lot of back and forth on capitol hill as the house has moved a vote on repeal to next week following the tragedy in tucson involving house member gabby giffords. here is congressman rangel on the issue. you can eliminate some of the things that are troublesome and it is not productive. some of the things they would make it a better law. let s get together, democrats and republicans and do it. harris: joining us now, bob beckel a democratic consultant and fox news contributor. bob, good to see you. you heard congressman rangel there, alluding to the fact, he was talking to neil cavuto on the program yesterday, aking are karl rove and others right perhaps the vote next week being more than symbolic? that it could perhaps forge a way ahead for real compromise, bipartisan compromise on health care, something we didn t see last year? your thoughts? i think the answer to that is on the edges there is some possibility of doing some things like for example, small businesses not having to f
be a little nebulous about that. we do think from the expertise they re giving to us it probably went in through the front and came out the back. can i ask ms. stoddard a question, please? we were speaking with mike who was your mom s pastor yesterday. yes. he said he d spoken with your mom and said that she felt [inaudible] saved her life. absolutely, she did feel that way. he heard the shots and covered my mom with his own body and protected her and saved her, yes. mom definitely felt that way. i think further of that is because as dad lay dying, mom didn t know she d been hurt. she thought that she was holding him, and her leg started hurting, and it wasn t until
self and to the community. i say under arizona law, responsible persons according to their statute have the ability to go to the police and say, this person should be brought for an evaluation. and then there s a court hearing to determine whether someone should be committed for psychiatric evaluation treatment. jon: they just didn t find him a little bit crazy? they found him dangerous in your view? everyone in that community, from the sheriff on down said he was disconnected, that he was unstable. he was emotionally not fit and, they had pure evidence in terms of these youtube videos. the question asked is, why didn t they act? jon: and what about the sheriff? he has kind of pointed fingers at the media and politicians and so forth. i m beginning to feel sorry for the sheriff and i m beginning to feel sorry for the people in tucson because he has a sworn responsibility to act in an objective, dispassionate way. instead we ve heard politics. the question that needs to be asked, by
they got to the hospital that she even realized she d been shot. it sounds like the couple really came together it was a beautiful way to say good-bye and go home. bill, could you tell us more about where your wife was when this happened ask her experience as she relates to you and, also, how she s doing mentally having been the one to bring christine p that to the eventsome. susie and christina were holding hands in line waiting to shake gabby s hand. they were there because my wife is very active in any community that she lives in. and she had become when the greens moved to town about a year after we did, roxana reached out to the community for help with baby sitters and yard workers and other such p things, and susie was the one who answered the e-mail, and they d linked up and become quite good friends. and in that process the green children have been at our house, and we re aspiring grandparents
undergoing undergoing surgery now, and they ll be available here. i m going to coordinate that with katie reilly, our pao officer. okay. so we ll go ahead and excuse the physicians out of here, but we ll go ahead and start with mrs. stoddard s family. if you d like to come up. what we could do, ma am, is you can start off with a statement, if you d like, or we can go straight into some questions and answers. we d like to start off with a statement. yes, please. thank you for being here. we ve been rather hesitant to discuss this. i think my first statement, our first statement as a family we speak for ms. stoddard s four sons and sisters, and i think we d like to complement the hero that lie in our father, and we re just blessed that he s walking with the lord now, but what a way to go. as the hero, he lived that kind of a life.