well, first of all, it s a very shocking event. i can tell you that perhaps the local authorities that were there were certainly on the scene because it was a major event, which would draw a lot of public. so, although there was no one probably from washington d.c. that accompanied her, i would certainly think that the local authorities were on site and that they reacted quickly. when you have a lone person that s that they have to do intelligence on, suddenly appears and for whatever reason unloads on everyone, who knows what the purpose or what his thinking was. all right. kelly: all right. we want to give a note of caution before we report this. what we re getting reports now from npr and local reports on the scene there that u.s. congress woman gabrielle giffords has died after being shot in the head at a public appearance in tucson, arizona,
exactly is going to happen as a result of it, what will there be security changes? will there be situations that change based on meeting constituents. you don t know at this point and it s tough to say. right now, it s about, you know, sending the prayers out to the giffords family and to the staff there and finding out all the information that we possibly can about, about the situation and about this shooter. you know, we ve heard now that there were up to 15 shots. there could have been more. this is a lot of people that potentially went down in this attack. and getting beyond why it happened and how it happened is really what we re trying to find out. kelly: absolutely, we are efforting to do that as we speak, reaching out to law enforcement there in the tucson area. we understand that they re extremely busy right now and trying to develop and find out
islamic efforts, but lone wolf attacks and threats that they monitor around the country and this could be completely different than all of that. we really don t know who this person may have been, we do know that it is a shooter that apparently was shooting aimlessly. he we don t know whether this was a specific effort after congress woman giffords or whether, as congressman hayworth suggested, that it was someone trying to make a big splash. i can tell you up here on capitol hill, there s always security concerns. especially with the swearing in of the 112th congress. you saw, you were up here, jamie, the security surrounding this whole event so they re stepping up things. but when congress, men, women, lawmakers go back to their districts, often there s very little security. congress woman giffords a blue dog democrat and moderate democrat from tucson, just this past week brought forward
has met the bottom line and she is run into her share of challenges, when it came to running her business and that s what you need in washington today. and the other reason why she s been so prominent the past few years, the immigration fight in arizona. i mean, her home district down around the area of tucson, that s right in the heart of what have been the drug trafficking path through southern arizona, that led tucson, up to phoenix and she has been featured prominently in that debate. and the insight that she brought to our audience was invaluable. i will say that not everybody agreed on that and that debate continues today, but different voices are important. jamie: and bill, i was sitting with you yesterday when you were speaking with her, and her commitment to public service was clear in all the efforts that she made in washington and much beloved in her by her constituents and many