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This is our opportunity to talk to president trump, governor rick scott, and state senator marco rubio to make sure that they know we are talking directly to them and all other members of the united states government that are being funded by the nra to tell them now is the time to get on the right side of this. >> so i will not feel safe going back to school myself, until reasonable mental health care legislation and gun control legislation is passed. >> students at the marjory stoneman douglas high school, the site of the latest mass shooting, sending pointed messages to the country's leaders...

>> i hope it's not. >> it is not insurmountable. yasmin, don't give up. the worst enemy is fatalism. don't accept that. >> i hope you're right. >> we can find a way out of this. we will. we will. let cdc do the work. >> mark and robin, thank you to you both. come up the president goes after the fbi saying it mishandled warnings about the florida shooting suspect because it was spending too much time in russia. was this another attempt to undermine the agency? now that 13 russians have been indicted what is next for bob mueller's investigation in we're going to discuss after the break. trails...

Prevention and control. robin, we're learning this week president donald trump will hold a listening session with florida's high school students. is this an attempt you think to tamper some of the backlash that he's been receiving since the shooting? >> i mean, i think it's great that president trump is going to sit down with these students. they are angry, they're hurt, they are frustrated, just like the rest of us, that nothing has been done after sandy hook elementary school, after las vegas. our federal government utterly failed to take any steps and i think these students who have a voice...

I think it could be a stronger system, but there isn't any privacy protection that inhibits us from creating a better system. >> robin, are you saying that if someone is in a mental health institution and gets released, that is information that the local police department can get when they do a background check? no! >> correct. if you're involuntarily committed into a mental institution, that record should be going into the background check system. and when a firearms dealer runs a background check on you, that should flag you as being denied. the dealer won't know what the reason is, but you ...

Got a mental illness, who has been in a mental health facility. that's all protected by hippa. if the president were serious, wouldn't he want to loosen up some of those rules to find out who the nutjobs are who are on psychotropic drugs? >> the way it works is we have limited categories of people with dangerousmental illness that are prohibited from buying guns already. >> we don't know who they are. robin, i don't mean to interrupt you, but we don't know who they are. because we can't get their regards. >> if the states put those records into the system, the information is still protected by...