Portraying the indictment was nothing to celebrate. What followed was a twoday tirade on twitter. Slammed democrats, blamed barack obama, even so far as to suggest the fbi missed the Florida Shooter because of the russia investigation. But again, no blame for russia except to suggest the kremlins operation was a success saying if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption, and chaos within the u. S. , they have succeed beyond their wildest dreams. It is clear that this issue is increasingly getting under the president s skin. Its clear that his frustration is boiling over. The president s trying hard to convince people that, number one, theres no connection between hiss campaign and russia. Number two, that other people are zblonl he views any evidence that russia was meddling as somehow a lessoning of his stature, attack on his legitimate sixth amendment he would be better served and f he said we have an adversary here, the evidence is here and were going to do something about it. The president doesnt feel vindicated. First consider how mueller has like a prosecutor laying out a case carefully revealed the results of his investigation so far. First there were the indictments of rick gates and paul manafort. The pleas of George Papadopoulos and michael flynn. But fridays indictments were the first evidence mueller offered to the American People, that russian interference was not fake news, and that he literally had names. Could trumps angry be the reaction of a man who feels the russia investigation is getting too close for comfort as matt miller just postured . So we ask our big question once again, why is the president blaming everyone but russia . I have a team of reporters covering every angle. Geoff bennett is with the president in florida. Natasha ber trand for the atlantic. And jamil jaffer is director of National Security of the National Security law program at Georgia Mason university and also former Senior Adviser to senator bob corker. Jeff, youre the lucky guy in warm florida today. What was the president doing this weekend and why did he got to angry on twitter . I can tell you that a white house official says the president opted against his usually weekend golf routine. Instead spent saturday and sunday at maralago out of respect for the victims of the Parkland High School shooting and their families. So he stayed away from his golf club. Instead he watched cable tv in a you see and responded in realtime on his twitter account in the process of, elevating talking points where he suggested the fbis failure to stop the gunman at the Florida High School just 40 minutes from here was somehow linked to the fact agents were too much involved in the russia investigation. Look, he said nothing to the point about Vladimir Putin or about how he would thwart continued russian attempts to interfere in the 2018 Midterm Election and beyond. Quick side note, he said he didnt golf this weekend. Where is he now . He just returned from Trump International golf club. We dont know that he golfed today, but he was certainly there today. Jeff, what is the strategy behind these tweets . . A strategy or is this just Donald Trumps stream of consciousness . Its too hard to tell if its a full strategy. Its certainly a concerted effort based on the public interviews that white house aides have given where theyre sort of echoing the president s own comments and tweets where theyre trying to cherry pick and extract elements from the indictment that was unsealed friday, and elements of what Rod Rosenstein said friday to somehow show the indictments are selfvi sel sel selfvindicating. Robert muellers team spoke with steve bannon, for 20 hours off and on. So the probe into potential collusion, obstruction of justice carries on. This is not a done deal even though the white house is trying to characterize it in that way. There was a 37page indictment on friday, the day i choose to take off, where mueller basically says that this happened, this is not fake news despite what the president says. They have the receipts. Theyve seen it in action and they have the names. Right. This is just further indication. This really served to quiet muellers critics for the time being. The main criticism of mueller coming from the right, one of them was that he was going on a fishing expedition, that the whole reason why he launched this investigation in the first place was to go off to the white house to remove trump from power, that there was a coup happening. But we know what really he was pursuing russias interference in the election. Now that hes laid the ground work with names and incredible detail about the extent to which the russians planned and orchestrated and carried out this operation, its now ground work for him to say this is a crime that happened, the russians committed a crime, and now when he issues further indictments, they will have more weight. Established that there was some thethere there for tryino meddle in this election. Michael, there was no witting connection in the last indictment media between the russians and the Trump Campaign, but its also notable that the indictment cant didnt have anything about the dnc hacks or wikileaks. Right. Could we be seeing more to come on that or should we expect more later . Definitely. Its important that people understand that, that this latest focuses on one small part of whats a larger russian government operation to interfere in the elections. So 37 pages of incredible details, including russians coming inside the United States to gather intelligence for this operation, 13 people indicted, three organizations, thats only one piece, doesnt even touch the thing most people think of which is the email hack. And that, by the way, i would argue it was likely to have much greater impact on Voter Attitudes than these social media campaigns and some of these rallies the russians organized. The big stuff is probably yet to come. Indeed it does seem as though mueller is beginning to lay the ground work. You had the fringe to begin with, papadopoulos, manafort, gates, michael flynn. And then now were seeing what actually happened, how they did it, at least a piece of it. Is it because this is such a divisive issue right now, this russia investigation, the president is calling it fake news, hes calling it a hoax, the public is so divided on either end of the spectrum when it comes to donald trump and when it comes to what russia did because its so intertwined now, is this an effort by Robert Mueller to establish why americans need to take this seriously . Sure. Thats part of it. It is clear now that russia has engaged in a long effort to influence our elections, to undermine our confidence in our political system and to ultimately conduct operations against the United States and influence operations that is ongoing. One positive thing we saw was that the president did show an understanding that we are engaged in an ongoing operation to undermine the capability of the government to function the work. Congress and the president need to Work Together and take action, respond to what russia is doing. But congress has taken action. The president hasnt fold up on that action. He hasnt enforced the sanctions that congress forced him to sign . Sure. Congress could do more. They can do sanctions without the requirement of the president. The president could be doing more here, and theres a concern were not doing more and not responding aggressively enough to russias actions. Now, President Trump is the first person to try to make nice with russia. This is not the first time weve seen both sides for a work with the russians. That doesnt mean in the light of this evidence we should not take action now. The American People need to realize the 2018 election is under pressure. Thats a real problem and we need to act swiftly and say we will not stand for this behavior by a foreign nation in our electoral system. The evidence was incontrovertible, but at the same time he was being undercut by the president in a tweet. Quote, general mcmaster forgot to say results were not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only collusion was between russia and crooked h, the dnc and the dems. Remember the dirty dossier and the podesta company. Is this the president trying to protect himself, protect his legitimacy over what actually happened in the 2016 election and what russia was trying to do . His National Security adviser is saying its incontrovertible, but the president is making it all about himself. I think both are right. The russians havent been successful in undermining the president s ability to function. Everything we see has made it impossible to function. The same thing would have happened if Hillary Clinton has been elected. They have a process that has undermined our confidence in the electoral system, the fbi, and the Justice Department. Enthuse political fight on capitol hill with both sides being partisan. That is not good for the and then you plays into the russians hands. The russians wanted this effect. They wanted this whether it was hillary or trump and were playing right into it. We need to get past that this and focus on the fact theyre threatening our electoral system and we need to stop this from happening again. Whats the latest on rick gates . The l. A. Times said he could be changing his plea to guilty . So far that report is unconfirmed. The l. A. Times is the only one thats been able to report that. If its true, and theres really no reason at this point to think that its not, there are other reports saying that he was going to change his plea soon. Its big trouble for manafort. This is someone thats worked with manafort, really close business associate for over a decade. And could spell trouble for the Trump Campaign because, of course, rick gates was manaforts deputy and the two of them essentially oversaw the entire campaign in the summer of june 2016. Even after manafort left the campaign, rick gates stayed on and he was there through the transition period, through the end of the election and through the transition period. The White House Campaign officials have said he was sidelined during that period, but ultimately he was still in very close contact with manafort throughout that time. So if youre the white house right now, youre starting to wonder what will gates tell mueller about the campaign. My sources on the Campaign Said that when they saw him come back when he was a part of the transition, there was surprise among some about why he was there. They thought they were able to sideline him when manafort got ousted, but that was not the case. So there was trust issues at that time. Well see what comes out of it. Geoff bennett, natasha ber trand, thank you. How did the alleged School Shooter slip through the cracks is f all the signs were there . Families are grieving and students are angry. 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The report did not know what he was buying the gun for. It also noted the that he told the counselor that he was feeling digressed. In 2015 he had a sign on his backpack saying i hate, fold bay racial slur we cant say on television. Despite this, counselors determined he was stable and he didnt need to be hospitalized. Nbcs tami leitner is in florida. There was a tip that came into the fbi in january that the fbi did not act on. Governor rick scott is demanding that the fbi turn over all of the information from this tip. He is saying that it is inexcusable that they did not act on it and the family deserves answers. Lets go over what we know about this tip that came in january of this year. It came from somebody that was close to nikolas cruz, somebody that knew that he had a gun, somebody that he knew he was behavinger ratically, and he was making threats and posting things on social media that were very disturbing. We also know that back in november Nikolas Cruzs adoptive mom died. That was when he moved in with a local family. Our own Carrie Sanders spoke with the family just a short while ago. Lets listen to what they told carrie about nikolas cruz living with them. When he moved into your house, did you know he had an ar15 . I knew he had weapons, yes, sir. That was acceptable . Im not afraid of guns. I respect guns, but part of the stipulation for him moving in was he had to get a gun safe, and he wont. I thought at that time that i had the only key to the gun safe. As it turns out, he had one hidden . Yes, sir. The snead family says he set ground rules when nikolas cruz moved n. They told him ted he had to go back to school, get a job, and that they had to follow all of their house rules. They said he did all these things and they saw no warning signs. Katy. Tammy leitner, thank you very much. Survives of last weeks shootings are turning their angry into action. They say that tougher gun laws do not increase gun violence. We call b. S. Students from Marjory Stoneman douglas high will head to tallahassee tomorrow to push for stronger gun control laws. They are also planning a march in d. C. Next month. There was a lion outside of the white house who showed the president folks want action, but the president was at his golf club in florida. Over the weekend he blamed the fbi for missing the warning signs because they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion. The Washington Post reports the president also surveyed Maralago Club members about whether he ought to champion gun control measures. Yesterday nbc news was the first to report that the president has expressed some support for legislation to attempt to strengthen the federal background s. Chris grade wree and Sophie Whitney are seniors in douglas highs. They hid inside barricaded bathrooms. Guys, im so sorry for what happened to you. Im so sorry for what happened to your class mates. Krir a lot of your fellow students are saying theyre not going to to go back to school until changes are made. Are you hopeful that something is going to come of this . Yes, i am very hopeful. What happened here in this city, i dont think country has ever seen anything like it. Were not going to stop until were satisfied. When you say youre not going to stop until youre satisfied, sophie, what do you want to see happen . We want it to be more difficult to buy a gun. The fact that nikolas cruz purchased legally an ar15 and killed 17 of the people at our solo is unacceptable. We need that to change. Chris, what are the priorities in this country right now in your opinion when it comes to guns . The priorities right now . I mean, for us its the number one priority and were trying to get the entire country to make it their number one priority as well. Why do you think its not their number one priority . You know, until unfortunately unless youre directly affected by it, its easy to just sweep it under the rug. But were in the going to stand for that any longer and were going to keep fighting and were going to keep kicking and screaming until the entire country hears us and theres change. The background checks that are being proposed right now, the ones the president expressed some support for, wouldnt have necessarily stopped nikolas cruz from buying the gun he bought, sophie. Do you think that sort of thing is enough just stlerengthening e background checks. But at least its a start. Actions speak lower than words. When we see changes when it comes to background checks, well feel better. Whats your message to lawmakers . If youre not with us, youre against us, and we will vote you out. Are you guys old enough to vote . Yes, maam. Will you be voting for the midterms . Absolutely. Absolutely. Whats your number one issue going to be . Guns. Guns. If the president was watching this right now and he does watch some cable news, what would be your message to the president s sophie . My message to the president is listen to us. We are the ones that went through it. And theres no way that we are going to stop on march 24th we will be marching in d. C. And all across the country. So if youre not with us, good luck. How are you feeling today . Its been five days since this happened. Whats it like down there. Try to explain to the rest of us who arent there, who havent experienced this what its like, chris. I mean, you know, its all been happening so fast. Its all happening so fast, but you know, were more determined than ever. Were you aware of this issue before this happened . Was it in the front of your mind at all, sophie, that this could happen to you, that this was an issue across the country . I think you never really think its going to happen to you until it does. Parkland is one of the safest cities in the country. And Stoneman Douglas is so safe. So if it can happen here, whats stopping it from happening anywhere else . Chris grady and Sophie Whitney, seniors at doulks high school. Thank you so much, and again, im so sorry. Thank you for having us. Coming up next, what these mueller indictments are revealing about the russian troll farm that timed harvest doubt in american democracy. Im a concrete mason. I own my own company. I had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. Finally, listening to my wife, went to a doctor. And i became diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma. That diagnosis was tough. I had to put my trust in somebody. When i first met steve, we recommended chemotherapy, and then we did high dose therapy and then autologous stem cell transplant. Unfortunately, he went on to have progressive disease. I thought that he would be a good candidate for immune therapy. Its an intravenous medicine that can affect the patients immune system and unleash it against the cancer. 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The indictment didnt suggest involvement by President Trump or members of his campaign, but it did say that unwitting americans engaged with these bogus organizations without knowing who they were or where they were located. But the Justice Department believe many of the russians involved worked for the socalled Internet Research agency located in st. Petersburg. Anton t anton has written on troll operations and from washington, kara swisher, executive order of the Technology News website recode. Youve done a lot of work on this. You have spoken to former employees of the Internet Research agency. What do they tell you about how this operation worked . Whats amazing is how organized it was and how thought through everything seemed to be. There was a commenting department that oufd focused on posting comments. There was a separate blogging department where employees came up with blogging personas for websites like live journal where they created blogs that wrote about all kinds of things and slipped in political messages. And they created fake news websites for things like the ukraine crisis. Its important to note is that a lot of these things that we saw in the 2016 campaign were actually practiced in a way well before that on russian language audiences. Tubs russians involved in the campaign executed with almost Perfect Pitch learning to mimic the way americans talk online about politics so well that real americans with whom they interacted found them in if no way suspicious. It was fascinating because when youre online you do sometimes have a little nagging doubt in the back of your mind about who youre interacting with, but its sometimes hard to tell. Especially with the country so divided, how were they able to pinpoint the hot spots . How did they know if i talk about black lives matter im going to get a reaction or if i talk about freddy gray in baltimore im going to get a reaction . Or if i go after Hillary Clinton in this particular way, putting her in a prison suit, talking about killry, why were they able to understand what was going to work within our country at that moment . Obviously we saw in the indictment from mueller last week that these people who were indicted did factfinding trips to the u. S. To figure this out. A lot of this stuff you can come up with online if you do enough research. But i was amazed in my reporting to hear is that there was a test, people had to test into the department that conducted the american operation, which actually paid better than the russian language operation. What you had to show was that you could speak perfect english. It was clear they were looking for someone who was essentially a highend translator among other things. Karen, weve seen how they did it. Whats going to happen with how to stop it . This troll factory really targeted facebook. Weve seen 338,300 people saw the announcements of rallies and its remarkable that in real life they were able to get people to go scream at each other across the street. 62,000 people said they were going to go to those. 29 million users saw the content. 150 million russiancreated facebook and instagram posts shared a link. The numbers are big. We designed a system perfect for propaganda is really what it is. These platforms are designed for market and go advertising. Theyre for communication and trade, so theyre perfect for anybody to take advantage of them, especially malevolent actors. I want to call attention to a piece adrian chen wrote in the New York Times in 2015 called the agency. It was about the Internet Agency in st. Petersburg. This is wellknown the abuse of these platforms by bad actors. Its easy to take advantage of them. Theyre so open, facebook and instagram and twitter and youtube. We know thats what they dont. What do you do about it . Is it facebooks responsibility . Social medias responsibility. The governments responsibility . Is it about making us more educated object how to use it and be critical with it . Thats one thing. The russians are wary of these things. Americans tend not to have been used to this kind of level of fakery, essentially. So they do tend to believe in whatevers written there. Thats one part of it, becoming educated. I reasonable met with facebook executives, one of the problems is they dont want to fully take responsibility for this. And they have to monitor their systems so it cant be bufd not just by russians but the altright and malevolent actors that want to take advantage. They have to be more strict about their platforms and put in more strict platforms, which they dont want to do. If not the government has to step in. There are laws in place about political dialogue. Without overstepping, im going to get a lot of tweets from russia about sensorship, but you have to really think hard about how these platforms are going to be used and what we need to do to put certain controls in place for other mediums. Anton, given the indictments, what are we going to see next from this company . Are they still working . Theyre still working, absolutely. Evgeny and the catering magnate known as putins chef, very much dismissed the indictment on friday saying the americans well see what they want to see. Obviously these 13 people we assume are in russia and we also assume russia will not extradite them to the u. S. Guys, thank you so much. Regret panel to discuss what will happen next. Appreciate it. New rules regarding security clearances take effect this week. 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The new rules could have a Significant Impact on President Trumps Senior Adviser and soninlaw Jared Kushner. He gets to see some of the nations most sensitive secrets, but as of right now he doesnt have a permanent security clearance. Joining us is nbc intelligence and National Security reporter ken dilanian. A reminder for all those out there who might have forgotten because we were talking about this a lot last week. This came about because of rob porter and the fact he hadnt cleared his background check and yet he was handling the president ial detail briefing. Jared kushner was one of those people as well. Hes been at the white house for over a year on this temporary clearance. Does this mean hes about his status is going to change or lose access to information . We cant say that for sure, katy because we dont know when his become check began. Rob porter has interim clearance for nearly a year while being subject to spousal abuse allegations. Hes gone now. John kelly took a look at the security clearance process. Nbc news reported more than 130 white house fillers were operating on similar interim security clearances, which means they hadnt been granted the full permanent clearance. And kelly is now saying if your Background Investigation began in june or before, youre out as of friday. You dont have a clearance. That could affect Jared Kushner. Officials wont comment on that, but hes one of the people his lawyer has said is operating on an interim clearance. Is it not fair the background check started at the clooes the day he entered the white house . It actually i dont think we can assume anything about this process which john kelly said was suffering from serious shortcomings, katy. Does that mean a lot of folks are leaving the white house or are they just going to be given duties where they dont need that sort of clearance . Its not clear really at all. In the case of kushner, his job obviously is to focus on making peace in the middle east. And to do that job you need access to toplevel intelligence. So its hard to imagine how he continues to do that job unless the president of the United States decides to waive this, which hes fully capable of doing. Its a reminder of the power of the presidency. He can bring the white House Cleaning crew into his intelligence briefing if he wants. The president has the final say. Why did it take so long to come up with rules that would be pretty standard when handling classified information . Yeah. A question you cant answer. I would point out the kelly memo talks a lot about improving the process by which the fbi provides information to the white house, but we still dont have answers to important questions of when did the white house first learn about the spousal abuse allegations against porter. Those are important questions that this memo is really almost diverting from, katy. What do we know exactly about that process . You say we dont know a lot. What have we learned about thousand white house handled that and who knew about it and when . Is there any news out there right now, ken, where people might be facing repercussions for allowing this to happen . You know, the white house said the fbi brought these allegations to the security office. And then youll remember Sarah Sanders said it wasnt clear whether those people passed that information on to the important people at the white house, the white House Counsel and chief of staff. All we can do is talk to people who operated in past white houses who said of us unheard of for derogatory information like that not to have reached the desk of the white House Counsel, in this case, don mcgahn, chief of staff john kelly, potentially the National Security adviser mcmaster. Is john kelly in danger still of losing his job . You know, seems like the talk about that has faded. 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Donald trump has been doubting russian meddling since the primaries back in 2016. I know this because i heard it over and over. That june when the Intel Community was starting to suspect that russia was launching cyberattacks and a hacker named gucifer 2. 0 claimed to break into the dnc server, donald trump questioned all the intel and argued the dnc probably hacked itself as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader. That was in a statement. Skip over the rest of the summer, including the time he invited russia to interfere in the campaign, and quote, find Hillary Clintons emails, and all the times he joyfully used the hacked emails to his advantage. Well, straight to the fall and the general election debates where again, donald trump questioned whether russia was behind it all. I dont think anybody knows it was russia that broke into the dnc. Shes saying russia, russia, russia. Maybe it was. It could be russia. It could also be china, could also be lots of other people. It could also be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds, okay . But i notice any time anything wrong happens, they like to say the russians. She doesnt know if its the russians doing the hacking. Maybe there is no hacking. But they always blame russia. The reason they blame russia, because they think they are trying to tarnish me with russia. Someone weighing 400 pounds. Also, maybe there is no hacking, conveniently left that out, didnt he . In late november 2016, weeks after his victory, in an interview with time quote, i dont believe they interfered. Again, in may of 2017, right after he fired james comey. If russia hacked, if russia did anything, having to do with our election, i want to know about it. There is already intelligence from virtually every Intelligence Agency that yes, that happened. I will tell you this. If russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think its a horrible thing and i want to get to the bottom of it and i want to make sure it will never, ever happen. Again last summer at the g20 after he sat down with Vladimir Putin, quote, first question, first 20, 25 minutes i said did you do it. He said no, i did not, absolutely not. I then asked him a second time in a totally different way. He said absolutely not. And again after they met briefly in vietnam, quote, i dont know how many times i can ask him if he meddled in the election but i pressed him again and he denied it and i believe him. I could go on but all you need to know is that him that donald trump just referred to, that him is not Donald Trumps own intel. That him is not his own advisers. That him is not his own party. That him is not any american. That him that he believes is Vladimir Putin. That him that donald trump believes is russia. Unbelievable. 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Should they ignore his tweets saying he never claimed they didnt interfere . We could go on, the list goes on, the tweets, they keep on coming. Guess that question is an open one. That wraps things up for this hour. Im katy tur. Ali velshi, its 2 58. What did i do . When did i give you so much time . I dont know what happened. I have been reading too fast. Thats kind of interesting. I wouldnt have thought that was the end result. You can hang around or i can take the show, whatever you like. Should we Pay Attention to Donald Trumps tweets . People say all the time why do you. I heard he just tweeted. Lets find out what he just tweeted. He tweeted out earlier one should have a reflective president s day which was the most reflective tweet hes had in days. Obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didnt he do something about russian meddling. That wouldnt be the first time heres the thing. Donald trump is president right now. What is he doing about russian meddling . Why are the sanctions that congress essentially theres a real question about whether the Obama Administration did do enough because we do start to learn about it, its a valid discussion. Now we know what theyre doing. Absolutely. Have a good afternoon. Thank you very much. See you at 5 00. Im ali velshi. The president is going to head back to washington in an hour after spending this weekend at his maralago estate reminding us why he is, in fact, tweeter in chief. The tweet storm that lasted for two days and still isnt over, apparently, is raising alarm s n a lot of levels. On saturday in a span of nine hours, the president tweeted nine times. Precisely at 2 04 p. M. , the first tweet about his visit to the hospital in Broward County to talk to victims of the Parkland School shooting. 22 minutes later, he included a tweet with his two favorite words, no collusion. Ten minutes later, the focus was on Rod Rosensteins press conference, emphasizing no americans were knowing participants of illegal activity with russia. Not clear if thats true, by the way. Ten minutes after that, he tweeted about socalled fake news. 25 minutes after that, he tweeted about fake news again. Five minutes after that, he was back to reacting to the Russian Election interference. He took a pause for about three hours, maybe lunch, before tweeting again, this time blaming democrats for not passing gun control legislation. Thats rich. Five hours later, he criticized the fbi for missing quote, all the many signals by the Florida Shooter. Finally, he capped off the night with a tweet trying to clarify general mcmasters comments on Russian Election interference. That was just saturday. On sunday, he spent a span of 16 hours tweeting ten times, starting at 7 02 a. M. Attacking his predecessor, barack obama. 20 minutes after that, the attacks were leveled against democratic congressman adam schiff. 11 minutes later, comments about interference in the russian interference in the election. Ten minutes