Details . No. Lets get to it. First from the fox news deck, the president spent the weekend defending himself, misrepresenting the truth and attacking others from his phone in florida. The president attacked the justice department, the National Security adviser, attacked adam schiff, the dnc, hillary clinton, president obama, the Previous Congress and the news media before going after Oprah Winfrey. He did not attack Vladimir Putin nor russia or express concerns that the russians attacked the United States. The president stormed twitter from maralargo after Robert Mueller gave the most concrete evidence yet of russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election. In one tweet, the president wrote very sad the fbi missed all the signals sent out by the school shooter. Very unacceptable. Theres no collusion. Get back to basics and make us all proud. A problem there. Fbi officials acknowledged last week the bureau did not properly investigate a tip that the suspected mass murderer had a gun and wanted to kill people possibly at a school. As tim scott points out, the scoot shooting and the russia investigation are two separate issues. Students from washington d. C. Are staging a protest near the white house today calling for lawmakers to change gun laws. 17 teenagers lying on the ground to represent each of the victims murdered last week. The White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders says President Trump is open to changing the background checks system. Her Statement Reads the president spoke to the republican senator john cornyn of texas on friday about the bipartisan bill that he and chris murphy of connecticut introduced to improve federal compliance with criminal background check legislation. While discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered, the president is supportive of efforts to improve the federal background check system. President trump tweeted about his National Security adviser after general h. R. Mcmaster said there was no question russia meddle in the president ial election. As you can see with the fbi indictment, the evidence is incontrovertible and available in the public domain. Rod rosenstein announced the indictment of 13 russians charged with setting up a plot to influence american voters. The president tweeted general mcmaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only collusion was between russia and crooked h, the dnc and the dems. Remember, the dirty dossier, uranium and the podesta company. First, the indictment had nothing to do with the collusion investigation. It was about russian meddling. The collusion investigation according to our reporting is ongoing. Second, the extent to which russian meddling did or did not effect the results of the election is an open question. The president also tweeted, i never said russia did not meddle in the election. I said it may be russia or china or another country or group or could be a 400pound genius in bed playing with his computer. The reality is, the president has questioned the investigation in russian interference in the 2016 election over and over and over again. He called the russia investigation a hoax, a ruse, a democratic excuse for the election loss and a waste of taxpayer dollars to get started. Heres some specifics. In september, the president tweeted the russian hoax continues. Now its ads on facebook. What about totally bias and Dishonest Media coverage in favor of crooked hillary . In november he told the press on Board Air Force one that he believes Vladimir Putin is being sincere when the russian president said he didnt enter for in the election. The president ended his barrage of tweets by criticizing Oprah Winfrey after the media icon appeared again on 60 minutes talking to a group of voters. The president wrote just watched a very insecure Oprah Winfrey who at one point i knew very well, interview a panel of people on 60 minutes. The questions were bias and slanted. I hope oprah runs so she can be exposed and defeated like the rest. Oprah winfrey has said shes not running for president in 2020. The president s spokespersons have been on television denouncing the meddling. The president has not, not once, not on camera, not on twitter, not anywhere. Lets bring in caitlin owens. A reporter for axios. He had a busy weekend. He did. He touched on a lot of topics this weekend. Shep, something i think that is we need to keep saying is the topic he did not touch on is what were going to do next as a country to prevent this level of interference in our elections happen again. Shepard ive heard his spokespeople talking about the russian meddling. He sent out a tweet here it is. He said obama was president up to and beyond the 2016 election so why didnt he do anything about russian meddling, but nothing about what we should do about it. Theres no rally call. Right. It seems like hes focused on blame. Who is to blame for this and wants to point to obama, dems, the investigators themselves and saying these investigations, if russians wanted to create discord in american politics, its the investigations, not the actual interference that helped them to succeed. Seems like the president is taking this personally. To make to pass blame elsewhere. You know, to say i never said that this was a hoax now that theres evidence that its a concrete thing. Also to make sure repeated over and over again, its his biggest insecurity that to say that this did not cause him to win the election. That he won it all on his own. Shepard he actually called out one of his own for not saying that when this is just the beginning. This is one track of this clearly multitrack investigation. This was about russian meddling. It left wide open the possibility that there were other coconspirators. We dont know who they are yet but its an open question. Right. This investigation is still very much ongoing. Didnt settle questions of collusion or obstruction. All the reporting weve seen is that those investigations continue. We dont know if there will be anything on those counts. We dont know yet. Its still an open question. So you know, while the president is very fixated on repeating over and over again this did not show evidence of collusion, that question is unsettled as is the question of whether this influenced did influence the election but how much and whether he would have won anyways. You know, those questions, Law Enforcement wont weighin on and questions that we will never know the answers to. Shepard the reporting is that the president had dinner with geraldo and his sons on friday night after we got this information all day. His aides told him you probably dont want to play golf this weekend because 45 minutes from here is parkland where theyre dealing with the death of 17 people. You should probably lay low. Thats when the tweet start began. 13 tweets that began. Is there anyone in the interim there to try to keep him focused or away from the tweet machine . I think that the the intention of keeping him off the golf course while seemed like it was a very sensible intention. Put him in front of the tv. Thats what the reporting is telling us. Its from watching the media reports of how this was playing out. Had a really started the irritation and the tweet storms. So you know its other people have tried to control the tweeting or encourage him to stop. The president is going to do what he wants to do. The tweets are theyre always going to be this window into what he is thinking for the foreseeable future. Shepard he first said this indictment is a vindication for him, which certainly is not. Seems once he got to the maralargo there in florida, thats when the defenses went up. Thats when the tweeting came out. Right. At first, there was a sense of relief. Like this the indictments dont mention collusion or obstruction. So seems like at first there was a relief and i think thats how this was trying to be framed to him. None of the Trump Campaign or Administration Officials have were included in this. But i think then it turned to frustration, especially over the question of how much the russian interference contributed to his winning the election. We saw the shift in his mood. Shepard indeed. Katelyn collins, thank you. Good to see you too. Shepard World Leaders are looking for help dealing with the mixed messages from the Trump Administration. The president tweets one thing and his people are there saying a completely different thing. It can create, well, a bit of confusion. Ahead, well show you how some u. S. Officials are handling it with a bit of advice about to whom they should listen and whom they should ignore. Thats coming up from the fox news deck on this monday afternoon, president s day. Good to have you in. K that evere ignores me while i drive. Its fine. Because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months im accident free. And i dont share it with mom right, mom . Righttt. Safe driving bonus checks. Only from allstate. Switching to allstate is worth it. Thisat red lobsterest. With exciting new dishes like dueling lobster tails and lobster truffle mac cheese. Classics like lobster lovers dream are here too. So enjoy these 10 lobsterlicious dishes while you can because lobsterfest wont last. Shepard the head of the Environmental Protection agency is pushing ban on a planned trip to israel. This comes as scott pruitt face as firestorm on the expensive plights on the taxpayers dime. An epa spokesperson would not say why the trip is postponed but the controversy made headlines last week when he admitted that i took first or Business Class when flying instead of back in the back. His reason . He said his Security Team recommended he travel in the expensive cabin to avoid confrontations with his critics. In the back they didnt like him. U. S. Officials are telling foreign leaders not to take President Trumps tweets on Foreign Policy seriously. Thats according to the Washington Post that reports that the conversations happen at a security conversation in munich over the weekend. According to the Washington Post, u. S. Officials spent time during the conference decoding the president s tweets, which sometimes contradict his own advisers. Rich edson is at the state department. Europeans say theyre getting used to trump diplomacy as theyre being told to ignore his tweets . Is that right . Theyre trying to navigate u. S. Diplomacy during the Trump Administration. One said maybe this can explain why were so perturbed when we look across the atlantic. Its no longer because we can recognize our america. We should look at what to measure america. Other Officials Say they have learned to rely on what state Department Officials and other american officials are telling them. They say they understand the president is the boss here and they dont want to be the subject or have their governments be the subject of president ial tweets. President trump treated germany that germany owed nato vast sums of money. Early on, President Trump refused to endorse what is called the article 5 of the nato treaty. Any country that is attacked, the other countries will come to their defense. That is after allies were reassured that the u. S. Commitment to nato was iron clad. The president has feuded publicly on twitter with great britains prime minister, with londons mayor. Theres also part of this relationship, while all of this is going on or ongoing negotiations with the president disagrees with the iran nuclear deal, he wants europe to change the posture on that. The u. S. Working with these european governments but they acknowledge its different under this administration, shep. Shepard this concern goes beyond europe, does it not . Yes. In Capitol Cities like beijing, across the middle east. Tweets over the summer that the president criticized qatar on terrorist financing. This was while the secretary of state was working with qatar to end the blockade that is still i dont know going there. The president tweeted criticism of pakistan. That prompted an emergency meeting amore senior members of the pakistani government. The Trump Administration did announce they were suspending aid against pakistan. The tweets can preview a significant policy change, shep. Shepard thanks, rich. The u. S. 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Maybe you could trust you wont be next to a loud eater. eating potato chips loudly or you could just trust duracell. silence shepard the russians have a position. The kremlin denies that it meddled in our election even after Robert Mueller brought charges against 13 russians including a wealthy Restaurant Owner nicknamed putins chef. The indictment laid out how russian operatives visited the United States, used social media to influence voters and helped to politicize rallies in this country. A spokesman for Vladimir Putin said that theres no indications the russian state could be involved in this. We insist accusations are groundless. Russian did not interfere, does not have a custom to interfere in other countrys Domestic Affairs and isnt doing it now. But americas intelligence chief says moscow is already gearing up to meddle in their next elections. Last week they told congress theyre seeing russian activity and interactions to target the midterms in november. Now state Election Officials meeting in washington to talk about how to fight back. Peter doocy has that news. Hes live in washington. Hi, peter. Election officials from across the country spent a long weekend trying to figure out how to stop moscow from meddling in the election. They had a classified briefing hosted by the fbi and director of National Intelligence who said in a statement that this classified session was about increasing awareness of foreign adversary intent and capabilities against the state election infrastructure as well as a discussion of threat mitigation efforts. Experts are telling us that theres a real threat to the integrity of the midterms. States should be concerned with the inadequacy of the Cyber Security in place. The security on those of those systems is outdated and cant match up to the modern day weaponry being created by the russian cyber adversaries. Dhs Officials Say 32 states and 31 local governments are being remotely scanned by the dhs, a probe for vulnerabilities that is not as intense ty as the onsite dhs scans happening in 14 states that are not going to be done until april, shep. What do state Officials Say theyre most concerned about, peter . For now, its the propaganda pedalled by russians. So far, 21 states have been targeted but no major breaches. The one thing were confident up and one thing the fbi, Homeland Security and the office of Counter Intelligence are all confident of, theres no tabulation changes that occurred because of the infiltration or the attack or the scanning that actually occurred from the foreign actors. The democratic secretary of state of connecticut is warning that Voter Registration lists may be especially vulnerable to hackers because theyre all online. Shep . Shepard peter doocy live in washington. Thanks. The accused florida schools shooter facing a judge earlier this afternoon. 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