QUESTIONS AS TO JUST HOW THEY
COMPLETELY DROPPED THE BALL ON
THIS ONE.
LIZ: GREAT REPORTING MY FRIEND
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON.
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ROD
ROSENSTEIN LAYING OUT WHAT IS
SPECIFICALLY IN AND NOT IN THE
NEW INDICTMENT AGAINST RUSSIANS
EARLIER TODAY.
LET'S TAKE A LISTEN.
>> THERE'S NO ALLEGATION IN THE
INDICTMENT OF ANY EFFECT ON THE
OUTCOME OF THE ELECTIONS AND
THEN THERE'S NO ALLEGATION IN
THIS INDICTMENT THAT ANY
AMERICAN HAD ANY KNOWLEDGE.
LIZ: THERE'S ALSO NO EVIDENCE OF
TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION BUT
DESPITE THIS DEMOCRAT HOUSE
MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI HAD
HER OWN TAKE ON THE CHARGES
SAYING "SPECIAL COUNSEL'S
INDICTMENTS MAKE ABSOLUTELY
CLEAR THE RUSSIANS PERPETRATED A
STRATEGIC EFFORT TO UNDERMINE
AND INFLUENCE THE 2016
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TO SUPPORT
THE CAMPAIGN OF DONALD TRUMP."
THESE LATEST INDICTMENTS BUILD
ON MULTIPLE GUILTY PLEAS AND IN
INDICTMENTS OF SEVERAL TRUMP
CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS DEMONSTRATING
THE GRAVITY OF THE TRUMP RUSSIA
SCANDAL.
JOINING ME FORMER DEPUTY CHIEF
OF STAFF KARL ROVE.
CARL, NEW EVIDENCE OF TRUMP
CAMPAIGN COLLUSION WITH THE
KREMLIN DESPITE WHAT NANCY
PELOSI SAYS AND THE PRESIDENT IS
TWEETING OUT THIS ACTIVITY BEGAN
IN 2014, WAY BEFORE HE RAN.
WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHTS?
>> WELL, I THINK NANCY PELOSI
WAS HALF RIGHT.
THE RUSSIANS WERE TRYING TO
DESTABILIZE AMERICA AND MESS
AROUND IN OUR ELECTIONS.
THEY DID SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP
BUT THEY ALSO SUPPORTED BERNIE
SANDERS IN AN EXPLICIT MESSAGE
INCLUDED IN THE INDICTMENT FOR
ONE OF ITS LEADERS TO THE STAFF
SAYING BASICALLY DON'T ATTACK
BERNIE SANDERS AND DON'T ATTACK
DONALD TRUMP.
WE WANT TO BOOST BOTH OF THEM,
SO LOOK, THIS IS, EVERY AMERICAN
REGARDLESS OF PARTY OUGHT TO BE
CONCERNED ABOUT THIS AND EVERY
AMERICAN STARTING WITH NANCY
PELOSI OUGHT TO BE CONCERNED
ENOUGH TO LEAVE THE POLITICS
ASIDE AND STAY FOCUSED ON THE
ISSUE AT HAND.
NOTHING IN THIS SHOWS COLLUSION
BY THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
IT DOES SHOW THAT THERE WERE
SOME CONTACT BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN
S AND STAFFERS ON THE
TRUMP CAMPAIGN, BUT WE OUGHT TO
BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ISSUE AT
HAND.
WHAT ARE THE RUSSIANS TRYING TO
DO POLITICO PIT AMERICA AGAINST
AMERICA AND NOT DOING WHAT NANCY
PELOSI DOES WHICH IS PIT AMERICA
AGAINST AMERICA.
LIZ: AND NOW WE'VE GOT THE
MIDTERMS COMING UP, THERE'S
CONCERN THERE AS WELL THE
INDICTMENT SAYS THE RUSSIANS
ENGAGE IN OPERATIONS PRIMARILY
INTENDED TO COMMUNICATE
DEROGATORY INFORMATION ABOUT
HILLARY CLINTON AND TED CRUZ AND
MARCO RUBIO AND SUPPORT BERNIE
SANDERS ALSO TARGETING STATES
IOWA, NORTH CAROLINA, COLORADO,
VIRGINIA.
KARL, HOW EFFECTIVE WAS THIS,
BECAUSE NOW, YOU KNOW, ATTORNEY
GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN DID NOT
CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF THE
ELECTION, SO IS THIS SORT OF A
CAMPAIGN THAT AMERICANS ARE
SMART ENOUGH TO SAY DO YOU KNOW
WHAT WE'LL SET IT ASIDE.
>> WELL, I HOPE THEY SET ASIDE
THE IDEA THAT IT HAD A POSITIVE
EFFECT ON THE OUTCOME.
NONE OF THOSE STATES THAT YOU
JUST TALKED ABOUT WERE VERY
CLOSE AT ALL, BUT, YOU KNOW,
EITHER CLINTON OR TRUMP WON IT
BY A GOOD ENOUGH MARGIN NOT TO
HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS BUT
WE'VE GOT TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT
WHAT THE RUSSIANS ATTEMPTED TO
DO.
LIZ: WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
>> THINK ABOUT WHAT WE JUST
HEARD IN THAT REPORT.
WE HAD TWO COMPETING RALLIES IN
NEW YORK ON THE SAME DAY, ONE
SUPPORTING THE NEWLY ELECTED
PRESIDENT AND ONE OPPOSING THE
NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT BOTH OF
THOSE FORMULATED BY THE RUSSIANS
LIZ: AND THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE'S
UPSET ABOUT IT TOO.
HE'S NOT LIKING THIS AT ALL.
LET'S SWITCH GEARS TO THE
FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING
AUTHORITIES CALL FOR THE SHOOTER
'S HOME 39 TIMES DUE TO
DISTURBING BEHAVIOR ACCORDING TO
REPORTS AND NOW FLORIDA'S
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT
CALLING ON FBI DIRECTOR CHRIS WR
AY TO RESIGN AFTER THE FBI
ADMITTED IT GOT ANOTHER TIP.
THIS TIME IN JANUARY, ABOUT THE
SUSPECT BUT FAILED TO FOLLOW
THROUGH ON IT.
BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF
COMMENTING ABOUT THAT MOMENTS
AGO.
LET'S LISTEN.
>> THE FBI REMAINS DEDICATED TO
KEEPING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAFE
ON BE HALF OF MYSELF AND OVER
1000 EMPLOYEES OF THE MIAMI
FIELD OFFICE, WE TRULY REGRET
ANY ADDITIONAL PAIN THIS HAS
CAUSED.
THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WORK IN
THE MIAMI FIELD OFFICE ARE PART
OF THIS COMMUNITY.
WE WALK THE SAME STREETS.
OUR CHILDREN ATTEND THE SAME
SCHOOLS TO INCLUDE DOUGLAS.
WE WORSHIP THE SAME PLACES.
WE ARE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AS THIS COMMUNITY HURTS, SO DO
WE.
LIZ: THAT WAS AN FBI OFFICIAL ON
THE GROUND THERE COMMENTING.
KARL, WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> THE GOVERNMENT IN ALL THREE
LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ARE COMING
IN FOR CRITICISM AND MOST OF THE
ATTENTION IS ON THE FEDERAL
LEVEL AND YES THE FBI RECEIVED A
TIP IN THE JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
FIELD OFFICE NOT CLEAR THAT THEY
TRIED TO TRACE THE IP ADDRESS OF
MR. CRUZ.
THEN WE HAD THE FUMBLE BETWEEN
THE NATIONAL CALL CENTER AND THE
MIAMI FIELD OFFICE, BUT THE
FED'S ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WHO
NEED TO BE LOOKING INTO WHAT
THEY'RE DOING.
THE STATE NEEDS TO LOOK AT
WHETHER OR NOT ITS LAWS ON CIVIL
COMMITMENT OF DEEPLY DISTURBED
INDIVIDUALS IS STRONG ENOUGH AND
WHETHER THEY NEED TO DO
SOMETHING WITH REGARD TO STATE
LAWS REGARDING PEOPLE WHO ARE
MENTALLY ILL, HAVING OR YOUNG
AND HAVING ACCESS TO THESE
WEAPONS AND FINALLY THE LOCAL
SCHOOL DISTRICT.
I WAS TAKEN BY COMMENTS BY THE
FORMER I BELIEVE IT'S THE POLICE
SUPERINTENDENT IN BOSTON WHO
SAID IF THIS KID HAD BEEN IN
BOSTON, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND
THE POLICE WOULD HAVE WORKED
TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY THE PROBLEM
AND SURROUNDED THAT PROBLEM WITH
ASSISTANCE AND CARE AND IF NEED
BE, ADJUDICATION AND WHAT WE HAD
HERE IS 39 TIMES THAT KID IS ON
THE RADAR OF THE LOCAL POLICE
AND SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER THIS
DOESN'T GET SHARED BETWEEN
POLICE AND SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND
SOMETHING ISN'T DONE ABOUT HIM?
SO EVERYBODY HAS GOT SOME MOMENT
S HERE TO LOOK AT.
ALL OF THESE CALLS YESTERDAY, I
KNOW THEY WERE WELL MEANING, I
KNOW THEY WERE HEARTFELT, PLEASE
MR. PRESIDENT DO SOMETHING ABOUT
THIS.
IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL
LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO MAKE
SURE WE KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE
AND THE STATE AND THE LOCAL HAVE
RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL.