list? or how is that explained? >> well, they need to do a better job among different law enforcement branches to make sure that that is getting to the appropriate levels of investigation. if the fbi field office somewhere else is getting this and they're transferring it to the fbi miami office and it's not getting to the local police or vice versa, we need to do a better job there because anything else is unacceptable to our families. i mean, these kids go to school expecting a safe environment. you know, i'm shocked to learn that you know, there was just so many tip-offs here and you know, i get it. everybody has their rights, but what about the rights of the children that are going to school? and their rights to have a safe environment in their classroom every day? >> and finally, we're hearing through the shooter's public defender that he would agree to plead guilty if the death penalty was taken off the table. how do you feel about that? >> i think that this is something that the families

should have a say in. i don't think that something should be this quickly disseminated like that. i think that the state attorney should-- if there's ever a case for the-- this is a pre-meditated murder of 17 innocent people at a school. i think that the state attorney-- i cannot imagine that he would simply agree to that without getting strong input from the community and from the families. anything else would be a disservice to justice. neil: commissioner, thank you very, very much. all right. >> thank you, neil. neil: thank you, sir. we are following developments in florida right now. the president is there. there are indications that he is going to be busy today. we just don't know exactly where and what he'll be doing, last night visiting those who were injured in these shootings, but again, so much more, we're trying to get a handle on and also keeping track of these funerals going on right now in the chicago area and not too far from the atlanta area for police officers killed in the line of

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>> all right. seizing on a tragedy or trying to capitalize on it. you know, all of this went down in florida on valentine's day, wednesday, february 14th. we got word of the shooting and began reporting on it a little before 3 p.m. eastern time. i want to see the timeline on politicians responding to this, sometimes within minutes. take a look. >> it only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. >> gun violence respects no boundaries, it spares no communities, it victimizes all of us. >> we could not even get passed a bill that would take the

terrorist watch list and prohibit them from buying a high caliber weapon or any weapon. >> it's likely that before this year is over, the republican majority will call up more bills to weaken gun safety laws. >> we have to address the inability for us to once and for all get guns and keep them from the hand of people who shouldn't have them. neil: all right, now, there are laws on the books right now, for just that sort of thing, but, nikolas cruz, keep in mind bought this rifle legally. you could talk about how things slipped up in florida about them not policing his mental background, but there was no mental background check for a gun owner or a gun store to season because that somehow wasn't the case. so, you could argue tightening the existing laws that we have and you could say both parties

drpd dropped the ball and a lot of back and forth and political is unending and problem solving seems to be unending. emily was more aamazed how quickly some politicians seized on this to make their case. what did you think? >> you know, i think as a country we go through these motions with a tragic frequency and we saw more of the same. the jump to gun control on one side. >> one thing that's interesting, how the conservatives are talking about the fbi and holding the fbi to account and i thought we saw talking about the political implications on both sides wasn't unusual, but i think it's difficult as a nation to process the fact that a week ago, these children and the adults who protected them, were safe at home with their families and i think that makes the conversation a lot harder to have. neil: i am wondering, too, if there is any room for

compromise, former florida congressman david daley had been on record faulting both parties, hinting democrats have a tough time acknowledging their hollywood friends are big benefactors are, you know, creating a lot of the problems by violent videos and games and all of those republicans hell bent on reining in on any type of guns for any reason and there-in lies the rub, which means you wonder as horrific as this shooting was, whether we'll ever make progress stopping future ones. >> yeah, and i think that's a really good point and what we saw this week sometimes and what we see all the time when we go through these motions the way that facts can get lost so we are so emotional in these moments and unfortunately, there are some people who do try to exploit them for political ends and sometimes the facts get lost, this week, the every town, those were not factual, but

spread in a wide fashion. and that's why these conversations are really difficult to have when everyone is still processing the tragedy itself. neil: do you get a sense though that this is, i don't know, we always say this it's different this time that americans are fed up with this issue, and that there is room for compromise? you touched on a couple of areas where that could be and they don't, in other words, they hope that this sort of eases off after the funeral, tragically, people will move on. >> yeah, well, i think we're in an interesting position here, because donald trump is someone who does look for compromise and he's also someone who is really trusted by gun owners. he's been very supportive of the second amendment so he has his trust and he's in an interesting position now to find where there may be common ground. that's something i would look for in the days ahead. it's a possibility going forward and i do think we saw a lot of reaction this week, given, whenever these things happen in

the schools, it's tragic anywhere, but when it happens in a school. neil: i think there are seminal moments when largely those seems to be conservative, the new york post, part of our parent company comes out with an editorial saying there's room for gun reform. now the secret to the new york post it has espoused this view for decades going back to 1980, but maybe reinstating a federal assault weapon ban, ban gun sales to all criminal fugitives, tighten up mental health laws and a lot of that is kind of common sense stuff i think that both sides could gather around, but what do you think of that? >> so i think this case is instructive because we saw so many missed opportunities to take care of the shooter. you know -, not-- take care to prevent him from acting out, and what has drawn

such a reaction, we've seen so many missteps by intelligence agencies and people who were in a position to prevent this from happening. so i think that's an area na people are going to be looking at and there's a lot of room for bipartisan compromise. maybe there's room for bipartisan compromise looking at background legislation, something that both sides can come together on and agree on. there are ways to do those things. so there's definitely room here. >> all right, emily, thank you, very, very much from the washington examiner, by the way, we haven't discussed as much given the other cross currents, for more life and death issues this week. the markets were remarkable retracing half the ground lost in the big selloff. what's interesting about that, how they did dovetail a certain report from rob rosenstein, bob mueller, 13 indictments. and how they followed tick for tick as the words on that report

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>> there is 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. neil: all right. it was that comment right there that reversed what had been become a freefall in the dow at the point that we learned that rod rosenstein and those at the justice department, fbi, bob mueller were coming up with this report that would finger at least 13 russian individuals and another few russian companies in the 2016 election. followed almost tick for tick in the movement. and the relief by the day as

end. john layfield and ben stein. john, what do you think? >> i think it shouldn't have an effect. historically political scandals had little long-term effect on the market. when the volatility happened two weeks ago and set off so much program training and people are looking at inflation numbers and retail sales number and putting i think too much gravitas on them. neil: ben, you know, there's the thought if it looks like even the administration acknowledged that the russians were trying to screw around the election, but american operatives did not, is that the end of it as far as a concern, let's just say just for the markets? >> i think it's got to be the end of it. i don't think there's going to be russia-trump collusion found or found as a result of the election and i think the market is just going to stay at a fairly high level and if we can keep inflation under control, i don't see any limit to the market going up. the economic conditions

worldwide are as good as they've been. i hate to say this, since the late 20's, but we don't want to have any crashes like we had in the very late 20's. but i don't think political developments have much to do with it. i was there during watergate and watergate is not what moved the stock market. what moved the stock market down during the last days of watergate were fears of inflation, which did come true. >> you think that stocks have retraced half the ground and then some, that's a good sign. you don't think we'll revisit any of the problems that we have near-term? >> i think over the long time period stocks are a wonderful investment. they allow you to invest in the best companies in the world for a very small price and makers of partners and people like warren buffett, my dear friend for a very, very small price. i don't think there's a better bargain out there in the world than the stock market than the

united states of america. neil: john, a lot of people are saying after that topsy-turvy whirlwind and exotic investments that seemed to bring 2000 point swing in the dow, and they don't want any part of it, not me, not me. >> look at what the markets did in the 1990's, the internet bust, 2008 and still you had the s & p around, between 1 to 200 in 1980's and it's up at the point times since then. the key is just to stay in the market. there's nothing that's changed in the global economic environment. ben is right. 75% of companies that reported so far in the s & p have beat on profits and 78% have beat on sales estimates. we had a market that got incredible volatility. when ben talks about the 1920's, he's right, coolidge is one of the reasons that the tax cuts under coolidge helped to spur that. i think that the market is set to proceed and i think there's

going to be volatility. neil: thank you very much on a breaking news day. and if you've been focusing on the olympics, the u.s. hockey team losing a heartbreaker to the russian hockey team this morning. remember the last time that was a big deal in 1980? meet the captain of that team next. we all want to know about the new thing.

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>> all right. i don't want to give something away here, but i'm going to go ahead and tell you russia beat the united states 4-0. the american hockey team not quite what it was. let's say back in 1980. let's get the read from michael, the captain of the team that

famously beat the soviet union at lake placid, during the cold war. thanks for taking the time. >> thank you, neil. nice to be on. neil: what happened to the american team today? do you know? >> well, i watched the game. you know, i think they were beaten by a better team today. the russian team was one of the favorites going into this particular tournament. the u.s. had some chances early, weren't able to capitalize and then they gave up a goal with .2 seconds left to go in the period that made it 3-0 when it looked like they were kind of hanging around. this is an awfully good russian team and get another shot at them and this is one game that didn't go well for us. neil: and it sets us up. the captain, which is a bigger deal. i understand there are no nhl players participating and that puts us at a disadvantage and nhl didn't want to disrupt the season for that. is that making a difference? what was it like for you guys in

1980. >> like a totally different era. we were amateurs playing against professional players. we were college players and practiced for six months and prepared for the games. this particular format, the united states team is a mixture and have some college players and a lot of former nhl players and current americans who are playing professionally in europe. so, it's a whole different for mat. these players only practice together for a few days and trying to become a team as quickly as possible, with the nhl players the skill levels is a lot greater than now. and these are awfully good players. neil: the russians can compete under the olympic banner, and win enough under the olympic banner, what do you think of that? >> well, you know, i think they kind of paid the price a little at least by not being able to have, you know, the russia on the jersey, hearing their anthem

played. neil: everyone knows who they are. >> yeah, i know. and everybody knows who they are, but they had to make some kind of a decision here based on some of the players are legitimately clean players and their country kind of suffered a little with the doping scam and the deal going on. the ones cheating that were illegal are not allowed to compete. the playing field from a drug standpoint is they served their pent. they're not allowed to compete, but the ones that are clean are having the right to do that. neil: and we always remember the environment like then. we still have tense relations with russia, some things don't change. the whole event and the countries together, they're all about the competition and the athleticism and all of that. has the game changed much? talking about the olympics in general? there are bigger money sports and more tension, but what do you think? >> a lot of the games have changed in a lot of ways. it's a little more political now than it used to be.

politics seem to always get involved with the olympics, the sites where they're held, the money they are a spending on venues is off the charts. i think the bottom line is still athletes wanting to compete for their country. it's not a political event. when we played defense the soviets in 1980, there was the cold war, it was still athletics. and now dealing with issues between the united states and russia, it's still a hockey game and athletes wanting to compete against athletes. we as athletes try to look at it that way, but seems sometimes that the politics get involved because the politicians want to get involved and make it something other than what it should be, which is an athletic event. neil: there's a concept. michael, certainly made a difference in a lot of lives and a lot of people who didn't know much about hockey in college. i certainly remember that. thank you for at that moment. >> thank you very much. neil: no one can ever take back from this country. the guy who was the team captain of that u.s. hockey team.

we wanted to leave you on a note like that because there is still all of that good stuff in us and about us that i hope eclipses all the horrible tragedy that befalls us. we'll see you on monday.

>> fallout, a day after special counsel robert mueller indicts 13 russians into his probe into election meddling. the republicans and democrats drawing very different conclusions on what it means r for. leland: plus, visiting the wounded, the president and first lady spent time with those injured in the park larland, fla attack. eboni: we'll talk to congressmen from both sides of the aisle. ♪ . eboni: welcome to america's news