and can herman cain potentially play catch-up? well, i don t know if herman cain can play catch-up or not, but raising $17 million in 39 days, i did the numbers, that s $350,000 on average every single day. i mean, say whatever you want about rick perry and whether or not he has the horsepower to compete in some of these debates. he certainly is a prolific fund-raiser, and that tells me something, alex. it tells me this washington chatter class that we all belong to here in d.c. may have this one perception of herman cain excuse me, of rick perry, but others out there, the flyover country that i call it in kansas, in minnesota, and mississippi, and so forth, they clearly think that rick perry is someone to be reckoned with. no question about it. all right. i want to make note that your algebra teacher did well. you figured that out pretty well. karen finney, impressed with you, as always, too. thank you, guys. i m alex witt. thanks so much for watching. you can always catch me on
who would become a disturbance, sudden outbursts, challenging the teacher and going silent and ignore everyone while listening to his ipod. the behavior the professor thought was threatening. it felt like something was brewing in his mind. it was just a matter of time before something terrible was going to happen. reporter: he was loughner as algebra teacher. i didn t want to take chances. i wanted to take action immediately. i took the first step of action and then they carried it out. reporter: school officials suspended loughner in late september but that was after five separate incidents involving campus police. campus police visited him and his parents but school officials say they couldn t do anything more. hamstrung by personal privacy rights. the school felt it had done what it needed to do to protect
brewing in his mind. it was just a matter of time before something terrible was going to happen. reporter: he was loughner as algebra teacher. i didn t want to take chances. i wanted to take action immediately. i took the first step of action and then they carried it out. reporter: school officials suspended loughner in late september but that was after five separate incidents involving campus police. campus police visited him and his parents but school officials say they couldn t do anything more. hamstrung by personal privacy rights. the school felt it had done what it needed to do to protect the other students on campus. and that was our primary concern. is there any afterthought now that maybe the school should have went a step further and tried to get some kind of a commitment order against this person?
it was just a matter of time before something terrible was going to happen. reporter: he was loughner as algebra teacher. i didn t want to take chances. i wanted to take action immediately. i took the first step of action and then they carried it out. reporter: school officials suspended loughner in late september but that was after five separate incidents involving campus police. campus police visited him and his parents but school officials say they couldn t do anything more. hamstrung by personal privacy rights. the school felt it had done what it needed to do to protect the other students on campus. and that was our primary concern. is there any afterthought now that maybe the school should have went a step further and tried to get some kind of a commitment order against this person? well, hindsight is always
mind. loughner stated that he believed that his mind was being controlled. he stated that he believed that the government was listening in on him. again textbook demonstrations of delusions of persecution so these are signs we should be looking for in individuals like this. if you see these writings, they are clear indicators that this person has a very high probability of suffering from a psychotic illness. is it also a clear indicator that this person could become violent? well, let s talk about you are asking the questions that are most important. because the third indicator, which is this disruptive behavior that he showed in the classroom at pima community college, five times they had to call the campus police, and the behavior was not this kind of opportunistic antisocial behavior. it was strange, bizarre. so strange, that his algebra teacher feared that if he turned his back, remember before the shooting, that he would actually be shot by loughner with an automatic r