Watch: Mother of slain Florida student screams at Trump live on camera — and CNN’s Brooke Baldwin falls apart

Mother Lori Alhadeff lost her daughter Alyssa Wednesday after Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old man, killed 17 students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In an interview with CNN Thursday she screamed into the camera demanding President Donald Trump do something.

“How? How do we allow a gunman to come into our children’s school?” Alhadeff asked. “How do they get through security? What security is there? There’s no metal detectors. The gunman, a crazy person, just walks right into the school, knocks on the window of my child’s door and starts shooting, shooting her and killing her!”

She then turned her anger to the president.

“President Trump, you say what can you do?” she asked, responding to Trump’s statement earlier. “You can stop the guns from getting into these children’s hands! Put metal detectors at every entrance to the schools. What can you do? You can do a lot! This is not fair to our families and our children go to school and have to get killed! I just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangements for my daughters funeral, who is 14! Fourteen! President Trump, please do something! Do something. action! We need it now! These kids need now!”

CNN Documents Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month (video)

So let's just all take a moment just to remind you what has happened, incredibly significant events, one after the other.

In no particular order, President Trump--in the last four weeks--has:

• Fired his chief strategist,
• Fired his chief of staff,
• Hired a new one,
• Hired a new Communications Drector,
• Fires him,
• Hires a new one (his fourth in seven months},
• Publicly shames his attorney general-- multiple times,
• Loses a health care bill,
• Publicly shames the three republicans who voted against it --multiple times,
• Bans transgender individuals from the military--without telling the military,
• Ticks off the boy scouts,
• Makes up a phone call with said scouts,
• Makes up another phone call with the president of Mexico,
• Thanks Vladimir Putin for expelling Americans, hundreds of them,
• Takes days to sign a bipartisan sanctions bill and then blasts congress for making him sign it,
• Condemns leaks but then says he likes the leaks because it shows people love him.
• Encourages police officers to be rough with suspects during arrests,
• Publicly shames the Republican Leader he needs to get anything done--multiple times,
• Embraces an unpassable immigration plan that sparks a debate about the Statue of Liberty and the definition of "cosmopolitan".
• He threatens North Korea with nuclear war,
• Tells Guam [being threatened with a missile by North Korea] will help tourism,
• Then his own chief strategist calls his bluff and says, no, there's no military option in North Korea,
• Threatens Venezuela with a military option,
• After a Nazi rally in which someone was murdered, the president blames both sides.

CNN: "Is Cable News Shaping Trump's U.S. Policy?" (video)

BROOKE BALDWIN (HOST): Question. Is cable news, cable news shaping U.S. policy? It’s a good question considering what we’ve seen during President Trump’s first week. Listen to the trend here. Over on Fox News Bill O’Reilly did a story on Chicago, laying out the crime statistics, calls for federal aid. Shortly after that show, this tweet from the President of the United States: “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, 228 in 2017 with 42 killings, I will send in the feds.” And then the next night on ABC, watch what happened.

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DONALD TRUMP: That speech was a home run. That speech -- if you look at Fox, OK I'll mention your network -- read, see what Fox said, "they said it was one of the great speeches." You and other networks covered it very inaccurately. I hate to say this to you and you probably won’t put it on, but turn on Fox and see how it was covered. You and a couple of other networks tried to downplay that speech and it was very very unfortunate that you did.

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BALDWIN: Exhibit B. The following morning Fox aired a segment about Chelsea Manning’s critique of former President Obama. The graphic on the screen described Manning as a quote and "ungrateful traitor," fifteen minutes later, this tweet from the president. “Ungrateful traitor Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!” We got to talk about this. Bill Carter is with me, CNN media analyst and Kristen Soltis Anderson, columnist with the Washington Examiner and Republican strategist and pollster. So great to have both of you on. Bill, to my points, I don’t think the timing is a coinkydinky, obviously he watches a lot of TV, obviously he watches a lot of Fox, thus, is U.S. policy being shaped by cable news?

BILL CARTER: Well, it may not be shaped but there is clearly some influence going on because he’s clearly reacting to it. It’s not unusual, I mean, Mr. Trump has always been sort of brought into what he feels is people talking about him. In New York, we always knew, when we covered things about Donald Trump, you were likely to hear from him because he paid close attention to people talking about him.

BALDWIN: He’s always been like that.

CARTER: I used to write pieces and he have handwritten notes sent back to me on the actual clip. So he pays very close attention. And Fox is very friendly territory for him. So he’s going to be on there watching a lot and when they make a point that he thinks is a valid point he tweets it out, then people read the tweet, and then people sort of follow that up in some fashion. It will be interesting to see if he then takes action. It’s one thing to say "I’ll send in the feds" --

BALDWIN: To tweet about it.

CARTER: But will he actually to send in the feds?

BALDWIN: But then to follow through. Kristen, same question. What do you think?

KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: I mean I think when it comes to Fox or any media outlet there are lots of different voices within any particular media outlet. Within say Fox, you’ve got people like Sean Hannity, who’s extremely friendly to President Trump, I think was informally advising him at one point during the campaign, extremely friendly turf. But there are other folks within that network who I think shoot pretty straight and I think are doing hard news journalism and trying to cover the real story. So I always hesitate to cast any particular network itself as pro or anti, because I think there are individuals within. But it certain does put a lot more pressure, if you are someone who is a guest on a program, if you are just an average pundit who that now, because the president’s news consumption diet is so cable news heavy and the fact that he’s kind of learning on the fly what it is that he thinks about different issues and sort of, very impulsive, willing to act very quickly, it sort of puts a lot of pressure on anyone who’s on TV to know that the president could be watching you on Air Force One and making policy as a result.