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District 4 fire station there because the guys there from engine 7 and tower lad 17 were among the first responders and a number of those guys are veterans. it's weird. i don't know if you saw the column today -- >> i did. >> they didn't want me to put their names in the paper and so an eddie kelly, the head of the union came with me. he's on ladder 17. he just wanted people to know these guys don't want credit. as they said, they did their job. but their job is to run at bombs. and to run towards danger. and one of the first responders i know, he's been on the job for eight years and he did t...

S.e.a.l. hailed by combat experts as one of the military's deadliest snipers was one of two people killed saturday at a shooting range. police say chris kyle, who survived four grueling combat tours in iraq was gunned down by a troubled fellow soldier that he was trying to help. nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim maiklaszewski joins us now. what do we know? >> it's a tragic story in so many ways. this marine corps reservist, a 25-year-old by the name of eddie ray routh, is in custody facing two capital murder charges in the deaths of that former navy s.e.a.l. sniper, chris kyle, and a f...

Of democrats have always been for it. the white house wasn't publicly pushing for this. they'd be fighting against their own basin stead of focusing on the issues where they want to focus. you saw even during the process of coming up with these proposals, vice president biden very clearly in public statements drawing this up didn't mention the assault weapons ban but other parts of it. early on, the white house setting the stage for this bifurcation. you can push for the assault weapons ban and signal to really the moderate democrats in the senate who don't want that vote that it's okay for th...

Pursuing the nation's business and not sure if people care. i think the american people in fact have been remarkable in the war on terror in their grace and their support of american soldiers. but i think to many americans, american soldiers are anonymous. they're somebody you see in an airport. you say thanks for your service, or you might buy them a meal or do something nice. but you don't know them because most cases they're not from your family, they're not from your town. they are a fairly small group, less than 1/2 of 1% of all americans are directly affected by this so i'm not sure that...

Through over there. >> he was a good marine. he went through two combat tours. the first was in afghanistan. his unit provided security during karzai's first -- the first election in kabul, afghanistan. and then he also was in fallujah, iraq, for his second combat tour which was much more taxing. >> bill: when he came home, he had post traumaics stress disorder when he came home? >> right. >> bill: did that influence him going to mexico? did it have anything to do with him going to mexico? >> yes. he had been in a nine-month in patient treatment in the napa valley called the pathway home and h...