seattle. thanks. up next the emotional hearing about extending health benefits for 9/11 responders. we will bring you there plus, here is what else is happening on the campaign trail today. kirsten gillibrand is comparing pro-life beliefs to racism. her comments came in an interview with the des moines register. imagine saying that it s okay to appoint a judge who is racist or anti-met particular or homophobic and so i believe that for all of these issues, they are not issues that is a fair other side. there is no moral equivalency when you come to racism. and i do not believe there is a moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women reproductive freedom. bret: meantime presidential candidate pete buttigieg wants to stop what he calls endless war. the south bend indiana mayor laid out his foreign policy vision today. he says he wants to rebuild america s relationships with its allies and treat climate
2015 down to a thousand or so by the time mr. obama talked. why would you need to let the enemy know that you are going to be leaving or over how much of your force you are going to drawdown. there s no need to do that unless the need is political in some way. other than that, strategically it makes no sense tactically it makes no sense. it was something of a surprise he thought he was going to get into it today during a commencement address in west point. instead he s expected to outline his broader foreign policy vision today. of course an ainsley it bares mentioning we have lost more than 2,000 u.s. forces in afghanistan since the work began. wow. we will never forget the sacrifices they have made. thank you, doug. thanks. that brings us now to look who is talking.
and i m john berman. and the economy taking the back seat for a moment to foreign policy when it comes to the presidential campaign. we ll talk about mitt romney s trip overseas and president obama s brand-new ad. plus we re getting an idea of what the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics will actually look like. but first, exclusive new details about the apartment of james holmes, the suspected colorado shooter. a law enforcement official has described to cnn video taken from inside the apartment. he said it was set up like something from iraq or afghanistan. 30 improvised grenades rigged to a control box in the kitchen and gas containers filled with ten gallons of gas, allegedly for the purpose of adding more fuel to the fire in an explosion. cnn s jim spelman is in aurora, colorado, right outside the theater where the shooting happened. the description of the apartment is extraordinary and terrifying. what else do you know about it? reporter: just trying to pict
jim spellman. he s standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. let s talk first about this video. i know it s black and white. what more can you tell us? yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure out how to dismantle this safely, ult the matly using water to render inoperable this control box. fortunately there wasn t a timer to it because they needed that much time to sort out how to do it. when they were finally able to render it safe, they took them to the country and detonated them. the fire ball in the middle of the field was huge, devastating to ponder the impact should a first responder or police officer gone through that door. about the investigation, jim, what s the latest? i thought seeing the suspect in court yesterday and seeing all of his facial i guess i would call them ticks or just he looked weird and
thin edge trying to survive. we re turning down that money. it makes absolutely no bloody sense. and that is what could change as far as i m concerned, it could change the whole nation in midterm elections. we keep talking about who s not on the ballot. people have to see they are on the ballot. if they understand their interest is on the ballot, they are going to show up and show out. democrats need to wake up and see that. governor ed rendell and jonathan gruber, thank you both for your time tonight. my pleasure, al. coming up, president obama lays out his foreign policy vision today. as a new report on the va problem emerges and it raises a lot of questions tonight. plus, a new diagnosis, republicans have come down with a severe new political disease. we ll explain what it is and why it s spreading. and remembering a phenomenal woman, maya angelou, the