Years. Thats a big jump from a poll in october shortly after the mass shooting in las vegas, killing 58 people when 52 supported tighter gun laws. Meanwhile, there are new questions surfacing about the multiple red flags missed about the shooter along with the Immediate Response. Coral springs sources say that when their citys Police Officers arrived, they found not just the School Resource officer but three other Broward County sheriffs deputies who had not yet entered the school. Broward county sheriff scott israel denied those reports today on cnns state of the union, but pressure is mounting on the Florida Governor to take action. In just the last hour, cnn has learned that 74 republican members of the Florida House have asked governor rick sco scott to suspend sheriff israel. Sheriff israel is fighting back, defending his leadership and the department. Youve listed 23 incidents before the shooting involving the shooter and still nothing was done to keep guns out of his hands, to m
Around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. 12 days after the Florida School massacre, the white house is refusing to reveal exactly what President Trump will do to help combat gun violence. The president promising to turn grief into action and suggesting he personally would have acted to pro protect innocent students if hed been at the scene. This hour ill talk with jeff merkley about the president s rhetoric and gun policy and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, the president says he thinks he would have acted differently than some officers whose performance he calls disgusting. Thats right, wolf. President trump made this strange claim that he would have tried to rescue the students at the Parkland School shooting. The white house tried to clean up those comments but there was not much clarity on what kind of gun control measures the president would support, besides banning bump stocks w
A former Senior Intelligence officially spoke to today following the white house threat called todays announcement a watershed moment of the Trump Presidency and said, quote, if we have come to a point when we use the stripping of security clearances to deny free speech, we have crossed an american line and people need to act. He also said of the individuals named by the white house today who he knows well, quote, the danger here is that while traditionally former directors have not entered the political debate, they have been called nazis by this president and these guys feel there is a need to protect the community because trump has crossed lines that create danger. This former official added, quote, the standard for stripping clearances is the disclosure of classified information and none of these individuals have disclosed classified information. Theyre doing no more than exercising their First Amendment right to criticize a sitting president. Here to discuss the days developments,
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