except for some reason no one in florida has ever heard about it there are a rebel from the florida department of state says that no law enforcement is aware of anything of this nature she says they have received zero information from nelson about his claim and that the f.b.i. the d.h.s.s. and all the florida law enforcement have has observed nothing of the kind the department of homeland security in washington d.c. has now confirmed that they've never heard about it spokesperson sarah sendek says that it didn't happen to she says we have not heard any news of compromises by russian actors of the election infrastructure build nelson however says he has obsessional inside information about russian hackers in florida but he can't tell us the details because it's classified he can't tell us which counties have been hacked because it's classified and he can't tell us who told him this you guessed it it's classified nobody in florida has heard of it the department of homeland security has not heard about it but let's take bill nelson at his word let's say the russians actually have hacked into the voting re

it is incomprehensible to me how the florida department of state isn't in the loop and why senator nelsondn't say whatever he was going to say with stakeholders in his state. doesn't make a lot of sense. if this is true and if the russians are interfering with voter role it doesn't matter if they are successful. at the end of the day if vladimir putin can insinuate he had nothing to do with changing voter rolls he will arguably succeed in degrading our trust in our democratic systems. remember florida during the gore/bush campaign with serious voter recount and that is logical place for the russians to choose. shannon: i remember the hanging chad and recount and all that. interesting time. it was to so chaos and make everyone question our democracy. >> that is where we need to work together to get the truth out and deter and counter russia's efforts. shannon: thank you for coming in. [ loesch ] this is superbeets and i swear by it. it gives me more healthy energy to keep up with my hectic schedule and you're gonna love what it does for you too. [ tiffany ] i could definitely use a little

bells, making it all the more troubling is that the secretary of state responded with this to "the tampa bay times." the florida departmenthas received zero information from senator nelson or his staff that support his claims. asked to clarify, senator nelson said this. >> do you mean right now, or were you referring to 2016? >> right now. >> what do you mean they're in the election records? what do you mean by that? >> just exactly what i said. they have already penetrated certain counties in the state, and they now have free rein to move about. >> joining me right now is adam smith, political editor at "the tampa bay times." this is the people that spoke with and reported on nelson's claims. great to see you. >> you too. thanks, kate. >> we've requested more information from senator nelson. we haven't heard back. we've requested interviews, haven't heard back. are you any closer to reconciling the differences here between statements from senator nelson and the florida secretary of state's office? >> no. i mean, it looks like nelson has got a little bit of egg on his face on one hand because there's no evidence. he's got

the florida department of state and the department of home hand security say they've seen no evidencenelson's claims. u.s. intelligence officials recently said the russians don't appear to be as aggressive as they were in 2016. >> relative to what we have seen for the midterm elections, it is not the kind of robust campaign that we assessed in 2016 election. >> reporter: still, dan coats says the warning lights are blinking red on america's digital infrastructure. how could russian hackers get into florida's voter registration system? >> it's using a phishing e-mail. this piece of malware would do things like record passwords and user names to log into the voter registration system and then they would be able to use those credentials as their own. >> reporter: then experts say they can inflict chaos at the polls. what kind of damage can they do? >> they can effect voter rolls and they can insert people, they can modify, they can deplelete, they can change information and make it more difficult for voters who come in and actually cast ballots. >> reporter: something senator nelson says

florida department of state says they receive zero information from senator nelson that supports the claims. county officials said the same thing. we have no idea what he's talking about. >> folks arguing we should downsize the government. maybe they have a point. we have to get this right. it's it's incomprehensible to m. why the senator didn't clear it with stakeholders. doesn't make a lot of sense. if this is true in the russians might be interfering with voter rolls, doesn't matter whether they are successful. at the end of the day, if vladimir putin can insinuate that he had something to do with changing voter rolls, then he will arguably succeed in degrading our trust in our democratic system. florida was the sad fact in the gore-bush campaign of some serious voter recount. that would be a logical place for the russians to choose. >> shannon: i was a reporter there. i remember it. it was an interesting time. russia primarily wants to sow chaos and make everyone? our democracy. >> that's where we need to work together to get the truth out and deter, defend, and counter russia's

florida's department of state says it has received zero information supporting the senator the's claimsrick scott who is challenging nelson for the u.s. senate seat said they're not aware of the allegations. marco rubio made a similar reference in orlando back in may. >>> president trump is seemingly changing his tune on his frequent twitter target in deputy attorney general rosenstein. according to sources that spoke with the "wall street journal", the two have a budding relationship and in recent months their relationship improved. the two men talked once or twice a week, and mr. trump calls mr. rosenstein on his cellphone to discuss issues such as immigration. mr. rosenstein consistently prepares the president's team ahead of major news and he visits the white house as often as three times a week, meeting with the president or white house chief of staff john kelly. he has regular lunch with white house general counsel don mcgahn. when asked for a quote about his rapport with rosenstein trump said, quote, it is fantastic, we have great relationship. the deputy attorney general is an i

state plain clothes investigative agency. in florida, they can't call them the fbi, because that would be confusing. so it's called the florida department of law enforcement. but they are the state's, you know, investigators. then you also have, of course, the florida highway patrol, the state troopers. so they're going to get plenty of help. they'll get even some federal help, fbi and atf usually come in on these mass shootings to back up the detectives. but the detectives have the ticket here. and the questions are, you know, once they get it all calmed down and the injured treated and the families reunited with their wounded colleagues and family members, then they're going to have an intense investigation, who are the shooters, are they in custody, is there more people out. is it a conspiracy. you know, evidence. because if the people are alive, they're going to be charged. they've reported one shooter deceased. so, of course, there would be no charge if it he's the lone shooter. but the public always wants to know what else is behind this. could someone have illegally supplied firearms. is it a conspiracy, a gang conspiracy. is it, yo

states marshal for the northern district of florida. susan parmalo, katie s.soralta of florida to be united states martial for the southern district of florida. department of justice, john d. jordan of missouri to be united states martial for the eastern district of missouri. mark s.sluff to be united states martial for the southern district of alabama. nick willard of new hampshire to be united states martial for the district of new hampshire. maria chapa lopez of florida to be united states attorney for the middle district of florida. richard e. junior of texas to be united states martial for the northern district of texas. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc with no intervening action or debate, that if confirmed, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, en bloc, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, that any statements relating to the nominations be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nominations en bloc. the ayes appear to have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unan

so he's being framed by google, the department of justice, the state of florida, the fbi. >> the media. >> the intelligence community and of course the media. everybody is out to get him. >> his insecurity knows no bounds. that is something we haven't seen really in the presidency since richard nixon. there is nothing that he can do to fill up that lack of self-esteem that he has. he automatically blames other people. double bind theory. if i win i win, if i lose it's your fault. >> what's interesting is he appeals to that sense in his voters as well. they feel aggrieved. remember when republicans used to believe in personal responsibility? not any more. they feel aggrieved. they feel like the system is rigged so they have this mutual self-help society, i guess. >> when we come back, you'll never guess where donald trump has picked up his latest accusation, a claim already being officially refuted by the fbi. it's time for the 'biggest sale of the year' on the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, all be

planning the attack are in the united states, specifically in the state of florida where many venezuelan immigrants live. a senior state department official traveling with mike pompeo in indonesia said they heard the reports and are following the situation closely. venezuela is in the middle of a deep financial crisis. the international monetary fund said inflation will reach 1 million percent this year. blackouts and shortages of basic items are common place. cnn atlanta. >> what does this apparent attack tell us about the political and economic turmoil effecting venezuela? we posed that question to jennifer mccoy. a professor at georgia state university and the co-author of the book international mediation in venezuela. >> there's a great deal of unrest in venezuela and a lot of dissatisfaction apparently among military ranks. the government has been arresting and removing military personnel from the ranks accusing many of conspiracy against it. so this is another in a pattern that has been going on for the last couple of years. first we'll have to wait to see the evidence to see what was really behind it. it was very possible

planning the attack are in the united states, specifically in the state of florida, where many venezuelan immigrants live. a senior state department official traveling with u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo and indonesia said they heard the reports and are following the situation closely. venezuela is in the middle of a deep financial crisis. the international monetary fund recently said inflation will reach 1 million percent this year. blackouts and shortages of basic food items are commonplace. rafael romo, cnn, atlanta. >>> as rafael mentioned, he had this message for u.s. president trump. >> translator: hopefully president donald trump's government is willing to fight these terrorist groups, which are attempting great attacks against countries on this continent. in this case, venezuela. >> that's a familiar argument from president maduro. he often railed what he called american imperialism. what does this apparent attack tell us about the political and economic turmoil affecting venezuela? we pose that question to jennifer mccoy, a professor of political science at georgia state university and the co-author of the book "inte

then late on friday, the secretary of state wrote a letter to the homeland security department and the fbi asking to reaffirm their commitment to working with florida officials to share any knowledge of florida's threat to systems. then over the weekend senator mark warner, top democrat on the intelligence committee, he put out a statement backing senator bill nelson up directly saying he was right to warn election officials in his state about this quote very serious and ongoing threat to our democracy. i urge officials at all levels of government to lead the warning and work with dhs to address the threat. so we don't know yet how this gets worked out or if partisans in florida will stop treating this as something that will be something that they fight about in terms of bill nelson's re-election and they start treating it as something that needs to be protected in terms of people turning out to vote. apparently the florida's secretary of state's website can be hakd by an 11-year-old in less than ten minutes and senator nelson is standing by this very provocative claim now supported by members from both parties that right now russians are already i

in separate statements the fbi and department of homeland security both told us they will respond directly to florida's republican secretary of state from those two agencies after nelson's warnings. the agencies did say we'll get back to them. here's what i want to know though. doesn't that seem kind of impotent? i mean, do the individual counties here even after this warning from their home state senator, do they have to figure out if russian military intelligence operatives really are in their systems moving about at -- with free rein? the idea here is that they'll fight this on their own. or if they get a call back from dhs maybe they get some help or advice? doesn't this seem like an asymmetrical fight in the the counties versus the russian military? we're two years after 2016. this is how we're fighting this now. joining us now is david hickton. as a u.s. attorney in 2014, he brought the first ever charges against foreign state actors for hacking. it was an indictment of five members of the chinese military for economic cyber espionage against the u.s. he's a real pioneer in this field. thank you for being here. i told you i'd

of defrauding the state. the justice department has launched a federal civil rights probe into allegations of rampant sexual misconduct by correctional officers and horrific conditions inside a floridaomen's prison. the investigation comes after years of complaints by former and current inmates who describe the lowell correctional institution in central florida as a brothel and predator's playground with legal prostitution. the state's corrections department is promising cooperation with the probe. ♪ ♪ >> mike: in tonight's whatever happened to segment, the war on drugs. the u.s. government says columbia is the world's largest producer of cocaine and is the origin of approximately 92% of the cocaine's seized in the u.s. this week u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley is in colombia and touring drug interdiction efforts. correspondent rich edson is traveling with the ambassador and reports from bogota. >> the director of colombia's antinarcotics police just told u.n. ambassador nikki haley cocaine production will increase here as she watches police destroy coca crops. >> this is where it comes from. we are at the source of where all of it comes from. we have to go to the source and

of this devastating storm. guns are turning out to be a key issue in battleground states like florida and democrats up to capitalize on anti-gun activism in november. the departmentucation report on school shootings over one year has turned into a part of that debate but there are new questions into that report. i would be surprised, anita vogel separating fact from fiction on that report. >> reporter: is it fake news or just a bunch of careless mistakes made by individual schools was the department of education reported during the 2015-16 school year, 235 schools reported one incident involving a school shooting, national public radio reached out to every single one of the school district and of the 75% that responded only 11 incidents were confirmed being real. here's a clip from that npr report. >> 160 one of those 235 cases we did learn districts or schools told us nothing at all happened. the biggest chunk of those overall was cleveland municipal school district reporting 37 shootings. the best guess is that number 37 was placed on the wrong line of the survey. >> reporter: the npr report goes on to other numerous examples of how schools misreported incident

the department of homeland security said they had seen no new compromise by russian hackers. the florida secretary of stateero information to support those claims. governor rick scott of florida is running against bill nelson for senate. he quickly came out and suggested that senator nelson was just making stuff up. but the two republicans who nelson claimed also had knowledge of this, senator burr and senator rubio, neither one of them is denying what bill nelson has said. and then, late on friday night, the florida secretary of state suddenly started to appear to be taking these allegations a little more seriously. he initially responded by basically scotching iscoffing senator. then late on friday, the secretary of state wrote a letter to the homeland security department and the fbi asking to reaffirm their commitment to working with florida officials to share any knowledge of potential lets threats to florida's voting systems. then, over the weekend, senator mark warner, top democrat on the intelligence committee, he put out a statement basically backing senator bill nelson up directly, saying senator

of the devastating storm. guns are turning out to be a key issue in battleground states like florida. democrats hope to capitalize on anti-gun activism come november. a departmentschool shootings over one year has turned into a key part of that debate but there are major new questions about that report. i'd be very surprised. correspondent anita vogel is separating fact from fiction. good evening, anita. >> tonight the big question is, is it fake news or just a bunch of really careless mistakes made by individual schools? the u.s. department of education reported that during the 2015-2016 school year, 235 schools reported at least one incident involving a school shooting. so national public radio reached out to every single one of those school districts and had the 75% that responded, only 11 incidents were confirmed being real. here's the clip from the npr report. >> 161 of those 235 cases, we did learn, districts or schools told us, nothing at all happened. the biggest chunk of those overall was the cleveland municipal school district reporting 37 shootings. their best guess is that that number, 37, placed on the wrong end of the survey. >> the npr report goe

department ofy justice. basically obstructing justice. >> tucker: the state of florida has long been considered moderate politicallyit's a vital swing state during presidential elections. many pundits last nighton and even democrats have been quick to dismiss andrew gillum's chances this fall. he's too far out there they say come up too much of an outsider. that's absurd, they have no idea what they are talking about. they were embarrassingly wrong in the last election and have learned precisely nothing since. h amazingly they are still in the theyictions business when should be selling aluminum siding or doing something useful. of course he can win, ought to be taking his candidacy very seriously. candidacy is like his are erupting in many places. the man announced to give free health care to foreign nationals. watch. >> i did universal health care when i was mayor, regardless of your immigration status.ar it was the only health care plan for undocumented americans i'm very proud of that, and we prove that you can do it without bankrupting the city. but like to extend that to the rest of the state. >> tucker: so y

the department of education weighing whether to let states use federal funding to arm teachers. we're going to hear from a student and a parent from parkland, florida. and unsportsman-like conduct. one of college football's most decaded coaches, ohio state's urban meyers, suspended for his response to domestic abuse allegations. a lot of critics are saying it was a slap on the wrist. is there a double standard at play? we'll dig into that. but we start with that breaking news. nbc news has just confirmed one of president trump's longtime friends, a man who may know his secrets better than just about anyone, was granted immunity in the michael cohen case. his name is michael pecker. he is the ceo of the company that published the national inquir inquirer. let's start with tom winter. hans nichols is standing by for us at the white house. tom, tell us all that you know. walk us through this. and why this is potentially so important. >> craig, this story was first reported by "the wall street journal." it's that in the course of the michael cohen investigation, which of course wrapped upped on tuesday with his guilty plea to eight counts here in new y

florida. two of the most populated states. as well as pennsylvania, and ohio. >>> lease in novato are putting a serious twist on the viral lip synced challenge that is sweeping through law enforcement departments all over the country. deborah be alone reports the police officers met the challenge with a video about some serious topics. >> ♪ one set to a song by the rapper logic this video shows a man about to shoot himself. and pics other police calls, people depressed, despondent, overdosing. >> we want you to live. we want you to be alive. >> reporter: the chief notes it's art imitating life. >> the officer you see in the video was the first in marin county to save a life with narcan. he has actually done it before. >> reporter: across the country law enforcement agencies are having fun creating some slick results. even enlisting celebrities for their productions >> whether we get one view or 1 million views, as long as that person that is in crisis -- >> reporter: officers are glad their department went serious with their lip synced challenge. in one day tens of thousands of abuse and positive feedback. >> i was recognizedy this morning. that was quite an experience. >> reporter: this under

state department this week. i would also like to introduce my son andrew. he is completing his studies at the university of south florida. their love and support over the years have been invaluable as they have accompanied me around the world. it has been my privilege to serve the american people in eight countries over the past three decades and to see my sons grow into such accomplished young man. and even considering following in dad's footsteps. it is an honor to be nominated to serve the united states in such a strategically important country at such a critical time. as the world's eighth largest country by population, bangladesh is known for its moderate, secular, pluralist -- pluralistic perspectives. bangladesh aspires to become a middle income country. it is increasingly important as a trading partner for u.s. investment. it is a vital link between south and southeast asia. it is a country of promise and opportunity. we work closely with bangladesh on a range of issues and hold regular dialogues on bilateral and regional issues, security and defense cooperation, as well as trade and investment. the u.s. is comm

florida state university, including a phd in british military history, and also from the university of st. andrew's scotland and north carolina chapel hill as well as graduate studies in the department of war studies, king's college university of london. professor carpenter retired from the u.s. navy with the rank of captain after 30 years of service, both active duty and reserve. and many will remember that he talked to us just two years ago on the rise of the maritime empires, so in a way this is a continuation, i guess. in june of 2009, he published resurrection of anmimony, the first of two historical novels centered on a retired royal navy intelligence officer brought back into the field to confront na nazi germany. interesting. ladies and gentlemen, dr. stanley carpenter. >> thank you, bob. let me say it's a pleasure and honor to be back. always a thrill to be here. let me make one quick remark here before we get started. a question earlier -- here we are. a question earlier on the flags here. can we go back to the first one there? there we are. that actually is the imperial russian flag, and the question was why is it over here with the other central powers and the answer is

department. our chief medical correspondent dr. jen ashton is here. tell us about this study. >> really interesting study. they looked at all patients presenting to emergency rooms in the state of floridae. male doctor/male patient, female doctor/female patient and they found that women were more likely to survive if they were treated by a female physician. the group that did the worst is a female patient treated by a male physician. we need a lot more research, but these are raising a lot of eyebrows. >> so what do you think? >> i think medically this is not the first study to show a difference in clinical outcome with female physicians actually outperforming male doctors. we don't know why that is. maybe they are better communicators. it's unclear. socially, though, i think this is an incredibly slippery slope. we have to be very careful before we start labeling a profession, oh, this is a female profession. imagine the flip side, if we take professional chefs and say that's a male profession or teachers, or pilots so, again, i think we need to be careful. at this point definitely not enough data to say that if you're sick in the hospital you should request the same physician as your