catherine herridge is live with us now from washington, kathleen. thank you, according to the criminal complaint filed late this afternoon, the suspect is facing five counties, including the attempted murder of a member of congress, the murder of pa federal employee, and federal judge, as well as the attempted murder of giffords staffers. and the fbi says more charges may be forth coming. i am not at all going to preclude the possibility that additional charges will be brought under the domestic terrorism statutes and the as the investigation continues. the domestic terrorism charges in this case would be defined as an act of violence carried out to achieve a political end and today the fbi director would not discuss the suspect s motivation. in addition the investigators found a letter from congress woman giffords s office, thanking loughner for attending a congress at the corner event in tucson and there was a contact between
the suspect and giffords office and an envelope was found at loughner s home which seemed to foreshadow the shooting and reads in part, also recovered in the safe was an envelope, handwriting sight i planned ahead in my assassination and the name gifford along with what appears to be loughner s signature and confirmed that the gun was bought in a gun shop in november. a glock .9 millimeter. he was required to pass a fbi background check which he did without incident and law enforcement and second county sheriff telling fox in the video throughout the day comes from safeway in tucson where the the shooting happened and the man in the lower right corner that have video has been identified, a cabdriver who went to the supermarket for change. earlier federal investigators were trying to work out whether he was part of the shooting or a witness. and tonight, fox is told that this lead has washed out.
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was involved in the shooting. so, after the shooting, the father heard that he might have been involved in a shooting, but didn t realize the significance, didn t realize what had happened? i don t think he realized the magnitude of it. i think the information that he was given at the time was little or, you know, very little. you know, there s it s hard to really know how he might react. would you be angry, initially, would you be very upset and mournful initially? i wondered if you could give us a description of how, how the father seemed and more of what he said, if you heard anything? he seemed very upset. the mother was also upset. she was obviously crying, could hear something of that magnitude. your son is involved. i have four children, yeah, i think i d be very upset and very heart broken that one of my children could come with something like this. you know, this is a life changer for everybody in tucson and probably for all of
we think it s time to tamp that down a little bit and for us to have civilized discussions about our disagreements so we don t encourage people to behave in this kind of manner. what do you think the fallout would be from a situation like we saw today? well, i don t know. we maybe need to reexamine a lot of things, for instance, one of the first things on the table at the state legislate tur this year is putting guns in schools. how crazy is that, given what we ve seen here today? and i think we just need to have a more civilized discourse in our politics in this country. this state as well. there are going to be a lot of discussions like that coming from jeff rogers, pima county democratic party. as a result of what has transpired at a shopping center in a grocery store just outside actually of a safeway in tucson, arizona, where we have been told a number of people have been shot, unconfirm eed reports of deaths. eyewitnesss say they do see bodies, and among those shot was cong