Im eboni k williams. Leland we didnt scare you off last time. Im leland vittert. And president says the indictment of 13 russians, the democrats are saying this is far from over. Alison barber to break it down for us. Hi, leland, according to the indictment, this began in 2014. The white house is trying to point to this as evidence of no collusion. This began in 2014 under then president Barack Obamas nose, he didnt do a thing about it. Long before donald trump announced for president , this was going on. This makes it clear and concise that to the American People and proves correct, no collusion between donald trump, his campaign and russia. Deputy u. S. Attorney general Rod Rosenstein says this indictment does not accuse any americans of knowingly participating in the alleged crimes, but the indictment does claim that the russians wanted to help the Trump Campaign. It says in part, defendants posted derogatory information about a number of candidates and by early to mid 2016 defendants operations included supporting the president ial campaign of then candidate donald j. Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton. In a statement. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says theres more work to be done and imperative that the investigation be allowed to follow the facts. The American People deserve to know the full extent of russias interference in the election and the president refuse toss enact sanctions against russia as required by congress. And the individuals named in the indictment are based in russia, because of that the chances of a trial are slim. Its unlikely that they could extradite them to the u. S. They havent communicateed with russia about that, but will follow the process of seeking cooperation in extradition. Leland i dont think that rosenstein is waiting for the phone to ring from the russians. And the fallout. Eboni has that. Eboni and a columnist, and in the latest piece for the hills, you layout what we know. What are some things we know for the allegations, as you say theyre fascinating, telling how the russians tended to thwart the campaign and ted cruz, and marco rubio, and Hillary Clinton. I want a quote from the Attorney Generals Office rosenstein. He says there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. Then, there is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election. Now, a lot of people are going to hear that and say that sounds like vindication on the trump collusion issue. Is it . Not in my opinion. Its an important point, but i dont think its the fullblown exoneration that the president s supporters claim. To me the important words in the quote that you just read is, in this indictment. This is part after larger probe. This is a piece of the jigsaw. Weve already seen People Associated with the president plead guilty as part of the broader investigation. So its an important point, but its not the whole picture. Eboni now, you talked about the president s supporters and vindication being, of course, top of mind for them. They take criticism how long this investigation is taking. Were over a year out from this and no collusion at this point. In your experience how long can these investigations take to offer up proof of that type of collusion . They can take a very long time. We have no exact parallel for this probe, but Robert Mueller has successfully kept the details of his investigation out of the public eye until he wants to reveal them. And a side effect of that is that we dont really know at what stage hes at in this whole probe. Lawyers for the president have suggested it would be wrapped up by thanksgiving or by christmas of last year. That clearly hasnt happened. Eboni sure. Lets talk optics, we saw a hasty press conference featuring Rod Rosenstein speaking on above of the doj. Separate from bob mueller and his investigation. And do you think hes trying to make it an apolitical statement and people see rosenstein, some people do, having credibility issues, especially in light of the nunes memo. I think its interesting that the Deputy Attorney general made that public appearance. He seemed simply be being there physically tying himself to that indictment. Obviously, hes been under fire from the president. To me, thats an assertion of independence rather than a display of bias, but different people see everything in this probe through different prisms. Eboni do you think the president has made a mistake since the beginning of this probe, describing it as a hoax, being fairly reluctant to even acknowledge any russian interference whatsoever and tying the russian interference and collusion issue as one in the same when you see here the doj making these two separate issues . Yes, and thats the big news from the announcement and this isnt a particularly apolitical, we heard mcmasters talking about the fact that this provides incontrovertible evidence of russian meddling. A distinct issue, a r separate issue. Eboni very much so. This makes it problematic to try to sustain the offense that the president has mounted that this is all a hoax. Eboni i think we can expect much, much more around the complete fallout politically and even legally. Thank you so much. Leland President Trump in palm beach this weekend. When he landed last night, he went south to meet with those wounded in this weeks shooting. Also spent some time with the police who raced to the scene. More on that in just a minute. Meantime, the vicepresident in dallas for a political event talking about the tragedy in florida. As your vicepresident , let me assure you, we are continuing to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear in support of Broward County and the Sheriffs Office and in support of this investigation. We will get to the bottom of what happened here. And as we speak, the Justice Department is already working with agencies across our government to study the intersection of Mental Health and criminality. Leland and there are so many questions about the investigation and the clues that were missed. Steve harrigan with the latest from parkland, florida. Hi, steve. Leland, the funerals have begun here in parkland, one after the other, two yesterday, two more tomorrow. And along with the mourning and anguish and grieving, anger is coming in as well. People are saying red flags were is m missed about this suspected killer and the police visited 36 times, averages out once every two months and for violent behavior. The biggest red flag, the fbi failed to follow up on a tip from the call hotline, someone who knew the shooter well, that he was disturbed, had a gun and he was afraid the killer would attack the school. Thats exactly what happened just six weeks later. We got a look at the 57, 130pound killer in court. The suspected killer, he is likely to plead guilty, this according to his public defender, the hope is to try to avoid the Death Penalty, something floridas attorney general said the state will certainly be seeking. As far as the building behind me, the three Story Building where the ninth graders were where most of the shooting took place. And florida lawmakers say that building will be diminished and rebuilt and a lot of students say they can never enter that building again. Throughout the day weve seen people go in there escorted by police, getting their cars, vehicles, belongings out of the crime scene. The road itself might be open for traffic sometime this afternoon. Back to you. Leland trying to get things back to normal as quickly as possible with an investigation ongoing. Steve harrigan, parkland, florida there. Last night the president was nearby that scene. President trump went from air force one right to the pompano beach, Florida Hospital where so many of the shooting victims were taken. He met with doctors, nurses, police and First Responders and he said their response to this was near record setting and also spent time with some of the victims. More from kevin corke on what the president had to say there and also a little about the president s time with Law Enforcement at the half hour. Meantime, we bring in steve pomerantz, former fbi director to talk about this. Steve harrigan, he does not use words lightly in my experience. He talked about a real sense of anger. 36 times the Broward County police went to the home of nikolas cruz, the fbi, your former organization, with a call to the tipline, what this guy was going to do. How big of a miss was in . Big miss. This is your Worst Nightmare come true. Lawmakers caricatured very wrongly, but every Law Enforcement do what they want to do. It says on the side of many police cars, to serve and protect, and to miss like this is a horrible, terrible tragedy. Leland its one thing to miss when you show up at a guys house, you realize this guy is a weird kid, he may do things that people find unsettling, but to go from that to School Shooting is a big deal. If this holds true, this was a call to the fbi tip line saying, this guy is going to carry out a School Shooting, and its not like the fbi followed up on it and then decided, gee, theres nothing to charge him with. Right. Leland they didnt even pick up the phone. If the reporting of what were hearing is true, they be your characterization would be accurate and again, thats just the worst possible outcome not to follow through. Leland rick scott called for the fbi director to resign over this. Is that the right answer . Or is that knee jerk . You know, i have to leave that to others. I dont know if thats the right answer. Certainly, there has to be an extraordinarily thorough inquiry as to what happened. Why did, again, if what were hearing accurate, and people if it turns out to be human error, it appears thats the way its going to turn out, people have to be held accountable, theres always a question how far up the line is that accountability, i dont think thats for me to say. We dont hear what weve heard in the past when the fbi missed things, the boston bombers or fort hood shooter and weve heard the suspect being taken down. President obama once said, look, this is really hard stuff. You dont hear that defense right now. You hear almost sort of mocking of the bureau. Take a listen to turk tucker carlson. At least we knew what the federal agents were doing recently, they have been chasing down bad facebook trolls, if they would have been told to cruz was talking at that putin. Neil theres an irony there that the fbi missed a massive intelligence operation from 2014 to 2016 to interfere in the u. S. Election and russian agents coming into the United States to help carry it out. I think we need to know a lot more before we make that kind of conclusion that they missed, that they missed all that. Leland theres no evidence that they knew about it or tried to stop it. The successes that the fbi has every day in all of these kinds of stopping these kinds of intelligence operations, stopping terrorist attacks and stopping criminals is often overlooked. I dont know i wonder about that, a common talking point, our successes are always silent. But really . Because often times the successes are paraded out and theres press conferences with indictments and theres and you just said the key word, leland. If there are arrests and indictment, yes. But many times these kinds of things are stopped, especially in the Counter Intelligence field, well short of arrests and indictments. For example, youve heard the term png, persona nongrata, when espionage agents are sent back, kicked out of the country based on fbi investigations. So, theres truth on both sides of this. Leland well, and given how much heat the bureau is taking, you wonder if theyll make more of their successes public in the coming weeks and months if they can. Steve, always good to see you, thank you, sir. Eboni. Eboni absolutely. Well have much, much more on the response to the florida School Shooting coming up tomorrow on sunday morning futures. Maria bartimomo has an interview with Jeff Sessions and Chris Wallace talking about gun violence. Check your local listings for time and channel. Tomorrow an on media buzz, howie kirtz, and he talks with Ari Fleischer how the white house deals with tragedies like this shooting. Leland and throughout the day well be remembering the 17 members of the parkland shooting who as Steve Harrigan said are beginning to be laid to rest. 14yearold alyssa alhadeff, the Parkland Soccer Club had a message, well quote for it. Live for aliyssalyssa, be her v and breathe for her, alyssa loved you all forever. Eboni 35yearold geography teacher scott beigel tried to save his students. When shots began to ring out, beigel unlocked the door to let children inside for shelter. One of the children he saved said, quote, i thought he was behind me, he wasnt. When he opened the door, he had to relock it so we could stay safe, but he didnt get a chance to. Leland 14yearold martin is remembered by his older brother miguel as quote, a funny kid, outgoing and sometimes quiet. He was sweet and caring and loved by all of his family. Most of all, he was my baby brother, my family and i have no words to describe the event. All my prayers to the lost ones. Eboni 17yearold senior nicholas had earned a scholarship to join the university of Indianapolis Swim Team in the fall. His Aquatics Team said he was nicknamed swim daddy. And nicholas took his life and his hands and he chiseled and molded his life. Leland its difficult to get through this and probably difficult at home to watch sometimes as we go through each of the pictures. Pretty easy sometimes to talk about the perpetrator, what was missed. This is the hard part and its fitting and proper, i think, that we spend the time to do this, to show who these people are, to show the horrificness of this crime, but also at the same time, it provides all of us a sense of really what this loss is for so many families. Eboni 100 leland and honor them as people and their story. I agree it gets lost as we cover the shooter and facts and Law Enforcement organizations involved here that these were people, these were peoples children. These were peoples children, husbands, fathers and sons and their stories have to be told. Leland and we will continue to tell them throughout the day here as we look at both sides of this story. Coming up, also on the program, travelling west on a Southern California highway hurdles into an eastern lane headon into traffic. Never ends well. Plus, the fight over immigration in congress. Congressmen from both sides of the aisle to find out why no deal has been hashed out so far. Inaction in washington, imagine that. And general kelly resetting the button how white house employees are vetted after the porter abuse allegations. So is the white house standing by their chief of staff. John kelly has done a remarkable job as chief of staff for president of the United States. 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