He never went in, Sheriffs Deputy only armed guard on campus during a deadly shooting in high school, quote never went into the building when the shooting was taking place. That was according to sheriff israel of Broward County who described how he felt as he watched the video of the deputy do absolutely nothing as the gunman killed 17 people. Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words l i mean, these families lost their children. We lost coaches h ive been to the funerals. Ive been to the homes where they sit and shiver. Ive been to the vigils. Its just there are no words. Well, that deputy Scott Peterson, he resigned today. The irony this news coming on the same day that President Trump doubled down on his call to arm the nations teachers as a way to combat mass shootings
in schools. I think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, you wont have, in my opinion, you wont have these shootings. Because these peop
they said the nra is going to remain pretty powerful through your election and their members, many of them are your voters. so they re still going to have a voice. the nra hasn t really come out pushing back aggressively yet. i m told that is coming. if that comes, we ll see what the president says. there was reporting about a phone call from wayne lapierre from the nra. the president called wayne lapierre on tuesday. he said it time to get this done, there s going to be a signing in the rose garden and lapierre was pretty clear that that is not something the nra is going to support. we have no idea what the details are. there s no intelligence. the statement is not meaningful because we don t know what he s talking about. we s the president also said he had spoken with lapierre several times this week. as i understand it, they had
$30 million is a huge funnel for money. it remains to be seen. nra hasn t been doing well financially over the last several years. they haven t been doing well in terms of membership as well. it could cat liez into membership members and real growth for the organization. we know about the reporting to date. it is big news that mueller is looking into this. former russian central banker sought to build this bridge between russia and the nra as a means to influence american politics. the fact that north is running nra indicates a need to clean house. you have this conservative organization that during the cold war was really, you know, anti soviet. all of a sudden finding himself in situations where they may have been influence in american politics. it is astounding. this is a real elevation of what the reporters and the senate intel have been looking into.
there was one report in mcclachy stayed the fbi is investigating whether money was funneled illegally through the nra appear through this banker to boost donald trump s campaign. the nra hasn t heard from the anybody they say. but there are a number of reports working on behalf of banker to try to make inroads with president trump and team in 2016. all of this has raised red flas flags and drawn scrutiny to the nra and how they raise money. and why they spent so much money extraordinarily to back trump in 2016. sara murray. thank you. thank you. let s discuss now the nra s practice of accepting foreign donations. cnn politic commentator angela rooi and ben ferguson both here. thank you for joining us. angela, you first what is your read on it is it appropriate for the nra to accept foreign contributions. i think the nra, period, is inappropriate. i don t have anything specific on foreign donations except to
support. most americans support universal background checks, and banning bump stocks, support things like raising the age for owning these deadly weapons. but the nra won t allow members of congress on their side to do anything about it. steve, that s an issue where the president and nra, there is daylight between them. on the age, 18 and 21 president might support that on bump stock ban. can you see the president following through even in defiance of a powerful lobbying group like nra? yes. and the nra hasn t said what they believe about the age definition. but the president is willing to go up against nra in that case. when we talk about the nra some of the critics of the nra want to give it mythical status and how powerful and money it gives. it is pretty darn powerful. decks and republicans will run from a negative rating from the nra. this is my point. what it spends on political races is pittance compared to