Florida town have taken the moral reins, giving a yourselfful, insistent voice to the countrys anger and frustration. And nen there is russia. On friday, special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 russians on charges they interfered in our countrys election. President trump responded by declaring himself vindicated . Down in maralago this weekend on reports the New York Times his mood began to darken as it became clear to him that some Television Commentators were portraying the indictment as nothing for him to celebrate. And then a wild twitter tirade by trump himself. 14 tweets about russia over 48 hours. He attacked liddle adam schiff. He blamed barack obama, including one this afternoon. Quote, obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 elections. So why didnt he do something about russian meddling . And he said the only collusion was between russia and crooked hillary, as he put it, something for which the evidence by the way is zero, nada. He also said what is historically not true. Quote, i never said russia did not meddle in the election. Whoa. Well, the fact is he told Time Magazine i dont believe they interfered. That became a laughingstock, a laughing point, not a talking point. A laughing point. On multiple occasions, trump threw mud at the conclusion of the Intelligence Community that russia meddled in the election. Lets watch him at it. I think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and or countries. And i see nothing wrong with that statement. Nobody really nose. You ever notice anything that goes wrong, they blame russia. Russia did it. They have no idea. Were being hacked because we are people that dont know what theyre doing. What i said there is i believe he believes that. And thats very important for somebody to believe. I believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. No, russia did not help me. Okay . Russia. I call it the russian hoax. One of the great hoaxes. Actually, thats the thing i was thinking about. Thats the thing that the democrats did best. Well, trump also tweeted this weekend, if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the u. S. , then with all the committee hearings, investigations and party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Theyre laughing their asses off in moscow. Those are his words. The president of the United States words. Then there was the predictable attack on the fbi, suggesting they failed to act on the Florida School shooting because they were distracted by the russia investigation. Trump, quote, wrote very sad that the fbi missed all the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter. This is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the Trump Campaign there is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud. By the way, one of the basics i would think is national defense. For all his tweeting this weekend, the one person trump never attacked, as you might predict, is vladimir putin. For more im joined by axios reporter jonathan swan, Jennifer Rubin and Mother Jones Washington Bureau chief david corn. So why the tirade . Why did he go wacko over the weekend with these tweets . Somebody said its because he couldnt play golf because the school horror. That would look bad, until today. So he was forced to go inside and watch television. Excuse me, is this how the presidency works these days . Well, im going to shock you to say that yes, the president does watch quite a bit of television. And yes, he gets even on sunny days in florida . Even on sunny days in florida. And he gets deeply, deeply irritated when people state the facts about this russia investigation which is that there was a concerted effort led by the kremlin. People like to say he only watches fox, but he actually toggles a lot. I wouldnt even be surprised if he is watching you, chris. No, i think he probably just smiles watching some of the networks. Go ahead, jennifer. But it is weird. A president of the United States who has all the tools of communication resorts to tweeting in this sort of i dont know how to describe it. Its the way he does it. This is because its about him. He looks upon this, he is watching tv because theyre talking about him. He wants to know whats in it for him, as you point out. He doesnt make a statement that this is horrific, look, these 13 people are running around the United States impersonating americans, look what a horror this is. And a good job of it too. Exactly. His reaction is no collusion. But listen, for the first time black and white, you had the special prosecutor say the russians weighed in to help trump and to disparage hillary clinton. Its there in black. Certainly starting in summer 2016 they did. Thats exactly right. Let me go to david on this tough one. Tom freed in his column is coming out tomorrow in the times suggesting either trump is paranoid. He is jumping around going crazy this weekend and is innocent or is guilty as hell. He may have money laundered and therefore he has right to try to dump on every moment he can, every way he can on mueller because muler is coming at him with the truth. Or he is a little bit crazy. Which is it, is he guilty or crazy . I dont see them being mutually exclusive. Plain. Shirks an erratic, unstable, delusional narcissistic person, period, regardless of any action he took in regard to the russian meddling. In regards to the russian meddling, the baseline we already know and have known for over a year and a half now is he continually through the Campaign Said it wasnt happening. What did that do . That was giving cover to putin. He made it easier for putin to attack the United States. Because he made it a political issue. He aided and abetted. Made what an issue . Im sorry. He made whether or not the u. S. Was being attacked. Yeah. When people were out there saying when even the u. S. Government said it in early october during the campaign, they put out a statement from the Intelligence Committee. He kept saying. No this is a hoax. He kept getting his people to say this isnt real. This is all politics. That made it easier for putin to get away wit. He aided and abetted. Whats going on . I know they dont have a free press like we do and you cant be critical over there of the leadership like we are and enjoy doing it sometimes. How do the russian citizens who do know whats going on who read the papers, how do they understand that the american president is out there day after day, minute by minute, tweeting that they did not get involved in screwing around with our elections when we all know they did . What do they think of us . I wouldnt pretend to speak for the russian citizenry. But you can interpret them. I do think its telling that the russian propaganda russia today is taking quotes by a whose spokesman and tweeting it, which gidley, the white house spokesman saying russia has done far less to damage and create chaos in the u. S. Than the democrats in the media. And russia today used that as part of their propaganda. Russia today being their propaganda organization. Right. I wont speak for them either, but the rest of the world certainly speaks. Think this guy is a joke. They say dont Pay Attention to his tweets. Mcmaster says incontrovertible. And trump goes nut others that one. Thats another tweet because he didnt say and trump was exonerated and there is no collusion. So the rest of the world looks upon us with horror at this point. And listen, they do depend on the United States. They give us a lot of grief. But ultimately theyre looking for the only superpower to give them stability, to give them protection against enemies, and were not doing that. Lets hear what he said about mcmaster. Mcmaster was in munich for the International Security conference. He is an active duty military officer. And this is what he said about the meddling. This is what mcmaster said. Were becoming more and more adept at tracing the origins of this espionage and subversion. And as you can see with the fbi indictment, the evidence is now really incontrovertible and available in the public domain. And this is the president s henry kissinger, his top person. Anyway, President Trump apparently didnt appreciate his National Security advisers comment theres which didnt defend him strongly enough. Trump tweeted general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians. He forgot to say that in reality, neither muellers investigators nor the Intelligence Committee has concluded the results of the election were not influenced by russian interference. Thats what theyre investigating. Its impossible to say one way or the other. And thats what must be driving him insane. Because you cannot prove that people didnt see something or certainly people werent discouraged from going to the polls for hillary clinton. Still, some of these guys are still working for trump, these senators and congress people. Its embarrassing. We know from the time were in civics class in grade school there is a separation of powers there is supposed to be a reaction. That congress is supposed to challenge the president. This guy is from oklahoma on sunday saying that this guy by mueller is going to be over in days. Why would he Say Something which will be disproven in days . Why are they so embarrassingly toadyish to talk like this guy from oklahoma . It is puzzling because we have seen the trumps lawyers give us deadline after deadline. Yeah. The guy with the handlebar mustache, ty cobb keeps saying its over tomorrow. He is like baghdad bob. Were winning the war. It was over by thanksgiving and then christmas. Youre talking about a political calculation that republicans have made to stand by him no matter what. But there is something more basic than that. They all swear an oath to defend the constitution as the president does. And here we have even mcmaster admits it. But its been known for a long time, an attack on american democracy. What is the republican response . Almost nothing. And of course nothing from donald trump. So we can talk about how he sees and how he feels about it. Your point is so good that is exactly what trump doesnt get is civic responsibility. He doesnt understand that a judge has got to be a judge and a fair judge. He doesnt work for somebody, the Mexican Government or anybody else he claims to work for. Mcmaster, his National Security adviser is in fact an officer in the United States army. And he has to say the truth. And trump doesnt understand it. He doesnt understand when people have to do their jobs. Its worse than not actively doing their job. Theyre helping the russians. When nunes runs around defaming the fbi and coming up with his half cocked conspiracy theories. A number of trump incendiary comments over this weekend when he suggested they missed the signals about the Florida School shooter because they were spending too much time wondering about the russian investigation. Here is Governor John Kasich of ohio and senator tim scott of South Carolina speaking truth to power. Lets watch. I think its an absurd statement, okay, absurd. The fact of the matter is the fbi apparently made a terrible mistake, and people should be held accountable. But we need leadership out of the executive. This is a great opportunity for common sense steps that can be taken. I will tell you that from my perspective, that so many folks in the fbi are doing all that they can to keep us safe. The reality is that they are two separate issues. You can see there. Are people that just see the truth and come out and says it. Its what we how we got rid of nixon, you know . Sam urban these people did their jobs eventually. The much bigger point here is that trump has turned Republican Voters against the fbi quite profoundly in the same way he has turned them against the nfl. He has an uncanny ability to shift Public Opinion among that group of voters. And weve seen it in the polling. And we grew up believing certainly the Republican Party believed and that hoover was almost god. Its true. The party of loren. But its all about how things affect him you. Talk institutions dont matter. Norms dont matter. Rules, laws dont matter. Its all about how it affects him. Last nighttime watching home front homeland. Homeland. All these people were booing the fbi. He said thats what happened to this country, booing the fbi on the street corner, right . Youre going to keep correcting me . Homeland, homeland. Thats all. I never liked that word, homeland. It sounds the too much like fatherland or motherland, a little too totalitarian. Thank you, Jennifer Rubin and david corn. Well be right back with the russia investigation in a moment. But coming up, trump is not just awol on russia. He has been charged for total inaction on guns. Have you notice head wont say it . And leading the charge, god help him, students from Marjory Stoneman douglass high school. Well talk to one of the students and talk to talk show host Montel Williams, a gunowner himself who says we need new gun safety laws. Plus, whats next for the russia investigation . Trump claims he is off the hook. Fat chance. Thats not what the indictment says. Were going to find wrought the probe may be going next as mueller may be on the verge of flipping another witness and back to trumps twitter outburst with the round table. The Mueller Investigation is really getting under his skin, dont you think . 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As President Trump spent his weekend venting his russiarelated frustrations on twitter, the friends and families of those 17 victims of last weeks shooting, School Shooting began the heartwrenching task of laying their loved ones to rest. Throughout this period of pain and anguish, its the young survivors who have been the most vocal advocates for change. Lets watch and listen to some of them. How many more students are going to have to die and have their blood spilled in american classrooms just because politicians refuse to take action . This is our fight now, because you messed it up so badly that you left it to the kids. And now its our job. And you cant try to take that back from us. Were not going let the 17 bullets we just took take us down. If anything, were going to keep rung and were going to lead the rest of the nation behind us. Well, the call to action has galvanized young people as you heard there across the country. Here in washington, d. C. , local students stage adlaiin protest against violence against the white house. There they are on the sidewalks at 1600 pennsylvania. Its not clear if republicans in congress are truly willing to listen, however. The problem is not owning an ar15, its the person that owns it. Not going back to the how of what particular weapon is chosen, its the what. Im not going to vote to ban an ar15. Any of the laws they want passed would not have presented this attack. That doesnt mean we shouldnt pass any laws. They support my agenda. I dont support theirs. The stones from Stoneman Douglas high school are not taking no for an answer. Theyre bringing their message to washington on march 24th for a rally against school and gun violence. Smaller rallies are planned also throughout our country. While the white house announced it is open to strengthening background checks, its unclear how much further hell go. During the 2016 donald trump was the nras chone candidate. The nra spent roughly 30 million to support trump and defeat hillary clinton. Lets watch. You came through for me, and i am going to come through for you. You have a true friend and champion in the white house. No longer will federal agencies be coming after lawabiding gun owners. We ar