i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we re driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that s personal pricing. bottom of the hour now. welcome back, everyone. so glad you re with us on this saturday morning. i m randi kaye. we re getting some shocking new information about the colorado theater shooting suspect james holmes. we ve been hearing conflicting reports about a package that he allegedly sent to his psychiatst before the shooting. cbs is reporting that package contained details about how he planned on killing people. now there s a legal battle over that package and whatever was inside it. jim spellman sounds the jail in aurora, kol california, for us this morning. good morning, jim. so what is this assertion of privilege that lawyers are talking about? so what the defense is saying is that the writings in this book were sent from holmes to his psychiatrist, a woman named dr. lynn fenton and that those are doctor-patient communicat
brit, mitt romney. now i toss over to fredricka whitfield, and good day to you whitfield, and good day to you all. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. in this hour, mitt romney manages to make headlines with foot in mouth mments that offended the british prime minister and the mayor of london and other stories that we are following and right to it. people are mopping up and assess ing the damage in parts of the northeast today and a series of severe storms swept through communities in new jersey and pennsylvania and new york and the storms left hundreds of thousands of customers without power. a brooklyn man was killed after lightning hit a church causing a scaffold to fall on him. a falling tree crushed a pennsylvania woman s car. i was coming home from the grocery store and the sky was pitch black and next thing you know the back door swinging open and my son is yelling from the front of the house, get ou
weapons to strike hospitals in alep aleppo. i believe that the united states should first tell russia that this kind of war crime is unacceptable in the world today. also just today, vladimir putin who denies any russian involvement says they will appeal to the united nations to investigate the chemical attack. the syrian government would have no reason to use chemical weapons and is willing to let international experts examine their base. let s start here. when it comes to the u.s. air strikes against syria, recent polling shows that 57% of americans approve. jesse? yeah, it s a very popular strike. i don t think though that the country has the stomach for any sort of land war or any escalation. we know what happens with regime change in the middle east.
alep aleppo. a city that s seen the worst of syria s crushing five-year war. this comes as russia is cutting ties with the international criminal court, raising alarms among human rights add vo kates though we should note the u.s. is not a member either. at the same sometime, russia aspear peers to be expanding its influence elsewhere in the world. it will monomitor a new securit agreement. russia is delivering new military equipment including tanks and building new expanded embassy in the central american nation. so much right now at stake, and yet neither the state department or the pentagon had even heard from trump s transition team until today. according to the nooimt the new time times , trump has been working without official state department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders. those calls may not have even taken place on a secure phone line. ironic for a politician who accused his opponent of playing fast and loose with state secrets. reports tha