rod rosenstein debunking claim after claim by the republicans. and the white house fast tracking the search for a supreme court nominee. the president personally meeting with senators key to approving the next justice, including several democrat senators, one who he attacked the prior evening in north dakota. complicating matters for democrats. they re in a tough spot here. welcome back to early start. i m dave briggs. and i m christine romans. beginning with this morning s front page in maryland, a rampage killing five people, the deadliest day for american journalists since 9/11, releasing the names of those killed. wendi winters, gerald fishman, editor of the page, john mcnamara covering sports and rebecca smith and a sales assistant and robert hiaasen and
the information was not provided to the miami field office on and no further investigation was conducted at that time. the fbi is still investigating the facts of the situation. we will conduct an indepth review of our internal procedures for responding to information that is provided by the public. that was the fbi s top agent admitting that the agency failed. the fbi had a tip. it could have stopped the rampage killing 14 students and three teachers. just six weeks ago the fbi specifically alerted to the suspect s violent threats and actions. a person close to nicolas cruz reported about his gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.
quite some time. it s still not clear how they were radicalized, where it started and who was the driving force. authorities also say the couple practiced their shooting at gun ranges, once just the days before they went on their deadly rampage killing 14 people. let s bring? justice reporter evan perez as well as phil mudd, former cia counterterrorism official. phil, what more are you hearing from your sources about the couples path to radicalization at this point? at this point, they believe that certainly the path to radicalization began much earlier. probably even before isis became well known. certainly not in the beyond the first year and a half ago when we first started hearing a lot about isis. so, that really then makes this a little more complicated because we do know that moments right before the attack began,
new details on the oregon college gunman including a passion for guns that may have run in the family. cnn s sara sidner has more. reporter: hours after the umpqua community college massacre the mother of the 26-year-old gunman shown here talking to police broke down. she was bawling, and she looked really upset, and, i mean, i can t blame her. i mean, this is insane. reporter: now there are new details about what she knew about her son s mental health and access to guns before he went on a rampage killing eight students and a teacher. a series of online posts linked to his mother, laurel harper, reveals he had a developed mental disorder on the autism spectrum and there were plenty of guns of all types in the house. in a post from at least three years ago, harper boasted about her arsenal of weapons on a yahoo! answers discussion thread about state gun laws saying, i keep two full mags in my glock
i would say hey, guys, let s attack him. he may shoot me, but he can t get us all. the gunman mother s online post shows a fascination of guns, a stockpile kept in her home and her son s mental health. sara sidner has more. john and isha, police are looking into the social media posting of the shooter s mother. that s the latest in the investigation. the mother of the 26-year-old gunman shown here talking to police broke down. she was bawling. she was really up stet. and i mean, i can t blame her. i mean, this is insane. now there are new details about what she newspaper about her son s mental health and access to guns. before he went on a rampage killing eight students and a teacher. a series of online posts linked to his mother reveals he had a developed mental disorder on the