Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps State Of Mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. The former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. They want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. The July Jobs Report will come out. A key number for the fed. Also this morning a reenactment of the Parkland High School shooting. As part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. Two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive Military Information to chinese Intelligence Of
The school resource officer, who waited outside the build ing whn the shooting happened for 40 minutes while the gunman was inside. the shooter took 14 students and 3 staff members. he couldn t tell where the shots were coming from because they were echoing. carlos suarez is live for us. why did they want this reaena actment? reporter: they believe it will show there s no way the school resource officer couldn t tell where exactly the gunfire was coming from the day of the shooting. back in june, a jury found peterson not guilty for his inaction the day of the shooting after his attorneys successfully argued that peterson took cover outside of the 1200 building for more than 40 minutes. he never went inside of the building because he thought there was more than one gunman and because he couldn t tell exactly where the shooting was
Broward county, florida. verdict, count two, we, the jury find as follows as to the defendant in this case. the defendant is not guilty. former school resource officer scot peterson breaking down tears after being found not guilty for failing to kill the gunman who killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. he faced seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjuries. prosecutors say he did nothing, taking cover for 45 minutes outside the school before the killer was apprehended. peterson s attorney argued the then-deputy didn t enter the building because he couldn t tell where the shots were coming from and he was found not guilty on all charges. joining us now is scot peterson and his attorney. scot, thank you for joining us. i want you to listen to what some of the parents said. we saw your emotional reaction.
Committing some type of overt crime. he was accused of not doing, of failing to act. the prosecutors here had prosecuted him under a statute that referred to him as a caregiver under florida law, which means that he had a duty to protect those children, the staff that were there at the school that day in parkland. now his attorney actually issued a quote that was very direct but obviously raised a lot of eyebrows saying that his client had no duty to protect the victims. now for his part all along as this prosecution and the investigation was under way, what peterson said is that he didn t react because he couldn t tell where the gunshots were coming from. of course at the end of the day, no one knows what was happening inside his head. i mean, i ve been in situations where, yeah, if you have gunfire particularly bouncing off buildings, you might not be able to direct yourself. but to that location. but what prosecutors said is he didn t even stop to ask the fleeing students what did
but house speaker john boehner still slammed the president this morning. he says, quote, today s report shows that families and small businesses are still struggling to get by because of president obama s failed economic policies. could it have been better? we ll break down the numbers for you in just a few minutes. and president obama has a message for women. i m thinking about you. the president spoke just a short time ago, kicking off the white house forum on women and the economy. i do think that the conversation s been oversimplified. women are not some monolithic bloc. women are not an interest group. you shouldn t be treated that way. women are over half of this country, and its work force. the administration is also rei reing a reporter at the forum on how they ve worked to create jobs for women. republicans have blasted the event as a blatant attempt by the white house to court women voters. the president also reiterated his support for women being allowed to b