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 make sure the school was protected, to make sure you were keeping an eye on him. Your deputy at the school failed. I dont see how you can sit there and claim amazing leadership. Jake, on 16 of those cases, our deputies did everything right. Our deputies have done amazing things. Weve taken this the five years ive been sheriff, weve taken the Broward Countys sheriffs to a new level. Im working with the bravest people ive ever met. At this point one person didnt do what he should have done. Its horrific. The victims here, the families, i pray for them every night. It makes me sick to my stomach that we had a deputy that didnt go in. Because i know if i was there, if i was on that wall, i would have been the first in along with so many other people. There are a lot of people, sir, who think there were a lot of mistakes other than that one deputy. Let me ask you something else. A lot of people in the community have noted that the Broward County school board entered into an agreement to pursue the least punitive means of discipline against students. This new policy included warnings, confrontations with parents instead of arresting students for crimes. Were there not incidents committed by this shooter as a student, had this new policy not been in place, that otherwise he would have been arrested for and not able to legally buy a gun . What youre referring to is the Promise Program, and its giving the school the school has the ability, under certain circumstances, not to call the police, not to get the Police Involved on misdemeanor offenses and take care of it within the school. Its an excellent program. Its helping many, many people. What this program does is not put a person at 14, 15, 16 years old into the criminal Justice System so they can what if he does something violent to a student . What if he takes bullets to school . What if he takes knives to school . What if he threatens the lives of fellow students . Then he goes to jail. Thats not what happened with this shooter. Youre telling me that the shooter took knives to school or bullets to school . Yeah. And police knew about it . I dont know if police knew about it. I know the agreement you entered into with the school allowed the school to give this kid excuse after excuse after excuse, while obviously not for bullets, not for guns, not for knives, not for felonies, not for anything like that. These are infractions within the school, small amounts of marijuana, some misdemeanors. Youre absolutely exacerbating it. Their teachers at the school had been told, if you see cruz come on school with a backpack, let me know. Does that not indicate that there is something seriously awry with the Promise Program if these teachers are being told, watch out for this kid, and you dont know about it . We dont know that has anything to do with the Promise Program. I didnt hear about this until after the fact. I have heard about this information about a week ago. I do know about it. I dont know who the teacher was. It has not been corroborated but it has nothing to do with the Promise Program. I cant, nor can any Broward County deputy, react on something you dont know about it. There is no malfeasance if you dont know about something. He asked the question at the town hall of you, so you can find it if you want. Representative hager asked the governor to remove you from service. He said, quote, an investigation by sheriff israel into the unfathomable inaction of these deputies will do nothing to before he back the 17 victims. The sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his community and chose to ignore it. Will you resign . I will not resign. He knows nothing about me. I wrote back to the governor and told him of the mistakes hager made in his letter. It was a shameful letter that had no facts, and of course i wont resign. Let me bring in republican Florida State representative bill hager who authored the letter the sheriff was making reference to, and in the letter you were calling for the governor to remove the Broward County sheriff steve israel. Good to see you. So make your case on why the governor should be exercising, in your letter you say the constitutional right, to remove him because of neglect of duty and incompetence. Fred, first of all, good afternoon and good to be with you. In my letter i cite three foundations, three groundings for my proposal that the governor remove the sheriff. Those are as follows. Number one, the deputy embedded within the school at the time of the shooting, instead of confronting the killer, instead of carrying out his obligations and responsibilities in the most pivotal of times, apparently cowered and did not confront the killer. Number two, by the Coral SpringsPolice Department said three deputies shortly after the killers were physically present at the school and were behind their vehicles with pistols drawn instead of moving immediately into the school. Third, the Third Foundation again, all of this is in the release and grounded in the release, grounded in reports, is the 23 calls that have come into the Sheriffs Office, most disturbly. Including late last year of 2017, the sheriff sum rooizmisu follows, that he was the school shooter. In my opinion, thats ground for the governor to consider removal. In the interview that jake tapper did with hager. He is disputing there were three other Broward County sheriffs there. To his knowledge there was one. He also disputes that the majority of the calls made by the shooter, the suspect, that his officers carried that out in an amazing and he used the word amazing way. Have you heard from the governor responding to your letter requesting the removal of mr. Israel . No, i only authored it in the last 24 hours. And let me also ask, you know that only 74 of your office asked for the same thing. The florida constitution gives you, the governor, the power to suspend a sheriff for malfeasance, and the request is being made that the governor immediately recognized this power and suspended this sheriff. Would that be enough for you if hes not removed, suspension instead . Im actually a signatory to that letter as well, and one of those 74 signatories, and pleased to be when i say pleased to be, i mean given the horrific set of circumstances. I would be supportive of the sheriff stepping aside so we can get an objective analysis of all the facts. I think its important, fred, right now the key operative facts are in control of the sheriff. Im talking about live video, live audio, electronic tracking, the time frames, radio transmissions, the directions given from the sheriff to his deputies. Its critical that get aired, get public and lets find out what the facts are. Im happy to help the facts unfold as they do, and im happy for the state of florida to take that action thats driven by the facts. It seems that there are a calamity of errors based on the reporting prior to this shooting, based on reports coming from fellow students, parents, teachers about this individual. What most troubles you about the sequence of events that either went unnoticed or dismissed or just simply not addressed . There was clearly a series of failures at multiple levels. Ive identified the Sheriffs Office probably the most grie grievous of facts. One of the things we know is we had a series of databased silos and that is dcf school board had a database, fbi had a database. None of these databases were integrated, as far as i could tell. We have communication among these silos. We need to identify things quickly as they surface, as soon as they arrive. And we need to have more awareness of these dangerous individuals walking among us. Right now students and teachers are facing an impossible task. Theyre returning to Stoneman Douglas high school for a voluntary staging today. The open house is under way. This ahead of classes resuming later on in the week. What are you sensing from people there . Reporter well, fred, for nearly an hour now people have been streaming back into Stoneman Douglas. For students this is the first time theyve been allowed back on campus since february 14. Many of them needing to recover. Robert runsie told us, today is the day to alleviate parents concerns, how there will be more Law Enforcement personnel. They want to accommodate to each individuals. There could even be opportunities for stress reduction examiner. There was one teacher and one student who shared their perspective with me at this time. Well be meeting monday and tuesday to try to plan how are we going to handle what were going to do with our classes. At this point academics will not be something well be touching on next week, its just trying to get everybody back in and make sure everybody is okay. Emotionalwise, kind of nervous and anxious, because i had friends that were in my class. Its going to be filled with lots of people. We mostly just want security cameras to feel safe. Students will be given new schedules. They will not be able to enter. Yet another adjustment that these students will have to make as they head fwook class on wednesday. And then, caylee, sheriff. What do you have . Governor rick scott called for the Florida Department to investigate, and the sheriff has responded saying, bso will fully cooperate with fdle as we believe in full transparency and accountability. An interesting statement to give in light of what we heard from the sheriff this morning with jake on state of the union and as frustration mounts for the wich wichlt. Parents and students make their way into that school ahead of classroom pre senting so we can get reacclimated to a terrible tragedy nearly two weeks ago now. President trump is in the middle of three. People call him a total phony. Plus, a testy phone call between mexico and the u. S. President in terms of who will pay for that border wall. Apparently that didnt go well. Now the president at the white house. Ive seen lots of homes helping new customers bundle and save big, but now its time to find my dream abode. Right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. Keep going. Stop. A little bit down. Stop. Back up again. Is this adequate sunlight for a Komodo Dragon . Yeah. Sure, i want that discount on Car Insurance just for owning a home, but im not compromising. Youre taking a shower . 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Trump wanting mexico to publicly state it would pay for the wall. Cnns Global Affairs correspondent elise lavitt joining us now. Put us in the room of that phone call. Reporter well, fred, this was kind of cementing the visit for the mexican president. The foreign minister was here a couple weeks ago meeting with Jared Kushner who is in charge of managing the relationship between u. S. And mexico, and they kind of laid out the possible agenda for the president to visit as early as next week. And this call was about two leaders trying to set the agenda and agree to everything for this visit, and this point of contention, president nietos desire for the u. S. To state that mexico would not pay for the wall, and President Trumps insistence that mexico would pay for the border wall has been and continues to be the point of contention. The u. S. And mexico is about to start a very important round of talks on the nafta agreement. They have a lot of other agreements that the two leaders were supposed to be inking if the president came. So this is really the issue that is causing a lot of tension between these two leaders. Oh, boy. To be a fly on the wall during that phone conversation. Or at least to see the transcript. Would we ever see the transcript of that conversation, elise . I mean, if it leaks out its possible that it was. You remember a transcript that leaked out between the two leaders earlier when president nieto was supposed to come right when President Trump took office. That caused the president of mexico to scrap his visit at that time. You remember when President Trump went there as a candidate in mexico. That border wall still a very real important issue. So this is really the thing thats causing the tension between these two men, President Trump insisting mexico pay for the wall and the mexicans saying, were not paying. 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President trump fighting back over the release of a memo over the russia investigation. It fights back against devin nunes memo being released earlier. Now President Trump not holding back about its contents or the author. All you do is you see this adam schiff, he has a meeting, he leaves the meeting and he calls up reporters and then all of a sudden they have news, and youre not supposed to do that. Its probably illegal to do it. Hell have a Committee Meeting and leak all sorts of information. Hes a bad guy. But certainly the memo was a nothing. Here with me now, cnn White House Correspondent boris sanchez. So boris, what exactly is in adam schiffs memo . What is detailed there . Reporter the schiff memo in some parts directly contradicts the republican counterpart, the nunes memo. For one is states that the steele dossier was not the sole basis for surveillance of carter page, that there was a lot more broad information that ultimately led to the fullblown russia investigation. 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