it s going to be hard for everyone to look away. john: tom, can these students go up against the entrenched beliefs on both sides of the aisle in washington? they can. they are effective communicators for their cause. the problem is with these instants, we see in hindsight what we should ve seen in foresight. interesting fact. the last three mass shootings in florida, omar martin, pulse nightclub. fort lauderdale airport shooting, january 2017 and this one. all three perpetrators were on the radar of the fbi. in fact, the one who shot up the fort worth airport went to the fbi office and said he was being mind controlled by the cia. said these crazy things and still manage to get a gun, going do this. the fbi i think really did drop the ball not just in this incident but others. we have the dots. they are there but we are not
this was not a band weapon, this semiautomatic weapon was not. efforts to ban those in the past have gone nowhere. people talking about legislating don t seem to understand how they work or whatever. we ll see if this is different but you are right to be skeptical. john: you mentioned the fbi dropping the ball on a tip they got in january that the mayor may not have prevented this but at least they would ve known about it. the president tweeted about that over the weekend, saying very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the florida school shooter. this is not acceptable. goes on to say: they are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the trump campaign. there is no collusion. get back to the basics and make us all proud! the president was widely criticized for that tweet. did he help himself? i m sure it fired up his
the services the man lawfully possessed a gun that was prohibited in its jurisdiction. the man says he meant to leave the handgun in his car before joining the motorcade but forgot to do that. the president is on his way back to washington after spending the holiday weekend at his florida resort about an hour from the parkland shooting scene. he s been busy on twitter, posting about many topics from oprah winfrey to the russian indictments. the kremlin is weighing in now on the charges as well, dismissing them as proving nothing about russian government involvement. correspondent kevin corke is outside the president s florida compound. good evening, kevin. good evening, my friend. what a difference a day makes. one tweet about russia today from the president, one of two tweets all told and that s a dramatic departure from what we saw the weekend when he was virtually tweeting nonstop about the russian investigation. it was a digital day lose, president trump s tweet storm ran the gam
young students who have come forward. you saw them yesterday on the sunday shows they are planning a march next month, they ve been quite effective. there is as tense coupled with the fact that the president is now talking about doing something to strengthen the background check system and make it work a little better. we might get something this time around. i think it s fair to add that in this case, we have a real culprit in the sense of the fbi and the local authorities in florida doing such a poor job of responding to the clear warnings they had that this young man, this very young man who was identified to them by name was a danger. the fbi dropped the ball and so did local authorities. it s possible something could be done to encourage a better response but it looks like that will take some of the focus off
in washington for meetings that started with a peek at putin s playbook. and million dollar a month operation. that gives me an idea of the resources that we are working against. most of that money went towards propaganda. the biggest threat seems to be from the american public believing the many false stories that were told out there during the last election. voting systems are vulnerable too. 21 states targeted by russian hackers in 2016 and many networks are still flawed. for security and most of those electoral systems is outdated and it can t match up to the modern-day weaponry being graded by the russians cyber adversaries. during the 2016 cycle, the fbi felt the system was safe because it s so spread out. speak at the beauty of the american voting system is that it s dispersed among the 50 stad it s clunky. it s not exactly a swift part of the internet of things. things have changed now that more precincts have wi-fi. as the states have evolved