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What you don't know. if you don't know it, you end up in a situation like this. you may, by mistake, end up anyway worse situation. >> i must say you work in the white house. you understand you don't get on phone with people without being double and triple checked. and that's one of the things we saw in donald trump's call with taiwan. they didn't know until he was about to get on the phone with them that the chinese were going to go as crazy as they went. i'm not saying this is a mitigating factor. i'm saying you need people around you that know how washington works that say don't make that c...

Delivered a stilted five-minute closing argument in front have the jury, offering no remorse which might have ban mitigating factor. instead there were myriad of ak ra vating factors that -- aggravating factors, pre-medcation. it was especially cruel and heinous and atrocious. there were multiple killings. all of those are aggravating factors. nobody called to the witness stand, expert for example, who could have argued a mitigating factor like a psychiatric expert who could have said, well, he suffers from, you know, a mental disease or defect. he's not insane. but he has a diminished capacit...

Uniformed officer at the murder scene, you know. he's going to be life in prison. >> and to have mental health issues, of course, that's a mitigating factor there. jim cavanaugh, thank you very much for the discussion, as always. >> thank you. happening now, the west coast is bracing for a major storm that could cause widespread flash flooding in some areas. let's head to nbc's steve patterson. he is right in the middle of it in reno, nevada. tahoe not far away there, so skiers are happy at least. steve, what's happening? >> reporter: hey, good morning to you, alex. well, the rain has been c...

The jailhouse writings of charleston church shooter dylann roof now entered into evidence as the penalty phase of his trial continues today. in the trial, roof says he has no remorse for killing nine parishioner. writing, i do not regret what i did. i am not sorry. the writings introduced by the prosecutors seeking a death sentence. remorse is a mitigating factor to avoid the death penalty. another is mental illness which roof has explicitly avoided using. millions of americans up and down the eastern seaboard bracing for the battle with snow. some communities in western new york got a sneak...

To psychology, it is a jewish invention and does nothing but invent diseases and tell people they have problems when they don't, unquote. dylann roof doesn't believe in psychology and this would be considered by his defense team a mitigating factor, a reason not to put him to death, not necessarily a reason not to convict him. da dylann roof says he's his own attorney in this phase and he's not going to bring it up. so mental competency being debated in the courtroom today, no answer yet. >> martin savidge, thank you. 2016 was the deadliest in chicago in nearly a decade. it had more murders ...