guy named nikolas cruz. what do you have? we ve been through his house. we have written reports he s violent. we couldn t baker act him. we could not detain him because we didn t have sufficiency. so would the outcome have been any different? answer, no. solution, change the laws that allow police officers to detain someone for mental health issues. change the laws about someone who s in fbi files buying an assault weapon. that s what the president should be focused on, not on pointing fingers and looking for blame. and just very quickly, you mentioned the adam schiff e-mail exchange. we have to just get on the record here, trump on sunday, the president, tweeting, finally liddle adam schiff, is now blaming the obama administration for russian meddling in the 2016 election. he s finally right about something. obama was president, knew of the threat, and did nothing. thank you, adam. adam schiff responds he was on a
time the president s every president from reagan on relationship with the press has through democrats and been fraught with difficulties, republicans would have taken to the gridiron club announced the the air waves and said, this is president, president trump, will an attack on our sovereignty. attend its dinner in march. as we now learned from this it has been to always invite the indictment, it was not just through social media, as though president of the united states that would not be an attack. and he will attend. that does it for us. that said, there were people let me hand it off to my planted here, organizationiing colleague kristen welker. a great show. that will be an interesting rallies. there were grassroots efforts. event. it was profoundly invasive. yeah, it was a much more i know you ll be there to speak. widespread plot than we knew. i m kristen welker in for craig it started earlier than we melvin. thought and was more well financed than we thought. right now we r
with regard to legislation, again, baby steps. let s look at enhancing the threshold when you want to purchase an assault weapon. not talking about banning the assault weapon. talking about making yourself accessible and open to a greater background investigation. number three, let s expand the background check database for weapon purchases to include any mention of your name in relation to violence in the fbi s indices. what am i talking about? i m talking about the fact that we now know someone in mississippi on youtube reported to fbi jackson mississippi that a guy named nikolas cruz was on youtube talking about school shootings. if your name is in the fbi system as someone talking about school shootings and you show up at a gun show or a gun shop to purchase a weapon and we don t know how he purchased the weapon but if he did show up and nikolas cruz comes up and fbi indices, call time-out. call law enforcement. knock on the door. are you the nikolas cruz who s
security adviser for what h.r. medal of freedom by bill clinton in 1993 when she was 103 years mcmaster did not say at a global security conference in munich. old. beyond florida, marjory the one person notably getting a stoneman douglas is a mentor for free pass from mr. trump, all who desire to preserve what vladimir putin. joining me now, nbc news we southerners affectionately national correspondent peter call a sense of place. alexander and contributor michael schmidt, reporter at and mrs. douglas, the next time i hear someone mention the the new york times. welcome, both. first of all, peter, the timeless wonders and powers of president s behavior this mother nature, i ll be thinking weekend, even for a trump weekend at mar-a-lago, was about you. well, on that same day, the unusually prolific, shall we president then invited her to say, on twitter. yeah, andrea, i think that s exactly right. witness the signing of the brady we know from aides they bill, the bill which esta
so he s trying to conflate the two when there is no connection. obviously the fbi clearly screwed up on florida and can do more than one thing at the same time. well, a couple things here. one is it s shameful for the president to be hiding behind the 17 victims of gun violence and somehow make it all about him. if our gun problems would just go away, if the fbi would just leave me alone and put more resources on gun violence. but let s not let the facts cloud this. here are the real facts, right. if the fbi had jumped on this, let s say they did, let s say they called their fbi miami office. they said, we ve got a lead on a nikolas cruz. he s someone broward county sheriffs visited 31 times on 911 calls. social services had done an assessment on him. an agent would have picked up the phone, called broward county, said we have a tip on a