>> for a rocky mountain woman you would think downhill. what is curling like? shuffle board? >> it's shuffle board but don't tell them that. >> great to have you here today. >> you are a wonderful host. >> great to have you. we'll see you soon. we have to roll. presidents' day. see you tomorrow, bye-bye. >> fox news alert on calls for action after the deadly florida school shooting. the students themselves from that high school they are demanding change. making plans to launch a march on washington and other cities across the country amid a revived movement for gun control. hello i'm eric shawn. >> i'm lee ann gabriel. rallies this weekend and more planned across the country as the pressure is on to toughen up gun control laws as we learn more with the couple who took the mass murdereder in speaking

out. >> i still can't process what he has done. this isn't the person we knew. how is your son holding up? >> he is angry, betrayed. he is, you know, he is upset. he was at that school, too. and he had friends at that school. >> steve harrigan is live in parkland, florida. what are you hearing this morning? >> the students have been very busy going to funerals for 14 fellow students and three faculty members. four funerals yesterday, three today, two more tomorrow but they've been busy going to political events. anti-gun rallies. many of the students deciding to try to channel their grief into political action to try to change the gun laws in this country. >> our elected officials need to get together and get some things done. they need to save the future of our country. that's the children that are currently dying because politicians refuse to take actions and continue to take

money from these special interest groups. >> another anti-gun rally scheduled for tonight. on march 24th the students say they intend to lead a national march on washington for a major anti-gun rally. as for the suspected shooter 19-year-old nikolas cruz we could see him in court at 1:00 p.m. today for a status hearing. cruz's public defender says he intends to plead guilty to all 17 counts of first degree murder. that would be an attempt to avoid the death penalty. as far as the situation on the ground, you can see the traffic now moving behind me. this road is back opened up as far as the school goes, still shut down until the end of the week. that's when teachers are expected to be allowed back in. not clear when students will regin classes. leah, back to you. >> it will be difficult for all of them as they head back. thank you, steve. >> every day we let the current dysfunction in the background

check system continue. lives are in jep -- jeopardy. >> talking about legislation the president says he will support just in from the white house. president trump saying that this effort will improve the system of background checks for would be gun buyers in the wake of the deadly florida school shooting. he plans to hold a listening session with high school students and meet with state officials on school safety. what can we expect to happen? foreign policy reporter for the associated press joins us. josh, the nra supports this legislation called fix knicks to try to fix the federal background check system. do you think both sides and the nra, this will pass? >> it depend on how quickly people move. in the wake of these terrible mass shootings there is some initial momentum as we hear from compelling figures like these students who they're seeing all over television and as it goes on that momentum drains out. we have to see whether it will

be something that is sustained. the fact this isn't something the nra is initially opposing indicates it is something that could get broad support. >> you have pressure from students across the country for the march for life rally in cities across the country and washington, d.c. during the debate on capitol hill. >> that is giving and putting a human face on that. president trump has been very compelled when he sees the human images like he sees after that chemical attack in syria and yemen. it is important to remember there have been times in the past we saw that just after the sandy hook shooting at the elementary school we had very compelling images of parents demanding gun control and that didn't actually end up leading to any action from congress. >> after the las vegas shooting talk about bump stocks. that kind of petered out at the same time. what is fascinating about this you have cornyn and murphy, senator murphy of connecticut,

two opposite ends bipolar different views on gun control. murphy on the left, the young senator who has been outspoken about sandy hook. it does show opposite sides can get together and there can be bipartisanship on capitol hill. >> it could be a starting point. you see republicans and democrats trying to find where is the low hanging fruit. the parts that aren't terribly controversial. republicans and nra said let's focus on enforcing the gun control laws we already have on the books. that's what this legislation to try to enforce the background checks that we already have. put more information into the system about people who are already ineligible to obtain guns. >> what about the student marches? they'll call for complete assault weapons ban. feinstein is -- back in 2013 it failed by 20 votes and she told the senate to show some guts.

quote, unquote. what are the chances of the assault weapon ban being reinstated? >> from all the lawmakers on capitol hill we're speaking to and others there is very little optimism there won't be a step as dramatic as that or major new gun restrictions put in place. this is a politically explosive issue in the country and not something a lot of republicans will go along with. >> cruz only 19 years old. he is old enough to buy an ar-15 semi automatic but can't buy beer in that state. do you think there are some calls to raise the age of people who buy firearms? >> that will be another difficult one. you will have gun rights activists saying the second amendment doesn't distinguish people who are 19 and 21. that's something that would be an en vingment of people's right. >> ken paxton had a plan. he said put guards, an armed guard at every school. this may be brought up with the

meeting with the president. here is what he said. >> i don't agree with this solution. i don't think more gun control will stop somebody like this kid who shot these students. that is not going to stop somebody. we need somebody on site who can protect the students immediately. >> paxton may bring it up. do you think a federal plan to put armed guards at the schools to protect kids would be sufficient and would it work? >> after these shootings when you have calls from folks to have the answer to gun violence is to have more guns in the right hands of the right people, there is a lot of blowback from those on the left. especially those students who we see really prominent on this are probably unlikely to support putting more mill tarization into schools and they've been raising the point that in other countries where there is far lower levels of gun violence especially in the schools it is not because they have every teacher with an ak-47. >> it is like a professional

police officer or professional school guard who is armed at the door. >> we've learned in the florida shooting there was an officer of that sort who was in the school at the time and unfortunately their presence wasn't able to prevent this tragedy occurring. >> it happened so fast. thank you for your insight. we'll see what happens this week. >> more on the russian interfere answer after the mueller indictment came down friday. a russian expert what they can do the safeguard future elections and russia's comeback in the winter olympics as a top athlete is accused of doping. >> i think it is unfortunate. we are trying to make it the cleanest sport possible and the games clean. there is no place for it in the olympics for cheating and doping. for your brain.

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>> eric: some of the athletes from russia keep on getting into trouble. this time one of the olympic athletes from russia, well, failed a preliminary drug test and could lose his medal. looking at him, it turns out he tested positive for a banned substance. he won a bronze medal with his wife in a curling event. it couldn't come at a worse time for them. russia has been trying to make a comeback after the doping scheme in 2014. it is still waiting to be officially reinstated. lee ann. >> lee ann: we're learning more about the robert mueller indictment accusing 13 russians of interfering with the presidential election. they set up fake accounts on social media posing as u.s. citizens. when asked if americans were involved this was the deputy attorney general's response, listen. >> 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. i want to caution that everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court. >> lee ann: could russian interfere answer be an issue in the upcoming elections. joining us is a russian expert. let's start with this. senator mike round said over the weekend there will be hell to pay if russia tries meddling in the 2018 elections? can we assume they're already trying to do that through social media? >> absolutely. what we heard last week is the intelligence chiefs have no doubt that these kinds of disinformation operations and information warfare that the

russians carried out in 2016 are ongoing and will interfere in the 2018 elections coming up very soon. so this is a real threat. the interference general mcmaster said over the weekend is real. the evidence is absolutely irrefutable at this point. now is the time for congress to act. >> lee ann: you say now is the time to take immediate steps to prevent these disinformation campaigns. what should the immediate steps be? >> well, look, basically what the russians are doing now is straight out of the soviet playbook. they try to interfere in u.s. politics and western politics for decades. but what is different is that now of course there is a digital space. there is facebook, twitter, all of these much cheaper and faster ways of transferring disinformation and propaganda. the other thing that's different is during the cold war years the united states was prepared. we had an entire institutional

interagency effort poised to counter these kinds of political attacks. now we have really destroyed these kinds of counter disinformation efforts and so we need to build up and do this at a hyper speed. >> lee ann: last week we heard the c.i.a. director pompeo say there are steps being taken to raise the costs to adversaries. of course, not being specific about what those are in an open hearing. what might this mean? >> there are many tools that the u.s. can leverage against russia or other bad actors. this is not going to stay contained to russia, of course china, iran, north korea, you name it. they will use these tools because they have been so effective. there are many things we can do. one the u.s. has incredible cyber capabilities. we could get on the offensive and also show that russian elite officials are corrupt and stealing from their people, expose them for who they really are. also the sanctions which the

united states has used quite effectively and we can still do more to sanction those individuals that we know have been involved in the attack on the united states during the 2016 elections. >> lee ann: what do you know about offensive capabilities that our u.s. intelligence community might be emotion employing now against the russians in terms of cybersecurity? >> to be honest with you, i don't have access to classified information. i can't speak for the intelligence community directly. but from what we know in terms of the kinds of tools that the nsa has had and many of those have been exposed in the snow den leaks and other leaks. are quite extensive. they are quite sophisticated and there is no doubt that u.s. capabilities are still far ahead of the game what russian capabilities are. it is unclear how much longer we're going to be ahead of that game. >> lee ann: what do you expect to be next in the russia investigation and the next steps to be taken and what do you make of the timing of this

indictment? >> this indictment came as a huge surprise to most of us who have been watching this investigation very closely. i think what it clearly shows is that the investigation is perhaps nearing an end when we see these kinds of criminal prosecutorial allegations coming out. i would not be surprised if now we see more similar indictments against cyberattacks. even know this indictment did not connect the disinformation campaign that happened online and also in real life on u.s. soil there were real rallies organized in the united states but they didn't connect that to the cyberattacks that happened in the lead-up to the 2016 elections. so my guess and it is only a guess is that we're going to see another indictment that will focus specifically on these cyber breaches that we saw in 2016. >> lee ann: one thing is clear. this was certainly an attack on u.s. soil even if it was a cyberattack and an information attack. thank you for your time this

morning. >> eric: straight ahead the search for the wreckage after a deadly plane crash that led rescue workers up to almost 15,000 foot high mountain. we'll tell you about that. after special counsel robert mueller's indictment of the russians will trump still call it a witch hunt? >> the danger for the president is it would be very, i think, seductive for him to embrace this and say see, see, i've been vindicated. i don't know why i didn't get screened a long time ago.

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>> right now iranian search and rescue teams reaching the site of a plane crash that killed all 65 people on board. the flight went down yesterday

in foggy weather in a mountain area in southern iran. it was put back into service after being grounded for seven years. western sanctions have barred iran from buying airplane parts and it has contributed to aviation disasters. the u.s. expressed condolences in the local language on social media. >> eric: just in the kremlin this morning dismissing u.s. charges that the russians meddled in the 2016 presidential election. president trump has been insisting that the russians did not try to get him elected. but special counsel robert mueller's indictment charges otherwise saying the effort morphed into a plan with president trump and bernie sanders at hillary clinton's expense. there was a broad campaign by moscow to sway, interfere and infiltrate our election. >> 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. >> eric: our media panel joins us to discuss. a media reporter for the hill and judy hill. let me start with you, judy. it was an attack on our sacred democracy and assault against america. in all this chaos it gets lost that bernie sanders and green when an effort to try to help them, too. >> yes. i think that's kind of beside the point, eric. really what has happened here is that donald trump has lost one of his major talking points which was that the mueller panel and inquery, the charges of russian meddling in the 2016 election were all a witch hunt and that he was being charged with something that never

happened. now even his key white house advisor on national security h.r. mcmaster admits that the evidence is incontrovertible. what does donald trump do. does he say it's outrageous and an unsupportable outrageous attack on american security and met with sanctions? he spends the weekend in a twitter storm attacking everyone else except russia. this raises the most profound questions about how he reacts to a significant challenge to the united states, which is ongoing. last week we heard from the national security and intelligence community leaders and they all said that the russians were continuing this activity. if that doesn't get donald trump's attention, i don't know what will. >> eric: what about that? the president has sanctions passed by congress on his desk and could impose them and denounce russia strongly as

critics are demanding but he apparently is not. >> as he should, sean, no question. he has said russia is running an anti-u.s. campaign. the white house did say that russia as a country is a bad actor. these kind of condemnations, however, to judy's point aren't enough. let's go through a couple of things. we talk about this being an attack on our democracy. it was. how effective really was the attack? 50% of these ads were $3 or less on facebook. how many people in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan where the election was decided, the blue wall that came down. how many people read the ads and said i was going to go for hillary clinton but that jill stein looks like a candidate or i'll go with president trump. i don't think it was terribly effective. half of the ads bought were after at the election. it is hard to change the outcome after the fact. one more point. this is to what judy said

before and many media outlets said. president trump has previously and frequently described allegations of russian meddling as a hoax. i think we're misinterpreting what he has been saying. he has been saying from my view that his campaign associates did not collude with the russians and that narrative is a hoax. i think that's his main thrust. i think that's getting lost here in terms of what narrative we're trying to push here. >> he tweeted that exact difference yesterday and tweeted something else about what you just said. he said the fake news media never fails, hard to ignore this fact from the vice president of facebook ads rob goldman and mr. goldman tweeted out this. the majority of the russian ad spending happened after the election. we shared that fact but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn't align with the main media narrative of trump and the election. judy, most people would not even know that fact. that does seem a bit

significant. >> that's true. they don't know that fact because the bottom line of this is that 37 page indictment said that more than 20 million americans did see some of the russian disinformation campaign. and the u.s. intelligence community has concluded that it cannot say whether or not the election was affected by the russian propaganda. in an election this close which was decided by 80,000 voters in three states, who knows what they saw, what influenced them? we don't know. the indictment is silent. it doesn't say it didn't have an impact on it. it says we don't know. let's see what else the mueller panel has up its sleeve. i don't think this is the end of what we've heard about russian meddling. >> eric: what is so unbelievable about all this is how american and colloquial it is. hillary for president and all these websites. i covered one of the rallies. the trump is not my president

rally was outside the trump tower where people were chanting this, 30 or 40 of them. it was unbelievable if you would tell me that was organized by the russians. really scary. >> to your point, that was after the election. in other words, the main goal seems here more not to elect donald trump as president but to sow discord and discontent in our ability to hold free elections and why they were so aggressive to cast down about who won that election. one more point. i know judy mentioned that number before around how many americans saw the ads. she is exactly right. it is an insult to the american voter they would be sweared to the point i really don't know who i want to vote for. this ad told me to go in this direction. i can't believe 80,000 votes were flipped as a result of half-baked campaign ad on facebook. i'm sorry, i have more respect for the american voter.

>> eric: this nation, the country that we so belove, was attacked by russia. >> absolutely. that's the bottom line. >> eric: thank you judy and joe. thank you. >> speaking of attacks iraqi troops caught by surprise in an attack near baghdad. who was behind the ambush. plus students sending a message about gun violence to the nra and washington after the florida school shooting. will their voices be heard?

>> eric: we have a fox news alert for you. 27 people have been killed in iraq after an isis ambush on troops this happening north of baghdad. the attackers militants. disguised as iraqi soldier. the battle lasted for over two hours. benjamin hall live in london with more details on this. hello, benjamin. >> hi, this is a clear reminder that although isis had been defeated as a territorial force in iraq and syria they are able to launch attacks like this and still control pockets of resistance and still have sleeper cells. they're well armed and can carry these sort of things out. they're very much still a danger. saturday's complex attacks comes two months after baghdad formally declared victory over the terror group. isis militants were disguised in army uniforms and set up a fake checkpoint and attacked while shia militias were hunt

pg for isis. 27 people were killed. the largest such attack in iraq since the loss of the capital of mosul and raqqa. it took place near kirkuk. a number of the terrorists were killed but some were able to escape. it was shia militia's leading the hunt across much of iraq. these forces often answer to iran. a point of contention for the u.s. government who are concerned with increased iranian influence in the country. certainly we've seen many strikes forward but morph into an insurgeony and attacks like this across the region. so certainly many battles against them have been won but it feels like the war is still ongoing, eric. >> the dangers of radical islamic terrorism. thank you so much. >> lea: just in students who survived the florida school shooting are organizing a series of marches and school

walk-outs across the nation next month. rallying against gun violence and their message is loud and clear. this has to stop. >> we've lost 17 lives and our community took 17 bullets to the heart. it is difficult to come back from that. here is the time we'll talk about gun control. march 24th we have the march for our lives which you can find at march for our lives.com and expect to see us a lot. the march for our lives will be in every major city and we are organizing it so students everywhere can beg for our lives. because at the end of the day this isn't about the red and blue, the gop and democrats. >> lea: joining us is julian epstein and former staff director of the government reform committee and david avila. nice to see you both. i want to start with this. one of the students who is involved in this march 24th rally says this is students begging for their lives.

can a student activism make a difference in washington >> i think it can. i think if the republican party starts to listen to not just students but the majority of americans want stronger gun laws. we have a mass shooting almost every day. 100 americans, seven kids are killed every day by handguns. if you live in america you are 10 to 300 times more likely to be killed with a handgun than if you live in another industryall country. the idea the background check system that we have in place right now if it were better enforced, there are instances where the f.b.i. as in the parkland case did not do its job but the idea that just enforcing existing laws would work to solve our gun problem is absurd. the gun background check system is full of loopholes. terrorists can buy guns easily, mass murderers can buy automatic weapons easily by

purchasing guns from private sellers or going to gun shows. the existing background check system is a joke and it is too easy for people to buy automatic and semi automatic weapons and i think what the students are saying is what most of the country is saying, it's time that congress did its job and started protecting the american people the way most other countries protect their people. >> lea: i want to get your reaction to what julian just said. enforcing what is in place isn't enough. your reaction. >> we have children who need to be rallying for their schools and asking for more security and demanding more security. but let's take julian's comment for a second and let's go completely to confiscate all guns. >> that's not what i'm arguing. don't put words in my mouth.

>> many of these activist wants this. what happens in a deranged individual figures out a way to get a gun from a foreign nation into our country and goes in and shoots up a school? what discussion happens then? let's have that discussion now and a serious discussion about what actually would make our schools safer. more security in our schools? schools are some of the least secure public buildings anyone has to go into. president trump ought to call the secretary of education into his office and say you are now in charge of the department of education security and find every out dated, out moded duplicate program and take that money and make our schools more security and not worry about an education bureaucracy sitting in washington, d.c. if you want to solve the problems of what's going on in the schools there is a better way to do it than what julian is advocating. >> lea: you are saying more

defense if schools. julian, your reaction. >> the reason that voters are so tired of people in washington is because of these talking points that the nra puts out that david parrots. the students aren't asking for airport style security at the schools. the students are asking for what other countries do, which is what most other countries do, impose reasonable gun safety laws so that the wrong people don't get their hands on guns. nobody is talking about an australia-type system. it's a weak argument on the part of david, a strawman argument. he doesn't have a better argument. the fact of the matter is, the real fact of the matter is if you're a terrorist, mass murderer and you want to get your hands on an automatic weapon in this country you can do so. it is easy by going to a private seller or gun show. in many cases these mass murderers people are getting guns from their relatives or friends. and the reason that we have such an excessive amount of gun violence if you look at for

example japan, they have less than 1/300 as much gun deaths in their country and most other countries have a small fraction of what we have. they do smart things to keep guns out of the hands of wrong people. david using the australia argument betrace -betrays what a weak set of facts he has. >> i want to get back to the children. thaoe are the ones being active right now and saying our lives are at risk. i want to ask you julian brought up the nra. a lot of students are calling out the nra. how should they react to this? >> the nra is effective because they have members nationwide which whether julian wants to admit it or not have republicans and democrats in them. you have members of congress that are democrats in congress who don't support many of the measures that julian is talking about. but let's go back to something he said. he said students shouldn't have the same level of security and

aren't calling for the same level of security that we have in airports. which is absurd. that somehow we ought to have tighter security in our airports than what we should have in our public schools which is exactly what julian just said. >> lea: this is certainly a debate that will continue. >> thanks for the great comeback. very effective. there is no question we need more security in schools. that's not the answer. that's the nra ploy. they want to sell more guns. guns ending up creating blood on the hands of bloodshed for so many different americans. the idea that david can't even part from the nra to say we need basic restrictions that other countries know and we know from public health data work and would save thousands of lives in this country just all he is doing is being a parrot for the gun lobby and why we're so sick of washington >> what is your answer when there is a school shooting

after the guns you want confiscated are gone? what is your answer when there is a school shooting? >> no one is talking about gun confiscation. >> lea: certainly topic that gets a lot of people's blood boiling. how we answer the students and how to make them feel safe is the question. thank you for joining us today. >> eric: certainly shows how the debate is so heated. the confessed gunman's fate. are nikolas cruz's attorney setting up an insanity defense for him? what's next for the accused florida shooter. >> he has significant mental illness. we'll explore the possibility of autism that we've been hearing about. brain development and all the trauma he has endured in this short period of time. we're trying to save this young man's life. a tomato you can trak from farm, to pot, to jar, to table. and serve with confidence that it's safe.

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accused florida shooter expected in court in less than an hour. students want politicians to strengthen gun lands. attorneys for cruz portraying him as deeply disturbed saying he fell through the cracks. >> your brain is not fully developed. you don't know how to deal with these things. when you have the lack of impulse control that a 19-year-old has that affects the behavior that you exhibit. that's the child that i'm sitting across from. he is sad, he is mournful, he is remorseful, he is fully aware of what is going on and he is just a broken human being. >> eric: we are joined by a defense attorney and prosecutor. let me start with you. the prosecutor said this is certainly the type of case, the

death penalty was designed for this. there is talk of a plea deal. life instead of the death penalty. is that premature? >> not at all. nikolas cruz is dead to rights. he dit. the only question for the prosecutors do we strike a deal that will save this kid's life but spare the parents having to go through the long, drawn-out litigation process which they certainly will. or do we take the death penalty and we go full force because as you said and as they said if there ever was a case for the death penalty, it is this one. >> eric: he seems competent and aware and remorseful. doesn't it indicate that's in his right mind? >> i cringed when she said he is fully aware what is going on but then discussion about him not having the mental capacity to understand what's happening? the issue here is he needs to go before health experts to

determine whether or not his mental capacity is to the point that he understands what's happening. that's really troubling from a defense perspective. don't get me wrong what happened here is terrible. but the court has a system in place where we have to determine whether or not somebody understands the charges. you can't plead guilty if you don't understand the charges. >> the couple took him in in the fall said he said i'm sorry. >> understanding the charges is different than being legally -- does he understand when he planned this killing, tried to -- got the kids into the hallway by pressing a fire alarm and tried to sneak in with them as they were running aware in fear. he knew what he was doing. is he legally sane. probably, too. if the case goes to trial that's the only defense this kid has perhaps going for him. >> eric: there is a lot of talk about the mental illness issue. show you what politician rest saying and get your reaction.

>> how do we make sure that individuals with mental illness do not touch a gun? >> a combination of a number of things that have to be dealt with. mental health is certainly one of them. >> we don't know the mental health now but when you kill that amount of people, surely this would be a death penalty case. >> we have got to be more effective in it. if a person is hearing voices and he is making threats to shoot and kill innocent people, that person is subject to being taken to a legal official and being declared subject to be -- having mental health treatment. >> eric: what do you make of that? >> the u.s. attorney is right. that's the law. there is in broward county there is a mental health court. one of the few in this country. we have to determine whether or not he is mentally sane to understand the charges and then whether insanity is a defense. a two-pronged test. the prosecution would have you

believe the sane person would kill 17 people. >> you can be a psychopath and not be legally insane. this kid is a psychopath. >> eric: it will take years and we hope that justice is done. >> prayers to the parents and families. >> eric: absolutely. >> lea: the southern border wall creating tension at home but also with our mexican neighbors. how it is making waves in the presidential race there. that's coming up. whoooo.

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>> lea: new information now as the u.s.-mex owe border is turning to a hot topic in mexico's presidential campaign. two candidates vowing to take a

tough stand against president trump and his border wall. william la jeunesse is live with more. >> mexico's presidential election comes once every six years. the president gets one term. this year is especially interesting. let me tell you why. will mexico go for its new generation a 38-year-old tech type reformer or the familiar guy, 30 years older who does it go with a hard left populist or the yale educated bureaucrat? leading the race is america's number one critic obrador. he wants to overhaul public health. free education and promises to use the united nations to stop president trump's proposed border wall which he says isn't necessary. five points back from him is a newcomer, a 38-year-old anaya.

i promises a universal basic income for all mexicans $550 a year for adults and kids paid for by eliminating welfare. the first coalition government in mexico history. representing the oldest and current political power, party in power is jose meade. holds four cabinet level jobs and experienced but most boring. like it or not he carries the burden of the current president, his administration, seen as corrupt, inept in stopping violence and having been steam rolled by president trump in nafta and border issues. at the election is july 1. the race is considered wide open but obrador the former mayor of mexico city, is easily the best known. but you will have probably a lot of movement in the polls between now and july 1. back to you.

>> lea: we'll be watching for that july 1. william la jeunesse in los angeles, thank you. >> eric: new information coming in about a manhunt that is now underway for the person who shot a 6-year-old boy and three adults outside a texas road house restaurant. happened in san antonio. two of the adults' injuries are life threatening. a mass shooter shot the family as he was waiting in a parking lot. police don't believe the assault was random. >> lea: former vice president biden keeping all options on the table about a possible 2020 presidential run. so will he challenge president trump? and the possible implications for democratic party. that discussion coming up on "outnumbered".

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>> now we are waiting for the court appearance by nikolas cruz. fox news channel will be following the proceedings for you. thank you for joining us. >> "outnumbered" starts now. >> kennedy: this is a fox news alert, protest in washington following the horrific massacre in florida. students say they are going to lie on the ground in front of the white house to symbolize how quickly the shooter was able to get an assault rifle before killing 17 people. their goal is to send a message about gun violence and demand change. it comes on the heels of an antigun rally, several rallies in multiple states over the weekend. we will have more on the story in just a bit a little bit later in the hour. another fox news alert on the investigation into russian election meddling. growing questions about russian attempts to sway the 2016 vote and concerned they will try to