sometimes in a family incident, a murder-suicide, but sort of these spec tack larceny suicides, this performtive suicides, they are rare. you want to find out what is it about his mental state that led him to do this. and that would be who was he following on social media, who was he communicating with, and what would be the motivation to commit suicide and to leave a suicide note behind in this fashion. so the press conference is in about 45 minutes. we ll have a sense of what i m looking at is why does this continue to be a joint terrorism task force investigation and is that because there is something in the suicide note or his family knew something about what that motivation would be. that motivation, once again, could be a number of things. but the terrorism would be
you and they want to destroy your country as we know it. dave and michelle? okay. thank you, caitlyn. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan withdrawing now for consideration for the permanent job. his decision comes after new reporting from the washington post about a violent family incident when shanahan s son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat. shanahan strongly defended his 17-year-old son arguing in a memo two weeks later that the teen was defending himself. shanahan told the post that he later regretted that memo and that the self-defense kwlams false. shanahan was fully vetted and the white house was aware of the claim. shanahan s withdrawal raises key questions about pentagon leadership and comes just as tensions are escalating with
than a setting agenda for what he s going to do if he does get four more years in office. and the president said if he doesn t, he painted this pretty dark picture, at times apocalypt apocalyptic. he said, quote, the democrats want to destroy you and they want to destroy your country as we know it. caitlyn collins, thank you. acting defense secretary patrick shanahan withdrawing from consideration for the permanent job. this decision comes after new reporting from the washington post about a violent family incident in 2011 when shanahan s son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat. shanahan strongly defended his then 17-year-old son arguing in a memo two weeks later that the teen was defending himself. shanahan told the post that he later regretted the memo and that the self-defense claim was false. an administration official said shanahan was fully vetted. they were generally aware of the
permanent job. this comes after a report of a violent family incident when shanahan s son attacked his own mother with a baseball bat. shanahan argued in a memo two weeks later that the teen was defending himself. shanahan told the post that he later regretted the memo and the self-defense was false. an administration official tells cnn shanahan was fully vet and they were aware of the domestic abuse claims. even though shanahan himself was never arrested, there was growing concern that his ex-wife would publicly accuse him of domestic abuse. shanahan s withdrawal raises key questions about pentagon leadership now coming just as tensions are escalating with iran. we ll have more on that in a moment. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez seems to be
will plum met in the northeast so be prepared for that. you still need to bring the gloves and the coat because you need it this afternoon. then tomorrow morning, all of the cold air rushes to the east coast. the only good news, mika, only short-lived. only one or two days of this and then it will warm up. bill karins, thank you. back to you throughout updates through the show. unraveling in the middle east. big news overnight as well as asia on the brink and richard haass is here for that. first, politics. msnbc has learned that liz cheney is expected to drop her bid for u.s. senate in wyoming. politico reports a number of factors including a recently family incident causing her to reconsider. you remember cheney and her sister mary who is gay publicly sparred over same-sex marriage. liz cheney issued a statement against gay marriage when mary posted on facebook, quote, liz s position is to treat my family