meantime, an american journalist went on tv and put on rainbow suspenders and criticized russian law. we re not going to be silent in the face of this horrific oppression that is perpetrated by your pay masters, vladimir putin, that s what i m here to talk about. all right. that s what i m here to talk about. i don t know how as a journalist you can go to sleep at night. it went on for several minutes before the government-run network pulled the plug on the interview. they also canceled his cab ride home. check out this absolutely incredible video from western russia. a military ship comes closer and closer to a beach filled with people. fortunately, no one was hurt. the russian defense ministry said the ship was out for a regular training exercise and the beach is actually on the property of a military firing range. new ammunition for the cola wars this morning.
can help a lot. despite all the law enforcement resources dedicated to the amber alert, it was a chance encounter with four horseback riders in idaho that led to hannah s rescue from a place called the river of no return. i d like to say thank you because without them i probably wouldn t be here right now. reporter: hannah also talked about letters she wrote to dimaggio before she was kidnapped. she said a year ago she was having trouble with her mom, he was a family friend, she called him uncle jim. and so she wrote him these letters asking him his advice. also she said she used social media so much after her rescue, chris, because she said i m a teenager and that s how i communicate. she also said doing that helped her to grieve. chris? kate snow in san diego. thank you, kate. that wraps up this hour of jansing & co. craig melvin fills in for thomas roberts.
isn t a pressing issue, i m just saying that the mountain of issues that congress can t and the white house can t reach an agreement on is daunting. we re also looking at the politics, we ve got the 2014 midterm elections coming up next fall and everything s quickly turning to that. and i question whether or not there s the political will. the gun issue or the mental health issue. can i play a clip from a woman who knows the shooter well? i don t want anybody to think that he s a monster because he s not. he always protected those he loved. chris, he has a history of mental illness. his mom dies a couple of years ago. the report said that he had a history of schizophrenia. now, the republicans were all over this as i said after newtown about how we have to do something about the issue of mental illness.
going to try to come back and ban assault rifles and ban high-capacity magazines. some of the things that senator blumenthal was talking about which is a much more liberal approach to gun control, he s argued that s why we need to take a more common sense approach, like his bill with senator toomey that would make expand background checks and get to the issue of mentally ill and criminals not having guns. thanks so much to both of you. thank you, chris. of course, we want to remind you about the president s speech later today in buffalo. we ll have it live at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. meantime, we ve got the first exclusive interview with hannah anderson. setting the record straight about those phone calls the day she was kidnapped by james lee dimaggio. here s what she told the today show. the phone calls weren t phone calls, they were texts. he was picking me up from cheer camp and he didn t know the address or where i was so i had to tell him the address and tell
happening? we re extremely excited and hopeful about this because it s clear against the constitution this is about voter suppression. it is not about protecting the right to vote and the governor and his allies know that. our lawyers are very hopeful about this. we re also asking the attorney general. we re also looking at another angle now we will look at relative toward young people on these college campuses. they know, chris, that the south has changed. that the solid south is wide open, there s a new electorate that s going to tear up the old white southern strategy and one party rule. and that s why they re trying so hard to deny the right to vote. but as you audience can see, the thousands and thousands of people mobilizing on moral mondays and across the state, we re going to do what dr. king said, go back to alabama, go back to north carolina. we re going to stay home and fight, fight, fight. and we will be successful in this regard because it is fundamentally a crime agains