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This is pretty simple if he has these problems how confident are you in knowing what his mind set is. >> what do you say to those who say this is political correctness or there is a political motivation to not label something as terrorism because it doesn't play into the administration's line that things are more under control than they may be? >> well, you know, i would just agree with everything that phil has said. these things are complicated. remember the d.c. sniper case, the two guys who killed a number of people in the washington, d.c. area. they made a passing reference to osama bin la...

Had bi-polar disease or substance abuse problems. we can't immediately discern whether it is a terror act. this is pretty simple if he has these problems how confident are you in knowing what his mind set is. >> what do you say to those who say this is political correctness or there is a political motivation to not label something as terrorism because it doesn't play into the administration's line that things are more under control than they may be? >> well, you know, i would just agree with everything that phil has said. these things are complicated. remember the d.c. sniper case, the two guy...

Guess. you have a killer, a terrorist, here who had a problematic mental history. you assume that played a role into whether or not he decided to do what he did. >> the cases are often not clear cut. we had a case where a far-right anti-semitic guy attacked a jewish community center and shouted heil hitler after the attack. that is open and shut. but often you find salespeople have mixed motivations. and recall even the san bernardino case where initially it looked like a simple workplace violence shooting and people were very careful not to call it jihadism until it was very clear it was. oft...

Dr. martin luther king jr. six baltimore police officers were charged in the death. today, less than three days after jury deliberations began in the case of william porter, a judge declared a mistrial. prosecutors will decide whether to try him again. meantime, protesters have already made their decision. they do not like it. miguel marquez joins us from downtown baltimore. what's the latest tonight? >> reporter: look, the protests have now broken up, but they did get rather intense for a short time after that mistrial was announced. protesters taking to the streets, several dozen of them mar...

Rod, how do you go from having pot to being a person of interest in these shootings? >> i think that is based on the fact that in some of the initial shootings that took place, maybe the first four shootings, some witnesses described a vehicle that looked like this guy's vehicle. and this particular guy's vehicle, a guy that's a person of interest now, his vehicle has been spotted in these areas. this guy lives in that area. so it's not unusual. we experienced that with the d.c. sniper case if you remember back in 2002. i remember it like it was yesterday. remember there was a period of time w...