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Listening to a president ask all of these bright questions about a crisis and worried about nuclear war and worried and the prestige of america and you are hearing it and young and it is putting you in the white house. reporter: and douglas brinkley says he expects all of the presidential libraries will try to replicate what the kennedy library is doing. wolff? thank you, mary. you in the situation room, and the tucson university college records are in our hands, and find out why teachers and students were concerned about jared loughner, and new clues in the investigation. stand by for that. and cnn exclusive, our dr. sanjay gupta goes inside of congresswoman gabrielle giffords trauma room. and also, we will talk to the aide who helped to save the congresswoman s life, daniel hernandez, and he is standing by live. we would like to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. ....
The office, saying yesterday representative giffords colleagues on both sides of the aisle honor her and mourn those lost and the speaker was here on the house. he was passionate and remorseful and sad when he delivered the remarks yesterday, holding back tears, john boehner, as you saw, roland. i certainly understand the obligation that he had in the house. the issue for me is not really him accepting the president s invitati invitation. i thought it would have been important for the country to see president barack obama, to see speaker john boehner walk nothing that memorial service for the people of tucson, for the state of arizona, for the country, because it would have symbolized something that s very important. so, i understand what the house did, but i do think he should have been there to be able to say, look, we as a nation are united. also, he is not the republican leader of the house. he is the speaker of the house over the entire house. i do think he certainly should ....
Protection for the u.s. lawmakers in their home districts has become more urgent following the shootings in tucson. we go to our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve. what are you learning? well, wolf, surveillance cameras and peepholes and panic buttons are the sorts of things that members of congress are now considering for the district offices in light of the shootings in tucson. well, it is a little cold out there, right? reporter: maryland congressman is a gregarious guy who loves glad handing with the public. it is part of his job. but threats are part of it, too. we get threats all of the kind. what kind? well, threats that if you don t do this, he won t wake up tomorrow. and we don t like who he is or what he is. he is gone. reporter: rupersberger ....
Sanjay is joining us now from tucson. did he tell you about the condition of his wife? well, you know, he confirmed at love t t lolot of the things heard about the eye opening, and significant, and he said he was obviously there at the time. he talked about the fact that she was able to start a little bit of therapy today and had the legs dangling over the side and some of that we heard, and the breathing tube is still in as well. he said that it could come out as early as tomorrow, and might be in another week, but doctors are sort of trying to decide how the proceed. wolf, he was in houston when he found out and at the time he found out none of it had been in the news. he received a call from congresswoman giffords chief of staff who told him that he is in a different state, and obviously startling news to hear, and he is a pilot and able to get an airplane and was here in arizona within 45 minutes he said, right ....
well, when you fly it into the boneyard in the desert, and get the brief ahead of time. i will do the same thing with the crew, make sure it stays intact for the museum. we won t be signing our name on anything. reporter: so, wolf, we ve to see how it shakes out, and like everyone else, our thoughts and prayers are with mark and his family, and hopefully he ll get to fly that flight. i it would mean a lot to him. well, u se shg, seems like a in the aftermath of the tucson shooting, we will show you what one u.s. congressman is now doing to protect himself and why sarah palin s statement on the tucson tragedy could, could potentially mark a turning point for republicans. stick around, you are in the situation room . tdd# 1-800-345-2550 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no phone calls, no feedback, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no here s how your money s doing. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i mean what about a little sign that you re still interested? tdd# 1-800-345-2550 come on, surprise me! ....