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There are no records of him having attended this school. what is that about? >> i dont know the nature of the altercation. but clearly we see time and time again a certain precip cant that sets off a mass murder. these are individuals who are socially isolated, and that fits perfectly, who are frustrated with life. and they blame other people for their probts. but there has to be that certain precipitating event, which could be this altercation, actually could even be another event we see elsewh...

Broadwell said things about libyan militants. she said it at a speech at the university of denver. that they were being held at the cia annex and that could be the reason that that annex was overtaken. i had never heard that before. had you ever heard anything like that before and where would she get that information you think if not from petraeus is one of the questions? >> i dont think she got it from general petraeus. i think the information is wrong. martha, doesnt that kind of suggest why t...

Studying economics. >> he came to a path when he was work for jack kemp an was trying to figure out how he could make a difference. he was thinking about pursuing a ph.d in economics. but kemp said why dont you go home to your hometown and run for an open seat. the rest is history. megyn: is it hard for him to spend his weeks in washington being a family man? >> sure. paul spends every minute he can back home with his children, with the people of the first district of wisconsin, with his lovely ...

concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. >> well, anderson, in the first ten days of june, a number of things were going on. ill give you a timeline here to kind of set the scene. on june 7th, the suspect in these shootings was to take an oral exam. hes in the ph.d program, the neuroscience program at the university of colorado. he took this oral exam, was a preliminary oral exam and didnt do well on it at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor to continue in this neuroscience...

only how holmes allegedly executed his rampage but also answer the one question no one knows or understands. why? lets get straight to ed lavendara on the ground for us in aurora, colorado. do we know who this package was actually sent to and when? >> reporter: our understanding is that it was sent to a psychology professor there at the university of colorado where james holmes had been studying for the past year in that ph.d neuro science program. we learned about the package at the u...

Went viral so fast when the funeral home posted it on the website the website crashed because they were getting 100,000 hits per minute. it starts out with him talking about his passion for science and the love of is wife of 33 years. pretty normal stuff, right. then it take as surprising turn admitting he was a thief. writing as it turns out i am the guy who stole the save from view drive-in back in 1971. i could have let that unsaid. but i wanted to get it off my chest. he said his ph.d was ac...

Kind of imagery to say he was normal, and then, his 20s came around and as happens so often with young men and schizophrenia set in. >> if im the prosecutor, megyn, look he is smart, he is uncanning like a fox. he knows he can use these things. he probably researched. i wouldnt be surprise even research on insanity defense when cops bo through his computer. if he has all the things in line that is the argument he can make. he didnt know, megyn when he went into the theater whether he was going t...

newsroom. lets get you up to speed now on whats happening here in aurora. a community still in deep shock today. the mayor of aurora talked to reporters a few minutes ago. hes been meeting with victims of yesterdays horrific movie theater shooting. this is the mayor. >> one of the people i met with this morning at the hospital was somebody who was hit with buckshot in his back, broken rib, punctured lung, broken coar bone. came out his back at the base of his neck. he is doing well rig...

Neighbors said apparently while the shooter was at the theater there was music in his apartment playing over and over again, the same song playing on repeat. we learned from the university of colorado that he recently dropped out of the medical school there. again he was studying neuroscience to get his ph.d in neuroscience. he got his undergrad degree in neuroscience. neighbors in san diego where he grew up said he seemed like a nice kid. dont they always, alisyn? alisyn: we often hear that. de...

Whether people elected to serve and protect the state can rally people to solve an urgent problem or if they will choose instead to point out an exciting new challenge. joining us now is rush holt, the democratic congressman from new jersey. he also has a ph.d in physics and has a paper on calcium absorption lines and also one on why we should value science education. congressman holt, thank you very much for stopping by. >> ezra, good to be with you. >> republicans used to support the expansion...