Transcripts For CNNW Early Start With Christine Romans And Dave Briggs 20180226

Bankruptcy protection is the next step. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im ryan nobles. It is monday, february 26th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Florida governor rick scott ordering an investigation into the Law Enforcement response to the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas high school in parkland, florida. Scott calling for full accountability. The governor not going as far as dozens of republican state lawmakers want. They called on the governor to suspend sheriff israel for what they term incompetence. Sheriff israel says his department will cooperate. Earlier sunday, israel rejected calls to step down saying it was politically motivated. Despite the actions or lack of actions and red flags that were missed. The sheriff defending his response. Are you really not taking responsibility for the multiple red flags brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriffs Office about the indent or people near him or close to him calling police. Jake, i can only take responsibility for what i knew about at the time. I exercised due diligence. I have given amazing leadership to the agency. Amazing leadership . Yes, jake. A lot of things we have done. You dont measure the persons leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received training they needed. Sheriff israel under scrutiny for missed chances to intervene before the 19yearold gunman opened fire. The Sheriffs Office says it received 23 calls related to nikolas cruz or his brother over the last ten years. Two of the calls under especially close review. Suggesting cruz may be planning to shoot up a school. The house and Senate Return today with the gun violence looming. One from rhode island set to release assault weapons ban. How far it will go in the republican controlled house is an open question. On sunday, ivanka trump was asked about her fathers suggestion of Arming Teachers. She defended the proposal as one possible part of a larger solution. You are a mom of three young children. Do you believe Arming Teachers would make children safer . To be honest, i dont know. Having a teacher who is armed and who cares deeply about her students or his students and who is capable and qualified to bear arms is not a bad idea. It is an idea that needs to be discussed. A cnn poll shows 7 in 10 americans favor stricter gun laws. That is up from 52 who said that in october. More stringent gun control by democrats. The Stoneman Douglas High School Hockey team won the state title on sunday. The victory over the tournaments top seed. For the 17 that passed away out here. It has been a tough week. We came here to win. We all just came together and got the win. Stoneman douglas will compete in the National Championship next month in minnesota. President trumps Reelection Campaign is using a photo of the president visiting a survivor of the parkland massacre to solicit donations. An email sent saturday asking for money using a photo of the president and first lady with 17yearold madeleine wilford. It reads making schools and children safer is a top priority. There is a link to a donation page. The campaign did not return cnns request for comment. Emails and calls to the family were not returned. Customers are pushing companies to cut ties with the nra. Taking to social media to voice outrage. Look at the companies here. Not targeting weapons makers, but people and customers targeting companies that offer discounts to the nra and nra members. A lot of the companies have special treatment for nra members. The pressure is working. Symantec and metlife all ending the relationship with the nra. One of the first here National Bank of omaha is tweeting that Customer Feedback caused it to cancel an nra credit card. Also the latest delta and United Airlines. We heard from delta ending the discounted flights for nra members. Nra has responded calling this a shameful, shameful response. Display of political of civic cowardess. These brands will be replaced by customers who want freedoms. For years, Corporate American stayed away from gun control. Now Companies Taking a stand on Climate Change and immigration and gay rights and now on guns. Thats actually good for business. A recent poll found that the most important thing for consumers and activists is to buy from companies that do the right thing. Ryan. You think this is because companies are targeting millennials . I think so. They have a big cohort of c consumers speaking out on guns. Interesting. The House Intelligence Committee releasing the democratic memo that rebuts claims of surveillance abuses at the fbi. The white house signing off on the document following the negotiation was the fbi and Committee Top democrat adam schiff. The department accused the fbi about the unverified dossier with trump. The democratic memo argues the Justice Department gave the fia fisa court the evidence. Also, the republican memo spearheaded by devin nunes. They failed to mention the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic Committee paid for the dossier. The Department Gave all of the necessary contacts and following longstanding practices by not identifying the americans involved by name. President trump attacking schiff in a memo and dismissing the democratic memo entirely. They will have a Committee Meeting and he will leak information. He is a bad guy. Certainly the memo was a nothing. It should be noted the release of the democratic memo was delayed for weeks for redactions. The white house allowed the gop memo released quickly over the objections of the fbi. The mexican president pena nieto was planning to meet with the president in march, but he canceled his plans after President Trump refused to publicly affirm the mexican position it will not pay for a border wall. The white house official telling cnn the meeting would be awkward and countcillo counter productive. And sources telling axios that the president is a fan of singapores Capital Punishment policy citing low rates of drug use. The report says he believes a gentler approach is more proactive. The law currently requires that sentence for people who deal 40 grams or more. Conservative columnist standing by her comments this weekend at the cpac committee. She was asked what riled herfem. Im upset over abusers of women in our party sitting in the white house who brag about their Extramarital Affairs and brag about mistreating women. Because he happens to have an r after his name, we look the other way. We dont complain. The Republican Party endorsed roy moore for the senate in the state of alabama even though he was a creditn accused child mol. You cannot claim you stand for women not true and put up with that. All right. She had to be escorted out by security. She says she is happy with what happened. She said im glad i got booed at cpac. There is nothing more freeing than telling the truth. It must be done again and again by those of us who refuse to be absorbed into this brainless, clownish thing called trumpism. We have breaking news right now. The New York Times reporting that Harvey Weinsteins film company is slated to file for bankruptcy protection after a lastditch talks to sell to an Investor Group collapsed. The deal would have given control to a team led by maria contraes. The discussions came to a halt when the new York Attorney Generals Office filed lawsuit against the company. Should the u. S. Lower demands of the Nuclear Talks with north korea . A key u. S. Ally says yes. We are live in south korea next. My name is jeff sheldon, and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. 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We had information in the past half hour that the head of the north korean delegation said the doors are open for dialogue with the United States. That information from the south korean president. Walking a tricky line as he is trying to get the two sides together after the u. S. Said they had to show they were willing to denuclearization before accepting any talks. What president moon said he would like to see the u. S. Lowering the threshold to make sure the talks happen. I talked to the south Korean Unification minister yesterday and i was asking him about the talks. How do you keep the momentum going. He said in the past north korea would walk out anytime south korea tried to mention the nuclear word. Now the attitude is changed. Translator we explained our position north Koreas Nuclear issues on several times on the delegations reception with the president. North korea listened closely to what we had to say. Reporter also the minister told me in the past north korea said well talk to the u. S. About that. Not south korea. That appears to have changed. Clearly there is desire from the south korean and north korean side for the United States to be engaged in the discussions. We had ivanka trump here. She left monday morning local time to head back to the United States. She did stand for the north korean and south korean athletes in the stadium. Unclear if she was already standing. She was applauding as well. Different optics from Vice President mike pence. Thank you, paula. Chinas Party Clearing the way for xi jinping to remain in power indefinitely. The party plans to abolish term limits. A break from the establishment rule s dating back decades. This is the boldest move to strengthen the hold on modernizing society. Lets go to matt rivers live in beijing. Matt, was this a surprise . Reporter well, depends on who you ask here. This was a bit of an ununexpect move. Xi jinping was considered the most powerful leader since mao. He literally had his name written into the Party Constitution late last year. Many political observers were saying he gives up power after two terms. That said, apparently xi jinping has that much Political Capital to burn to amend the constitution. It will be amended. Why does this matter to the United States . One, you know who you will deal with for the next several years if not decades to come. What this shows you is china will move forward under the vision that xi jinping sets forward. He has an incredible amount of power. Domestically, he doesnt have the political strive that dominates the headlines in the United States. This is a country that will go toetotoe with the United States for dominance on the world stage and led by xi jinping. Major development. Matt rivers, thank you. A medical group in syria says patients are showing symptoms of a chemical attack as the dire situation gets worse. We go live to the middle east. Unsto ght there im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer. With unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Ah, its so fresh. And its going to last from wash to. Wear for up to 12 weeks. Unstopables by downy. Small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. At t doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. At t, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. At t, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. Eastern ghouta in syria is under heavy bombardment although it is under ceasefire. Hospitals report 520 People Killed and 520 injured since air strikes began pounding the area eight days ago. Cnns Jomana Karadsheh is joining us live from amman, jordan. Good morning. Reporter good morning, ryan. By all accounts sunday was a day of escalation with activists reporting air strikes and artillery shelling pounding almost every part of Eastern Ghouta. They reported the regime was trying to push into the area on several fronts in what they described as ground offensive. Overnight, we received disturbing reports coming from activists and medical groups, including the syrianamerican medical society about a suspected chlorine gas attack. The group says one of the hospitals it supports in Eastern Ghouta received 16 patients. Including six children saying quote suffering symptoms indicative of exposure to chemical compounds. The Health Director is reporting the same and saying the symptoms they showed were consistent to toxic chlorine gas. We have heard this in the past and both sides have accused each other of using chlorine as a weapon. It is the vvill vicivilians whoe brunt of the heartbreak. Thank you, jomana. And the search for 110 school girls in boko haram. 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Not just sorta comfortable, serta comfortable. Purchase an icomfort mattress and get a free boxspring or up to 500 off an adjustable set. Of course, i wont resign. The Broward County sheriff on the offensive. Questions about the departments response of the Florida School shooting and warnings about the gunman. It is important for the public to see the facts and the fbi acted appropriately. The democratic memo is out rebutting gop claims of surveillance abuses at the fbi. And breaking overnight. The end could be near for the Harvey Weinstein company. Reports say bankruptcy protection is the next step. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im ryan nobles in for dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is 31 minutes past the hour. Florida governor rick scott ordering an investigation into the Law Enforcement response to the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas high school in parkland, florida. Scott calling for full accountability for the Broward County Sheriffs Office handling of the shooting and massacre. The governor not going as far as dozens of republican state lawmakers want. They called on the governor to suspend sheriff israel for what they term incompetence. Sheriff israel says his department will cooperate. Echoing the vow of accountability. Earlier sunday, israel rejected calls to step down saying it was politically motivated. Despite the actions or lack of actions by officers and red flags that were missed. The sheriff defending his response. Are you really not taking responsibility for the multiple red flags brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriffs Office about the shooter before the incident of where it was people near him or close to him calling police . Jake, i can only take responsibility for what i knew about at the time. I exercised due diligence. I have given amazing leadership to the agency. Amazing leadership . Yes, jake. A lot of things we have done. You dont measure the persons leadership by a deputy not going into these deputies received training they needed. Sheriff israel under scrutiny for missed chances to intervene before the 19yearold gunman opened fire. The Sheriffs Office says it received 23 calls related to nikolas cruz or his brother over the last ten years. Two of the calls under especially close review. Suggesting cruz may be planning to shoot up a school. The house and Senate Return today with the gun violence looming. David sisilini set to introduce an assault weapons ban. How far it will go in the republican controlled house is an open question. On sunday, ivanka trump was asked about her fathers suggestion of Arming Teachers. She defended the proposal as one possible part of a larger solution. You are a mom of three young children. Do you believe Arming Teachers would make children safer . To be honest, i dont know. Having a teacher who is armed and who cares deeply about her students or his students and who is capable and qualified to bear arms is not a bad idea. It is an idea that needs to be discussed. The president will talk about guns with the nations governors at the white house. A cnn poll shows 7 in 10 americans favor stricter gun laws. That is up from 52 who said that in october. After the shooting in las vegas. The partisan gap is why with more stringent gun control by democrats. The Stoneman Douglas High School Students returned at an open house as well as parents. We have cnns Kaylee Hartung with more. Reporter students were unsure how they would feel and react to being on the campus for the first time. After an afternoon in which many students reunited with classmates and teachers for the First Time Since february 14th and had the chance to get their backpacks and laptops and wallets they left behind that day, sure it was difficult for many, but im told there was happiness among them. Listen to the tenth grader tanzil phillip. It was scary. I saw the fence around the freshman building. All of the windows were covered. I cannot believe this happened. We decided to meet in theater room where i was located and we gave each other hugs. Im happy a lot of my friends decided to show up. Without them, i would not have been able to do it. Reporter students will return for classes on wednesday. As teachers have told me, it will not be class as usual. It will take a while before academics is the for you ccus. The superintendent says he wants to be accommodating to each student and teacher when it comes to needs and the emotional healing process. Moving forward, this could mean counselors in classrooms and service dogs or stress reduction exercises like yoga. Christine. Ryan. Kaylee hartung, thank you. In a needed boost to school spirit, the Stoneman Douglas High School Hockey team won on sunday. The victory over the tournaments top seed. For the 17 that passed away out here. It has been a tough week. We came here to win. We all just came together and got the win. Stoneman douglas will compete in the National Championship next month in minnesota. A agreein a growing numb companies are breaking up with the nra. They are not targeting weapons makers or manufacturers. They are targeting companies that offer discounts to nra members. Symantec and metlife and Car Rental Companies ending relationships with the nra. First National Bank of omaha tweeting that Customer Feedback caused them to cancel the nra credit card. The delta and United Airlines ends end s ending discounts for nra. The nra calling this a shameful display of political and civic cowardess. Adding these brands will be replaced by others who value constitutional freedoms. For years, Corporate America stayed away from controversial issues. Now from Climate Change and gay rights and now gun control is now causing companies to do the right thing. 83 in the poll from january of this year. It is important to buy from companies that do the right thing. Christine, a lot of big names on the list. One that is not on the list. Amazon. And fed ex and others. Calls for nra tv not to be streamed with these products. Thank you, christine. The House Intelligence Committee releasing the democratic memo rebutting the claims of the abuses from the fbi. The white house signing off on the documents. The gop accuses the Justice Department of using an unverified dossier of trump about the lynch pin of the application on the surveillance on the one time Trump Campaign adviser. The Justice Department gave the fisa Court Additional information. Beyond the dossier written by operative christopher steele. And the memo accuses the Justice Department of misleading the fisa court. They say the doj failed to mention the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic Party paid for part of the dossier. President trump attacking adam schiff frin an interview while attacking the memo entirely. He will have a Committee Meeting and leak information. He is a bad guy. It is certainly the memo was a nothing. It should be noted the lease of the memo was delayed for weeks for redactions although the white house allowed the gop memo to be released quickly o r objections from the fbi. The president is pushing to have his long time personal pilot head the faa. Duncan has been interviewed for the post saying he was impressive. He flew trumps personal plane during the 2016 campaign. Duncan has previously told people he would face delays flying trump around. White house officials have been pushing back against critics of the appointmenappointment. A blow to californias senator Dianne Feinstein as she is seeking another bid for the senate. The 84yearold failed to win endorsement from the Democratic Party at the state convention this weekend. Her opponent, kevin deleon failed to earn the 60 support needed for the endorsement. He got more than feinstein. She is still heavily favored to win in november because of her unlimited resources and support among california independents and republicans if a jung s in primary. The New York Times reporting Harvey Weinsteins film company is slated to file for bankruptcy protection after lastditch talks to sell to Investor Group collapsed. The 500 million deal would give the control to the head of the Small Business administration. The new York Attorney Generals Office filed lawsuit. Should the u. S. Lower demands with the nuclear talk s with north korea . One key ally says yes. We are live in south korea next. North koreas participation in the Winter Olympics has come to an end. The last two weeks in pyeongchang is remembered for bringing the koreas together in a moment of unity. Now the world wonders if pyongyang and the u. S. Can get together. Lets bring in Paula Hancocks who is live in pyeongchang with the latest. Good morning, paula. Reporter ryan, just in the last hour, we have new information from the north korean delegation. The head of the delegation has said that the doors are open for dialogue with the United States. We are hearing this from the south korean side. Similar to what we heard just yesterday. Obviously more definitive and more basic from the north koreans saying we should talk to the United States. Now were not hearing the same from washington. What we have been hearing if pyongyang wants to talk, they have to take steps to denuclearization. We are hear from moon jaein. He is saying the United States needs to lower the threshold in order to make the talks happen. We also spoke with south Korean Unification minister on sunday about keeping momentum going considering the joint u. S. Military drills are coming up soon and annoying north korea. All of a sudden, north korea will talk to south korea about the issue. Before they used to walk out and said they had to talk to the u. S. Translator we explained our position on north koreas issues on several occasions including the january 9th talks and north korean delegations reception with the president. North korea listened closely t e what we had to say. Reporter we hahave confirmation there was no cooperation at the winter games. Ryan. Thank you, paula. The communist Party Clearing the way for xi jinping to remain in power indefinitely. The party will abolish term limits which is a bold break dating back decades of tradition. This is a big deal, matt rivers . Reporter especially when you take the latest move, christine. Dont forget it was in the fall of 2017 that xi jinping was not only reelected as the general secretary of the communist party in china, but had his name enshrined in the communist constitution. Only mao had done that. You take this latest step, abolishing the term limits. That means xi jinping could remain the president of china and head of state for the rest of his life. He occupies the head of state and occupies the general secretary position of the communist party. It really is unprecedented. All of that may seem like inside baseball and chinese politics. Here is why that matters to the United States. Xi jinping thinks china should be on the same level as the United States. Expanding military and domina dominating world trade. They want to go toetotoe with the United States. The United States now knows it will be dealing with that kind of a leader, that ambitious leader, that wants china to rise on the world stage. Meanwhi meanwhile, the u. S. Is set with political strive that doesnt exist in china. Thank you, matt rivers. High stakes privacy rights case goes to court this week. Microsoft and the just advertic department spar in court. We will tell you the latest on cnn money next. Small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. At t doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. At t, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. At t, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. Eastern ghouta in syria under heavy bombardment despite a ceasefire. 2500 injured after the pounding of artillery eight days ago. We have Jomana Karadsheh live from amman, jordan. Jomana, the pictures are heartbreaking. It seems the letup is not coming anytime soon. Reporter that seems to be the case. This is what we are hearing from activists on the groupndground, whom we have been speaking with and reporting that artillery shelling and air strikes is continui continuing. On sunday, it was a report of escalation of every part of Eastern Ghouta with shelling and artillery. And a ground offensive trying to push into Eastern Ghouta. We received disturbing reports from activists and medical groups, including the syrianamerican medical society. A suspected chlorine gas attack. One of the hospitals received 16 patients on sunday, including 6 children suffering symptoms indicative of exposure to chemical compounds. We cant independently verify the reports with no access to the area. Both sides of the conflict accused each other in the past of using chlorine as a chemical weapon. That is something the regime has denied in the past. In the middle of this is the civilians who pay the heaviest price. Thank you, Jomana Karadsheh. Jomana, thank you. Public schools in West Virginia remain closed today. The third day of the statewide strike by teachers and other employees. The strike started thursday with teachers protesting at the state capital. The decision is expected today on whether to pursue legal action against the striking union. Kevin smith surviving a major health scare. Early this morning, he tweeted saying he had a massive heart attack after a show last night. Smith was performing in glendale, california. He went on to say if he had not canceled his second show, he would have died. He finished by saying quote for now im still aboveground. Lets get a check on cnn money. Global stocks and u. S. Futures higher. Fears over higher Interest Rates eased for now. Look, this anxiety over higher rates is what is behind wall streets swings. The dow and s p were on track for a 1 decline. Both rose more than 1 pushing all three higher for the week. Bond yields moved further from the fouryear high. That makes inn vefrt evestors h. High stakes set privacy rights case goes to court. Microsoft and the Justice Department spar this week. The outcome could determine if companies could hand over foreign data. In 2014, microsoft was served a warrant with a Drug Trafficking case with information stored on servers in ireland. A domestic warrant did not cover measures abroad. A ruling is due by the end of june. The king still reigns supreme. What happens now determines what happens to the rest of the world. If you havent seen it, you are missing something. It roared past 700 million world wide in the second week. Making 108 million in the u. S. Alone. The second best week of all time. The movie is a watershed moment for hollywood. My kids are like, mom, when will we see it . My son. Every day. I have not seen it yet. It is on the list. Everyone seems to love it. Early start continues right now. Of course, i wont resign. The Broward County sheriff on the offensive. Questions mounting over the response to the Florida School shooting and warnings about the gunman. It is important for the public to see the facts that the fbi acted appropriately. The democratic memo out rebutting claims of surveillance abuses at the fbi. And breaking overnight. The end could be near for Harvey Weinsteins film company. Reports say bankruptcy protection is the next step. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im ryan nobles. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. It is february 26th. 5 00 a. M. In the east. The Florida Governor rick scott ordering an investigation into the response to the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas in parkland. Scott calling for the full accountability for the way the Sheriffs Office handled the shooting 12 days ago. The governor not going as far as some would like. They call on the governor to suspend sheriff scott israel for what they term incompetence. The department willfully cooperate echoing the volume of accountabili accountability. Earlier sunday, israel rejected the calls for him which were politically motivated. The sheriff is defending his response over missed responses and red flags. Are you not taking responsibility for the multiple red flags brought to the attention of the Broward Sheriffs Office about this shooter before the incident whether it was people near him or close