rick sanchez is a former news anchor, longtime news anchor in south florida, in parkland right now. he joins us tonight. rick, what is it like they are? >> i don't know, tuck, good to see you again, my friend. this is a terrible blow for our community. those of us who grew up here have never seen this. it is amazing that there seems to be two groups that communicate with each other that is hitting very close to home for my family. my daughter started reaching out to my wife and i this afternoon to let us know what is going on. some of the pictures in the videos that she shared from our friends, one of our very good friends attend school here at marjory stoneman douglas. and it seemed like even before we who call ourselves the media were on to the story, all of the children who talk to themselves through social media over onto story sharing ideas and thoughts and most of all sharing videosed and the information that the suspect cruz had been saying about himself. almost revealing exactly what it was he was going to do, even days before he actually did this. so that is really capturing

rick gates has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges. joining me right now, cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez., a lot of pressure now on manafort to cooperate in the investigation. any indication that he might? >> none yet, fred. in fact, yesterday, paul manafort put out a statement saying that he is innocent and actually going as far as to say he had hoped his former business partner rick gates would have had the strength to go to battle and prove their innocence. rick gates obviously going in a different direction. he now becomes the third former trump campaign official to meet guilty and decide to cooperate in robert mueller's investigation, joining former aid george papadopoulos and former security adviser michael flynn. legal experts are telling us that this puts paul manafort in a paraluz situation. keep in mind some of the charges he's facing are identical or at least related to the charges that rick gates is facing. so if gates felt that the evidence was so stacked against him that his best course of action was to plead guilty, then manafort may also go down that road, especially if ga

looking at the former governor of texas rick perry right there for instance and there are plenty of democrats in there as well. joining me this morning cnn's boris sanchezcovering this and randall balmer and chairman of the department of religion at dartmouth and susan johnson cook, ambassador for international religious freedom and faith adviser to president clinton and president obama. give me the tick tok of what we're going to see. >> reporter: from what we understand there's going to be a few remarks given by a pastor who will mark the life of reverend billy graham. then we'll hear from president trump and there will be a few certificate moan yus moments and body will lie in honor before going back to north carolina. this is a profound moment for so many, not just christians but people of all religions as was noted by president trump. he as you mentioned earlier said that the reverend played a big role in his decision to relook at his faith. president trump historically not known as a very religious man but rediscovered his faith in recent years. the president will be joined by other republican leaders including house speaker paul ryan and mitch mc