Thought, but outrage. His republican competitors agree. Hes becoming a jack ass. I have respect for john mccain. Reporter hes not apologizing, but came closer than before. I supported him and raised money for his campaign against president obama. If there was a misunderstanding i would take that back. Hopefully i said it correctly. Reporter even for trump, who appears to crave controversy, the bipartisan backlash of remarks from mccains five years as a prisoner of war was intense. Hes not a war hero. He is because he was captured. I like people who werent captured. Perhaps hes a war hero but he said things about people. Reporter a poll shows trump is not just leading the gop field, but leading big at 24 with second place scott walker and third, jeb bush trailing by double digits. The same survey may signal trouble. 23 on three consecutive nights. On sunday after his controversial comments support dipped. Mccain is going to take the high road. Mccains son jack a fourth generation didnt
A Navy Operation center where he opened fire. The gunman eventually killed in that fire fight. Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was a chattanooga grad and a trained mixed mixed martial artist and devout muslim. His radicalization not obvious to those who knew him. His demeanor there was absolutely nothing on him that would show me that he was upset about something. And i know that he moved out of the country a year or two ago. He went back home and stayed overseas. I asked his dad, where is mohammad . He said he moved back home. I saw him a couple of times when he visited. Now, im not the one to speculate but what happens overseas in certain different environments i dont know. He seemed like the allamerican kid. You know never loud never boisterous, never got out of line a hard worker. He seemed to enjoy the training and got along with everybody. I want to bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez. He joins me now from washington. Evan what are you hearing about the possible motive here . Th
Axelrod good evening, im jim axelrod. And this is the western edition of the broadcast. He loved his family, baseball and the navy. Thats how his family described Randall Smith, a petty officer in the United States navy and the fifth Service Member to die from an attack on the Armed Forces Recruitment center in chattanooga, tennessee two days ago. Smith and his wife had three daughters under the age of seven he called his little princesses. He managed to flash thumbs up after surgery and died at 2 17 this morning. Were learning about the shooter, Muhammad Youssef abdulazeez spent more than half of last year in the middle east and recently in shooting ranges here at home. Jericka duncan begins our coverage. Reporter a fifth cross was put in the ground today at this growing memorial site to mark the death of Randall Smith shot three times during thursdays rampage. Hundreds came to visit including the family of one of the victims, staff sergeant, david wyatt. His father allen told me his
And we begin in the state of tennessee where authorities are trying to determine what led a 24yearold man to goen a shooting spree killing four marines, investigators say Mohammad Youssuf abdulazeez had four handguns on him during a rampage and rifles at his house. He had every intent to kill officers if they had not killed him first. Authorities have looked into 70 leads they have about him. Officials believe they pieced together exactly what happened during thursdays shooting. Gary tuchman breaks it down. Reporter a Senior Defense official tells cnn several marines inside the Chattanooga Center were veterans who went into combat mode. He lifted up his arms like this with a big black gun. It was one shot and endless shots just one after another. Reporter the marines told everyone to drop to the floor and cleared the room by getting everyone outside in the back. Everyone sighted. But abdulazeez was not done. It is believed that abdulazeez never got out of his rented ford mustang conver
Attacked. Four marines killed. And we now anyhow their names. Lance corporal wells, skip he was called. Staff Sergeant David wyatt. Sergeant thomas sullivan. He earned two purple hearts only to have his wife stolen here at home. Lets get to cnns justice reporter evan perez. There was the chairman of the House Homeland Security agency saying they know of no link to isis or any other group. Is there a way to hash out whats going on . Infbi saying not so fast. Theres a lot of work left to be done. They do are looking at the possibility that this was isis inspired. The obvious choice given how much attention weve been giving to isis in the last year or so. The fbi says that at least at this point, there is no indication yet that this was inspired by anything other than by this gunman himself. We know that he travelled to jordan last year according to the jordanian government. He carried jordanian passports and travel documents but he was not a citizen, he was a citizen of the united states