here he is on fox news sunday . now imagine these people who are capable of doing anything, imagine them possessing nuclear weapons, people who gunned down innocent people, who sent suicide bombers who could block the straights of iran and threaten to annihilate israel, taken over your embassy, you want these people to have atomic bombs? i think this is a reminder, this wave of terror attacks, that the world s most dangerous regime must not be allowed to have the world s most dangerous weapons. gregg: kt mcfarland is a fox news national security analyst and joins us now. the prime minister right, was iran likely behind this and if so what will the israeli response be? they always respond and they have vowed swift response with force. well here s, gregg, in this year since january, iran has sent assassinations squads all around the world to kill
the guy who ran the rifle range, called up on the phone, the answering machine for the defendant, was incoherent. it was sort of this batman-inspired rambling discourse. of course, before he shot up the movie theater i said i m the joker. when he was captured he said i m the joker. then he began, almost in character this hideous laughter characteric of the comic book character, the joker. boy right. gregg: do you have have serious reservations about this guy s sanity? well if he is faking it or malingering as we say he is doing it for a long time. i think that would be a very difficult order to prove. i suspect, that is the problem with insanity and irresistable i will impulse is part of colorado s insanity you could fake it. presumably professionals who test him would be able to tell if he is lingering. he was living in that persona for a while i would doubt that is premeditated.
fictional universe which bullets don t really kill. so in his mind he is not actually murdering people, he is playing a role. would that negate the intent to kill and qualify as insanity? well it s going to be a problem. the prosecutors are going to have to deal with that. they re going to have to look at him and see, i think that it is going to be difficult though for the defense to actually show that s the case because he was going to school. he apparently completed the first year and, you know, only a few weeks ago was taking tests and so on at school. so if he really did live in such an alternative universe he wouldn t have been able to do all of that. the other questions, even when you re talking about competency or insanity, is he smart enough to be able to put on all these airs, to act like he is crazy? gregg: sure. to, in order to be hopefully found in his view insane as opposed to having to face the death penalty? gregg: you know what, janet?
it s a tough defense. gregg: we re reading across the wires prosecutors are suggesting the death penalty here. there are several ways you can do it. one is, annmarie, multiple victims. the other is acts that are heinous, atrocious and cruel, hac is the acronym. boy if there is a death penalty case is this it? i would be surprised if they don t ask for it. to compound the problem not only did he do heinous things at the movie theater what he planned to have a have at the apartment on top of it. this was so premeditated and so planned out. he spent months putting this together. putting the booby-traps together whoever who would have walked in there, potentially wouldn t only killed the person who walked in and potentially on the floor, the whole building and maybe even more. this is so awful what he did. it goes beyond even just a movie theater. i would be very surprised if they don t ask for the death
parents have not been totally cooperate cooperative here. is it possible that this same set of parents is trying to hide the children for some particular reason? you think like an investigator, and that is exactly what us investigators would think in this type of situation. you know, both here is the thing, both of these parents, especially the parents of little lyric morissey, they both are facing criminal charges and have criminal histories. and that s fine. they have not been cooperating with the police. the father of lyric made a statement that he thought the police was focusing too much on him. now why would he say that? only because the police have turned up the heat. so i think right now the police are believing that these parents probably gave those little girls to someone in another state, maybe a relative, because the f.b.i. has said that they have expanded the search outside the state of iowa at this time. gregg: all right. let s assume for the moment that the parents ar