Regularly scheduled at their school. He intimated there had been training. But he did say i didnt think we had to use this and praised the officers there at his school on a daily basis. He did make clear that there are police at his school regularly. We dont know what their involvement was in bringing this event, whatever it was to conclusion. Students now being led from their classrooms after reports of a School Shooting, a School Shooting that did take place at the Great Mills High School in eastern maryland. Reports from that student we just heard of some injuries, were getting many more details. Cnn will stay on the breaking news right now with Christine Romans and dave briggs. Well pick it up from there. Im Christine Romans. Good morning everyone. Im dave briggs. We begin with the breaking news out of phd. There has been a shooting at Great Mills High School in the city of great hills, maryland. Thats in st. Marys county, about an hour and a half outside of washington, d. C. You heard the conversation on new day. Jean casarez is standing by with the breaking details. What can you tell us . Reporter were continuing to get information now. This is the infancy of the situation. We can confirm fbi is on the scene, atf officers are on their way. This is the st. Mary county public schools, specifically Great Mills High School. And they confirmed a short time ago that there had been a shooting at the school. Let me read you from the school itself. There has been a shooting at Great Mills High School. The school is on lockdown right now. The event is contained. The Sheriffs Office is on the scene. Additional information to follow. That is it at this point. They are telling parents, do not go to this school, do not go to the school. There is currently still a lockdown at this point. Authorities including, as i said, the fbi and the atf out of baltimore field offices are there at the school to discern exactly what this dire situation is. Lets bring in james galiano, retired fbi supervisory special agent. Were told the phish is on the scene. We eerl told its a lockdown situation. Parents are told not to go to that location while the investigation here begins. What do you think authorities are doing next . Law enforcement has got to be in the business of predictive analysis. Part of that is, there is four things that could be occurring in a situation like this. One is active shooter who just wants to hurt, kill as many people as possible. The second is a situation where somebody may try to barricade themselves, take hostages and conduct a negotiation. The third, some type of domestic dispute, workplace, disgruntled employee returning, and the final one is somebody who wants to make a splash and commit suicide and do it maybe in front of a group of people. Those four considerations have to be taken into an assessment because as Law Enforcement is moving to the sound of the guns, as we have learned time and time again, post columbine and post parkland, theyve got to be cognizant of the fact of containing the situation, making sure nobody is able to skirt outside that could be involved and make sure they get to it and interdict as quickly as possible. Containing it, but not staying outside as we saw in parkland. We heard from the student inside the school. He believes seven people were hurt. He said regularly Police Officers were at the school. That may explain the quick response. Dave, after parkland, you just said five weeks ago, most School Districts now are trying to bolster security. Thats a discussion and debate that kind of got drowned out after parkland. But it is a very, very real issue that we need to address. How do we harden our schools. We know there have been 16 School Shootings this year before today. These kids, these children and the staff have been for years now training for mass casualty events. It sounds as though some of the students who are inside that building, they didnt think theyd ever have to use that training. But theyre training the children for this. Absolutely. Another thing to take into consideration and piggybacks off the serial bombings in texas, we have to be concerned about copy cats. Parkland has been in the news, somebody sees that and is a depraved individual or somebody with a propensity to commit evil and they want to act on that in the same way. Thats a real concern for Law Enforcement is that some people might see something and decide to do the same thing. James gag an know, stay with us. Corporal, what can you tell us . Probably about 8 15, 8 20. It happened pretty quickly. What time does school start . That is the interview i believe john berman had with a student there at Great Mills High School. Jonathan freese. Do we have the corporal with us . 9 06 a. M. Eastern time. Corporal, what can you tell us about the shooting at Great Mills High School . We have lost her. Well try to dial back with with her. James gag lliano, we dont knowf they have the gunman or the shooter or the perpetrator in custody. Christine, one thing i learned from being in the military and Law Enforcement, initial reports are always inaccurate. The important thing is you pointed out earlier, the training that these students across the nation are undergoing and how to respond, and reminding people of this, from the fbi perspective, when Something Like this happens, wherever you are, the first thing you should do as a civilian is run away from the sound of the guns. If you cant do that, find hopefully a covered and concealed place to hide and lastly, fight if you must. The corollary to the end of that, once youre outside, make sure you share any intel you have, no matter how unimportant you think it is with Law Enforcement. Run, hide, fight, tell. We have a tweet from governor larry hogan of maryland, were closely monitoring the situation at great hills high school. Department is in touch with Law Enforcement ready to provide support. Our prayers are with students, School Personnel and first responders. I have a 6yearold who has already done drills, she may not know what for, but has done them several times. What do you think police have learned in the wake of parkland and recent shootings into how quickly and how exactly to resnond. The first mass shooting we really discuss on record for Law Enforcement was the texas clock tower shooting on august 1st, 1966. That was basically the genesis for creting Law Enforcement s. W. A. T. Teams. Lets fast forward all the way to april of 1999 in columbine. Law enforcement granted, hind side being 20 20, waiting outside until they had a homogenous s. W. A. T. Team to make entry. Weve made advancements. If you look at newtown, the pulse nightclub shooting in orlando, were dealing with two different paradigms, the old Law Enforcement secure clear, which youre moving slowly, taking land, if you will, and moving forward slowly and what we learned the methodology after columbine which was go to the sound of the guns. Those two tactics are in conflict right now. I think after parkland five weeks ago, weve determined we have to adjust our tactics. The bad guys will always adjust theirs. Law enforcement has to adjust ours. For some reason, the sick, demented mind find some sort of glory in the School Shooting, different than an airport, a library, some of these other targets we try to harden up. Were very careful people always ask why dont you call this an act of terror. Terrorism has a distinct definition. It is violence or intimidation in the pursuit of political or social goals. People that look at schools could be operating with that premise. They could also be operating on the premise of creating terror. These are depraved individuals. Many are meg maniacs and look at the situation and say this is where ill create the biggest splash, shock value. Copycats look at that and say if there were 13 casualties in that one, ill up that number. So Many High School kids getting ready to for the march for our lives in d. C. And their right to go to School Without being afraid of being shot. Here the 17th School Shooting of the year. Talking with students and principals around the country, they tell me their biggest concern is a current or former student because they know how to get in and get out of schools. How big a concern is that . Absolutely. Look at bank robberies, the bank robbers always case the joint, as we say in Law Enforcement vernacular. They know where to enter, well have to unfortunately move to a situation where every school has a single point of entry with security and armed guards. Ive been on the record as saying i dont think Arming Teachers is a solution because Law Enforcement officers, it has been studied for years, Law Enforcement officers generally on a range with nobody shooting back at them, 75 , 80 of their shots are going inside the target. What weve learned in adversarial contact, and most of that is between five and seven feet, we learn that Law Enforcements pro fish si rating in firearms drops down to 17 , one out of five. So i dont know if Arming Teachers is the answer. Cnn Law Enforcement analyst james gag an know, good to have you with us. Texas rocked by a fifth explosion in less than a month. The latest package blowing up inside a fedex facility. The fbi tells cnn it could be connected to the four other explosions an hours drive north in austin, texas. Cnn correspondent ed lavandera is live in austin. What are the latest details you have . Reporter that is the focus here this morning, the fedex delivery in schertz, an hours drive south where we are in austin, thats where atf and fbi investigators have descended. One employee at the facility suffered minor injuries. Now the focus is trying to connect the dots here if indeed this fifth explosion is indeed connected to the four weve seen so far in austin, that investigators believe are all connected. So far fbi officials have told us this morning that they suspect that this fifth explosion is indeed connected to the other four which will create all sorts of interesting questions for investigators as they try to figure out who is behind all this. Were in the neighborhood where the sunday afternoon or the sunday evening explosion took place. It was just right here on a small street in between two homes going into a trail head of a wooded area that you see back there in the distance. As we stand here, christine, its interesting how in the world or why in the world was this particular spot chosen. One of the things weve heard from investigators over and over again over the last 24 hours is that the concern with this one is this is where the trip wire had been set up, and it really suggested that the bomb maker had a level of sophistication much higher than in the three previous explosions. Also the method of delivery added to the randomness of the attack. If this fifth explosion is connected to the four attacks in austin, it changes the method of the operation which is something i started picking up on yesterday. Ed lavandera, come back as soon as you have more details. A legal shakeup with bob mueller. Were following the breaking news on the white house resufling its legal team. New undercover data showing a data confirm linked to the Trump Campaign bragging about using dirty tricks to dig up material on political opponents. Material on political opponents. 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Growing signs of turmoil between President Trump and his legal team, this as cnn learns an interview between the president and special Counsel Robert Mueller could be scheduled within weeks. Sources say white house lawyers met with muellers team to discuss what mueller wants to know from the president and the Washington Post reports the president s lawyer handed over documents on key events to try to limit the scope of that interview. In the meantime, new controversial lawyer added to the white house roster, and reports others on that roster could be on the way out. Cnns abby phillip outside the white house. Lets start with the mueller meeting. What are you hearing . Reporter good morning, dave and christine. The first time President Trumps lawyers and attorneys for the special counsel have met happened recently in an effort to get ahead of this potential interview between the president and investigators. Now, this sitdown meeting between muellers team and the president s lawyers went over some of the questions that the president might be asked in an effort to potentially limit the scope of a potential interview with President Trump. Some of the key bits of information that muellers team is interested in are the comey firing, the firing of the former fbi director, and also Jeff Sessions potential involvement in that. Theyre also interested in former National Security adviser mike flynns phone calls with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. And theyre interested in hearing more about the Intelligence Leaders and the conversations they may have had with folks in the white house including the president about the on going probe into russian interference. These questions seem to all center around a big question of what did the president do as it relates to any of those situations and what exactly did he know about the things that were going on in his administration, especially as it relates to people like Michael Flynn who we already know has been indicted on charges by the special counsel investigation. So theres a lot going on here, but it seems very much that based on this sitdown meeting, they are preparing for a potential interview with President Trump in the coming weeks. Pretty interesting color from the meeting last week with muellers team. What are they saying . Reporter the Washington Post is reporting that muellers team has told President Trumps lawyers theyre interested in two main things, what did the president do and what was his mindset around when he did it. Those two questions are really key for the investigators as they go forward. One of the things that the Trump Lawyers have done in an effort to prepare for a potential interview is provide some documentation that gives the mueller investigators a sense of what the conversations were official conversations were happening within the white house around some of those key events i just discussed. The idea here, trying to limit as much as possible the scope of the questions being asked directly to President Trump if there is, in fact, a sitdown interview. The Trump Legal Team looks like it will grow as he brings on a new lawyer. What can you tell us about this addition and how it might change the tone . Reporter thats right. This edition of new lawyer, Joseph Digenova is known in washington circle, he appears on cable often. He alsocontinueversely is someone who has put forward this Conspiracy Theory that the president what subscribes to which is that the fbi and senior officials at the doj are trying to frame the president with this russia investigation. All this makes him a fairly controversial figure but also someone who seems to be much more aggressive presence in the Trump Legal Team, es special he at a time when there are other attorneys like john dowd and ty cobb whose futures on the team are a little uncertain. Dave and christine. Abby phillip, tluch for that. Joining us is paul callan and former republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers. Good to see you. Paul, lets start with you, this new addition, he nailed his audition on fox news, a flame thrower when it comes to lawyers. What does this tell you about the direction of the trump legal approach . I think its a shocking development. On the one hand, you have his current the president s current lawyers cooperating with mueller, maybe scoping out allowing the president to give testimony but digenova says theres a deep state conspiracy to get trump, the fbi is part of the conspiracy, the department of justice is part of the conspiracy. Hes gone so far as saying there should be a federal grand jury investigating the fbi and the department of justice. I think this will cause a mixed messaging situation. You have one lawyer aggressively attacking the investigators and you have two other lawyers, dowd and ty cobb cooperating to a certain extent with the investigators. Its a very confusing situation and i think not a good way to approach a criminal investigation. Digenova has said in the past on fox news, there was a brazen plot to exonerate Hillary Clinton and frame trump for a madeup crime, just to give you some background on what he believes is happening. Mike rogers, with that addition, how does the president prepare, his lawyers prepare to talk to muellers team about how hes going to sit down and what circumstances hell sit down in this investigation . Wouldnt you like to be in that first strategy meeting . Youve got some lawyers trying to take the approach that they may have to sit down with the special prosecutor and at some point may either have to go before a grand jury or later testify in court. Theres a lot to deal with for his legal team and adding somebody as bombastic as degenerd digenova. Thats the president s default position. What happens in the real strategy session moving forward will be completely up for grabs. One really wonders is this really a straj gee or is this a person surrounding himself with people he relates to. Hes a street fighter, mike rogers, and he might be comfortable having someone take that position where he normally would be on twitter firing on bob mueller and andy mccabe and whoever else he thinks is against him. Now he has someone else to do it for him. Could be. Maybe thats why he wanted to bring digenova in, is to be the bomb thrower out in public, to continue challenging the credibility of the fbi, continue to impeach the witness the potential witnesses and Robert Mueller himself, the special counsel, the investigation. Thats been the style so far. Im not sure the president realizes the ninth and Fourth Circuit courts have used his tweets in cases. In this case it was the immigration casework. The more he gets out there on twitter, the more he continues to do this, the more likely it is those tweets will be admissible for both the special counsel and others in this particular case. Maybe theres some grand strategy here. Lets put our hat on for a minute, that in fact trump is going to back off on his twitter comments and have jody general nova get out on tv and continue the rant. Its difficult to garner any strategy from the last year and a half and where exactly the Trump Administration is weaving. Im not sure he knows day to day. Does this team need continuity, paul . Could it be, to mike rogers point there, a good strategy to have the lawyer be the flame thrower and the president to dial back on twitter, not that anyone expects that to happen . I think its a good idea to pull the president back from tweeting about the investigation thats a huge mistake and can be used against him in a court of law, but to throw somebody in the front who is a lawyer, whose position is its a deep state conspiracy to frame the president , while youre continuing to cooperate, remember, dowd and ty cobb are trying to present the public image that the president has nothing to hide, hes being totally cooperative with the investigators. Thats a mixed message, and its going to say to mueller that the trump people are not sincere in providing information because digenovas message is the message to the public. In 1997 in the wall street journal he said the nation could conceivably benefit from the indictment of a president. Of course, then he was talking about bill clinton, but those words could come back to haunt this president , this man on his legal team. Mike rogers, paul callan, thank you very much. Its that time of the morning. Were moments from the opening bell. Wall street expected to open lower. Big tech fell yesterday led by a 7 drop for facebook. The twoday meeting of the Federal Reserve kicks off. Higher rates worry investigators, of course. The other big concern on wall street, a trade war, especially with reports that President Trump will impose steep tariffs on china. Wall street puts that price tag at 60 billion each year. Well have the latest on the School Shooting in maryland when we return. Lets get started. Show of hands. Who wants customizable options chains . Ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action . How about some of the lowest options fees . Are you raising your hand . 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Mary county public schools, specifically Great Mills High School in maryland. Theyre telling parents to not come to the school. There is a lockdown at that school. It does continue at this time. Theyre telling parents to go to another location and that ultimately they will be reunified with their children. At this point all the students remain in the high school, in that lockdown as an immense amount of Law Enforcement including the fbi responds to the scene. A big march this shooting for school safety. A bomb shem report. The data firm caught on camera bragging about using dirty tricks to get political info. Well break this down and why it matters to you next. Copd makes it hard to breathe. So to breathe better, i go with anoro. Go your own way copd tries to say, go this way. I say, ill go my own way with anoro. Go your own way oncedaily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators, that Work Together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. 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This is all part of a new bombshell report on Cambridge Analytica, the controversial data firm hired by the Trump Campaign in an undercover expose by britains channel 4, Senior Executives are caught on video bragging about using dirty tactics to dig up compromising material on their clients political opponents. Is. This as we get new details on the fallout at facebook. Joining us Laurie Segall and brian stelter. Were hearing theres a meeting the day with facebook staffers about this controversy. Facebook under fire . Theyll have a companywide meeting. Im told dont overblow this, its not all hands. Its an important topic. Mark zuckerberg, let me say, is not leading the meeting. Where is Mark Zuckerberg . He normally doesnt lead these weekly meetings. A lot of employees behind the scenes have a lot of questions as we have a lot of questions. It goes back to the point you just asked of where is Mark Zuckerberg involved in all this. A lot of folks are wondering where he is publicly, where is his voice, his face, as this company is reaching a moment of crisis. He lost 5 billion yesterday, the company lost 37 billion at least on paper. Wall street is concerned there will need to be regulation of facebook finally some movement from congress. Theyre fed up with lawyers and lobbyists coming to capitol hill and not the ceos. Lets talk about the channel 4 video. What did they dig up and why does it matter . This is a facebook scandal and a Cambridge Analytica scandal. It comes together in the center of that venn diagram. Cambridge analytica, were learning more about what they say will do for clients. Whether they do it or not is questionable. Here is what channel 4 found in an undercover investigation. They sat down with ceo alexander nix, tried to talk to him about what services Cambridge Analytica could provide. He suggested they could even employ honey pots, sex workers to trick people. So you see there the ceo saying we can arrange this. We will figure out ways to get at your political rivals using sex workers. Later in the undercover video you hear from another Cambridge Analytica staffer, a managing director, who talks about trying to use data and target voters on an emotional level, not about facts, but about emotion. Here is what he said. Our job is to drop the bucket further down the well than anybody else, to understand what are those deep seeded, underlying fears, concerns. Its no good fighting an Election Campaign on the facts because actually its all about emotion. I think hes on to something there. With regards to the undercover video, the allegations of these companies, that this particular company would employ sex workers and entrap opponents. Cambridge analytica says its been taken out of context, its been edited to grossly misrepresent the nature of these conversations. Bottom line, two different scandals. Faik facebooks problem. 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Lets give people a sense of who this attorney is who nailed his audition on fox news. Hre is what he said about framing the president , exonerating Hillary Clinton. There was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate Hillary Clinton, and if he didnt win the election, to then frame donald trump with a falselycreated crime. It wasnt the russians who corrupted the president ial election, it was the american officials at the department of justice and the fbi. Molly ball, we know this. If you perform well on television, the president will bring you inside his administration. But what is adding this lawyer, this flame thrower, if you will, to this legal team. What does this tell you about the direction . The president likes a fighter, whether on the white house staff or hiss legal team, he wants someone out there in public who will take a very, very aggressive tack who he can see on television and feel like that person is fighting for me. Since his legal team has mainly pursued a strategy of strategic cooperation, i think you can tell that the president feels like thats not quite enough. And it also you know, there are reports he did this without telling other members of the team or the white house staff. That came as a surprise. It reminds me very much where hes putting people who will be in competition with each other, pitting peach against each other. Having that on a legal team is a very unusual way to go about it. But that seems to be his m. O. Errol louis, this legal team of the president is going to be in negotiations with bob mueller, bob muellers how to talk about, how to answer questions in this investigation, a source is saying that the president is waivering over whether to meet with muellers investigators. Should he do it . And does this addition show any kind of a change in the in the calculus there . I dont know if he has any choice about whether or not to at least negotiate with muellers investigators. It is a valid, legal inquiry that the president himself called for, by the way. It is not as if he can just flip the switch and tell them all to go home. What the latest addition to the team, though, this aggressive strategy that molly described suggests to me he wants to try at least part of this case in the court of Public Opinion. He wants people out there just defending him, even if it makes no sense whatsoever, and thats a political strategy. He knows that for his base, if you accuse Hillary Clinton of anything, literally anything, they will applaud. And they will believe it. And they will give him a little bit of room to maneuver politically. Thats really all this is. The notion that, you know, look, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. There is absolutely no proof that has been put forward that there is this massive conspiracy at the top level of the fbi. Many feel this change of direction from the president and the change of tone in particular naming bob mueller, going after him on twitter, means hes looking to soften the earth if not looking to fire the special counsel, which would not be easy. Have to get rid of rosenstein first. But Ron Brownstein, several republicans stood up and draw the line and say we cant do that, it wouldnt happen. Only one really who is not up for reelection and thats lindsey graham. Do you think well hear more from leadership . Paul ryan speaks in the 10 00 a. M. Hour. Mitch mcconnell about 2 00. Will they draw the line . Watch the actions, not only the words. I think youll hear muted, the minimal they can do. Look, and no action on legislation that is, you know, floating out there to, protect the counsel. Which they continue to insist is not needed. This appointment is a reminder of the old saying, when all you have a hammer, everything looks look a nail. The president s consistent response to any political challenge from russia to policy is to double down on trying to energize and mobilize his base with very little concern for how those arguments play and kind of the broader electorate. Bringing someone into the team who is go on out making the argument that the entire russia concern is a fabrication based on a conspiracy at the highest level of government is going to put every republican on the ballot in 2018 in the position of answering whether they agree that in fact the u. S. Government is now filled with, you know, conspirators trying to undermine the president and if not, what they are going to do to constrain the president who does believe that or allows his lawyers to assert that. So this is this is the way the president operates on really any challenge, which is to try to mobilize the base. As we saw in even in pennsylvania 18, a district he won by 20 points, that is not enough if youre driving away as much of the persuadable middle as he seems to be doing. Well, you know, molly, it is interesting, he mentions pennsylvania 2018, the republicans in that district, the republicans are talking about tax cuts and how that was so good, the economic message of the president. And you had the democrat there talking about corporate welfare. And i dont hear the president talking about tax cuts and the wins on the economy. I hear him fuming about this special investigation and talking about big tariffs on china. Is he off message here . Well, sure. Hes always off message. Trump doesnt stick to a message. Thats not what he does. He create his own message and he believes strongly deep in his gut and hes not particularly strategic, not looking out for his party, he doesnt, i dont think, care about the fortunes of the Republican Party and republican elected officials. Hes interested in defending himself, and expressing himself, and he is obsessed probably rightly so, since it hits close to home, obsessed with this investigation and hes going to go out there and defend himself and get people who will defend him. One thing i think is interesting in light of what errol was saying is this case was already being tried in the Public Opinion the court of Public Opinion. And the lawyer that trump was already doing that, was already defending him in the court of Public Opinion, what then does he gain by bringing that person inside the team to also bring that kind of fighting strategy to a legal strategy. Because he already had that on the Public Opinion front. There is the impact on the message that christine mentioned there in the 2018 midterms, what about the agenda, no movement on daca, no movement on a spending bill. Very little if anything happening at the moment, maybe a decent day on opioid crisis. Errol, what is happening with the agenda . Where is it . The agenda is all over the place. There are two agendas at least. One is that the Republican Party, the office holders, seeking reelection, theyre going to try and run on tax cuts and whatever piece of good news they can put in front of their electorate in the various districts. The president has an entirely different agenda and it seems to be a matter of not getting out of his own way. You know, if we i think we would all be grateful, everybody on this panel and probably half the people watching if we could talk about the details of opioid abuse and other topics. The president cant let himself and let us get to those topics. All right, errol louis, molly ball i dont think hes getting in his own way. This is what he believes. Mobilizing his base is the key to success. The way to do that is to say there are powerful institutions trying to silence them by destroying them. This is the method, not the exception. 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