Says didn’t mention it during the forum because he was waiting for investigators to confirm the reports.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel just admitted on Jake Tapper State of the Union that he knew of reports Deputy didn’t enter school at time of CNN town hall forum in which he mocked and berated the NRA and Dana Loesch.

Israel said he didn’t mention it during the forum because he was waiting for investigators to confirm the reports.

Here is the specific exchange:

Tapper: When did you find out that Deputy Peterson had not gone into the building? How soon after the shooting did you know that? Israel: Not for days. Tapper: How many days? Israel: I’m not sure. Tapper: Because you spent much of the Wednesday night town hall on CNN to meet with the entire Stoneman Douglas communities, students and teachers and parents, attacking the NRA, saying the police need more powers, more money to prevent future tragedies, you didn’t disclose any of this, to the crowd then, the Stoneman Douglas high school community, did you know it then, did you know it Wednesday night? Israel: It was spoken about earlier during that day. I’m not on a timeline for TV or any news show, we need to get it right, we need to get it accurate, we’re talking about people’s lives, we’re talking about a community, we need to corroborate, we need to verify, and once we did the next day, and I looked at the tape and I was 100% certain that it happened the way I was told about, the investigators initially told me about, I didn’t even release it right then…..

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Here are some more excerpts from the interview:

"We will get to the truth," Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel says, after @JakeTapper questions him about the armed school resource officer who stayed outside of Florida school during shooting #CNNSOTU https://t.co/XD7fLHiIeG — CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018

As reports emerge that Broward deputies received at least 18 calls about the Florida shooter prior to the shooting, Sheriff Scott Israel says "we will absolutely find out what we did or what we didn't do" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/Ey5M1vON4K https://t.co/DILhP9T72F — CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018

"Of course I won't resign," says Sheriff Scott Israel, after Florida state representative sends letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for Israel's removal for "neglect of duty and incompetence" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/tQ0ai2G92p — CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018

.@JakeTapper asks Broward sheriff if he thinks the Parkland shooting might not have happened if his office had done things differently. Sheriff responds: "If ifs and butts were candy and nuts OJ Simpson would still be in the record books." pic.twitter.com/D3aTk8RIsC — Ellison Barber (@ellisonbarber) February 25, 2018



