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let's bring in our panel, cnn security analyst shawn turner and david chanly. on the point of golf, the white house determined insensitive to golf for a day or two afterwards, but out golfing again today. >> i guess there is a 48 hour window of when they think the optics are bad. i don't -- listen, the president is entitled to golf, i don't know when you know after a tragedy like this would be the appropriate time to do it, but what is interesting and worth noting is as you point out, our reporting is that the aides were worried about the optics in the last two days. what is different about today that they're not worried about. >> and there are fun raerals to of the young victims of the shooting. this is not just his presidential meme, but others in the gop making a connection between the russia probe and the shooting. had the fbi been not looking into russia and ties and so on, they might have prevented this shooting. explain how you understand the fbi is set up to see if that's a credible argument. >> unfortunately it is not. robert mueller has a dedicated te

and shawn turner who is also a cnn national security analyst. good to see you both. all right, so shawn, you heard the vice president there who said, you know, it really raises questions about the abuses or integrity of decisions made at a very high levell lelevel. is that how you interpret that memo or the messaging being underscored by way of that memo? >> i don't think you can draw that conclusion from simply reading the memo. you know, we have to understand that what we're talking about here is the fisa process. it's a classified and exceedingly complex process. this really puts the fbi in a tough position. because if the memo as christopher wray and the fbi suggest contains fundamentally misleading information that impacts the accuracy of the memo, the problem for the fib and the problem for the intelligence community is that the fbi simply must let that inaccurate information stand. because this process is classified and because they can't simply come out and say here's the other mountain of information that -- >> too risky to dispute it even for the fbi. >> ye

. >> shawn turner, the sheriff in broward county, scott israel, he was very specific of outlining the time line of what exactly happened yesterday afternoon. the suspect got to the school at around 2:19 p.m. he readied his assault weapon at 2:21. and started killing people, going from classroom to classroom, going from floor to floor, and then he left. he left the campus, began walking with other students who were fleeing, tried to blend in, went to a walmart, got a cold drink. then he went to a mcdonald's, spent about 40 minutes there, went out, continued walking, and first of all a local police officer spotted him, recognized the clothes he was wearing, similar to what the suspect had been identified as wearing, and fortunately was arrested without incident. it's pretty shocking, though. took, what, more than an hour and 20 minutes for his capture. >> yeah, you know, wolf, it is, but i think that when you look at the set of circumstances here and some of the things that we know he did, you know, he tried to -- we understand that he tried to blend in with other students as he was lea

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shawn turner, what strikes you when we learn more about these really heartbreaking details. something could have been done. >> yeah, they are heartbreaking, wolf. you know the fbi gets lots of calls from concerned citizens wants to report something they seen. but this call was different. the sense of urgency. this caller said all the right things. and so you know when i hear these details, you know, what i think is certainly someone at the fbi missed an opportunity. and there has to be an investigation to look into what exactly happened here. but you know, i think it's important to also say we are kind of looking for a reason to blame the fbi here. look, the fbi really missed an opportunity here to prevent this tragedy, but we have to have a little bit of intellectual honesty, we missed this in this country. >> what do you think, toobin. >> our legal system has trouble determining what happened in the past, even less chance of predicting what's going to happen in the future. the idea that we can sort of decide who is going to be a school shooter is -- we are misleading peopl

joining me now cnn political analyst ryan lizza and political analyst shawn turner. you wouldn't believe, ryan the arguments i get in with people i thought were rational and sane about uranium one. and i say have you read the information? do you know what goes into getting a fisa -- what happens when wupt to get a fisa request? what happens at a fisa court? most of them don't. they just know talking points they hear from the president and his allies and conservative media, mostly fox news. the attempts to discredit -- they keep coming. are they having an impact. >> well, there is not -- there is a lot of scientific research now about this phenomenon of fake news and why it's so hard to kill a fake story. there is a great piece in scientific american about this. and the authors note a phenomenon of the illusion of truth or what stephen cobert called truthiness. once you get it in your head and it may have been reported by a respected news organization, it's very hard especially for partisans constantly looking for information to confirm their biases, which frankly tha

i have with me chris eliza and shawn turner. and gentlemen, chris, first to you, from what evan perez just told us, are we potentially functioning in a reality where this administration may be saying good-bye whether it's they're on their own volition to not to not just one but two heads of the fbi? >> i think we could be, brooke, because i just don't -- knowing what i know about donald trump over the last, you know, two and a half years of covering him, i don't see how he reverses from his public 100% promise that this memo is going to be released. the reason why he doesn't is simple, because it affirms what he believes to be true, whether it's true or not. it bolsters his case that there is some sort of deep state conspiracy going on within the fbi to undermine him, that people within the fbi at high levels aren't doing their jobs well, are not following the rules and need to be called out for it. so he -- he takes information that he likes and makes it true in his mind and damn the torpedos. that's always been his approach. i

joining me now national security analyst shawn turner, served in the u.s. marine corps for 21 years and press secretary for the national security council under president obama. so, you have a lot of service with which to inform the answer to this question and you've also worked in communications. why doesn't the u.s. -- why is it so rare to see something like this in the u.s.? >> yeah, i think it's rare to see something like this because if you think about the visual of seeing military tanks and rockets and fighter jets rolling down the streets here in the united states, that is a visual that we typically associate with authoritarian countries like north korea and china and russia. that's for good reason. if we look at the -- >> you say for good reason. why do they do it? >> i think they do it because it's a show of force and message to the international community and often times a message to the united states that they have great military power and they are not afraid to roll the military power out to use it. i think unfortunately in a lot of those countri

back with me now, gloria borger, john dean, shawn turner and frank bruni. gloria, these are big stories that we're doing. if there are so many of these big stories that hit the news on a night like tonight that it sort of diminishes all of them, because they're all happening at once. >> well, you get a little numb to it, i think, every day. but the story you're talking about with rogers is really kind of stunning to me. because when you have election meddling and you have all intelligence agencies agreeing on it for over a year that there was russian meddling, one would expect expect, in normal times, that you would have a president out there saying, we need to get to the bottom of this. we need to preserve our democracy. i am setting up a special committee to deal with election meddling and it's going to have representatives from every intelligence agency in it. and we're going to make sure that the russians pay for this. and we're going to do whatever we need to do to sanction them. and instead, you have a president who believes that by talking about russ