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Tone. and its really up in the air as to what kind of future bowe bergdahl, if any, will have with the u.s. military, or if this is, like, the beginning of the process of ending bowe bergdahls military career. >> also joining us is lieutenant colonel rick drancoda. we know there were two soldiers with him, accompanying him wherever he goes. is it safe to have him on that base surrounded by other soldiers, especially since the allegations are he simply walked off? >> i think thats what those two ...

Others could be here for years, until their charges are resolved. they always begin their time at the intake center located at the central jail facility. >> orange county jail system is considered a mega jail. we have the ability to house over 7,000 inmates at one time. and the challenges we face pretty much reflect, to a certain degree, the challenges the community faces with gang affiliations, with drug abuse, mental problems, issues that would be better served in hospitals but given the curre...

>> state senator morse, youre right to state its nuanced that bloomberg is going to lengths that hunters wont have guns taken away, these are about background checks for people with mental problems, criminals. one aspect that makes it tough is he has targeted democrats who he feels are not sufficiently supportive of gun control. take a look at what his advertisements in the past have done. >> in a race to replace jessie jackson, look out for halvorson. she got an "a" from the nra. the nra, again...

Willie? willie? will you come to the door, sir? >> willie, willie, you want to talk to the doctor? >> [ speaking spanish ]. >> the ninth floor of the miami-dade pretrial detention center is a world unto itself. as part of the psychiatric unit, these cells are reserved for inmates with serious mental problems. >> sir, you all right? >> dr. joseph poitier is the jails chief psychiatrist. hes worked at miami-dade for the past ten years. >> jails have, in effect, become mental institutions. i would ...

Lot of schools, in fact principals and others have taken measures to reduce the probability of an event like this. of course the state of connecticut, the state of new jersey tightened up their gun safety regulations but representing as i do my people at the federal level an awful lot more we can do at the federal level starting with very basic common sensethings like background checks to make sure people who have a history of violence or mental problems dont buy weaponry. >> is there an appetit...

Mcauliffe is seen as a defeat for the nra. i think thats, you know, people, their own tests. so, you know, yes. cuccinelli, who lost, the republican, was backed by the nra, but this is not as simple, and this is what -- and, by the way, what kind of end to the gun control push, certainly in the senate, had -- would have ended in the house, anyway -- there was a lot of democrats who come from gun culture states. they say, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. the problem is there has to be...

From. by the way, it is a felony. hes going to lose his right to vote. i dont think rick scott is going to help him get it back. >> wow. richard, its interesting. weve talked a lot of rob ford. theyve both said, this is a disease i have to deal with, the disease of alcoholism, the disease of addiction. they sort of ask for the publics kind-hearted -- they appeal to the kind-hearted in what is an obstruction -- not obstruction, but definitely not lawful behavior. i guess, why do we afford our ele...

Adolescents may not not same when it comes to people with serious mental problems. >> no, you might absolutely be correct. the problem is we just dont know yet, that the research really is not there. it is irresponsible for researchers in my field to take research down on how you said normal adolescent males and so forth and try to generalize the findings to these actual horrific acts, that were kind of going beyond the data we collected in the laboratory when we try to predict it. you may be ri...

Washington navy yard more vulnerable after the deadly shooting rampage. right now he hearing about the mandatory budget cuts, known as sequester. getting serious attention with big questions still unanswered about mondays deadly rampage. lawmakers want answers about security procedures at military facilities. all of this coming as we learn about the red flags. many were raised, including reports that police warned the navy about some serious mental problems of aaron alexis a few weeks ago and th...

Police encountered an obviously delusional man, and that police department notified the navy that they had contractor on their hands with serious active mental problems and they faxed them the report and even after naval station police said they would look into it, apparently no one did, or if they did, nothing happened. nothing triggered anything on his employment as a contractor. nothing triggered anything in his security check or background check, none of the arrests, none of the misconduct p...