And in this part of the american exceptional story isnt so easy to sell to the rest of the world. We are the only country, brian, that has columbine and Virginia Tech and, of course, sandy hook. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Were following the latest on that horrific scene at a high school in florida where 17 people were shot and killed. Broward county sheriff scott israel briefed reporters during the last hour. Lets listen to the sheriff. Its horrible, its catastrophic. And the sad to say 17 people lost their lives. Nikolaus, nikolascruz was the killer. He is in custody. Weve already began to dissect his web sites and the social media he was on and some of the things that have come to mind are very disturbing. Reporter did he have wounds, injuries. What can you tell us about him . He may be a former student . Hes 19 years old. He was born in 1998 in september. He was a former student of Douglas High School. He got expelled for disciplinary reasons. I dont know the spe
Sean, that was awesome. Sean its going to be better than great. You wait. Laura also show tonight you had though. Thank you, sean. And good evening from washington. Im Laura Ingraham and this is the ingraham angle. We have unbelievable news tonight. Its huge and we have all the angles covered for you. Former fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe is in the crosshairs of the Inspector General at the Justice Department for possible illegal leaks that he made to the media. Or had directed made. Plus, Vladimir Putin claims he has unstoppable super nukes. And is warning the west you have failed to contain russia. Victor david hanson will discuss that as well as bold tariffs, President Trump slapped on china, other countries today. And later in the angle, im going to look at whether an Obama Era Program to reduce school crime and statistics and police might have been helping keep that Florida Shooting suspect under the radar. But we begin with the number of fast moving developments in the russia
Monologue. Sean all right, we start tonight with breaking news and details about the investigation into this horrific tragic Florida High School shooting. Now the 19yearold gunman nikolas cruz, he has now confessed to slaughtering 17 innocent people and wounding at least a dozen others. Cruz is also telling investigators details of the sinister attack. He shot students in the hallway. He fired into five separate classrooms and cruz also confessed to authorities that he had extra ammunition in his backpack. Were also learning disturbing new details of missed warning signs in what is now one of the worst Mass Shootings in american history. All of the red flags were there but tragically, nikolas cruz was able to commit this heinous act. Now, the fbi is, in fact, confirming tonight that in september, a youtube user, with the name nikolas cruz spelled the name the same way as the shooter was reported to the bureau for writing, quote im going to be a professional school shooter. The man who
50 people had been injured and that a lone gunman was responsible for this. We got word from Ralph Rayburn, a reporter from wsvn 7 in south florida working the chopper today for them, word from him that they believe all of this began in one classroom with one student and they identified the student at the time. The authorities locked down the school, told the students to lock down in place. Began searching the area and put up a perimeter and made their way to a nearby neighborhood less than a mile away where they found the young man in the maroon shirt and the black pants whom you just saw and hes the person of interesting. They brought witnesses from this to look at this man and personally identify him. Then the Broward Sheriffs Office took him in custody. What we have just been toldpy the florida senator bill nelson to peter doocy is that there are, and i quote, many fatalities on scene. We know the senator told peter that after receiving word from the school system. Now were waiting
Lets go outfront. And good evening im jim sciutto in for erin burnett. Outfront tonight breaking news. One step closer to trump. Rick gates, trumps former deputy chairman signing a plea deal with Robert Mueller. Hes highest Ranking Member of the trump team to cooperate with special counsel pleading guilty today to charges of conspiracy and lying as part of the russia probe. By agreement, gates must now fully cooperate with mueller. That includes his agreement to, quote t participate in under cover activities as directed by Law Enforcement agents or the special counsels office. And mueller is not done putting the pressure on trumps close aids. Less than two hours affi after finalizing the deal. Here is why the gates deal takes this investigation to a whole new level. Gates was there during the Trump Campaign. He repeatedly traveled a board Trumps Campaign plane right through the election. He was there during the transition working on the inaugural committee. And since then he helped fou