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Analyst and republican strategist and former press secretary for dan quayle and newt gingrich. we start with cnn's namid bagir. explain this now that we have eyewitnesses who are saying a number of women were involved in the attack? how reliable is this? >> reporter: well, understandably in the terror and the chaos of people fleeing and being shot at, you do question how reliable that can be. but given that this is kenya, given that most of the attackers from the pictures that we've seen from inside the scene were dark-skinned, a woman would stand out. a white woman especially would stand out....

Strategist and former press secretary for dan quayle and newt gingrich. we start with cnn's namid bagir. explain this now that we have eyewitnesses who are saying a number of women were involved in the attack? how reliable is this? >> reporter: well, understandably in the terror and the chaos of people fleeing and being shot at, you do question how reliable that can be. but given that this is kenya, given that most of the attackers from the pictures that we've seen from inside the scene were dark-skinned, a woman would stand out. a white woman especially would stand out. a white woman carrying...

Dealing with some of the unresolved childhood wounds and scars and things that happen in the workplace that you don't think about, but that affect you very deeply. it's the hardest thing that we have to do, that we have to be more compassionate. we walk down the street and we don't look at people and we don't acknowledge them and people feel as if they don't matter and it's especially more difficult for men. especially dark-skinned, black men in this country who are oftentimes considered intimidating to other people. so i think we have to be more compassionate and when you walk down the street...

Chiming the wall and trying to get out of the spaces. it was just crazy. >> reporter: sounds like it was pandemonium. >> it was. >> reporter: do you have any kind of idea what kind of gun it was? was it a long gun? >> it appeared to be a rifle. that's the best that we could tell from that distance. >> reporter: could you describe the guy, what he was dressed like? >> he was tall, he appeared to be dark-skinned, he did not have -- i don't think he had a hat on. we saw a rifle and we saw him raise it in our direction. >> he appeared to be a black person? >> a tall black guy. >> reporter: did he ...

Said. when he was asked what race he was, we realize he could see that he was dark-skinned and that he was walking slowly. so you have to say to yourself, what about those few characteristics is the only thing you can see that makes this person suspicious? what is your organizing principle that makes him one of the punks? what is your organizing principle that makes him one of the people who always get away? what is your organizing principle that says i need to make sure that this guy does not get away because he is one of them? and what we find in the trial is that he was saying that he thoug...