new role as the democratic minority leader. and president obama s new gift to the business community and wall street seems to have the fingerprints of the new clinton era aides all over it. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. in the ten days since the tucson shootings, authorities have conducted several hundred interviews trying to piece together what the suspect jared loughner was thinking and doing. in just a few minutes i ll ask the sheriff where the investigation stands right now. right now, cnn s thelma gutierrez has been doing serious digging in tucson. she s joining us live now with the latest. what have you learned, thelma? reporter: well, wolf, they have talked to more than 300 people since last saturday. they say it s very detailed.
1070 and in my judgment that bill was borne out of prejudice and borne out of bigotry. i still feel that way. it s been introduced, for example, in gun control, we now have legislation introduced that will allow students and teachers to carry concealed weapons on campus, and from my point of view that s just insane. but do you have any evidence at all, sheriff, that any of this influenced this alleged shooter, jared loughner, to go to that supermarket, to that shopping center and open up fire that day? none at all, and there s no way to know precisely what motivated him, but i think every expert in the field of psychology will say when you re dealing with an unstable mind and they are subjected to this kind of rhetoric and discourse, as we have today that is so vitriolic, that it influences those people more readily. there s no doubt in my mind that
sheriff good luck to you. sheriff clarence dupnik the sheriff of pima county. one top bush administration official is back in the spotlight and jack cafferty has that. jack? in his first interview since heart surgery last summer former vice president dick cheney says he thinks president obama will be a one-term president. cheney told nbc news that mr. obama chose a course of action that didn t have as much support as he thought it did. cheney points to a lack of job creation, deficit spending and big government programs, including health care reform. cheney also suggests president obama has taken some lessons from the bush administration. cheney says the president has learned from experience that some of his predecessor s decisions concerning terrorism were necessary, things like not being able to close the guantanamo bay terrorist prison camp. also, cheney cites the obama administration s expanded use of drones in pakistan. he believes now that he s
they may have had more information, but he says that that is what they were trying to glean, wolf. thelma, thanks very much. on the scene in tucson. massive law enforcement operation is ongoing at the scene of the tucson shooting, and indeed across the entire city and region. 250 federal investigators and 130 local detectives reportedly are working the case right now. we re joined right now but one of the first law enforcement officials to speak out publicly when the massacre happened. that would be the pima county sheriff, clarence dupnik, joining us from tucson. sheriff, thanks so much for joining us. do you have a better understanding right now why this accused shooter went ahead and opened fire on these people? i don t think anybody can answer that question, and i m not sure that anybody ever will be able to answer that question because you re talking about irrational behavior, and when you try to rationalize it, it comes out zero. is it fair to say that this
that in such an effective way in just those three powerful words. he said it did not meaning the uncivil discourse did not lead to this shooting. and i was so struck when he said it did not. because that sent a message and i looked back through the prepared remarks that are given to the media beforehand and they weren t in there. that was an off the cuff remark that he inserted to further underscore his belief that it did not. i would have loved to have seen had the camera cut away to the sheriff, clarence dupnik. he s the guy that started this right wing rhetoric, that s where this all came from. he had no evidence of that. some of the crazy persons who brown was talking about, some of the guys said the guy didn t watch television and didn t listen to the radio. he wasn t political at all. today in arizona, they re going to have the first funeral for christina taylor-green. thank you very much. and while we heard a lot about