few thousand dollars or $20,000. now if you re nancy pelosi, john boehner, you can go to your best donors and say, if you have $2 million, i have you have $2 mila way to use all of it. and i can maybe use it to funnel all of it to one single candidate who needs it the most. imagine what the donors are going to want in exchange for that money. and this is now the law. this is the supreme court. this is amazing. political reporter for the new york times. it was a little hurly purl y bu getting you in here with all the breaking news. again, we eerp awaiting the press conference from torte authorities at ft. hood. ft. hood has not yet spoken about the mass shooting that happened there today, but we re expecting that press conference within the next few minutes. please stay with us. [ female announcer ] grow, it s what we do.
surgery upon their arrival at scott and white. all the injured are said to be suffering from singular or multiple gunshot wounds. ft. hood, of course, was the scene of the deadliest rampage in a military installation ever. in november 09, an army psychiatrist open fired and killed 13 people and injured more than 30 others. the shooter in that incident was convicted on capital murder charge last year. he s currently on death row. but again tonight at ft. hood, there has been another mass shooting. at this point, four confirmed dead, including the suspected shooter and another 11 injured. ft. hood officials are expected to provide their first live update on the situation there within the next few minutes. we ll be right back.
exactly what happened here, the way this unfolded, who may have been in the path of the shooter and how many people he tried to get access to before he eventually reportedly took his own life, we re going to be looking at that geography among all the other details we can get our hands on. we are awaiting news a press conference from a ft. hood spokesperson. they re set up right now at the front gates at ft. hood, we re expecting this first press statement from ft. hood itself momentarily. the latest numbers right now according to nbc news, four dead reportedly the shooter. some of those wounded are said to be in critical condition. stay with us, we ll be right back. gy and a life of purpose and meaning was infused into a corporate culture. there was a commitment to creating new jobs out of recycled metals, right here in america. and a bank that helped carolyn rafaelian s business
bases, it s really no harder than walking into almost any other office building anywhere in the united states. in that sense, the military remains vulnerable to its own personnel that has already given a card of trust to. it s not immune from the pressures that lead to violence or the presence of guns in these sorts of facilities. michael lighter, again, i should mention was deeply involved in the nadal hassan investigation in the 2009 ft. hood attack. thanks for being with us. we are awaiting the press conference which will be the first press conference. the first opportunity to explain things and answer questions from personnel at ft. hood itself. the ft. hood press conference we are expecting. stay with us, we ll have it here live. around here you don t make excuses. you make commitments. and when you can t live up to them, you own up, and make it right.
campaign style event at the university of michigan today. the details out of ft. hood tonight are still fluid, but the latest that we have at this hour is that four people have been killed on base, 11 more have been wounded in a shooting at the ft. hood military base. the four dead are believed to include the suspected shooter who is reported to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. there are initial reports that it was suspected there were two shooters involved in this incident. those reports are now believed to be false and it is thought there was one shooter in this incident. ft. hood officials say the injured personnel are being transported to local hospitals at this hour. scott & white memorial hospital reported within the last few minutes they have received a total of four patients so far, all of whom have gunshot wounds. they describe their conditions as ranging from stable to quite critical.