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Enlist in the military, there's a physical check, but there's not a mental health evaluation. when people enter the service, i think this would be a good idea to, number one, screen out individuals that may have mental illness problems. number two, have a baseline so that when they return home we can compare that to where they are when they come back. i think that will go a long ways with this mental health issue. >> chairman mccall, senator kaine, we want to thank you both. thank you very much for coming in today. we will follow this closely. thank you, gentlemen. what do you think should b...

Enlist in the military, there's a physical check, but there's not a mental health evaluation. when people enter the service, i think this would be a good idea to, number one, screen out individuals that may have mental illness problems. number two, have a baseline so that when they return home we can compare that to where they are when they come back. i think that will go a long ways with this mental health issue. >> chairman mccall, senator kaine, we want to thank you both. thank you very much for coming in today. we will follow this closely. thank you, gentlemen. what do you think should b...

The younger brotherly survived. what about had im? did he will have any mental illness problems? nel indication he was suffering from schizophrenia. >> nothing like that. but what the globe is now quoting anonymous friends and acquaintances of the younger brother saying he sold marijuana at dartmouth, that he sometimes made about $1,000 a week, that he was known as a marijuana seller there and that he sometimes carried a gun to protect his supply of marijuana. that is according to "the boston globe." that's new information we found in this investigation that the globe had in its report. that w...

It's been expected that james holmes would change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. not shoefp so much a case of if but when. at his arraignment back on march 12th his legal team said they were not ready so the judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. the defense has hinted at it since the case began. one legal expert says it's a given that holmes has mental issues. >> the question is whether those mental illness problems that mr. holmes has rose to the level of insanity at the time he was committing these acts. >> reporter: now once holmes pleads insanity he gives up a lot o...

So the up tense battle on both sides will likely continue, martha. martha: what are we seeing from the nra as what they think will happen on the president's plan to curb gun violence? what are they proposing? what would they give? >> reporter: good question. the nra believes the president will not have enough support in congress to support any type of ban on assault weapons or even high-capacity magazines for that matter. the nra, martha, believes the root of the problem is mental illness. therefore it is pushing for a measure to keep guns out of the hands of those who have been adjudicated as...