about some proposals aimed at ending gun violence. i m speaking to you right now from the parkland amphitheater, the site of a memorial for the 17 lives lost in that tragic school shooting earlier this week. we understand president trump when he gets back to washington, is going to meet with high school students and teachers. he s going to host a listening session on wednesday, and then on thursday he s going to meet with state and local officials on the topic of school safety, and as we previously reported later in the month on february 26th, he s going to meet with governors and state attorneys general on this issue of school safety. jeff, the back drop to all of this is that tweet storm we ve been talking about throughout the day on msnbc, the president firing off more than a dozen tweets in the last 24 hours on twitter. give us a sense of what he covered as we get into conversation the substance of the tweets. he s ben senng a flurry of tweets as he spe the day at his mar-a-lag
[chanting] emotions and politics continue to dominate this affluent community while across the country schools and police are dealing with copycat threats. most have been social media hoaxes. the devastation caused by the shooting for the community led several thousand people to gather today thursday night at the parkland amphitheater for emotional candlelight vigil this student lost a close friend. i think he would appreciate what we re doing. and i think that people would want to remember in a positive way. and just out tonight by the florida sun sentinel quoting nikolas cruz s public defender, cruz is now agreeing to plead guilty to first degree murder. 17 counts of that for killing 14 students, a teacher, a high school football coach, and an athletic director. all in exchange for avoiding
families are grieving. please respect their privacy. we were there until about 3:30 a.m. with these families. many of them had siblings that were in the school and survived. and then a brother or a sister did not. a vigil has been planned for 6:00 p.m. at the parkland amphitheater. we expect that right around sunset time to be packed with people because this truly is parkland, florida, a community; shep. shepard: thanks, phil. coverage continues after this. patrick woke up with a sore back.