Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is the western edition of the broadcast. We begin tonight in lafayette, louisiana, where investigators are learning more about john russell houser, the man who opened fire in a Movie Theater thursday night, killing two and wounding nine before killing himself. The portrait of houser thats emerging an angry and mentally disturbed man who had a swastika outside his business and praised hitler on extremist web sites. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter a Law Enforcement source familiar with the investigation tells cbs news houser had been staying at a nearby motel for at least a month. They found writings in his room that said he wanted to target Law Enforcement, governor agencies, abortion clinics and anyone else will do. He had even written the name of the movie and show time he planned to attack. The source also said when police found housers body in the theater, he smelled of alcohol. Thursday nights shooting shocked the 59year
Russia is fake news. The fbi is investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. The answer continues to be. No. He is now accusing president barack obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. There was no such wiretap activity. There is no one that he is willing to spare in defaming to distract us from the uncomfortable questions around russia. The whole russian thing, thats a ruse there. Are investigations. These are not hoaxes. The time for trivial fights is behind us. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. Its coming together beautifully. We are united on repeal. But we are divided on replacement. The freedom caucus, they are really trying to get they are not ready. At the end of the day, we cant force somebody to vote. I told them the best thing to do is to pull this bill. I think we have to let obamacare go its way for a little while. Don and eric are going to be running the company. Theyre not
The fbi is investigating whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. The answer continues to be. No. He is now accusing president barack obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. There was no such wiretap activity. There is no one that he is willing to spare in defaming to distract us from the uncomfortable questions around russia. The whole russian thing, thats a ruse there. Are investigations. These are not hoaxes. The time for trivial fights is behind us. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obamacare. Its coming together beautifully. We are united on repeal. But we are divided on replacement. The freedom caucus, they are really trying to get they are not ready. At the end of the day, we cant force somebody to vote. I told them the best thing to do is to pull this bill. I think we have to let obamacare go its way for a little while. Don and eric are going to be running the company. Theyre not going to discuss it
More president ial than any president thats ever held this office. That i can tell you. The president of the United States continues to hammer his own attorney general after laying off Senate Republicans long enough for them to narrowly push ahead debating the issue of health care. When it came down to actually voting on a comprehensive plan, joe, packed with new amendments, it was soundly defeated. According to the president , it will all work out over the next week or two. Time will tell. Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, july 26th. With us we have New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters, former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state departments, alize jordan, senior political analyst for nbc news Mark Halperin and nbc news correspondent kasie hunt. Joe, set the stage. That speech, Abraham Lincoln style, i guess. No. Far from Abraham Lincoln style. I wish it were easy for donald trump to act president ial. We have six months of saying hes a failure of doing. As many peop
This would bolster the efforts of the investigation and escalate a battle with the Justice Department. This is a serious concern to two former National Security offici officials. This is bad all the way around. This is a very negative development for lots of reasons. It represents an assault on the institutions and it is certainly bad for the fbi and the department of justice. I shudder to think of the morale of the organizations. I actually didnt think it would happen because of the affects that jim described. This crosses threshold that we have not done before. Chris wray was allowed to review the memo and raise concerns. One source says the president erupted last week when he learned of the Justice Department efforts to stop the release. Publishing it would be extraordinary reckless. For more we turn to manu raju on capitol hill. Reporter good morning, christine and dave. A house intelligence kmcommitte voting along party lineses to release the memo of fbi and Justice Department abu