Transcripts For MSNBCW MSNBC Live With Velshi And Ruhle 2018

To gofundme and all of the victims and their families will be protected. Again, governor, i cannot thank you for your support. Weve been on the phone constantly. He was here the second this happened. I cant thank you, fdle, the Sheriffs Office and the fbi enough. This is what you dont see around the country. You see teamwork. Thats what happens in florida. Thats what makes us very special. Thank you. Before we take questions, id like to also thank congressman ted deutch for coming down from washington, d. C. The elected officials from parkland and around the county. My message to the community, to Broward County, is simple. Your elected officials, your commissioners, your state reps, your state senators, make sure these are people that arent worrying about saving money. This is a time to save lives. We need more Law Enforcement. We need more deputies. This isnt the time to worry about how many dollars might be saved if we dont have a deputy here or a Police Officer here. This is nationwide. We need more heros, more First Responders, not less First Responders. I know many states have different terms to help our mentally ill. We all pray for our mentally ill. We pray for them to recover. We all know someone or a family who is affected by someone suffering from a mental illness. The baker act in florida allows Law Enforcement or medical professionals to confine a person involuntarily while they get examined and looked at. You have to have a reason. You have to be able to articulate that theyre a threat to themselves or a threat to someone else. What im asking our lawmakers to do, go back to places like tallahassee, places like washington, d. C. , and give police the power. If they see something on social media, if they see graphic pictures of rifles and blood and gore and guns and bombs, if they see something, horrific language, see a person talking about, i want to grow up to be a serial killer, we need to have the power to take that power and bring them before Mental Health professionals at that particular time, involuntarily, and have them examined. People are going to be rightfully so concerned about their rights, as am i. What about the rights of these students . What about the rights of young kids who go to schools with bookbags and pencils . Dont they have the right to be protected by the United States government, to the best of our ability . Thats what we will be going. Any questions . Sheriff, what about the condition of the people that have been injured . Coach feis. Who are the heros . I dont know about the incident yet or what actually his performance was, but i know aaron personally. I coached with him. My two boys played for him. I dont know when the funeral is, but youll get 2,000 kids there. The kids loved him, adored him. He was one of the greatest people i knew. Phenomenal man. I dont know the specifics yet, but i can tell you what, when aaron feis died, when he was killed tragically, inhumanely, he did it protecting others. You can guarantee that. Thats who aaron feis was. Tell us about the condition of those injured. What were the extent . We are fortunate today to have our doctors who work so tirelessly and saved so many lives yesterday. Were going to bring up one of our doctors to speak about some of those questions and answer the questions. Doctor . Good afternoon. Dr. Evan boyer, director and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Broward Health north. I also have our colleagues from Broward Health main here. The three of us collectively, hopefully, could answer some of those questions. So for starters, just because were medical professionals doesnt mean were numb to the emotions. We send out our sympathy to all of the families involved. The worst thing as a parent is if your kid doesnt come home from school that day. Hits home pretty hard. We sympathize for them. With that being said, nowadays, unfortunately, we do drills for this. Nine months ago, we did a drill at our facility specifically for an active shooter. When it becomes a live event, we can work seamlessly with fire rescue in order to ensure patient safety. I want to commend the Hospital Personnel yesterday for all of their efforts and the efforts at Broward Health north, Broward Health main and Coral Springs Medical Center got a couple patients, as well. Specifically to Broward Health north, then ill turn it over to dr. Menendez about Broward Health main, Broward Health north, we had a total of nine patients. One was the suspect, treated and released. We had two patients deceased. Three patients have been discharged. We currently have three patients in the hospital. One with an extremity wound, who is doing well and working with physical therapy. Another patient who is still i think incubated after penetratipenetrat penetrating trauma to the chest, but is doing well and following commands. Another patient in Critical Condition. Im dr. Menendez. Yesterday was a tragedy that we all as a team took care of the patients. We are a facility who received seven patients. Now we have two patients in critical to stable condition. The other five are on their way home, and theyre, you know, in good condition. The other two in stable condition. My trauma surgeon was dealing with them. If you have questions about those, you can ask. Im the trauma director at the med sical center. Unfortunately, this is the second such episode we have had in a year, which is very sad. The first thing i want to say is that this second time around, just like the first time around, the First Responders did a terrific job. For those of you who understand what we do in trauma, tame isimf the essence. The delivery of the patients by the ems personnel was fantastic yesterday. It made a huge difference in the outcomes. As dr. Menendez said, we received seven patients. One was discharged last night. We had one that was in Critical Condition that went to surgery. We had two more stable patients that also required surgery. We have out of the six left in the hospital, were hoping to be able to send home two of them today. Im expecting them to fully recover. Ill be happy to take any questions. [ inaudible question ]. We do not know if it is the same person. We did our database check and could not positively identify him. Were going back and scrubbing the information, looking at it again. Im not willing to say it was one and the same person. Sheriff specifically targeted . Is there any indication that someone was specifically targeted that started all of this . Not at this time. Thats certainly a possibility. As i said earlier, the fbi, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and broward Sheriffs Office will be working conjunctively to interview as many people as we can so, down the road, we can uncover this information. Right now, it is no more than a possibility. Do you know how he entered the building . Thatll be we will speak about that. We do know about that. At our next press conference, ill take the media through a timeline and talk about video tapes. Well match up video with the realtime information, things we know, and well dissimulate that. How did he receive the weapons . What can you tell us about [ inaudible ]. Were not going to release that until later today, if we do at all today. Thats something that alcohol, tobacco and firearms investigators are trying to track down, the history of this weapon. We believe we know where the weapon was purchased, where the weapon came from, but it is being pieced together. That will be something that we will discuss at the appropriate time. Governor sheriff shootings last year and now this tragic shooting. What can you tell the people of Broward County can be done . I talk about this all the time. It is not a phrase, its not a term, its the way we have to live our lives in circa 2018. If we see something, we need to say something. If the neighbor comes home every friday at 4 00 and he or she is always carrying a grocery bag, milk and eggs sticking out, and the last two fridays theyve gone maybe to a range and come back with bullets in the bag on fridays, it is a change in behavior. Thats different. It is something we need to know about. Youre our eyes and ears. One Community Member who sees something can do more in a oneminute phone call sometimes than Law Enforcement can do in a month. If you know somebody that says, this raises a red flag, i was thinking of calling us. Dont think about it. Call us. Call the fbi, the florida Law Enforcement, the broward Sheriffs Office. If you have if there is something in your gut that tells you something is not right with this person, this person has the capabilities in my mind to do this or do that, please dont remain silent. Let us know about it. Can you explain why he was expelled . Knew about his problems all the way back through middle school. He had an extended disciplinary record. Was he on the School Districts radar . What was done about it . He was expelled from the high school. You know, as a school district, we have to protect the privacy of our students. I cant go into much detail at all about the students record and personal information. I will tell you that it was a former student at stoneman douglas. Because of issues that arose here, he was transferred to another school within the county. Was it a troubled school . Again, im not privileged to provide that information at the moment. It is a student that we have been providing supports for and recognize there certainly were challenges there. The specifics i cant get into. As far as the student coming on campus, this particular individual came on the campus at the time of dismissal. That is an open time for the campus. He entered the facility at that moment. Thats are you aware of a potential problem, having a disciplinary record, having been expelled, if the district knew he was out there and caused problems in the past let me just say this. When we have students within our care in the district, we provide the services that we can provide them. This is bigger than just the school system. Our kids are out of our schools 2 3 of the time theyre up. We need a communitywide approach to helping our students with challenges and Mental Health concerns. Again, weve got to invest resources to make sure we minimize the occurrence of this ever happening again. If we dont, its not a matter of if, its going to be when. Sir, do you know if there was a psychological trigger with this student for this event . I have no idea. Governor sheriff the other staffer where are you in the processing . There are some bodies still in the school. There is a medical right now, the focus of the fbi and the broward Sheriffs Office is on the successful prosecution of this killer. Were not going to leave any stone unturned. Were trying to process this as quickly as we can. Dme is involved. Investigators are involved. There is science dna and a plethora of things. We want to go fast, but were not going to rush it. Were going to get it right before we get it fast. Thats whats going on right now. Sheriff Governor Scott does your is there a real conversation about say it again. Do the students in the school know who to report concerns to . If they were concerned a about the a classmate, is there a protocol or system or something im sure there is. I mean did he cooperate . He wasnt enrolled in there is a process. Get ahold of teachers, parents, make calls to crimestoppers. If somebody knows something, there is ample way to say yes. Governor scott, is there a wayhad a School Resource deputy on campus. He was armed. He never encountered at this point, the only thing i can tell you definitively is he never encountered cruz. Will we have a real conversation about how to prevent Something Like this from happening . Does the real conversation include gun control . Will it be something theyll look into . The two things i want to focus on when i have this conversation next week with state leaders is i want to focus on School Safety. Itll focus on dollars. Its going to focus, as the superintendent said, on Mental Health dollars. Itll focus on, what are the things we can do in regard to School Safety . On top of that, if somebody is mentally ill, they should not have access to a gun. I want to focus on both of those things. Ive spoken to the speaker of the house and the senate president. Theyre receptive to having the conversation about School Safety. All of us have children or grandchildren, nieces or nephews. None of us want anything like this to happen again. Let me also say anything i should have said in spanish earlier. [ speaking spanish ] is he meantally ill, is it a diagnosis . I think it is a pretty good assumption to start out with. Yes . Governor, thank you. The conversations youre planning to have, how would they be different . Right. Lets remember this, first off, pulse was a terrorist attack. After pulse, we put i asked for money, legislature supported, adding more counterterrorism experts through our Core Department Law Enforcement. We added 46 additional counterterrorism experts. We did that. In this case, we have to think about all of our schools have to be safe. As simple as that. How do we do that . It is going to be funding. Its going to be for mental illness, counselors, security. On top of that, we have to say to ourselves, if we have somebody mentally ill, they cant have access to a gun. Look, im open to having a conversation about things because i dont want my children, your children, my grandchildren, your grandchildren, ever go through this. I dont want a parent to say, i have to teach you now when you start kindergarten, you have to learn how to be careful about a shooter. Its not the society we want to live in. Is he cooperating also, we have out here today im flanked by many of our school board members, our elected officials on the board. A host of them. We appreciate them being out here. Were going to make sure theyre part of the conversations, too, because they deeply care about the students and this community. Im glad to see them here today. Few more questions. What as crhas krooud saicrui point . Were not going to report any of that yet. The see or hear something suspicious. What could you legally have done about the fact that [ inaudible ] . If he legally owned a gun, we couldnt do anything about arresting him for having the gun because you used the word legally. We can certainly follow up. We can go to visit him. Whether he legally owns a gun or not, if we think a red flag goes up and that theres something not right, and we think this person has a propensity to do a horrific act, i think police all over this nation need to be empowered to take that person and medically deliver him or her to a medical facility where they can be examined. Thank you for your time. Well be back in about an hour. That one hour . Im ali velshi here in parkland, florida, where we have just been listening to the broward Sheriffs Office and the local sheriff, mayor, governor of florida, delivering the latest news on this tragedy that took place at the school behind me. We know 17 confirmed dead, 15 in hospital, 5 in Critical Condition and a man under arrest. A 19yearold who was a student from this school. This is incredibly tragic, stephanie. This is three times in the year you and i have been together where one of us or both of us have been on the site of a mass shooting. It is the 18th School Shooting alone this year. This is the scene now. This is a town that many people didnt know about thats now a part of history, parkland, florida, stephanie. Ali, one thing that i heard over and over, whether it was from the police officials, whether it was from rick scott, talking about needing resources, needing information. Heres the issue, ali velshi, they have the information about this young man. The school knew it. Local Law Enforcement knew it. The deceased adopted mother of this shooter knew it. Students who you actually spoke to said, we predicted this would happen with this kid. Yup. On social media, he had posted, i want to one day be a professional school shooter. Its not about warning signs. The warning signs were there. Its about laws which will allow Law Enforcement to take action. As important as it is to know the signs, they knew the signs with this young man. As important as it is to pray and send condolences to the families, it needs to be more than that at this point. Im already seeing people squabble on social media, what counts as a School Shooting . It wasnt exactly 18 School Shootings this year. Well, it absolutely was. 25 since columbine. Every day, the one place we send our children when theyre out of our care is to their schools, where we hope and pray and believe theyre supposed to be safe. Exactly right. Thats the place you worry about how you kids get to school and how they get back from school. Thats where you think the danger is. You worry about what they do after school. Thats where they can get into trouble, but youre not supposed to think during the school hours, when your children are at school, on school property, that they are in danger. That is what shatters america every time we have one of th