thank you for coming back. hi. martha: i know you have been traveling a lot and you were in the rotunda last night. why was it important to you to pay your respects to the president? yesterday, we went to see. i wanted to give back. what did you say about president bush? he said he was your friend. i said he was my friend. and you wanted to pay your respects, right? right. did you feel good doing that? i feel good. i feel a little sad. i feel a little sad that he passed. we all do, john. i want to cry. he is my hero.
away from the desk, and my sunglasses were on the floor. and i m sure i was breathing really loud, and i was trying not to, but i just i couldn t be quiet, and he never came to our side, but i did hear footsteps very closely, and then we were trying to call 9-1-1, but i m sure you know the rest of the story. yeah. and i know as phil said, selen, time is difficult to tell in a situation like this. was anybody saying anything? was the gunman saying anything? were people being quiet? do you remember the sounds? i just remember the shots. i just remember i don t remember if it was before or after the shot john said what the fuck, and those are the only
that the press is the enemy of the people. possibly, this took place in earlier decades, but certainly not in the last 100 years. and you know, john would have probably more to say about that than i do, but does it create a dangerous climate? absolutely. i just don t see how you can argue that that is not at risk of inciting someone. certainly, we ve never seen an american president that s right. in that s what i m saying here, yes. enemy of the people that s a staggering sentence in itself. yes, and it s meant to be. but this individual, according to our interview earlier with the county executive, appears to have been disturbed mentally, as well as a grudge against the newspaper. but we know, perhaps you more than most, maggie, the tenor of the threats directed at reporters today, via social media, is different. it s vicious. it s empowered in a way that is different. and i guess part of the question is, you know, are we seeing an epidemic and is the president
know. the path that he took, and i don t know about selene, i have not connected with some of the advertising people in the front during the time it was happen, but the path that he took, i don t know, john was trying to get out. maybe it was just an opportunistic shot. i know two of the editors that he went after were in a similar position to the other reporters where they were at their desks. can you say what he looked like, phil? i can yeah. police showed us a photo of him once they brought us into the department. he was kind of a maybe late 20s, early 30s. white male. maybe 5 7 , 5 10 in height. long black hair. it was kind of unkempt. not a very descript face.
i think that this person was going after editors, and i could be wrong, right. like i don t know anything. but that s what happened here. editors died. and but yeah. you think that might have been intentional or is that based on where people were sitting? i mean, i don t know for sure. it s just the facts. editors died, and that s all i know. yeah, the path that he took, and i we have not i don t know about selene, i have not connected with m some of the advertising people who are up in the front during the time that it was happening. but the path that he took, i don t know, as selene said, john was trying to get out, so maybe it was just an opportunistic shot. i know two of the editors that