Good morning. Welcome to early start. It is thursday, february 15th. Im Christine Romans in new york. Good morning, christine. Im dave briggs. It is 5 00 a. M. In parkland, florida. Known as one of the safest cities in america. Waking up to a recurring nightma nightmare. Helpless to stop the gun violence plaguing the country. 17 People Killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Five patients are in life threatening condition and ten others hospitalized with nonlife threatening injuries. So far, 12 victims of the h rampage have been identified. Here are the moments of terror. We want to warn you the video is disturbing. Holy
[ gunshots ] oh, my god terrifying. Imagine getting that out of your mind. Officials say that is the sound of an ar15 being fired from former student nikolas cruz. Senator bill nelson of florida told cnn how the attack began. The shooter wore a gas mask and he had smoke grenades. He went and setoff the fire alarm so the kids would come pouring out of the class
Forgotten he was going to break the north korean sanction news there was so much other stuff. He spoke to reporters before he even got to the event. And i see what you mean about dliewght the message. Juan, what was most offensive part of the speech . Juan seven years to go. [laughter] for an old man you are risking a heart attack. Dana are you going to make it . Juan seven years to go. The cpac audience went wild. So this was a rally. Thats what i thought it was going to be and i think his staff thought it was going to be something about increasing sanctions on north korea. As you say, he has kind of got to it at the very end. But as an after thought. He was far more interested in to pick up on the Steak House Analogy of throwing out the chunks of red meat everywhere he turned. I was surprised that he was throwing out chunks though that had to do with things like democrats abandon daca. Im the one who cares. Wait a minute, he is the one who ended daca and set this
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Them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still here. Theyre still here. Meanwhile, bipartisan efforts to Shield Mueller and his investigation are moving forward in the senate, interestingly enough after much delay. Today republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary committee announced his panel will vote on a bill to protect mueller potentially as soon as tomorrow. That puts grassley on a direct Collision Course with the Senate Majority leader who says he will not advance the bill to a final vote. Theres no indication that mueller is going to be fired. I dont think the president is going to do that. Obviously a number of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. Im the one who decides what we take to the floor. Thats my responsibility as the majority leader. Well not be having this on the floor of the senate. Its possible mcconnell doesnt read the New York Times which reported on two separate occasions when the pre
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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Personal purposes. On the other hand, if it came out of a Donald Trump Trust fund, which i understand weisselberg also manages, it might not be any kind of a financial tax crime. So hes somebody who has very, very Important Information which could be helpful to the prosecutors. Not only in the cohen case but if they want to dig deeper into the Trump Organization. And weisselbergs cooperation seems to be limited to the cohen probe. What would prosecutors need to call weisselberg back and ask him to provide information about other potential crimes . Well, i think you know, what always happens in these federal investigations, and we saw it in the manafort case, when they start looking at a particular issue, sometimes they stumble across other things that turn out to be criminal in nature. Thats, i think, one of the reasons why the president is probably as upset as he has been sounding this week. Once they start looking into the