>> core respondent as more. >> taking to twitter a little while ago to make the announcement public. i want to show you the tweet posted by delta airlines at atlanta based airline a little while ago here saying, "delta is reaching out to the nra to let them know that we will be ending their contract for discounted rates through our group travel program. we'll be requesting the nra remove our information from their website." delta one of several major companies that has offered some of the nra members certain discounts here. you saw -- you put up that graphic a little while ago. i want to put that up for you once again so you can see that list. it has been growing for the last 24 hours. rental car companies, enterprise holdings, hertz, avis and budget and first national bank of omaha saying that "customer feedback prompted them to not renew their contract with the nra." they also would no longer be issuing the nra visa card. what is interesting though is that no details that we've been able to find both online or on social media that from these companies that actually specify why they decided to do this. of course, you really look back at the last several days here and that growing backlash with the list of these companies that was posted on facebook and twitter by some of the -- by certain activists that they were pushing for the boycotting of the companies. that could be a potential factor and also the companies have not said when they decided to do this. but we also have seen that #boycottnra statement that has been circulating on social media. so this is certainly goes to show you at least in the world of politics and business victor and christi paul, the companies are going with the business side for now as this gun deep continues to rage on. >> no doubt about it. and then just a note here, we have reached out to both delta and to the nra and have not yet heard back from them regarding a statement for this. we appreciate it. thank you so much. >> not a problem. just in to cnn, broward county sheriff's office confirms their investigating the claims that three additional deputies waited outside the -- while the students were gunned down i inside. >> we want to get to our reporter live in parkland, florida. what are you hearing there? >> well, christie and victor, first we were hearing that the broward county sheriff was sick to his stomach when he saw video that showed one of his deputies, the man, the dedicated school resource officer at stoneman douglas stand outside the 1200 building for upwards of four minutes while that gunman was inside attacking students and teachers. but now we know it appears he wasn't the only one. coral springs sources now telling us that when their officers arrived on the scene, they saw three additional broward county deputies outside that school building taking up a defensive position with their guns drawn behind their cars. this means four men were in place that day who could have entered that building had they chosen to do so. this news disturbing to so many here in this community. but it's among the list of items we have of concerning red flags. as we learn more about the killer. we've now obtained with the help of our affiliate wptv 911 calls. let me take you back to last november. the killer's mother had just died. he moved in with family friends. he got into an altercation one day with the son of this family and he left the home. what followed, two 911 calls, one from the mother of that family, another from the killer himself. take a listen. there you hear the instability in the killer's voice. and for the first time we're hearing him describe his mental state after one of those emotional outbursts that we have learned he was prone to having. and i should mention our sources say as broward county investigates the work of their deputies last wednesday, a report will likely be forthcoming next week. >> all right. thank you. >> want to talk about this with cnn contributor and law enforcement expert cedric alexander now. good to see you. thank you for being here. what is your first reaction when you hear this report that a total of four deputies stood outside, guns drawn, three of them at least behind their vehicles instead of going into the school as these children were being shot? >> yeah, certainly that's very concerning for all of us in the law enforcement community. i think one of the best things that could happen right now for broward county sheriff's office is that they can have a complete investigation. there's going to be tons of video that's going to show where officers were during the time of this event. also, who went in, who did not go in. clearly, there's evidence coming from coral springs who themselves are reporting that broward deputies did not follow them in during the time of the shooting. so this is of grave concern for us. but i think in all fairness, as you always hear me say, is i think there has to be a complete 360 degree investigation as to who was where and where were they located during the time of these shots? what's important here is that as communities try to continue to have a sense of confidence about their local police, officers that did go in did a tremendous job. when they got there. the issue is here those that stood outside who reportedly have not done anything. the other thing i would suggest to sheriff israel is that he conduct an external -- he has an external group come in whether it's from the florida department of law enforcement or some other agency that comes in and can do an independent investigation to make some determination as to what happened with his men and women who may have failed to go inside when that shooting was going on which was tragic. >> cedric, part of the conversation this weekend about how to move forward to protect students is the proposal from the president of arming some teachers in schools. he says 10 to 20% who already trained. what is your view of that proposal? >> i don't think it's a good idea to train teachers to carry weapons inside a school. i think there's a lot of other things that can be considered. and these knee jerk reactions just does not work in any kind of way. there has -- we all have to sit down, there has to be some assessment. each school, each community is very different. the size of the school, the construction of the school is going to make a difference and if we can somehow across this country take a real look as how do we best hearten that target and considering the fact that the middle school sits in the middle of schools, it's going to take a lot of money and resources to fortify the schools in a way in which we're talking about. how can we do that in a very practical way and what is really going to be important, victor, is that we add school resource officers, post certified police officers who are assigned to these schools and who are there to help protect not just educate and regain relationship with those kids in the school but really protect those children because we live in a very different time and i hate to say this but this is not going to be the last of shootings in this country. because we've seen them in movie theaters and malls, west side of highway of new york city and we see them in our schools unfortunately. as long as we have guns, that threat is always going to be there. but we have to protect our children and what happened on february 14th we got to make sure never happens again in the history of this nation. we just can't do it any longer. >> i want to get back quickly to the four officers that did not rush into that building because in all fairness, we have not heard from them. there's been no explanation as to why they didn't go in there. based on your law enforcement expertise, is there any instance that you can think of in a situation like that where it would be protocol to not rush into the building? >> look, you know, ever since the shooting in 1999 at columbine and you heard it a number of times here on your show is that one thing that we've learned, first officers to respond were to enter into the building. if there are shots being fired. if we know that someone is inside armed. there is no exception to it. whether i get there first by myself or if i get there with two or three other officers at the same time, we're not waiting on anyone. because what we have to do is get inside, attempt to locate that threat, take their attention of those that are innocent and unarmed and focus their attention to us. is it going to be a nasty gun bat s battle if we have service weapons that might be nine millimeters or 45 handguns going up against assault rifles, very well may be. but that's what we signed up for. we want to be safe. but there are some times in your career, and this is one of them, where you're going to have to go in and confront that threat and you're going to have to do whatever it takes to protect those who can't protect themselves. and there is some indication that that did not happen and that certainly needs to be investigated. >> okay. i just have a yes or no for you here. based on everything that you just said, do you believe that there could be charges brought against or some sort of consequence for these officers or these deputies if they did in fact fracture their protocol? >> well, that's going to especially be le certainly be left up to that local sheriff's office there. that's going to be based on their policy. that's going to be based on what is determined by the state attorney's office there if any criminal charges could be brought. i think that's a stretch, quite frankly. but i think within the policy of the agency there may be some things that they may be able to reprimand those officers. >> all right. cedric alexander, appreciate your perspective. >> stoneman douglas students are prepared to head back to school next week and lawmakers return to capitol hill. one senator told me what he hopes happens from this point forward. >> and we also need to appropriate the money to get things done. in the president's budget, he proposes to eliminate a program in the department of justice that would create safe schools. we're not going to let that happen. we actually should increase that. we also should be able to provide money for those programs that actually work in the schools to identify potential problems amongst the students and to work with those students making a safe school. i don't like the idea of arming teachers. it seems to me that is not going to be particularly helpful and creates a whole other series of problems. >> we'll get more on that gun conversation throughout the morning. but also the other big story we're following this weekend, the third trump campaign official now has flipped in the russia probe. the late sest rist is rick gatet do . what does this mean for paul manafort? 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>> right. the first point is that the charges still are not directly associated with the campaign. it goes with what we have seen from the special counsel from the beginning. first of all, we have learned over and over that the special counsel robert mueller can keep a secret in an era of pervasive media, he constantly surprises us. and i think we have to be very sober about acknowledging we don't know what he knows. but clearly the second point is that he's very organized and methodical and works from the outside in. and i think you have to look at this first the indictment and then the plea deal from rick gates as an effort to put pressure on paul manafort who has, as you pointed out, was the campaign chairman and the campaign manager for a critical period of the campaign and faces very stark choices about whether or not to cooperate himself with this investigation. >> i want to point out that manafort did release a statement saying he continues to maintain his innocence. he said i'd hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence for reasons yet to surface. he close to hose to do otherwis. do you get a sense that manafort has an of what the reasons are? >> i can't say whether they are reasons. that's the kind of statement you put out if you intend to continue fighting the charges. but i think all legal analyst was now agree that he is in a very perilous position given how intermatly involved mr. gates was in the same activities that the special counsel is alleging against him. and, you know, there is also the question beyond what rick gates can mean in terms of pressuring paul manafort, there is his own interaction in the campaign and as you pointed out, he remained on after paul manafort left during the transition. he was part of a group that was supporting the president. so we don't know, again, the great caution here is that we don't know what the special counsel knows except the lesson is that he knows a lot that we don't. so there's no -- we simply don't know whether rick gates has information other than what can put pressure on paul manafort. but at the least we know he can do that. >> for months, ron, there was nothing from the special counsel. we didn't see any indictments. we knew that work was continuing. occasionally there would be a report of someone close to the campaign having to testify before mueller or grand jury. and now there's this quickening of indictments and pleas. what do you make of that? >> first, as i said, i think he is extraordinarily methodical. we're seeing kind of a classic investigation that works from the outside in. that puts pressure on figures at the periphery to put pressure on more central figures, to put pressure on figures at the absolute core of the question. at the least, victor, i think what happened in the last couple weeks is that he has defanged those trying to undermine the investigation and made it extremely difficult for the administration to have any plausible conversation about firing him. particularly the indictment of those russian actors made it clear he is dealing with something of great seriousness that is of national security import. and i think at the least what has happened in the past few weeks is i think he made it politically impossible for the administration or the republicans in congress who are trying to undermine him to really seriously move against this investigation. there's just too much on the table that is too consequential to imagine the public accepting anything of the kind that was being discussed a few weeks ago. >> yeah. a new spate of charges and a guilty plea in a the matter of hours. >> yes. >> ron brownstein, thank you so much. >> thank you, ron. so new this morning, as everyone still tries to absorb what happened at the high school in florida, we're learning that delta is the latest company to cut ties with the nra. will more big businesses follow suit? 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(cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley 28 minutes past the hour. hope saturday's been good to you so far. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell, good morning. president trump gave this speech. let's watch. >> tail thathey'll take away the tax cuts and your second amendment. if you have a choice, what would you rather, have second amendment or tax cuts? second amendment? tax cuts? second amendment? i'm going to leave it at the second amendment. i don't want to get into that battle. we're going to say you want the second amendment the most. >> but repealing the second amendment part of the bill of rights laid out by the founders is not easy. here's a reminder. it takes support from two-thirds of the house and senate, needs approval from three quarters of the states and we can add one more there, is not going to happen. now let's talk about the nra. it wasn't always this way. the supreme court only clarified the gun rights interpretation of the second amendment ten years ago in the land mark d.c. heller case. they promoted gun safety laws. now the nra is seen as a power in politics. but that does not mean they're widely popular. this cbs poll shows 46% think the nra has too much influence on politics today. we bring in now adam winkler. he is the author of "gun fight: the battle for the right to bear arms in america." and we have andre brower. let me start here with a tweet from the president. it's a retweet after some questioned his commitment to a few of the pillars that he's calling for in response to what happened in florida. he tweeted this morning, i will be strongly pushing comprehensive background checks with an emphasis momental health and raise age to 21 and stop sale of bump stocks. congress is in a mood to finally do something on this issue i hope. i want you to listen to john corn an on one element. >> i think what we ought to fcus on is things that will actually save lives. that's why i think the folks should be on the fix nix bill, it can be signed into law. there is a lot of other ideas out there that people are proposing that i don't think will actually change any outcome. and so i prefer to focus on things that will actually save lives and will effect outcomes. >> one of the elements he highlighted is racing the gun purchase age to 21. describe for us the fight the president has ahead with his own party if he's going to push these elements that he tweeted out this morning. >> victim victor, there is going to be a debate on. this debate is healthy. no mat wrer yter where you comen this. both parties need to come together. there are extremists on both sides of both parties. but to engage in debate will allow an opportunity for people to come with different ideas. i don't believe in immediately nullifying someone's ideas. you listen and they hopefully find some common ground. we all agree something's got to be done. what to be done is the big question. i like to see folks from all different backgrounds come together and say what about this? what about this? i served in the legislature in both bodies at one time as a young man. i went into debate sometimes thinking one thing but after careful consideration and a good plan laid out by different opposing views, sometimes they changed my mind. and that's what is healthy most for the process. >> add am am, you write about ta meeting that changed everything. because the group wasn't always what people see today. >> that's right. the nra was formed in the 1870s after the civil war and for most of its history it is supported reasonable gun control laws in the 1920s and '30s, for instance, supporting laws restricting concealed carry of firearms. laws today's nra challenges in court as a violation of second amendment. the nra in 1977 had a revolt at the membership meet wrg a group of hard-liners took over and ousted the existing leadership that was favorable to moderate gun control measures. and the nra really devoted itself since 1977 to a hard hitting political agenda of opposing any gun control laws. >> adam, delta is the latest company out today that announced they're going to cut ties with the nra, ending discounts, asking for their company information to be removed from the nra website. do you expect that will have any impact on the nra, on the policies that they propose or support? >> i'm not sure what impact it will have on the nra. wayne lappier's speech the other day seemed to be more about digging in than about finding places to compromise. but i will will say we are seeing just a wave of private businesses express their unhappiness with the nra by cutting their ties. and it shows. even though nothing's happening through legislation right now, the private market is stepping up to really make a stand against the nra. >> andre, i want you to listen to president trump. this was april at the annual nra meeting, april of 2017. here's what he said. >> you have a true friend and champion in the white house. no longer will federal agencies be coming after law abiding gun owners. no longer will the government be trying to undermine your rights and your freedoms as americans. >> andre, if a democrat had proposed what the president is proposing now as it relates to background checks and bump stocks and age to purchase a weapon, it will be received as federal agencies coming after law abiding gun owners and undermining rights and freedoms. so why are we hearing rejection of the policies but not the vitrole from the nra? >> i think we all can appreciate that political climate changed substantially in the last few months with the loss of so much life and so much attention given to it. the people want action. and so you're seeing the president -- we have a president that is a businessman. he's not dug in the sand on every issue. i think he is evolving and saying we have to address an issue that has come to our attention. as a leader, i think that's a good quality. i don't always agree with the president but i appreciate he is trying to make an effort to say we have a problem here. there is several different people at fault here. but what can we do to come together to throw some suggestions out there and find some solution to a problem? >> adam, to you. what we're not hearing -- we heard from wayne lappier calling and saying that chris murphy and leader pelosi hate individual freedoms based on their call for stronger background checks and stricter gun controls and criticized the nra. we're not hearing anything about the president. do you expect they'll stay quiet about this president as he continues to push these policy changes? >> well, i think one of the real keys is what are the policy changes that the president's really going to propose? so he proposed a ban on bump stocks. but that was a deal reached two months ago in congress when they proposed legislation was shelved. so that's not a new policy change and it's something the nra supported. things like the fix nix bill, it's a very marginal fix that provides additional incentives for states to help out the background check system. it's a good reform. it's just not very meaningful. and, you know, so the devil is in the details. if the president really supports universal background checks, then that might get the nra upset. but so far the nra has been one of donald trump's biggest supporters and i tend to think that donald trump is not going to do anything that doesn't have the nra's support at the end of the day. >> here on the screen, the number of people that support the universal background checks almost universally here. you have 97% of respondents who support it and the 3% here is in the marge you in of error. adam winkler and andre bower, enthusiastic both. >> many blessings. have a great weekend. >> you too. president trump says that jared kushner's security clearance is in the hands of his chief of staff, john kelly. but amid the reports of bitter relationships between kelly and jared kushner, will the president's son-in-law keep his role in the west wing? 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>> i think that it could when we looked at -- when we look at the pattern of selective hearing that president trump has had since his campaign and since he's come into office. he should definitely listen to general kelly. but he should also listen to his intelligence community. there is zero ambiguity here. the intelligence community and the senate briefing said publicly that anybody with an interim clearance should lose access to sensitive intelligence. and for whatever reason, jared kushner has gotten a hall pass on basic counter intelligence flags since the get go. so we have the biggest counter intelligence risk possible, walking into the oval office every day, reading the presidential daily briefing and also working on policy issues where he may have a serious conflict of interest like china or qatar or israel. that all need to stop so there is no undue influence. >> do you think that jared kushner should have clearance? can he effectively do his job without it? >> two questions there. should very his clearance? what sam says is absolutely right. but in addition, i would add that the fbi has told the white house that there are substantial law enforcement issues that they are investigating and they cannot proceed to give him a clearance until they resolve those things. these are not as the president seemed to indicate just complex financial dealings of a very wealthy man and these are concerns that fbi in their background inquiry have with respect to kushner. because of that, i think it's hard to justify him retaining that clearance purchasely when they look at the most serious level of classified documentation. >> so michael, what might be the red flags be that they're looking at? >> i think -- >> michael, i'm sorry. go ahead, michael. >> sam knows way better than i do, but the issues are whether he's subject to compromise or blackmail or some other level of interference that would make him susceptible to foreign involvement with policy in the white house. that's what the clearance processes are designed to prevent. that's what's at play at the moment. >> sam? >> it is very unusual. i had one of the highest security clearances in the country. i had an interim for a period of time as did many of my colleagues. it is not uche for an interim clearance to be continuously renewed and rolled over when red flags have been raised by investigators. typically a clearance whether red flags are raised is adjudicated. sometimes it's denied because there is concern about a counter intelligence risk which as michael raises could be undisclosed foreign meetings, conflicts of interest relating to business transactions, bribery debt. but jared kushner i think like rob porter is getting special treatment and having this renewed over and over again. >> let me ask you this, sam. general kelly made it known that president trump's personal intervention would be problematic. let's say, if he essentially tried to drive this train. if the president did try to exert some authority here, help us understand what is at risk? is it the relationships in the west ring? is it with the intelligence community? is it among the top aids to the -- top aides to the president? >> i think there is an impact on our foreign intelligence relationships. if you're a foreign country and used to sharing intelligence with our intelligence community knowing, for example, that it's going to end up in the oval office, it's just logical that you would hold back knowing that someone like jared kushner who doesn't have a fully adjudicated clearance is reading the pdb and may not be able to be trusted with that classified information. and i also think it has an impact on morale at the white house. i went to the nse every day for four years. i never sat at the table and thought oh, wow, one of my colleagues may have a bias towards another country. i think that's probably the case right now when it comes to china or israel. >> michael, you have the last word. >> the thought that i would add to what samantha said is this. that the president has for the past year attacked the fbi and attacked the intelligence agencies discrediting their points of view on whether it's the nunes memo or russian interference. here we find them saying to the president we have concerns about, you know, what's going on here. please back us up. and if there is an override, if kelly decide to strip it, and there is an override, i think the relationship between the fbi and the intelligence agencies and the white house gets even further severed if such thing is possible. >> all right. samantha and michael, we appreciate both of you being here. thank you. still to come, team usa takes gold on ice and we're not talking about hockey. the details of their big sweep -- there's your hint -- is next. i'm worried i can't find a safe used car. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com that might help. show me the carfax? 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