gravity of what was going on. but also to be there for other families who were having a harder time coping as he walked into the courtroom. and tell us about jon. if we could focus more on the heroes and the survivors and those tragically who did not survive rather than the alleged suspect. tell us about jon and his life and you ve mentioned a bit about his belief in the justice system and his interest in the police at one point, his service in the navy. two tours in the navy, as i understand it. and you know, he had two amazingly extraordinarily beautiful children, and you know, his wife and he had a very loving, supportive family that were really behind him and his decisions to, you know, be in the military, to pursue he was also, you know, he worked
system so i wanted to go yesterday and to see how, you know, things played out, make sure that for jon s sake, that the trial was held, you know, that the trial is held and all the proceedings are held with integrity and a fair trial, because that s something that jon believed in. we all watched the face of this young man and the orange hair and the dazed expression and it was hard to read what was going on, because he was so expressionless. what was your impression? i actually reserved any sort of impression. i was more blank than anything, just soaking it all in, a sponge, if you will, and i was mostly there to soak it in, you know, so that i understood the
do, and he loved it, you know. i know even though he saved me, and he gave me the opportunity to live, he would have done it for anyone that day. joining me now is jon blunk s cousin, jessica watts. i know you were one of the few family members who wanted to go into that courtroom yesterday. you wanted to look at the alleged shooter, james holmes, in that court appearance. first of all, our condolences to you. jon blunk was such a hero. we just heard the testimony from his friend. i want to hear more about him. i m wondering what did you see when you were in the courtroom? first of all, thank you for having me. jon, he believed in the justice system. he was part of the military and when he got out of the military, he was at one point trying to become a police officer. and he believed in the justice
close you are to somebody and how important they are to you until you can test your friendship and literally say you were both willing to lay down your lives for each other. because she was willing to give up hers to let me run, and i was willing to give up mine to make sure she lived. and elton john gets personal about fame, about marriage, and fatherhood. i never thought i would be a father and i have now got a child, a son, and it s the greatest thing in the whole wide world. good day. i m andrea mitchell live in washington. in our daily fix, an exclusive first look at your new nbc news/ wall street journal poll at mitt romney begins a week long foreign policy push with a speech today to the veterans of foreign wars, that about an hour from now. our new poll shows that he still has work to do, trying to persuade voters he is ready to be commander in chief. romney trails the president on that score by ten points. but mitt romney leads the president by seven points, 4
the economy question by double digits or close that gap here. so look, he s got he is winning the default argument right now against the president. he is not yet winning an argument on behalf of mitt romney yet. that s a finite thing to explain. chris, do you think this shows some impact of the hammering from the obama campaign on mitt romney in terms of the type of business experience, the whole issue of not only the taxes but bain capital, what it does or doesn t do? sure. i mean, look, the broadest measure, chuck points out that looking out for middle class, it s really a values question. it s kind of like who shares your values on the economy. i would say the stuff around bain, when did he leave, when did he not leave, i m not sure how much that penetrates. the tax return stuff penetrated more and that speaks to again, kind of an exoticness that exists about mitt romney s finances because he is frankly significantly more wealthy than the average american. i would sa