would be curious to know how they are three on death row and one executed this may be the second one. what about the insanity? lots of talk there. ultimately what happens is when you look at this, you look at the nature of the defense the guns and weapons the cache of things the armor he had on himself at the time the booby trapping of the apartment would show someone who is luis sid someone who is logical and someone who premedicated the act which would go against i just had a fit of anxiety or i didn t know what i was doing. i would largely suspect any indication towards an insanity plea would fail. would you plea insanity? an insanity defense is raised 1 percent of the time just to give some sense and the other thing is, it fails even more than that. it s success of .25 percent of
the planning that goes into this. and not to, you know, so many of us daily go through struggles and failures and things where we feel as if we have embarrassed or shamed ourselves. certainly, we don t resort to this type of manic behavior. but when we talk about the assembly needed to go into a plan like this, the research, the gear that he had on, the equipment, the machinery that he had, and also the sophisticated, james, the sophisticated booby-trapping that he did of his apartment, when you try to break down that mindset and especially with someone who has put together a book like you have, what is the possible motive for someone to do something like this? i mean, that s the basis we re trying to figure out here, the motive that somebody feels the need to take this many lives in such a heinous and violent way? well, it could be a combination of someone who needs and wants to feel powerful,
suspect s apartment now, just moments ago, a controlled detonation of sorts. you heard the boom there. all we understand is that police actually yelled fire in the hole three times after placing some sort of wiring through the window by way of bomb experts that were in a bucket that were lifted to that third floor level. they placed some sort of wiring in there and we understand from our security analysts who we spoke to last hour who was explained to us that a device would then be shot into the window when they felt like we had a good point of view. so you heard the boom there. still unclear from the police department whether this was mission accomplished. we don t know if they actually hit their target. we hope to hear more details and we are hearing from former assistant director of the fbi tom fuentes. you ve had familiarity with scenes like this involving the detonation of bombs, explosive, et cetera and you just told us in the last 15 minutes how remarkable, you thoug
that loud pop you re hearing there, this is the bomb squad carrying out a controlled detonation at the apartment complex where the suspect lived this as they slowly work to enter the booby trapped apartment of the suspect james holmes and a police spokesman made this announcement. it s been successful in disabling a second triggering device. although not certain, we are hopeful that we have eliminated the remaining major threat. however, we will not know this until we enter the apartment. we ll bring in ed eleven dara just outside that complex. now all the teams that they have here at the apartment complex which is that red brick building, now those teams that are on the ground because of that detonation, they used a water shot, which is like a water bottle that detonated and that allowed them to kind of get control of all the trip wires and various jars and things they were seeing believed had explosive materials that could detonate and cause serious injury if not kill
does it have any impact? i m a cynic and i assume it really doesn t. you hope it does but you think it doesn t. you have been looking out of touch already and boy, is today a reminder. there could not be a more normal event than going to the midnight opening of the batman movie. it was expected to be the gotten rave reviews. everybody is looking forward to this. in the suburbs of denver. in america. near an air force base. that s what makes it so terrifying. we have all done that. we have kids. i mean, i think that s what i would just say just with the booby-trapping, one quick point. the frightening thing is this was not it certainly doesn t seem like a spur of the moment thing. this was a planned over time event. peter alexander is on the ground in new hampshire with the romney campaign. peter, they also called an audible obviously and made the speech that he made moments ago.