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so the republican national committee is under fire tonight for a tweet about beto o'rourke. back with me, karen finney, scott jennings. on st. patrick's day, the republican party sent out a tweet mocking beto o'rourke's irish heritage using his mug shot from a drunk driving arrest and saying on this special st. patty's day. the tweet promotes offensive irish stereotypes. why would anyone think this is a good idea? >> i have no idea and i have to tell you, as -- i am actually part irish, so i have to take -- stick up for irish people. >> who would have thought? >> actually it's a true fact. any time you're using racist tropes to promote any kind of message or as a way to attack an
i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. so the republican national committee is under fire tonight for a tweet about beto o'rourke. back with me, karen finney, scott jennings. on st. patrick's day, the republican party sent out a tweet mocking beto o'rourke's irish heritage using his mug shot from a drunk driving arrest and saying on this special st. patty's day. the tweet promotes offensive irish stereotypes. why would anyone think this is a good idea? >> i have no idea and i have to tell you, as -- i am actually
beto o'rourke this weekend. his mug shot from a drunk driving arrest in 1998 on st. patrick's day. obviously, stoking ethnic stereotypes. offensive in every possible way. and this is what beto o'rourke said. >> i want to focus on the big picture, on our goals. they want us to be defined not by this pettiness or the personal attacks that we see in ones like the ad that you just described. >> okay. so if the american people are looking to get better, smarter, live better lives, what on earth is the gop thinking with a disgusting tweet like that? >> it was morally wrong. it was strategically wrong. >> it was also stupid. >> it was offensive. >> i have that one for you. >> it was offensive too. i don't think that was the right message to put out there. we had ted cruz bring up the drunk driving arrest in the context of the campaign.
it was strategically beneficial to beto o'rourke. because we were waiting as republicans when beto jumped in the race. we said just wait until the rivals take the cruz oppositional research on beto. this inoculated him from the drunk driving arrest and it's out there and it will end quickly. i don't see how a candidate can use that against him now that democrats have rallied to his defense. much harder. >> it's actually not about the drunk -- >> i'm talking about the strategic. we have been clear that i think it's absolutely morally wrong that the gop did this. >> but what this shows isn't that the democrats can or can't use the drunk driving. what this shows yet again are -- is the true colors of the gop. that's what this shows. i mean, they have gone way back in their boxes and dusted off the irish need not apply signs. i mean, this is historic discrimination and hatred we thought we had moved on from decades ago.
history ofctors talking about this. she stood up and said something similar. when she said it, you saw others in the audience literally erupt out of the chairs in support. this is a common theme and not the first time, and not the last. >> okay. thank you so much. coming up a drunk driving arrest after a scared residence watch a woman broadcast here's behind the wheel live. how technology is helping law enforcement. >> i am drunk beyond belief people. please supervise me because i am driving super drunk right now. i feel like i am not driving straight, but i should be. >> unbelievable. >> steve is here to break down the big things that you should watch for ahead of the e badeban
rachel was his favorite dancer. >> she had mentioned jack, and she said that, you know, she wouldn't even have to work that night if she didn't want to because he would just give her money to sit there and talk to him,. and she said that, you know, he seemed like, just like a lonely guy, and that he was basically paying for her friendship. >> we had never discovered any evidence of any kind of sexual relationships. we asked the girls that, and we have no evidence at all that rachel ever engaged in any kind of activity like that with him, or anyone else for that matter. >> jack had a previous drunk driving arrest, so it wasn't unusual for him to stay at the motel connected to the dance club. >> he would rent a motel room himself. and if he was too drunk to drive, sometimes the divas management would comp him a room. the weird thing about that was his wife was cool with it, and she would actually drive him to divas and drop him off.
unloading into the army. >> the fbi has taken over the case. so far, there's no clear motive, but the attack is being investigated as domestic terrorism. well, new details are emerging about the suspect, said to be a naturalized u.s. citizen from a middle-class muslim family. investigators say he appears to have been the lone gunman and looks like he hadn't raised any previous red flags. here now, abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: the fbi's identifying the suspect as muhammad youssef abdulazeez shown here in a mug shot from a drunk driving arrest earlier this year. he is 24 years old and sources say born in kuwait. authorities are now investigating if he was inspired by isis or another terrorist organization. sources tell abc news this man was not under active surveillance by the fbi, a classic, so-called lone wolf. the suspect wrote in his 2008 high school yearbook that "my name causes national security alerts. what does yours do?" we've learned the 24-year-old was an electrical engineer with a good-paying job, a recent grad
jordan, what kind of preaching tapes he might have been listening to online, is going to be so important in determining just what happened to this fellow here and why he snapped. i also think, john, i want to bring up quickly, we're getting more details about this drunk driving arrest. something happened in his life. there was a drunk driving arrest back in april. it looked like it might have been more than drunk driving. there was white powder under his nose. there might have been some kind of turning point internally in this guy's life that also snapped. all of this will come into play, but right now the islamic community in chattanooga, no celebrations whatsoever. this is a day of mourning. >> i talked to the district attorney who said the toxicology reports haven't actually come back from that dui arrest. he smelled of marijuana, had crushed caffeine pills, white powder under his nose that's being investigated. drew griffin for us in chattanooga. thanks so much, drew.
in december. another team hasn't picked him up yet. adrian peterson got into trouble for disciplining his son with a wooden switch. he pled no contest and roger goodell suspended him the rest of the season. he went to court and his suspension was overturned and reinstated last month. then dallas cowboys greg hardy with carolina last season suspended without pay for ten games in the 2015 season found guilty of beating and threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and throwing her on a pile of guns and charges were dismissed after he reached a civil settlement with his exgirlfriend. josh gordon suspended without pay for one year for repeatedly violating substance abuse policy. history of failed drug and alcohol tests and drunk driving arrest. interesting to compare here josh
rachel was his favorite dancer. >> she had mentioned jack, and she said that, you know, she wouldn't even have to work that night if she didn't want to because he would just give her money to sit there and talk to him. and she said that, you know, he seemed like, just like a lonely guy, and that he was basically paying for her friendship. >> we had never discovered any evidence of any kind of sexual relationships. we asked the girls that, and we have no evidence at all that rachel ever engaged in any kind of activity like that with him, or anyone else for that matter. >> jack had a previous drunk driving arrest, so it wasn't unusual for him to stay at the motel connected to the dance club. >> he would rent a motel room himself. and if he was too drunk to drive, sometimes the divas management would comp him a room. the weird thing about that was his wife was cool with it, and she would actually drive him to divas and drop him off.