let's bring in analyst james gagliano. retir retired supervisor for the fbi.do you make of the tweet? i don't think before that tweet anyone else was tying the russia probe to the florida shooting. the president did. what was your reaction when you saw that? >> rene, the fbi works 450 different federal violations. they have the ability to focus in different areas and doing a good job in all of them. no resources were diverted. if you are working an investigation which the russia probe started as, it doesn't impact a criminal investigation which this mass shooting. the fbi is capable of working different violations. i'm confident they will pursue the investigations without moving resources around or i ineffecti ineffective. >> you got back from florida. obviously a horrific scene. >> yes. >> we met after the massacre in las vegas. now we have seen the church shooting in sutherland springs after that. an a l a lot of people said after sandy hook and after these kids were killed that nothing change od o gun control, nothing will change. do you feel things are cha

james gagliano, thank you so much. we're going to have to leave it right there. >>> this morning, the first funeral for a victim of wednesday's killing rampage, alyssa alhadeff was just 14 years old. yesterday her grief stricken mother unleashed some of her anger and heart break and delivered a blistering rebuke aimed directly at the president of the united states. >> the gunman, a crazy person, just walks right into the school, knocks down the window of my child's door and starts shooting. shooting her. and killing her. president trump, you say what can you do? you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands. this is not fair. our family, our children go to school, and they have to get killed! i just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughter's funeral, who is 14! president trump, please do something! >> cnn's gary tuchman is outside alyssa's funeral, powerful words, the heartache is felt by everyone, gary. >> reporter: so heart breaking. inside this funeral behind me, the

special agent james gagliano on the phone. former police commissioner. and fbi special agent. james i wonder what you make of this. the man tasked with protecting the school couldn't or wouldn't. >> it's another gut punch. you and i were at the scene in  florida. and the visceral and emotion and pain and talking to the parents there and the students survivors. this is another piece of a failure in the system. now, we have to wait until the facts get in. we have to wait and give the sheriff the opportunity to do a deep dive. the initial reports on this they're beyond troubling. and unsettling. look, i served in the fbi for 25 yores. i served in combat. and i can tell you this, bravery is not the absence of fear. it's the mastery of it. not everybody is built for this line of work. there's a reason why it's a profession. it's not a job. for somebody to be on the outside to hear children screaming and hear guns going off, it's unsettling. now listen, there is no if there had been two officers there or three, or if we had armed school teachers. i don't think there's any pen see h

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campaign therrian johnson and republican rat gist kevin paul scott and cnn law enforcement analyst jay gaglianoand let's begin here in atlanta, and therrian, you first, does this promote clarity and the republicans say it is about transparency or does it offer more confusion? the democrats say that the complete picture is not unveiled. >> well, it is total confusion, and chaos, and the message leading up to the the memo is that it is not to muddy the waters around the mueller investigation and showing transparency that fisa followed the process, and then once it is released, it is donald trump saying that he is vindicate and trying to discredit one of the most trusted federal agencies in the fbi saying that they tamper with the evidence and illegal wiretap in the department of justice, and the democrats are i saying that we are dismay and the republicans are e saying, this is not what we want the american people to see. >> and so in the democratic memo if it is ever released hour, do you suppose it is going to be offering clarity or clear it up or won't it also be a cherry picking of the inform

the white house let's bring in gonzalez, and analyzer at the university and special agent james gagliano. good to see all of you. we've seen the devin nunes memo, the gop memo. the house intelligence committee could vote tomorrow on the democrats' version. so, james, first, if that memo does not get released and win the approval of the president to be made public, what potential effect might this have on this overall investigation or even public perception about what's happening? >> fred, it will have zero to do with how the investigation goes on. i want to comment on representative trey gowdy's words. the russia investigation is going to continue. nothing is going to impede it. i don't suspect that robert mueller is going to be removed. i think it would be a colossal error for the president and i think he's comfortable with letting things sort themselves out. i argue that the democratic memo should have come out at the same time as the republican one. i thought it was bad form. i thought it was a huge, huge -- it's basically a self-inflicted wound there. however, i think the country is

let's bring in cnn analyst david gregory and law enforcement analyst james gagliano. i want to start with the armed guard at the school. this just shows how flawed the idea that one armed guard could take down a crazed active shooter is. but what do you think happened here? why didn't that armed guard enter? was he scared? how often are these deputies themselves trained for active shooter drills? >> sure, alisyn. this was awe colossal failure of the system. remember, systems are made up of fallible human beings like all of us. but in in instance, i can only describe this with two words. i am shocked and appalled. and listen, everyone in the system is entitled to due process. i understand the sheriff is going to do a deep dive and find out where this breakdown occurred. but, listen, as mark twain famously said, courage is not the absence of fear. it is the mastery or control of it. i can tell you leading s.w.a.t. teams, hostage rescue team and in combat theaters i was scared of my mind. but our training conditioned us to go to the sound of the guns. what happened here

james gagliano live for us in pa parkland, florida. thank you. this morning, five people are still hospitalized following this shooting. the president and the first lady visited a hospital in broward county last night where many victims of wednesday's shooting are being treated. they also dropped by the sheriff's office to praise the law enforcement officials who responded to the incident. >> our cnn correspondent dianne gallagher is in deer field beach, florida. what can you tell us about those still in hospitals and about the president's visit? >> victor, renee, the good news is that only five in the hospital this morning. that means that since we first spoke earlier, somebody has been discharged. still one in critical condition. broward north behind me is where the president and first lady visited. they spent time with two patients, one of whom was 18-year-old maddie willford. >> i just got back from the hospital. a young woman was shot, four bullets. two in her lungs and they got her over to the hospital in less than 21 minutes. she had no ch

. >> chief ramsey, james gagliano, thank you for your expertise. i think they spelled it out perfectly. it's very complicated. that's part of why congress doesn't tackle it. >> complicated is why we put them there to address things. so far they have refused to make any changes to gun laws that after so many mass shootings, will this one be different? will this one change anything? discussion next. how do you win at business? stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com dial your binge-watching up to eleven. start winning today. join the un-carrier right now, and get four unlimited lines for only thirty-five bucks each. woah. plus, netflix for the whole family. on us. prrrrrrr... so, they get their shows... let's go, girl! you're gonna love this bit! and you get yours. watch however you want. on your phone, tablet, or tv. for a limited time, get 4 lines for just thirty-five bucks per line, with no

james gagliano is joining us. you used to lead the fbi swat team. in terms of what we know so far. what stand out to you? >> this takes me back to april of 1999. i was a member of the fbi hostage rescue team. one of the biggest thing that law enforcement does after an incident like this is they conduct an exhaustive after action review. it's like a best practice sharing. and some of the lessons learned after columbine. were stark and important. i believe saved a number of lives. >> columbine changed everything in terms of police response. >> it changed everything. prior to columbine nobody understood what the term active shooter meant. >> prior to columbine, police set up a perimeter to secure this. they didn't move in immediately. >> tactical teams wouldn't take a piece from a local department and a police officer and a federal agent. you continue do that. now days what we do is go to the sound of give up. you get four people together, we're trained we use particular formation. different things we say. >> it's the initial officers who are on the scene. if it's a bike cop or traffi

we have david gregory and james gagliano. james, let's start with all the developments. the relentless red flags about this gunman that were missed. i think it just bears us repeating, putting it up on the screen again. there are dates where there could have been some intervention. there were anonymous calls that this kid was going to shoot up the school. a peer counselor reported this kid was suicidal. his mother said he wrote a racial slur on his bookbag. there were youtube comments that he posted that he wanted to be a professional school shooter. his cousin asked police to take his weapons after his mother died. there were threats that he was going to go get his gun and show back up during a fight and shoot somebody. there was a caller to the call center that he could be a school shooter in the making. but listen, james, where could he have beenk through all of these, and we say something has to change, if your mother says you write a racial slur on your bookbag, you're not getting locked up. if you say i'm come canning back with my gun, you're not getting locked up.

let's bring in cnn analyst james gagliano. tell me if i'm wrong. if any other type of criminal event, in the aftermath, the immediate assessment is why did this happen? and then, what do we do the next time. look at terrorism. oh, the guy drove a car. how did he get the car on the sidewalk? we deal with barriers. they bought these kind of materials. we have to deal with that. how did this person get in this country. then we deal with that. not here. what's the difference? >> chris, i look at this from a military perspective. there's the tactical level and the strategy yic level. we figure out the nuts and bolts and mechanics how to deal with this. april 1999, columbine. we adjusted the tactics. going to the sound of guns is what we needed to do instead of waiting for the perfect law enforcement plan. at the strategic level, which involves politics and a lot of other things, the problem there is we have two die metric ally opposed. they go to two separate corners. >> i get that but it is the end of the discussion. we are not at a consensus of wantin