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at this point they dont have a motive for the shooting. they tell at at 10:30 a.m. he went into oikos university and started shooting indiscriminately at people. we know seven people are dead. three more people are wounded. police describe what it looked like when they got here. take a look. >> when we got there officers found several victims throughout the classroom, throughout the building. there were several people hiding in locked buildings, locked doors, behind desks. as you can i...

and president obama makes some high school students cry. this hour, the inspiring against the odds story that brought the commander in chief to their school. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." first this hour, the shrimping republican presidential field. weve seen prominent contenders opt out of the 2012 race in recent weeks, including former arkansas governor mike huckabee. say so long to the prospect with the biggest name, deepest pockets, and most outrageous remarks. ...

Afghanistan, a war with what end, continues this morning. lisa curtis joins us, a former cia analyst and state department adviser for south asian affairs who works with the heritage foundation and david riker, a former special forces officer in afghanistan who served three tours of duty and legal policy analyst at the cato institute. both of you join me from washington. welcome. dick lugar echos the sentiment of a growing number of lawmakers now, questioning whether or not we need to change cour...

Shutdown. one thing he did say there, possibly trying to clear something up, it sounds like speaker boehner is saying, we havent agreed on a number, harry reid saying that we have. you heard steny hoyer say there, actually, yes, senator reid believes we have an agreement on a number but boehner doesnt agree you can have an agreement on numbers until all of the issues are resolved. again, were not going far from that story here in the newsroom. but, also, donald trump, you may have seen him out o...

Shes favored to win it. and the two other speaksers well hear are a pair of governors, bobby jindal, the governor of louisiana who insists hes not running for president and few people in new orleans and louisiana believe that. and, he gave the response to the presidents state of the union recently and was criticized for not having done a good job and this is considered an opportunity for him to correct that and take a new course and rick perry the governor of texas. everything is big in texas. a...

The question then becomes, do we settle back in to a space where the people who know what we need to do and how we need to do it actually have the final say? and thats always the debate. >> then there is the president going out on twitter and, again, as we just showed in the intro to the show, questioning whether or not we should have the first amendment essentially. questioning freedom of the press. somebody should look into that. its not the first time hes said these things. should we just con...

From members of his own party as it appears clear that the white house and trumps advisers were caught flatfooted by the developments. when president trump was asked why it took him days to condemn these actions by white nationalists, he said only that they are condemned. but that explanation rang hollow to some. in part because this is a president who has repeatedly fumbled his efforts to denounce the white nationalists that have rallied in his name. remember, it took him multiple attempts to s...

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But another one doesnt, according to the president. the president floated the idea there were tapes of his conversations with james comey and basically admits now he was making it up, we wrote, with all the intercepts unmasking illegal leaking of information, i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey but i did not make and do not have any such recordering. cnn washington correspondent joe johns at the white house with the tapes that dont exist, pro...

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