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There would be even louder complaints from the right to shut down his probe. He disproved the president s claim that it was all a hoax, but as president was quick to point out, still no proof his campaign was involved or that the Election Results were affected. So where does this 4r50leave us . Meanwhile new reporting alleges not just an affair between the from president and a playboy playmate, but also an elaborate coverup system. So what will be the political, the familial fallout . Plus there were multiple warnings about the perpetrator of the Florida School shooting including to the fbi. So why could he not be stopped . And those who pursue teaching know that it will be demanding. But now as we were reminded this week, it can also be dangerous. How will that impact the profession . But first, as i tweeted yesterday, only on a day when the morning story was about a play mate of the year would donald trump be happy to see an afternoon report of 13 russians be indicted for election meddling. It was that kind of a day. By you no yu it was that kind of a day. By you no you now you know 13 r were indicted for meddling. It is all spelled out in a 37 page indictments. The president responded by tweeting russia started their antiu. S. Campaign in 2014 long before i announced that i would run for president. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump Campaign did nothing wrong, no collusion. Okay. Permit me six observations. First, to the president s point, there was no allegation by mueller of the Trump Campaign knowingly cooperating with the russian national, nor that the meddling tipped the balance of the election or as the president likes to say there was no evidence of collusion. But the president can no longer say with a straight face that reports of russias meddling are a hoax. And the president should now be held accountable for his refusal to support congress bid to sanction the russians for interference. Second, this indictment does not return the russian hack of the dnc server. If this group of russian nationals had been involved in that crime, that information would likely be a part of this indictment. That means we have yet to see whatever mueller has found about the mack, whether there was collusion in that regard remains the big unknown. Ack, whether th collusion in that regard remains the big unknown. Hack, whether t collusion in that regard remains the big unknown. Thish t third the goal was partly to support the campaign of donald trump, but mostly it was to screw with the american process. Their aim was to understamine a of us, to spread distrust in general. Fourth, this was a sophisticated effort. Complete with a hierarchy and budget and a headquarters. I read the indictment about the socalled Internet Research agency. Picturing a mafialike Front Organization run like an american business. Im not surprised to learn that they had paid maternity leaves, holidays and a Company Training video for sexual harassment. Fifth notice Robert Mueller position did not mamts did not make the announcement. No doubt he learned from jim comey how not to handle such an important declaration choosing instead to remain in the shadows despite himself having signed the indictments. And by leaving the press believing to the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein probably insulated himself from being fired by donald trump. Sixth and finally, at least for now, something to be appreciated about the mueller indictments, the ability to keep it all secret until the last minute. Before Rod Rosensteins announcement, the media was speculating it could be about the florida shooting. The point is, we have no idea what mueller knows. I want to know what you think. Go to smerconish. Com, answer this question. Do you believe more indictments are still to come from special counsel Robert Mueller . Ill let you know the result at the end of this program. Joining me now, two experts with perfect backgrounds for this story. Daniel hoffman, retired cia station chief who served five years in moscow, currently works as a Vice President of the Consulting Group spg. And john brownly is former u. S. Attorney, served at the Justice Department for a decade, now he runs the white collar criminal defense for the Washington Firm of holland and knight. He represented Virginia Governor bob mcdonnell. Let me begin with you, daniel. Does any operation like this get carried out without the knowledge, without the oversight of Vladimir Putin . No, this is a kremlin operation. And i would describe it as a hybrid operation. There were things that were clandestine like the way they stole u. S. Identities so that they could prop gate disinformation and lead campaign rallies, but it was also discoverable. Respect ifgate disinformation and lead campaign rallies, but it was also discoverable. Respect if they are wellknown for ukraine themes, themes which were disparaging of Opposition Leader and also pro putin them tos. Vladimir putin had a couple reasons for wanting this to be discoverable. I think it serves his interests. He needed a geographic end point for this operation which leads back to russia, that is the best way to soil our democratic process. And it also shows that putin with this relatively inexpensive asymmetric he espionage operati can go toe to toe with the United States. Youre telling us that he wanted it to be discovered. He likes the idea for some reason that we know he meddled in our election. Right. And i think that the counter intuitive part, i read the indictment yesterday and one of the interesting points for me is how Internet Research agency helped produce this pro trump postelection rally. And so if you follow the line that we can prove that Internet Research agency and by extension the kremlin was involved, putin wanted us to think that he was in some way being a king maker, putting his weight on the scale of our democratic process. And he wants that. But daniel, what i read in that indictment is that postelection not only were they orchestrating a blow trump rpro ralgly, the an antitrump rally. The overarching goal, it may have been in 2016 to help donald trump, but they wanted to f with us. Thats what this was all about. Absolutely more than anything it was to sow discord in our political process, degrade our institutions, degrade our trust in our institutions absolutely. And then as well to agitate so that we would be at each others throats over this. I think they have succeeded right well as that also. And there is part of the indictment i want to put up on the screen that makes the point youve observed. It reads as follows, Defendant Organization had a strategic goal to sow discord in the u. S. Political system including the 2016 president ial election. At different points, daniel, they were benefiting bernie sanders. They were benefiting jill stein. And of course they were benefiting donald trump. Oft oftentimes in contradictory crosspurpose fashion. Right. That is the element of their covert influence operations. All they want is for americans they want to heighten the level of animosity and so that we when we have political discourse in this country, what they would like is to help shape the discourse so that it is full of as much animosity as possible. And i think that is why they try to support extreme organizations, not only here, but in europe as well. Okay. Got to ask you as a former cia station chief yourself, do we do this . You know, i cant talk too much about what we do. I would say what the russians are doing is kind of special unto themselves. And i would emphasize as well that in terms of going forward, the onus is on the Intelligence Community and i can tell you from my own experience, we need that kascardinal in the kremlino can tell us what putin is doing, what are his plans for the future going forward. We know to know that desperately. John brownly, let me bring you in. I articulated six things that i found significant. What did you find most significant . Well, i think first of all i agree with your sick. I think th i think that is is a significa criminal indictment. Xk. I think this is a significant criminal indictment. I think this is a significant criminal indictment. We now have credible evidence that russians con fire entired to impact our election. This is one ofof our oldest enemies. And so i think the American Public should be concerned that this has happened, that these folks have come here, whether electronically, some actually in person and conspired to try to impact our election. And so i think that the indictment is significant and i think that the allegations are concerning. And my hope is that we are now taking steps to try to actively find these individuals, bring them here and put them before the bar of justice. So to that point, i was about to say what i didnt see on cnn last night was anybody having cuffs slapped on them, presumably all 13 are outside the jurisdiction of the United States and i dont know that we have any extradition with russia. So how likely there is any trial . One thing that will happen, when indicted, arrest warrants will be issued rktsz they will be put into international databases, interpol and the like. So if they were to leave russia, if they were to travel and go to a country either in europe or somewhere else that has an extradition treaty with the United States, they could be detained and brought here. So essentially they become a prisoner of their own country which for some of these folks might not matter much to them, but it might. And so we can also then take additional steps to try to actively try to pick them up and bring them to the United States for trial. So my hope and i anticipate that there are efforts that will try to bring them here based on these werents that have been issued. John, read the tea leaves for me. There is nothing in this document about the hack. What do you make of that . I think that that is a separate piece of this. I think what youve seen of the special counsel and the Deputy Attorney general, they have been very methodical, each plea agreement or indictment stands on its own and then goes to the next step. So this one has to do with these 13 individuals with these allegations. There are other allegations that have been discussed in the media. Not by the special counsel as you noted. And so i think that he will deal with these things in time. And if he believes that he has sufficient evidence to bring a criminal charge, he will do so. My guess is if he believes that he doesnt or the evidence doesnt warrant it, that he wont. And you wont hear about it. So let me ask you a question as a former prosecutor, not as one of the white shoed fancy firm where you are now heading the defense operations. I was really taken with the fact that i was watching the media ten minutes before rosenstein began speaking and there was speculation as to what would be the subject matter. And many thought he was about to address the florida shooting. It speaks to muellers ability to keep this all under wraps. Were you impressed by that . Very much so. And it goes not only to him but also to his agents from the fbi, to his prosecutors. You know, this is a well put together sophisticated document that took thousands of hours of work to build. This is an impressive document from an investigators perspective and the fact that they were able to keep it under wraps until the Deputy Attorney general decided at his moment, he decided when to let the public know, is impressive. It shows that this is being run in a professional way and knowing bob mueller and knowing Rod Rosenstein, you shouldnt expect anything else. John brownly, thank you so much. Appreciate both of my guests having been here. Make sure youre voting at smerconish. Com, the question do you believe more indictments are still to come from special counsel Robert Mueller is this well give you the results later in the program. This well give you the results later in the program. Katherine, what do we have . Smerconish, compaincident or no it is time the probe be wrapped up. Its been a year. You as a media voice need to stop the hate of trump, stop the bias. Thomas, are you blanking me . Where in lies the hate streredh . I bear no hatred. Mine is an evidentiary analysis and i have to challenge you, did you read the indictment, did you read the 37 page indictment . Because i did and im troubled as an american. Having nothing to do with republicans or democrats, im an independent. They were trying to undermine our society with this campaign. And that should trouble all of us including you, sir. Another one if i have time for it. Wondering how you can say there was no impact on Election Results, 80,000 people in three states. You dont think some of these people were impacted by what the russians did . Joanne, i dont know. Im saying that the indictment makes no claim that the outcome was impacted. But i might want to do something i did this morning, which is go over to nate silver at 538, he has an analysis that he just posted. 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And last fall a mississippi bail bnds man alerted the fbi to the fact that he had seen a comment posted on youtube where someone identifying himself as nikolas cruz had said im going to be a professional school shooter. The bonds man did the right thing, he saw something, he said something. The fbi immediately came out and interviewed him. But the next time he heard from the fbi was wednesday in the immediate after math of the horrific shooting in parkland, florida perpetrated by nikolas cruz. The special sgt in charagent in miami said they couldnt find the person who had posted the comments and they didnt think they had enough data to subpoena google which ownsyoutube to pin point the have had. But only 22 individuals have the name nikolas cruz and three use different spellings. Had. But only 22 individuals have the name nikolas cruz and three use different spellings. First and foremost, i doubt that that is where it would have ended if it were a 24re9s threa islamic terror. And secondly i think this speaks to the inadequacy ever da of da integration. He had a history of anger, deprerks killing d depreciatide depression, killing animals. Everyone is sayings warning signs were there. And cnn reported that since 2010, local Law Enforcement were called to his house 39 times. So you would hope that community knowledge, the 39 police calls, not to mention his ownership of an ar15 notwithstanding the absence of a National Gun Registry would nevertheless have enabled a database search that could have helped the fbi find this guy. We live in an age of apple, google, facebook, amazon. Maybe it is time for the fbi to recruit in Silicon Valley so that they can better manage data to keep us safe. Joining me now is tom fuentes, he spent 30 years in the fbi. What is the issue of 9 lashissu Data Integration . We are acknowledging that this is a catastrophic failure on the part of the fbi with regard to the january report that cruz was going to be violent and possibly do a school shooting. The rest of the information that was not passed on from its call center in West Virginia to the Miami Division of the fbi. So that we acknowledge is a major failure. The biggest one in this thing. But there are other failures as well, including the superintendent of schools acknowledging that he was expelled, they had threats from him, they put a message out to the faculty and staff of that school that if he shows up with a backpack, call immediately. So they knew he was dangerous. They expel him and basically kick the can down the road. The police are at that residence 39 times with reports of a mentally ill person and violence against elderly people and the like. And, you know, wasnt kept under any kind of watch or surveillance or check then about whether he had guns or not. So yes the fbi had a major failure, but so did everybody else, you know. The number of things that all contributed to him being able to still be at large with guns on the day of the shooting. As far as the databases, one of the concerns youre right, since 9 11, everything has been done to try to link databases. So that you dont have stove pipe information systems. But where the difficulty is, is versus Civil Liberties. Youve seen where social Media Companies do not want to be cooperative with the authority, they want to protect the privacy of the people that contribute to their sites. You saw apples complete lack of cooperation following the zuckerbesan bernardino murders where 14 people are killed and they dont want to let the fbi crack that persons phone. Eventually they were able to. And this is a person who is dead. You know, no longer should have been worrying about his civil rights. So we do have this protection of databases and keeping them stove piped on one hand, especially when it concerns mental illness, lack of being able to tell patient information. For example, with him, if he had living parents, they would not be able to know the status of his medical or Mental Health treatment under hipaa laws. He is an adult. The medical authorities were under no position to tell anybody whether he is on medication, whether he is a danger to the community. They are not even allowed in florida to ask if he has guns. So you have a number of situations that all form the perfect storm in this particular case. I get your point that it was more than just the fbi that seems to have dropped its guard. Rick scott nevertheless is calling for in fact put it up on the screen for Christopher Wray to be given the boot, quote, we constantly promote see something Say Something and a courageous person did just that to the fbi. The fbi failed to kt a. See something Say Something is an incredibly important tool and people must have confidence in the follow gsh throuthrough fr enforcement. The fine director needs tfbi di resign. An apology wont bring anyone back to life. Do you think wray should resign . I dont think he will and i think at this point it may be premature that he should. The last thing the fbi needs at this moment is a vacuum created at the leadership level of the director. So i think that we need the detailed study, what broke down in this system with the call center that was established to prevent this kind of thing from happening. You know, is there a person at fault, was the system, was the technology, all of the above to see exactly. And then, you know, another proposal i would make is that we have to establish maybe similar to the joint Terrorism Task forces, but basically an Information Fusion Center in each of the divisions of the fbi or in each of the states so that a call goes to a group of people in a center which are analyzing this type of issue. And this is what happens here. You dont have if you dont have an allegiance to a terrorist organization that is widely known, if you dont have someones part of a bank robbery crew, if you dont have those kind of indicators, it may not be that it just goes to the fbi. Maybe it should be run by department of homeland security, set up a system where a number of professionals, whether Law Enforcement, Mental Health officials, school officials, state and local officials Work Together to try to identify this kind of person so we can try to put a stop to this perpetual group of School Shootings among other things. But it is not just to protect the schools. We have mall shootings, theater shootings. You know, outside a rock concert shootings. So we have to establish a system where troubled or individuals like this with Mental Health issues, we know they have a gun, we can try to get those guns taken away from this kind of person. Not everybody at large, but this person. And i think right now there is so much and it runs in to conflict for the fbi or the police to run into people that say, well, you shouldnt have a right to that information. You shouldnt this person has Civil Liberties too. I get it. Tom fuentes, thank you so much. Inciteful comments. We appreciate it. Let us see what youre saying on twitter and facebook. You have changed, if fbi had found him, no prosecutor had grounds to charge him. Why are you doing this . You are inkritding peopcra inc. I havent changed at all. I know if i express an interest in a particular type ever seof cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. Ever of cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. Ver of cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. Er of cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. R of cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. Of cereal, that i am dogged with ads from algorithms about that and related cereals. And the fame youre youre of integration of data is hinder, the ability to keep our kids safe. Look at all of that somehow out there in in ethernet about this guy. But it is not pulled together. Do i have to review that what did the post say . There were 22 guys with this name. And 39 times the police had been to his house. Now, why cant some tech democrattechno geek in Silicon Valley look for the people who have this name and say holy crap, here is one of the guys named nikolas cruz and police have been to his house 39 times. And i know there is a whole issue about a National Gun Registry, but why not at the same tile be able to say, oh, here is a guy who bought a pretty significant weapon to whom the police have gone to his house 39 times who also is of the name of the person who went on youtube and said im going to be a professional shooter. You know, how are we not managing all that together . If youre trying to tell me cereal, they would have put it together. We should be able to use the same technology to find the next shooter. Is that so controversial . Still to come, the new yorker magazine alleges not just that the president had an affair with a playmate, but the National Enquirer had the story and suppressed it and teachers are already heros for just their commitment to their profession, but this week in parkland, a teacher and two coaches died in the line of duty protecting their kids. Here is one students tribute. He will still forever be my hero. 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It could save your life. Cigna. Together, all the way. Historically few careers have held a promise of having such a profound impact on the lives of others as teaching, it has long youth waitoutweighed t sides. Parents are demanding, requirements confounding. But until recently you wouldnt think of teaching as a dangerous career choice. That has changed. In 2017, there were 48 School Shootings, already this year there have been eight. A teacher and two members of the Athletic Department were killed on wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in parkla parkland, florida. Aaron feis, its assistant football coach and security guard. On wednesday he drove a Freshman Student away from the building, then came back, was shot many times while shielding three students from bullets. Scott beigel, 35, taught geography and was the schools crosscountry coach. On wednesday he opened the door for students who were running from the shooter as he tried to lock the door, the gunman shot him dead. Another victim, chris hixon, 49, the schools wrestling coach who was Athletic Director of the year last year. Teachers and coach, they dont sign up to be in the line of fire. Joining me now, randy wine democratic garden, president of the American Federation of teachers. How has this changed the profession . Look, its more than its changed the profession. Children need to be valued more than guns. When is enough enough and what is happening now is we cant have look, im a religious person. I believe in thoughts and prayers. But it is time for action against gun violence. The ar15 was used in newtown. In las vegas. In san bernardino. And now here. And so, yes, teachers never signed up for this. I hope nobody is starting to think that we should be arming teachers. We are not policemen. We need to have safe environments, but that starts now with protecting people against gun violence. And if australia could figure out how to do this after 1996, the United States of america can figure out how to do this. And that is what teachers all across the country are doing right now, were crying for our stunts, we students, but we are demanding not just Mental Health resources, but we are demanding action against gun violence. Safe gun measures. I read today a study that said that lockdown drills are being conducted in 94. 6 of american schools. The question for randi, are teachers i understand all the points you made and i agree. But are teachers being sufficiently trained given the current climate . You know something, im not all that sure that you can be sufficiently trained against an ar15 with this kind of carnage in five minutes. I dont know how that could be sufficiently trainable. Our teachers all around the country getting training in active shooting, in code reds, code blues, code violets . Absolutely. Did that happen in this School District . Absolutely it did. Should the fbi have figured out and done something about that tip . Absolutely. Could we do better . Absolutely. Be but there is an issue that were not talking about. One is of course we have to have more Mental Health and more guidance facilities and more of that. But we have to actually get to a root cause here. The same gun was used in newtown. The same gun was used here. People are devastated. People are you know, this is a Close Knit Community as was newtown. In fact we have a leader from newtown coming to broward today with us. But we need more than training. We need to deal with gun violence. In the new yorker, there was an airline thrticle that i paraphrase. Every country has mentally ill and potentially violence people. Only we arm them. Exactly right. And look, these 17 people, may their memories be for a blessing. We need to say their names. We need hug, we need to embrace, we need come together as communities. But when is enough enough. There are sensible gun violence actions we can take, australia did it. We can do that here. New york, connecticut did it after newtown. It is ridiculous that it is easier to get an ar15 in florida than a hand gun. We need to use this in the memory of these children whose lives have been snuffed out, of these three teachers whose lives have been snuffed out. We need to actually take action to make childrens lives more valuable than guns. Randi, thank you. Appreciate you being here. Thank you. Check in on your twitter and facebook comments. Do i have time for one . People are saying arm and train teachers, but schools cant afford textbooks. Yeah, i dont know that that is the answer to put more weaponry in a dangerous situation. Up next, by the way im not some antigun nut. 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For a limited time, get 4 lines for just thirtyfive bucks per line, with no extra charges. Its showtime all on americas best unlimited network, tmobile. On friday afternoon i tweeted only on a day when the morning story was about playboy play mate of the year would donald trump be happy to see an afternoon report of 13 russians being indicted. There was this headline, donald trump, a playboy model and a system for concealing infidelity. It details trumps alleged affair with Karen Mcdougal in the early years of his marriage to melania trump. It also exposes the elaborate coverup system that kept many such tales out of the public eye. Mcdougal sold her story only to have it never see the light of day, a common tactic called catch and kill. Joining me now to discuss, mark geragos. How common catch and kill as a strategy among lawyers . Well, it is fairly common tragedstranl trage tragedy strategy. The story getting killed meaning it doesnt run or in this case where they specifically sayy st. The story getting killed meaning it doesnt run or in this case where they specifically say well give you a wellness column, well pay you for this, we have your rights. The more common kind of celebrity catch and kill is where if there is a story that there is a tradeoff so to speak. So i have a story about one client and they go to the pr person or publicist and say give me something juicier and ill kill this story. That has been going on for decades. Ive seen that in hollywood repeatedly over the years. And that is something that is kind of the currency of hollywood. That sounds more like blackmail, that ive got something on you, but let us take a good picture of you and put it on our cover so we can sell issues and well forget about it. There is a certain amount of or a dance around, you know, terms that you and i might find distasteful. But that is basically how it works. I mean, there is kind of, you know, you scratch my back, ill scratch your. This idea that ill give you something else. I cant tell you how many times ive had high profile clients who have been threatened with an exposure of something or of one case in fact i think if you saw in the early stages of the weinstein investigation, you saw a lot of what used to happen. There would be a lawyer special ops going after if a story was going to break to kind of give somebody a forearm shiver so that they wouldnt publish the story. And that is kind of the full frontal ops special ops approach. But one of the other techniques that is usually used is to say okay, ill give you this story, maybe even when another client, which obviously in a lawyers case is unethical, if you dont or if you kill this other story. Quick political question more than a legal question. We could covering up your handsome image with all of these shots of the playboy playmate as im sure you can understand, mark. Does this hurt him with the base . Given the choice between Karen Mcdougal and me. But when these images get shown, i have this vision of some prototypical trump voter who is saying hell, yeah, but the issue for trump is whether those elongated red ties get thrown out of the second story of the white house. Well, you know, i have said youve kind of channelled one of my expressions for the last two days since this story came out. I said this does him absolutely no harm in the public. It is obviously a different story when it comes to melania. But as far as his voters and as far as the public, they couldnt be happy about this. I mean, they think, boy, this guy has game. Hes out there, he has playboy models, this model wife. This does him absolutely no harm with the base. And the evangelicals turn a blind eye to it and they say as long as he keeps putting people on the court that are in line with our thinking, you know, so be it. Mark geragos, thank you as always. Always appreciate your sentiments. Good to see you. Thank you. Still to come, your best and worst tweets and facebook comments. Are you kidding . Im sure he is thrilled at pictures of this beautiful woman are all over. Yeah, i have this image put that camera back on me for a second. I have this image of him sitting there with a clicker and it is like if melania is not in the room, he is watching the coverage like we just showed. She walks in and its like bing, change the channel and go over to shark week. The results on the survey that you have been voting on, do you believe more indictments are still to come from special counsel Robert Mueller . That . Just a moment. My husband is probably going to think im crazy. He thinks im going to see my sister sometimes the confidence to be spontaneous starts with financial stability. Once i heard it i was shocked. I just thought, i have to go get it its our tree see how a personalized Financial Strategy and access to j. P. 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So if he can repopulate the federal bench in our image during the course of four or eight years, whether hes with a playboy play mate of the year, that thats on him and milana. My heart goes out to first laid yes and son. No amount of money or privilege lifestyle is fair compensation for the continued humiliation says alice. I hope youre not saying thats the medias fault n this particular case, i think the media is just reporting that which is transpiring. One more if we have time for it. Do i . I think i do. What do you got . The fact that were still in the dark as far as Mueller Investigation is impressive. It shows that there is a streamline focus to speak through outside influences. Yeah. Amazing. I mean, up until the moment that Rod Rosenstein spoke yesterday, nobody knew what was coming. That lets us know were really in the dark. Catch us online. Ill see you next week. 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