About the shooters six weeks before the shooting trump used the admission to continue his crusade against the fbi. Tweeting, very sad that the fbi missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove the russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion. So heres the thing. The fbi is a federal agency employing approximately 35,000 people. Many of them investigate major crimes, murder, cyber crimes and like and, yes, they are supposed to follow up on tips about potential Violent Crimes like the massacre in parkland. Indeed, someone at the fbi failed to follow up on just such a tip called into the public hotline in january about the parkland shooter. But its an entirely separate part of the fbi that investigates Counter Intelligence. Things like a president ial campaign colluding with the russians. Mr. President , those kids werent about you. But the Russian Campaign was very much you about and you cant end that investigation by trading on the deaths of children. Joining me now in washington is post opinion writer, the Washington Post opinion writer, root political editor, former state Department Senior adviser, msnbc contributor and former fbi assistant director for Counter Intelligence. Frank, ill go to you first for your reaction to the president of the United States blaming the fbi in essence for the massacre at parkland. So, joy, lets distill down what that late night tweet really says. And some cheeseburger induced coma after 11 00 p. M. Last night. The president puts this squarely on fbi. Heres what hes telling parents of america. Hey, our gun violence problem would go away if the fbi would just leave me alone. Thats what hes saying. Hes saying the fbi is spending too much time on the russian threat and while he is spending zero time addressing the gun violence threat. Hes choosing to ignore what the fbi actually does for a living. Hes choosing to ignore the fact that the local police visited this guy 39 times in response to 911 calls. Social services for the county had to do an assessment of this. Everyone in the school saw the warning signs and indicators. Yet he decides not to address the Mental Health issues, not to propose solutions on making it easier to baker someone because they are insane. Deny an assault weapon purchase because you have Mental Health issues. Instead he talks about the russian indictment. He knows theres electronic intercepts of russian officials. Hes scared out of his mind and playing with the parents of america this morning. Youre right. Indeed on that point about Mental Health he actually skinned an executive order reversing the obama, president obama executive order which would have made it more difficult to put road blocks in the way of somebody with Mental Health issues from getting their hands on an ar15. Am i correct in the way that i stated the compartmentalization of the fbi are the same people who were investigating potential Campaign Collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia, is that the same division of the fbi that would be investigating potentially major crimes like the shooter in parkland. Youre right on the money. Congress literally dictates the amount of manpower resources that are put on National Security, counter intelligent, violent crime. Its all dictated by congress. But what President Trump sim flying, lets go with him. Lets call this out. Hes saying maybe if they shift some of those resources, even if congress were to shift resources away from russia threat into violent crime. Lets play this out. Heres how it works. Tip comes into the fbi switch board. Somebody is a problem in broward county. They get a hold of the sheriff we have a tip on nikolas cruz. Do you have anything . The sheriff says weve been there 39 times. Weve written up reports people say hell shoot people. Were up against a wall. The fbi might decide to go knock on his door. You know what . Nikolas cruz had that happen 39 times. Hes trained on how to talk to Law Enforcement. I wont do it tomorrow. I dont have specific targets. Now you cant baker act him. If you play this out nothing different would have happened. Not only cant baker act him, cant touch his guns. Cant touch them even if he poses with them on facebook, says im going to use them to shoot up my school. Theres nothing you can do about the gun that he has and he can buy more of them. He can get an uber and shoot up the school. Let me goson johnson the party and ideology that spewed so much hate about black lives matter specifically claiming they hate Law Enforcement. That this is the way they talk about Law Enforcement. Because it isnt just donald trump blaming the fbi and federal Law Enforcement here. Heres gentlemjanine piro who w with Law Enforcement. Here she is last night on fox talking about Law Enforcement. Although shooter cruz pulled the trigger the potential slaughter twice reported to the fbi could have been prevented had they bothered to lift a finger. This fbi was stained and politicized by mr. Holier than thou mr. Comey but seeds were sovereign wed by bob mueller now investigating President Trump. How the heck did she not get elected to the United States senate. Theres more. Heres Tucker Carlson who i believe is a Blue Lives Matter guy when it comes to local Law Enforcement when hes talking about black lives matter. Heres Tucker Carlson on fox last night, talking about the fbi. At least we know what our federal agents have been doing recently while they were too busy to stop School Shootings. Chasing down bad facebook trolls. They were given warning nikolas cruz could be planning a massacre but never followed up on that. If somebody told them cruz was talking to Vladimir Putin they would have been on it. Jason, your thoughts on the wholesale collapse of rightwing support for federal Law Enforcement. Its interesting. They like cops when cops are doing what they want them to do which is bashing black people in the head. They dont like cops whenever it comes to investigating whats going on in the world. Part of this, joy, not only is it extremely ignorant and an attack on our federal officers. They act like the fbi is like the x files. You have people that work on these issues. Things get lost, overlooked. At the end of the day cruz was still going to be able to buy his gun. Lastly, the blame, all of this comes from President Trump. This is what he does. He makes everything about him. He makes everyone else to blame. Remember, he told what David Johnsons wife what he knew he was signing up for. The first tweet he did about parkland the parents should have known better, they should have warn more people. Nothing about trumps responsibility but everything is about him and thats what were seeing in this case where he attacks the fbi, local kids, teachers, as long as its about him. En. Jennifer rubin, hes worried the fbi is spending too much time investigating him. He spent at the hospital mostly giving thumbs up and smiling into the camera and saying things are great and amazing and using sue per e ining superlati selling used cars. Then he went to maralago. Partying. A person tweeted 17 kids murdered this is our president that night. So its not as if i guess hes too busy too. He couldnt have spent less time at that hospital if he had been on rollerskates going through the halls. He is entirely incapable of showing empathy. He doesnt understand other peoples feelings, he doesnt understand peoples suffering, hes utterly failed at the consoler in chief role which both president obama and president bush and president reagan, keep on going back really, every president in the modern era has been able to do. Hes not because theres something certificate bring wrong, terribly off about him. I would add one thing to what your guests have been saying and thats that hes hiding behind the dead body of 17 people. Dead bodies. Think about that for a moment. How low, how despicable, how cowardly hes making their deaths, their familys suffering an excuse for his own malfeasance. Its lower than low. We keep saying that. Somehow this is the worse of the worse that weve seen from him. You worked at the state department. What message does it send to our allies and friends around the world, indeed to dictators around the world when the president of the United States said hide behind the bodies of dead children to disparage federal Law Enforcement in the executive branch which he controlled, to basically disparage his own federal Law Enforcement team in order to protect himself . There has been a long standing principle not just in security and die plo macy when you go overseas you put america first. Unfortunately with donald trump he puts his ego first ahead of National Security. That is a strong signal to dictators around the world and our allies. Our allies are under attack from the russians. In france a russian boss tried to interfere with media, interfere with Public Opinion and voting. French people saw what it was because the leadership came together to protect the security of their election. Our president , instead, would rather follow what the russia bots do than listen to his own National Security adviser, to his own intelligence agencies. Woe rather follow the orders of Vladimir Putin to not impose sanctions on russia than he would rather help the American People in their time of need. Hes going to continue to sow confusion when the indictment is very clear theres a russian connection, russian interference in our elections and that will continue into 2018. And our president in the meantime is going to be throwing spaghetti at the walls to see what sticks so nobody will point the finger at him. What kind of message does this blaming the fbi send to our Counter Intelligence professionals, to the Intelligence Community thats doing its job trying to protect this country against russian interference in our most sacred political process our democratic process small d what message does it send to them when the president of the United States blames federal Law Enforcement for the massacre of 17 kids and teachers . Very simple. They cannot trust the United States. Its just that simple. All of this starts at the top. It starts with the leadership of the United States. We know rankandfile officers and the fbi, cia, nsa that they will do their job but you know theres going to be those meetings which you have overseas where you want to share information with the United States and with a wink and a nod they will pretty much let our peer, our peers will let us know we wont get the full story unless its something that directly affects the security of the United States or their National Security. Im write agnew book about trump and russia intelligence. And its the kgb had a four point strategy that they would use when propagandaizing about the cia. Their first point was attack, demoralize the leadership of these agencies. And the second point was allow the american criticism to destroy the rankandfile personnel. Donald trump is literally carrying out russian intelligence policy. You know, i want to get more from you. This was an agency you worked for, frank. Im sure these are your friends that donald trump is talking about. These are the people who are your colleagues. Not only is he doing it. Everything trump does filters down to the right. The media must speak like him. His agencies must speak like him. They all have to repeat his phrase. Jefferson sessions who is the attorney general of the United States has now joined in this chorus of bashing the fbi, which he supervises. Heres attorney general Jefferson Sessions on the fbi tip. It is now clear that the warning signs were there and tips to the fbi were missed. We see the tragic consequences of those failures. The fbi in conjunction with our state and local partners must act flawlessly to prevent these attacks. Wheres the defense of the hard work from the same attorney general and do you think that criticism he made is fair on its own without adding that defense of his own people . The attorney general knows better. Knows the law. And he should be countering the president with the facts and the American People shouldnt buy into this. Look, heres the law. There is no existing federal statute that would allow an fbi miami agent to knock on Nikolas Cruzs door and put him in handcuffs because hes fixing to get ready to hurt somebody. I never put hand curves on somebody who is fixing to get ready to shoot somebody. Theres no federal statute. If you want to step up and do something then pass new federal law that allows Law Enforcement officers, Police Officers who have been to your house 39 times to put handcuffs on you. How about changing the instant background system for Gun Shop Owners who says if your name is in fbi Files Associated with violence you cant buy an assault weapon. These are the solutions. Whats happening inside the fbi right now is instead of viewing the president as an advocate they actually started viewing him as part of the intelligence threat to the United States. Amazing. Amazing times. Hard to believe were here. Thank you very much. Up next, more on this mornings trump tweet meltdown. 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On friday after visiting with survivors of the Parkland School shooting donald trump was ready for a party. Cnn reporter kevin liptak tweeted that trump stomped through a studio 54themed disco at his private maralago resort. Party goers captured photos of trump at the event that were later posted to instagram. He must not have partied too hard because today he was up bright and early, furiously tweeting away from everything on attack to president obama to adam schiff, attack on adam schiff and Hillary Clinton at the same time, revisiting his claim a 400pound man hacked the election and amusing quote this is the president talking, they are laughing their asshes off in moscow. Ill note that every time that i have said a cuss word on this show ive been quoting donald trump and thats true. Let me go to you first on this natasha. Donald trump is up super early this morning, golf course is closed. Is it raining . Can you give us any insight into why weve spent the entire morning reading tweets from this person . He clearly feels like hes being backed into a corner, ironically, by his own advisers. You have