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if the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what i said was very nice. wait a minute. i m not finished. i m not finished, fake news. the press honestly is out of control. the level of dishonesty is out of control. the public doesn t believe you people anymore. now, maybe i had something to do with that, i don t know. as you know i have a running war with the media. they are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. the media. in other words, the fake news. any media that dislikes what he s done. today, the president received a double rebuke from members of his own party. in a column for the washington post senator john mccain said president trump is sending a dangerous message to the world. he wrote the while administration officials often condemn violence against reporters abroad trump continues his attacks on the integrity of american journalists and news outlets providing cover for repressive regimes to follow suit. on the senate flo ....
. good morning, everyone. this morning, new details about the police reaction to last week s deadly school shooting in florida. we ve learned an armed school resource deputy resigned after failing to confront the shooter. plus, president trump goes into his details about school safety including arming school teachers. and a new indictment hits paul manafort and rick gates with tax and bank fraud charges. it s just the latest in robert mueller s russia investigation. snoelths good morning, everyone. it s friday, february 23rd. i m ayman mohyeldin. police, a failure if in communication led police to believe they were tracking the shooter realtime when they were watching footage delayed by about 20 minutes. in the wake of the shooting, the fbi says it is trying to rebuild public trust after failing to pass on a tip about cruz to agents in florida. president trump is backing a series of new gun control measures during a white house meeting about school safety yeste ....
that the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u.s. election. and, you know, the intelligence community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. and here you have the u.s. department of justice and a grant ju grand jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. and that, you know, is a rod rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. but that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. but he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. and i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a ....
former u.s. attorney. julia, this is your reporting. you re part of the team at nbc news that discovered this approach. what more do we know about it? lawrence, on the one hand it seems obvious. we know two weeks ago special counsel robert mueller delivered a scathing indictment of 13 russian hackers not just hackers but influencers. those were people able to get into social media and influence the way the election was being talked about to sow some distrust in the process. but what we have that s significant here is that a lot of information has recently been turned over to robert mueller from the intelligence community. this is information that includes the electronic signatures, malware the methods i don t think so. there s never been a precedent for the united states indicting an elected foreign leader, even a country we dislike like russia. so i don t think we re going to see that. i think it s important to focus on the significance of this development. these wikile ....
certainty and predictability. that s the best way to make business decisions. having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty corporate america is looking for. those are some of the broader impacts. what s the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own press secretary who has to go out and defend a policy she s not sure is etched in stone? obviously she s in an impossible situation. i think what it does inside the white house, it s corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. because people know that the decision making process is precarious at best, that there s never a final decision that s made and there s an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. it means there s no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are half-baked ....