Part of a crime. You cant commit a crime or at least most crimes without the knowing part. Say what you will about him. He has elevated himself to this position in the doj. He is not a bad attorney. He said not knowingly. Rachel i hope we can put up some of the crazy adds so stupid. Facebook. The Vice President of ads has said listen, based on the type of ads. More importantly when they were put up he doesnt think that the russians were trying to raskt the outcome of the tweet. Griff the president was pointing to these tweets. And this is what rob goldman, the head of ads for facebook says. The majority of the russian ad spend happened after the election. We shared that fact but a few outlets have covered it because it doesnt align with the main media narrative of trump and the election. Very telling. He continues most of the russian meddle egg involves their affect. I have seen all of the russian ads. Can i say very definitively that swaying the election was not the main goal. President trump retweeting these tweets saying hard to ignore what facebooks own ad guy is saying. Except he is getting attacked. Viciously by the way. For saying that. But, yeah. Absolutely. If most of the ads were after the election. How the heck can you say that it was trying to sway the election . Todd there is a common theme that we are going to try to communicate over the course of the next four hours. It is the russians were trying to attack democracy. That needs to be your number one take away today. Not that he was trying that russians were trying to put trump in the white house. It is clear that they were trying to attack democracy. And, folks, they still are. Thats what the president is trying to point out, yet, the Mainstream Media tips to attack him andk off the process. This is an attack on democracy that we need to be village lengths about. The president realizes that i dont understand why the Mainstream Media doesnt. Griff we should apologize if we started your morning with. Email us at friends foxnews. Com. And let us know what you think of it. Rachel we begin with a fox news alert. 66 people are dead after an iranian commercial plane crashed into a mountain overnight. Airlines making announcement just a short time ago, flight 3704 was on its way to yasuj to tehran. Bad weather was reported in the area. And more breaking news. A case like this is made for the Death Penalty. That bold statement coming from the prosecutor in charge of trying the confessed teen killer who gunned down 17 people in a florida high school. A new report now revealing just 17 months ago a state agency investigated the 19yearold nikolas cruz after he posted videos to snapchat, cutting himself and saying he wanted to buy a gun. Our own rob schmitt is live in park land, florida. And he will give us more details at 6 30. Turning to extreme weather. Mother nature just seeing 7 and a half inches of snow in the northeast. Thswift moving system causing trouble by ground and air with dozens of flights reportedly delayed or canceled this morning. But warmer weather is expected to melt away most of the mess by the end of the weekend. The u. S. A. Mens hockey coach is not a believer in miracles today. Tony skipping a hand shake with russias head coach after 40 blow out. He seemed furious that his russian counterpart left in his best players late in the game. Despite that loss the u. S. Claiming a silver in the mens skiing slope style. Nic againer coming in clutch during his final run. The United States currently sitting in fifth place in the medal count with 10. Norway leads with 25. And those are your headlines. Todd you dont do that thing where there is two minutes left in the game. Power play. Russia puts all its best players. Especially in the spirit of the olympic games. Thats a nono. You dont do that. Rachel comment on that. Griff i just say go america. I havent been watching it at all. We have to take the russians on. Todd protest against White Nationalists somehow turns into a rally against cops. [chanting hey cops, hey fascists get the [bleep] off our campus] todd that escalated quickly. Democrats confident they are going to Retake Congress. Not so fast. Brand new poll numbers that may put dems on the edge. Thats next you can go your own way go your own way. Todd welcom griff welcome back. Nancy pelosi and the democrats seem confident they will Retake Congress in 2018. I think every poll now is double digit that people would vote for democrat over republican as, shall we say, inclined to support democrats. Griff not so fast, nancy. A recent 2018 generic ballot has voters preferring the g. O. P. Over democrats 39 to 8 . What does this mean for 2018 . Here to break it down is john mclaughlin, john, tell me, the dems thought they had the advantage, now this poll changes things. The president s leadership. Whats going on is 40 of the americans think the country is headed in the right direction. Under obama we hit that number in the last term. The president numbers going up his approval numbers in the 040s. Americans think the economy is going to get better 5632. Thats thanks to President Trump. The bad part thats holding us down is in our latest poll in february, we had mclaughlin online. Com the g. O. P. Approval ratings only 37 . Its 58 disapprove. We got to get congress to vote. Whats happening now is the democrats are being exposed. They complained about the president s state of the union, which, if you watched it, out of the 46 Million People that watched it, 75 approved. But you had democrats sitting on their hands, couldnt even clap for policemen, marines. They basically walked out on the president. And they were exposed. They were exposed in the government shutdown. Now we have got to get Republican Leadership in the house and senate to make them votes on things like work fair. Even on term limits. Make them vote on the things that the president is proposing. Griff you say that President Trump has really been the factor, its changed the advantage over to the republicans. Let me ask you, Mitch Mcconnell, leader of the senate, saying that he expects the republicans to lose seats, the New York Times headline wants you to believe that they could even lose the senate. We shouldnt, because i tell you what, and senator mcconnell when he ran Senate Campaign was very good at this. When we gained seats. I will tell you what, we only have 8 seats up out of the 34. The democrats are on the line and 10 of the democrats are running in seats in the senate. That donald trump carried those states. Four of those states were carried double digits. So we ought to be able to gain seats like north dakota. Missouri, indiana, west virginia. Were going to put the democrats. We have got to put them on defense. We have got to go after them and make them vote. Senator mcconnell has to make those senators vote on popular issues so the voters can see what their choice is in november. We should not lose seats in the senate. The house will be tougher to hold, but we should be able to hold the house, too. Griff john, lets talk very quickly because we are almost out of time. Independents in the latest poll 25 g. O. P. 26 democrat. 49 undecided. What do you make of the independents where they are right now. And is pelosi a factor that counts against the democrats in the independent column . Well, there is two things. One is the mid terms we get a lower turnout. You only get between 80 and 90 people come out. Democrats seem more fired up. We have to get the trump voters. When i was part of the Trump Campaign, President Trump we got 9 million more voters in 2016 than 2012. He was the reason he brought them out. We have to get the trump voters back out. The second thing is the independents, we have got to turn them around. Why its so important senator mcconnell and leader ryan get the democrats to vote on things that independents agree with you us on. Griff you were a polster for President Trump. Where is he . Where is he . Griff where is he on this . He is pushing his agenda on infrastructure. Hes pushing his agenda on immigration. Those are majority popular things. The house and senate need to vote on it. Griff silent trump voters in 2016, going to see them in 2018 . If they get a choice to see their votes matter to get those passed they will be out. Griff thank you for your time. Thanks, griff. Griff are you ready for the moment when an attack happens, a former mma fighter and green beret has a message for america. And a protest against White Nationalists on campus somehow turns into a rally against cops. One student from that school is here next. 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Iraq now revealing what they will do with 1500 wives and children of isis fighters after the defeat of the terror group. Kids three and under will remain with their mothers in detention facilities, ages 4 to 14 will be in orphanages until they can be given to their home countries. And the u. S. Navy not backing down patrols in the South China Sea regardless of chinas newly built islands in the region. Lieutenant commander tim hawkins telling the Associated Press sailors will keep monitoring trade and security saying International Law has allowed them to operate in those strategic waters for the past 70 years. Rachel protesters at the university of tennessee opposition to campus. Quickly devolved into antipolice rhetoric. [chanting] hey cops, hey fascists get the [bleep] off our campus hey cops, hey fascists get the [bleep] off our campus griff why did they turn so quickly on those people there. Correspondent for campus reform. Org and student at the university of tennessee. What happened that really dissolved intdid i devolved ints quickly. Thank you for having me. I do not agree with what this organization stands for. I do not agree with what matthew had to say. Our chancellor at the university of tennessee in knoxville did an excellent job. She understood this group had a right to speak on a public university. However she took the measures necessary to bring in Law Enforcement officers to protect students as well as everyone on campus. Griff so election election ilexie, let me backup. He has been sympathetic to the views of adolf hitler and this Group Protesting obviously does not want that on their campus. What isnt clear is while the group was chanting and i watched all the video against an early part of the evening against nazis and fascists, it eventually turned into just a rally against cops who play no part in the story except for the fact that they are there to protect the groups First Amendment rights. Yes. So over at campus reform at leadership institutes campus reform, we have to deal with these cases a lot. We have to deal with left leaning students who dont understand why cops are on campus. Cops are on campus to protect students because, unfortunately, we use phrases like White Supremacy and neo nazi to describe people like this presidency who arent White Supremacists and who arent nazis so students. The phrase is being watered down. So whenever an what white supremacist or nazi comes on campus we have to have Law Enforcement officers to protect students because they dont know what a white supremacist is. Rachel such an excellent point, lexie we are throwing that word around. It is getting diluted. A lot of students dont know what that is. We saw protesters were saying those terrible things about our cops who are there to protect us. What are they were they a small minority or were there other campus students there that were supporting the Police Officers while they were there protecting them . Well, what you tend to see in a lot of media, what you tend to see on social media, on other news organizations are the students who are trying to protest this organization and who are trying to protest these cops now. So on campus, these are the stories that you are going to hear about mostly. You are going to hear about the students who talk about how cops these Police Officers are Walking Around on their campus in riot gear and appreciating students from stepping off the sidewalk. What they dont understand is wha Law Enforcement is doing that for their protection there are students upset that this organization was escorted into the building. But, in reality, thats for student protection. Students are the top priority at that university. And, yes, this group is important because they are citizens and Law Enforcement is there to protect them as well. But students are getting upset that they had Police Officers on their campus in riot gear. In reality they needed that to protect everyone involved. Griff great point. We will see the officers and how the officers are protecting the nazis on campus. Todd talk about undermining your message. Lexie thank you so much. That was amazing insight this morning and have a great day. Attorney general Jeff Sessions speaking out about recusing himself from the doj russia probe. Does he think he should have . Thats coming up. Rachel plus a florida teacher posts about gun violence is going viral after the School Shooting. Her message that every parent should hear coming up. And the nx hybrid with a class beating 31 mpg combined estimate. Lease the 2018 nx 300 for 339 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Teddys a pitmaster. 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Kids safelite repair, safelite replace todd fox news alert right now. A case like this is made for the Death Penalty. That bold statement coming from the prosecutor, trying the teen who killed 17 people in a florida high school. Griff now a new bombshell report reveals the state knew about the shooters desire to buy a gun two years ago. Rachel rob schmitt is live in parkland with the new details. Thanks for joining us. Rob good morning. And better look at this disturbed young man this morning and yet another missed warning sign in this case. And there have been quite a few at this point. In 2016 nikolas cruz posted a video on snapchat that showed him cutting himself and it also stated that he wanted to buy a gun at that point. It was the snapchat video that disturbed a lot of people and it got reported. The department of children and families actually investigated that video. They found cruz was actually receiving Outpatient Care from a Mental Hospital here in Broward County and that hospital had deemed him stable enough at that time two years ago to not be an inpatient, to not be hospitalized there at that Mental Hospital. So we have that. Also a local newspaper interviewed the family that took in this young man back in november after his mother died. The couple and their son took in nikolas cruz. They said that it was very clear he is depressed about the death of his mother. He was very lonely. He wanted a girlfriend and he had this arsenal of weapons when he moved into that home. This was a gunowning family himself. They made him get a case and lock them up. His father thought he had the only key and as it turns out they did not. They have no clue why this young man did what he did. Now, looking forward to the trial now, and how this is all going to be handled by the state and by prosecutors, the prosecutor has hinted at the Death Penalty saying, quote, this certainly is the type of case that the Death Penalty was designed for. This was highly calculated and premeditated people of 17 people and the attempted murder of everyone in that school. Our office will announce our formal position at the appropriate time. Cruz has sai