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M you had a horrible ordeal you just went through. m mr. president, i'd like to general public, i have a quick story. i've been with the state police for over 30 years, in narcotics, and taskforce and supervised those for 22 years. my son grew up with depression issues and some mental health concerns. he self-medicated with marijuana. at 18, his father had him arrested a few times. he moved out when he turned 18 years old. he knew dad had rules and one was, no drugs in the house. he moved out, stayed with some friends, got a job. he had a work-related injury where he severed four fingers and h...

Is this going to make the difference? >> is this going to make a deal happen? >> it is going to increase the pressure. you see my air force wings as a former pilot. i have a sense of how critical this is. your former guests talking about the stress that the controllers are under and they can't come in self medicated and fatigued. i know pressure is building. one side says it is president trump's fault and the other side says it is nancy pelosi's. a lot of americans are saying just fix it. the good news is i think yesterday there was a little bit of break in the log jam. i think the votes in th...

To become a workaholic. >> and it is a high, high, and low, low. >> right, sometimes in the same minute. >> so what led to the moment we just showed. >> so i went to spend three years in places like afghanistan, middle east, israel, gaza, palestine. so when i came home, i got depressed. i wasn't self-aware enough to know i was depressed. i had a low fever, i self-medicated, and after the panic attack, he asked me the question, do i do drugs? and when i said yes, he gave me the look, okay, idiot. so i knew i had to make changes. >> so your disaster experience was melting down on gma. and did yo...

Offered an explanation. >> we don't know what he was doing but when michael jackson didn't have a doctor near him, he self-medicated. >> reporter: a claim jackson family members have strongly denied. stephanie stanton, nbc news, los angeles. here is your first look at some of the other news going on around america. a horrific shooting on a crowded new york city street nearly took the life of one teen tuesday. the shooting stemmed from an earlier argument between the victim and his attacker. although shot multiple times, the victim is listed in critical but stable condition, no arrests have b...

>> there's also defense giving an explanation after court yesterday for that disturbing tape where jackson sounded like he was slurring his words. for those that haven't heard we will replay it here. take a listen. >> we don't know -- what he was doing, michael jackson didn't have a doctor near him and he's self-medicated. >> all right. this is the defense attorney they are speaking of. basically the tape is proving that when murray wasn't around jackson was left to his own devices. what's your take on this? >> well, you know, i found in the opening statement of the defense something very inte...