going to listen to our voice, they will listen to our vote. and at the end of the day, she said it matters to them so much because they watched in horror on february 14th what happened in parkland. and as they felt for those students, dhee nthey could not internalize that they could be them as well. so that is prompting so many people to come out nep don t wa. they want to support all the parkland students who have traveled to be here in d.c. and of course we re talking about what is happening here. this is expected to be the largest of these rallies, but there are more than 800 planned around the world. here is the global map. all under the banner of march for our lives. of course this is a movement that started after the shooting on the 14th of february at parkland high school. global support this morning you re seeing dozens of people joined one of the florida shooting survivors for a demonstration as well. here is video of that.
washington. steve: they are awful expensive these days. brian: do you know what s worth it? i m only kidding. get back to what happened in florida. covering the story since the shooting took place on the 14th of february. president trump blasting out response of the florida school shooting saying he would have run in even without a gun. ainsley: his bold claim coming as calls mount for the broward county sheriff now to resign. steve: to connect all the pieces, griff jenkins joins us now from d.c. with the scrutiny about the first responders, griff? good morning, guys. disgusting you and a disgrace is how the president describes the actions of broward county sheriff s office saying he would not have sat idol while a killer murdered 17 students and teachers. you know, i really believe. you don t know until you are tested. i really believe i would run in there even if i didn t have a weapon. and i think most of the people in this room would have done that, too. the attorney for sc
the president was informed that his lawyer believed that flynn had lied and then it is only after the washington post story comes out that flynn is fired. we don t know what transpired over that period of time and if they learned other information. it was on the 14th of february that the president met with james comey and according to comey s testimony who is the fbi director at the time said he wanted him to go easy on flynn. this comes into a factor of what did the president know when he was saying that to comey and it will be up to the special counsel s investigation to determine whether that is obstruction of justice. that is the key? yes. that s what the whole story and this reporting is dancing around which is really, really important. because as of last week it seems as though a big piece of robert mueller s investigation is about obstruction of justice. michael, you worked with robert mueller and has been on the other side of this as a special counsel or prosecutor.
i is find it very, very hard to believe, very implausible that donald trump didn t understand the consequences of asking an fbi director to drop an active, possibly criminal investigation. yes. it s kind of a sign of how low the bar has fallen when we have to plead ignorance as the best possible scenario for the president. i agree with you, joe. this isn t ignorance. i look at the statement and the deliberation with which donald trump made sure he got alone with jim comey. both at the dinner, suggesting he might invite the family, but then not inviting the family. no one else was there at the dinner. on the 14th of february, getting rid of sessions and then jared kushner as well. this was a deliberate, concerted, knowing effort that the president made, to make sure he was alone with jim comey and could get across those two messages, one of loyty and thenleing the flynn investigation go. it doesn t seem like ignorance to me.
would never play he never would want to be seen playing basketball with president obama because he thought that that was an impropriety. it was a bad appearance that he didn t want, and comey is 6 8 . we should note here that, of course, there is a question about another this is a different meeting. i just want to be clear so people are tracking the timeline. this conversation which takes place on the 14th of february is different than the dinner that there is a sort of disputed account about in which associates of james comey have said that the president asked for his explicit loyalty, which he would not give. and that s been disputed by the president. now, the president after the dispute over that dinner, the president tweeting, james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. our own ken dilanian reporting after that, a source close to comey told me this morning, he hopes there are tapes. that would be perfect. this is as