz becoming a professional shooter. lots of questions about to what a and how the fbi could have botched this. phil keating in parkland, florida with more. >> good afternoon, neil. the 4:15 briefing with the broward county sheriff will be the first briefing of t