saltz, author of anatomy of a secret life and cnn legal analyst and defense attorney danny cevallos. gail, with your knowledge of mental health and competency, you have played out so many times, the competency issue comes first then there s possible the issue of insanity at a later date. will it s talk competency. you heard anthony osso say he was able to answer yes or no questions yesterday. does that deem him to be competent? is that a for what is satisfactory? that s not enough. because to be competent you have to have a rational and factual understanding of your situation, of your case, of the facts and be able to contribute to your defense. so we don t know if yes or no had anything to do with the questions he was really being asked or whether that really demonstrates an understanding of what he was answering yes or no to. so if there s a us is pegs that he is not competent he needs more of an evaluation and
some firing ranges like the centennial gun club in colorado say that is too young. we have chosen not to let a 9-year-old shoot at our club. why? they re still developing. there is a strength issue. there is a maturity issue. there is a competency issue. reporter: we fired the same caliber bullet. you can see the kick. a powerful force that some firearms experts say may be too much for kids to handle. clayton sandell, abc news, denver. in omaha, a tragic dose of reality for a rowdy television show. a crew member for the show cops was shot and killed during an attempted robbery at a wendy s. so was the suspect who was armed only with a pellet gun.
leadership. but when you ask for specificity in terms of what they want to see, aside from hearing some drone strikes, there s not a real appetite for troops on the ground. but how this ties into domestic politics, to me, it seems what s happening in iraq to what is hurting president obama in terms of being the competency issue. a lot of folks in the united states do not feel he s competent any more. is that the drag on him moving forward politically that this is so far from his control, it will drag down him and the party heading into november? i think you re right, luke. this is an event where the republicans were speaking, it s the faith in freedom forum. but there were no real they weren t calling for anything. it was mainly just something is wrong in iraq and it s the latest thing obama has done wrong. i think that s what you re going toer what going forward is a lot of complaints, not about the policy. in fact, rubio was asked on the hill a while ago about congress s role and
appropriate adjustments once we get through this year, and we ve gotten through the initial surge of people who have been signing up. what makes you think 2014 looks better on health care? well, i think they have no choice but it get it right. i ve said this all along, that the most important thing in the second term was implementing health care reform the right way. 2013 was a forgettable year in that sense. they ve got to do all they can to make the implementation of and the sign-up period as it goes and extends until the end of march, they ve got to make that work. listen, there are two issues here. there s first the competency issue. that s by far the most important issue. the least important issue is the mandate issue. basically when you have a government program, you build the system and you say to people, you have to work within the system and sometimes we have to limit your choice. we re going to mandate things. the american people don t like mandates any more. we re a mu
obviously we screwed it up. i m going to be making appropriate adjustments once we get through this year, and we ve gotten through the initial surge of people who have been signing up. what makes you think 2014 looks better on health care? well, i think they have no choice but it get it right. i ve said this all along, that the most important thing in the second term was implementing health care reform the right way. 2013 was a forgettable year in that sense. they ve got to do all they can to make the implementation of and the sign-up period as it goes and extends until the end of march, they ve got to make that work. listen, there are two issues here. there s first the competency issue. that s by far the most important issue. the least important issue is the mandate issue. basically when you have a government program, you build the system and you say to people, you have to work within the system and sometimes we have to limit your choice. we re going to mandate things. the ameri