there is no coherent philosophy behind him and even the association to the american reasnaissance group that is anti-immigration, they don t know him as a member or key player in the organization. hard to make sense of him as anyone but someone with deep psychological issues, a disturbed young man. should the sheriff been saying what he said? let me say lots of people are saying what the sheriff said in the aftermath of the shooting. that they think that the tenor of political discourse in the country is at such a high level right now and they worry it is having some consequence in terms of people like this young man taking action. he has no direct link. the closest he came this is clarence dupnik, the sheriff of pima county, the closest he said is to say there is so much anti-immigrant and governmenter governmenter government
fact that if we don t come together as a state of arizona, we aren t going to mr. glassman, i ve been checking the social sites here, getting information off the wire as well. and finally, when the sheriff did say it during the press conference, thousands of people responded saying, finally someone has said this. what do you garner from that? well, sheriff dupnik, i know is a great, great mentor for congresswoman giffords. gabby and he spent quite a bit of time together. he chaired her campaigns. it s that kind of common census approach that the sheriff is stating now that really embodied and continues to embody congresswoman giffords. just last night, my wife and i were opening a package that she had personally sent because we just recently had our daughter. gabby is all about relationships. she s all about being there. and that s why today s incident was so tragic because she s one of the congresspeople who s
sheriff dupnik says the suspect isn t talking and invoking his right against self-incrimination. sheriff dupnik s strong reaction did spur our political team to debate the point last night. i want to share some of that with you now. police have not given a possible motive for these mass killings, but the pima county sheriff, clarence dupnik, did place some blame. he suggested in his word, and i m quoting him now, vitriol, that s a direct quote n politics and the media, inflaming the american public to dangerous levels. let s bring in our senior political analyst, gloria, and our national political correspondent jessica yellen. working this story for us. i ve covered a lot of these news conferen conferences. normally the sheriff gives us the nuts and bolts. this was extraordinary from this sheriff. he singled out some of the political rhetoric in creating the environment that allowed this instance to happen. even though as you point out the suspect is not cooperating with
federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. the sheriff s office believes congresswoman gabrielle giffords was in fact the target of the attack. she was meeting with constituents outside the store when it happened. giffords was shot in the head and is now listed in critical condition following surgery. but her doctor says he s optimistic about her recovery. the federal judge, john roll, was among the six people killed. authorities say he had stopped by the congresswoman s event simply to say hello. police named 22-year-old jared lee loughner as the suspected shooter. this is a picture from his facebook page, which has since been shut down. the sheriff says he may not have acted alone and tonight a manhunt in tucson is under way for another so-called person of interest. police say they ve also recovered a glock 9 millimeter handgun. we re learning more about the suspect in custody, this jared lee loughner, but authorities tell cnn he s not talking to investigators right now. he s invoked his r
we re following the breaking news, a horrible story out of tucson, arizona today, 18 individuals shot, six killed in a shooting spree over at a safeway, at a shopping center, congresswoman gabrielle giffords among those shot. her doctors are cautiously optimistic that she will survive. the sheriff in pima county, sheriff clarence dupnik spoke out just a while ago and he blamed some of the political rhetoric out there for causing crazy people to respond. people tend to poo-poo this business about all the vitriol that we hear that will inflame the american public by people who make a living off of doing