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Suffered from mental illness. he's a combat army veteran 100% disabled, who skufrs from ptsd, schizophrenia, bipolar and depression. it's unlikely he's taking his medication. give me an idea of his state of mind. >> he was in a crisis mode. his thought process was that the world was going to end on friday, and that americans were potentially in harm's way. >> reporter: how so you rationally speak to someone suffering a mental breakdown? >> a lot of patience. >> reporter: he says rosario was suspicious of police. but he somehow finds a way to build trust. >> i explained to him that i'm a vetera...

A while? >> reporter: less than three years after joining the army, dahmer was kicked out for excessive drinking. >> we had to do something. so we sent him to my mother's in milwaukee, wisconsin. >> reporter: that's when his behavior changed, from strange to bizarre. >> for period of time he was sleeping with a male mannequin in his grandmother's home in wisconsin, pretending in his mind that he was a corpse. >> reporter: while dahmer was living with his grandmother, he continued abusing alcohol. his father enrolled him in a treatment program. but the psychologist working with dahmer refused t...

Abnormal sexual cravings, fantasies and urges. when people are being driven to accused because of the privacy of their sexual makeup, that's very difficult for any of us to detect. >> reporter: three months after his high school graduation in 1978, jeffrey dahmer committed his first murder, bludgeoning a 19-year-old hitchhiker with a ten-pound barbell. then dissecting his victim's body in the crawl space of his parent's home. and burying the remains in a shallow grave. after the murder, jeffrey dahmer dropped out of college, began living at home without a job, and continued drinking heavily. h...

I'm talking about .3% of the american public. the people from $1 million on up i think should be asked to share a little bit of the sacrifice we're all being asked to share. >> good morning, tuesday, august 16 on set. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. msnbc and "time" magazine senior analyst mark halperin. best-selling author. combat army united states, josh moore and nicole wallace. how are you doing this morning? >> outstanding. >> when congress comes back, if the president puts out some sort of a jobs plan, some sort of a proposal to repair the economy, will the buffet plan be included in th...

Tells abc that the time has come. but bill bennett says the debate shouldn't end yet. >> the closer you get to combat the more opposition you get. marines who are going to be in combat are opposed. also army folks who are in combat. combat army are opposed. we say we want to pay attention to them. we want to do everything for them, we want to honor them. we probably ought to honor their wishes, at least take them seriously. >> society's moving on. the army and the rest of the services should reflect the society that they're protecting. and the people in the services are willing to do it. >> no...