summoned. as it was on saturday morning. their actions, their selfless, poses a challenge to each of us, it raises the question of what beyond prayers and expressions of concern, is required of us going forward? how can we honor the fallen? how can we be true to their memory? you see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand explanations. to try to impose some order on the case . and make sense out of that which seems senseless. already, we ve seen a national conversation commence. not only about the motivations behind these killings, but about everything from the merits of gun safety laws to the adequacy of our mental health system. much of this process, debating what might be done to prevent such tragedies in the future, is an essential ingredient in our exercise of self-governing. but, at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world, at the feet of tho
president obama moments ago at the memorial service for the victims of the tucson massacre. more in moments. plus former governor sarah palin has been taking intense heat now she is speaking out and not backing down. acts of monstrous criminality stand on their on. they begin and end with the criminals who commit them. not collectively with all the citizens of the state. not with those who listen to talk radio. not with maps of swing districts used by both sides of the aisle. not with law abiding citizens who respectfully exercise their first amendment rights at campaign rallies. greta: news about a bizarre blog post apparently written by jared love hrofp by jared loughner. you will hear the blogs later in the hour that. is not the only part of loughner s dark past coming to his just released college records showing disturbing and chilling clues including a time when loughner became hostile to a teacher about a grid. what happened? find out, coming up. first, presiden
of congress, as they should. when you have acts of violence like this, inevitably you are going to want to rethink the way you do things. should it alter no it shouldn t. because, we look at this office as an out-post of the federal government in southeastern arizona. nothing is going to change that. what i thought was one of the most interesting comments that was made, speaker boehner s comments he spoke eloquently about my colleague and friend. gabe zimmermann when he ordered the flag to be lowered to half-staff for gabe. he said gabe zimmermann died in the line of duty. that phrase, in the line of duty, policemen, firemen, members of our armed forces die in the line of duty. gabe was a social worker and he died in the line of duty. when do social workers die in the line of duty? reporter: take me back we
when you have acts of violence like this, inevitably you are going to want to rethink the way you do things. should it alter the way you do things in terms of having offices open? no it shouldn t. because, we look at this office as an out-post of the federal government in southeastern arizona. nothing is going to change that. what i thought was one of the most interesting comments that was made, speaker boehner s comments he spoke eloquently about my colleague and friend. gabe zimmermann when he ordered the flag to be lowered to half-staff for gabe. he said gabe zimmermann died in the line of duty. that phrase, in the line of duty, policemen, firemen, members of our armed forces die in the line of duty. gabe was a social worker and he died in the line of duty. when do social workers die in the line of duty? reporter: take me back we
moments ago. griff jenkins joins us live at the scene. reporter: greta, moments ago, randy and amy loughner left their home two cars pulled in the driveway. you see a white suv, bronze mustang, members of the federal public defenders office. amy loughner came out first followed by randy, who had his dog with him. they were hooded, as you see. they are visibly shaken. parents that are devastated. i simply asked or tried to speak with them to ask how are they doing? anything they could give us. it sounded to me as if amy may have been sobbing, lightly. randy clearly upset that any cameras were there. turned his back to us, getting in there. this is the first that the loughners have been seen. they ve been holed up in their house. earlier in the day, we ve seen the legal team come and go, a member of the legal team came out and entered a statement to the press that reads: this is a very difficult time for us. we ask the media to respect our privacy. there are no words that can