everyone, with the exception of vladimir putin actually. he lashed out at former president obama, saying that he did nothing to thwart the threat from russia. he lashed out at the fbi, even accusing them of failing to see warning signs when it came to the florida shooter because they were too obsessed with russia meddling. he even undercut his own security adviser h.r. mcmaster who did speak out about those 13 indictments over the weekend. the president effectively accusing h.r. mcmaster of not being tough enough to defend the president in his public comments, but the big question this morning, david, as we begin this new week, is what actions if any will this administration take in retaliation? the president didn t mention any in those series of tweets. will there be new sanctions? we know congress did enact new sanctions. the president has yet to actually impose them. overnight, a secretary of state,
nbc s tammy leitner is live in parkland, florida. what do students say about what they plan to do? what s the action they plan to take? hey, david, they re taking that grief and they re turning it into something positive. and you can see how much grief this community has. take a look at this memorial. it s been growing over the weekend. thousands and thousands of people have been coming out here to pay their respects. some from this community. some from other communities. all of them wanting to pay their respects to the 17 people who have died. now, there are a number of events today, including in d.c., a lie-in. a protest planned out in los angeles. you have to keep in mind there were a lot of vigils, a lot of protests over the weekend, but one week ago, all of these were just normal high school students. they were worried about tests. they were worried about going out on dates. they were worried about sporting events. now they have become outspoke
what s your sense of what they make of what the president tweet heard? friday was such a watershed day. they have to worry about what the president is saying in the narrative he has put out there, first on the idea russia didn t interfere, which he maintained for a long time. second, there s no collusion between anybody within the trump orbit and the russians. i think what you ll see and have seen already is a lot of republicans, including someone in the white house, quickly distancing themselves from the idea there was no meddling at all and starting to call for more action against russia and you see that everywhere from rob portman, the senator from ohio, to some of what you ve seen from some of his more conservative colleagues. so i think that s the big thing. the other thing to remember here, david, at this point, with the indictments that we ve seen, you ve either got the president of the united states being essentially an unwitting tool of a russian conspiracy to elect him or p
hope oprah runs so she can be exposed and defeated just like all of the others. now, of course, oprah winfrey sparked a lot of buzz about a potential 2020 run after she gave that impassioned speech at the golden globes, but she has said she s not interested. he hasn t been on the golf caught out of respect to the victims in florida, but he has clearly been watching cable tv, watching all of the news coverage, growing increasingly frustrated. that may be at the root of that tweet storm that we saw, david. kristen, thank you very much. kristen well keker at the white house. i want to bring in my political panel. seth waxman is now a partner at the law firm dickinson wright. jonathan, let me start with you, and just get your reaction to what we saw here over the weekend. this tweet storm, this flurry of official statements from the president of the united states.
thank you very much. you re welcome. maxine waters joining me this afternoon. i m joined now from former chief of staff, former director of progressive media for the clinton campaign and defense attorney from texas this afternoon. david, let me start with you. your former boss, house speaker paul ryan placed the blame squarely on the democrats. what did you make of what he had to say here and how useful is it to you as we watch all of this unfold, to watch this blame game play ou well, what you ve got going on right now is a back and forth, but let s compare this to 2013. back in 2013, senator cruz decided he wanted to get rid of the aca. he was opposed to that. that was being funded in the cr at that time.