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Want to know if somebody either provided material support or should have called before i get into issues like what was his motivation. thats a little further down the road for me. >> james, you made an earlier point. this is not as typical as the ones weve been to standing shoulder to shoulder. social media may have been relevant here. there may have been threats as recent as today. thats going to shine. theyre going to shine a light on that in terms of what should you have acted on? what does i...

Were light on details. but it does raise the issue of heres another one. are you aware of anything on the federal level that is being done actively to deal with the issues that seem to invariably surround these shootings? we know what the states are doing. but on the federal level, is there anything to give any hope for any kind of momentum? >> well, congress is certainly broke and has done nothing to end gun crime. i have hope. i believe the fact that this movement has become more led by kids, ...

2012 was the suit. 2015 was the appeal. this was years ago. >> i got to disagree with most of the media commentary including from people who are already suggesting it may have been the media environment that led to this. people are blowing through one point. thats a term we use in the law enforcement business. edp. emotionally disturbed person. before we said he had a motive we can understand, a rational actor, how confident are we he didnt have emotional issues dating back as far as 2015. that ...

Anger and decided now was the time when the suit was from 2015. does that fit into the mix? 2012 was the substitute. 2015 was the appeal. this was years ago. >> i got to disagree with most of the media commentary including from people who are already suggesting it may have been the media environment that led to this. people are blowing through one point. thats a term we use in the law enforcement business. edp. emotionally disturbed person. before we said he had a motive we can understand, a rat...

The last part is saving grace. it seemed to have been he had an intentional beef, a defamation suit that was brought against the paper. it was dismissed. for you, phil, how important is the followup interview with somebody like this? >> critically important. when im going in -- i probably did 2000 threat briefs at the fbi. those characteristics are not on the board tomorrow morning when we go in for a conversation about this with the fbi director. theres still a people game. we think we know one...

These are important things to democrats. if we dont have the levers of power, theres not going to be anything we can do other than complain about it. i think we need to make a strategic decision to go in another direction, very respectful of nancy pelosi and all of her accomplishments, but i think its time to go in a new direction. >> why do you think democrats have lost their way, specifically what have you all done wrong? >> well, we dont have a robust economic mess an. we dont have to give up...

300 amendments hurled at the new immigration bill being marked up as we speak. historic vote. new numbers confirm african-americans turned out in record force at the polls in 2012 and debt overload. the new senator wants to take breaks given to big banks and give them to college kids. those are big topics flagged for us today by our panel covering progressive issues. panel, it is great to have you here. heather, i want to start with you. i want to play with everybody where we are on the markup f...

Battles that we have after some of these shootings where access the type of weapon and ammo. this is something that you are not a law away from changing. however, there are going to be issues here about who this man was, why he was able to maintain weapons and what was known about his particular state of mind. particular attention of detail is going to come up. there were devices used here. now, there was bad reporting that it was ieds. theyre not ieds. they were smoke grenades. he used them on ...

But that seems to be the stem of the animus here. what was used? shotgun. now, what does that tell us? that we are not going to have the kind of protracted gun battles that we have after some of these shootings where access the type of weapon and ammo. this is something that you are not a law away from changing. however, there are going to be issues here about who this man was, why he was able to maintain weapons and what was known about his particular state of mind. particular attention of deta...