it soaps like time is slowing down for family and victims of the fort hood shooting trial. remember hasan was working as an army psychiatrist in november 2009 when he went on a shooting spree that left 13 people dead 30 injured. he shouted god is great in ara bic according to the witnesses. hasan who represented himself will not be making a closing argument. he rested without calling a single witness for the entire trial and all that is left is to wait for a verdict. we ll bring it to you and get reaction to the victims who were forced to stay silent until the
sandra koch have not yet identified it. randy was named a person of interest in this case. he and koch dated more than 30 years ago. it s believed they were together the night she disappeared. emotional testimony on day four of the fort hood shooting trial. soldiers remembering the frightening moments that the gunman first opened fire. some said they thought it was a training exercise. others thought they were hit with paint balls and not bullets. accused shooter army major nidal hasan is defending himself but did not cross examine the witnesses. his lawyers say he wants to receive the death penalty for murdering 13 people and injuring dozens more. filing an appeal to take over the defense or play a reduced role. military law plead guilty because he faces the death penalty. a bitter custody war between r and b singer usher and ex-wife ends with usher staying. their twoson s their
out. some new information. her family is telling a local paper in san diego they believe all of this may have been premeditated. they say that dimaggio invited family over because he said his house was foreclosed on. he was going to move to texas and he wanted to say good bi. the next thing they know, all of this started playing out, bill. bill: will carr, thank you. very disturbing story. out of l.a. patti ann: back to the fort hood shooting trial now. new questions about whether the judge is allowing the victims to be brutalized all over again. many of them suffered serious wound during the 2009 attack at the texas army base and then the army declared the shooting workplace violence instead of terrorism. now dozens of victims could face questions from the very man who admits he carried out that attack. reed rubenstein is attorney for families of victims of the fort hood shooting. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me, patti ann. patti ann: hasan is representing himself
the west bank. they re at least getting started with what martin indick will be overseeing. it was six visits by john kerry to try to get these talks started and at least they re going to begin. the commitment there is that they re going to go nine months, not break it off within the first three weeks. thank you, chris. thank you. for being with us today. see you tomorrow. that does it for us for this thursday edition of andrea mitchell reports. tomorrow on the show, jen stocky. follow the show online and on facebook. tamron hall has the next hour. new developments in the fort hood shooting trial after a judge refuses to let nadal hasan s advisors off the case. we ll talk to a military law expert about their options as he continues to represent himself. plus, michelle malkin s website criticizes ebony
steve: when it comes to congressional job performance, you approve of 32% of the democrats. you approve of two dozen of the republicans. and then this is a great question that we just asked: do americans rely too much on government and not enough on themselves? look at that right there. three quarters of you say we re relying too much on government to help us out. peter: we rely on government to help government out and then with regard to the president s recent speeches on the economy, some critics said were political and not substantive in nature, the american people are saying it s more of the same, 71%. and new ideas, only 20% of the respondents saying new ideas. steve: there you go. gretchen: of course, the fort hood shooting trial has been going on in kind of a bizarre situation down there where you have nidal hasan representing himself and now the judge may be imposing lawyers upon him