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Inspiring people who may have no direct link. what can you tell us from your reporting about where this fits in on that spectrum? >> ill think this is an individual who falls in on the end of that spectrum that is very loose, if not absolute zero affiliation with the organization to -- he has a criminal back ground. a lot of mental instability, according to the prime minister. i think this is an individual who falls on the spectrum of least likely, if you will, to be asoeszuated with these types...

States of acting like a mafia figure taking control of smaller countries. he uses the iraq war as an example of that. now, this type of language, of course, plays in very well to the message that north korea is trying to send not only to its own people, but the rest of the world, that america is an imperialist that is unfairly treating north korea and accusing north korea inaccurately of widespread human rights abuses that were laid out in the united nations report earlier this year. even though...

U.s. economic and foreign policy, and now new details are coming about about who this man actually is and why he may have decided to make the dangerous journey into north korea. heres cnns will ripley. >> heres what were learning about arturo. he is 29 years old from el paso, texas, and most importantly here, he has a history of mental instability, including a bipolar diagnosis. his mother says he is off his medication right now, sh & shes been very concerned about him since they last had contac...

Beauty of the bridge, a piece of iron. what are they compared to one human livment what if that was your son or daughter. thats what we have to get people to understand that these people who go there to die, they dont necessarily want to but they are in a state of mental instability, where they feel there is not another option. and those are the people we have to reach out to. because they are suffering and they deserve hope just like everyone else. >> im so glad to see you again, so glad youre ...

Aesthetics of the bridge? >> the aesthetics of the bridge? >> it was a huge issue. they didnt want to ruin the beauty of a bridge. a piece of iron. what are the aesthetics compared to one human life. what if that was your mom or your dad or your son or your daughter. thats what we have to get people to understand, these people who go there to die, they dont necessarily want to, but they are in a state of mental instability where they feel there is not another option and those are the people we h...

Ensuring the constitutionality of the american criminal justice system challenging states that wish to execute mentally disabled inmates. in 2002, the high court banned the execution of criminals with intellectual deficiencies ruling it a violation of the eighth amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. 17 years prior to that case 44 mentally disabled inmates have been killed by the state. after that ruling several states drew a hard line to define mental disabilities based on iq te...

That could have had act says and knowledge of that navigation system to see if theres anything that would lead investigators to think that was a deliberate, nefarious act. >> so don, walk us through that from a criminal or terror investigation approach. that you sort of have a decision tree here of each act and weighting the evidence to see whether the act was something suspicious or some sort of other benign activity. >> well, youre going to start doing a very deep background investigation star...

China came forward and said we checked all chinese passengers. none of them have ties to terrorism. >> that may be true. all countries that had passengers on that flight have done the same. have tried to look at every possible piece of data about every passenger. the problem with that, those searches are being done to verify the passenger information is actually correct. so you also have the possibility of counter fit passports that werent ever reported stolen and might be more difficult to chec...

Jon: clearly they have turned the corner and they are talking about syria. but earlier they were addressing mondays terrible shooting at naval yard in washington dc. really saying that we are not want to prejudge this yet. we will let the investigation move forward. there is new information this morning on the serious questions that were raised on aaron alexis. we are learning that the man killed 12 people and he had a well-documented history of mental instability. please alerted naval authority...

Important problem and to reflect the will of the american people when it comes to common sense steps. steps that respect our second amendment rights. rights that the president supports. and that simply in the case of the background check legislation as we discussed quite intensively for a period earlier this year, would simply build upon and improve an existing system. so that those who should not have access to firearms, because theyre convicted criminals or have a serious mental instability, a...