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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110110:01:32:00

he went in, just started firing and then he ran. the 911 call there. the shooting happened about 10:10 tucson time during an outdoor town meeting event called congress on your banner. there was a big banner with congresswoman giffords name on it. she was there to speak with anyone who showed up. nobody expected this. i heard the gunshots and knew people had been injured most likely. i ran toward where the congresswoman was. i saw there were people injured. i then tried to see who had a pulse still, see if people were still breathing. i was only able to check two or three people before i noticed that congresswoman giffords had been injured severely. so then she became my first priority. not just because of her position but also because of the severity of her wounds. she had a shot to the head. so i tried to make sure that i picked her up so that she wasn t in a position where she could asphyxiate in her own blood because of the position she was

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110110:01:08:00

targeted. this was an attempted assassination. it s the statement of probable cause filed in court. it says when they executed a search warrant at the home where jared loughner lives, they found in a safe an envelope with writing on it. it said, i planned ahead, my assassination, the name giffords, along with what appears to be loughner s signature. there was another letter addressed from 2007. this was a letter from congresswoman giffords addressed to jared loughner. it appeared to be inviting him to a congress on the corner event. of course it was a congress on the corner event yesterday where she was shot. this was a different one at a different location back in 2007. it s tantalizing. we d love to know more about what s here. that s all they have included in this document. that makes it hard. you can t read through this and find a motive. no, you don t find a motive here. i suspect part of the

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110110:01:26:00

it does strike a chord, send a shiver down your spine. we relate to it. we re touched by it. it is a little frightening that there is some whacko out there that will do some unthinkable thing as we saw in gabby. but we ve got to keep doing it. we have to be out there. you heard mr. hoyer say he thinks the last two year it is environment is worse, more threatening, that there is sharper language, more threatening language. have you received specific threats against you? well, i just completed my first term in congress. i have only been there 24 months, but unfortunately i have had my share of threats. i have had to engage the sergeant of arms and capitol hill police. i think they have done a good job. i think every single member of congress on both sides of the aisle has felt the heat. has really felt people have step over the line and been a threat. it s just part of the reality of being in congress. you have a permit to carry a

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110110:01:44:00

corner of the state. it was a close, bruising race. according to her official biography, solar energy, immigration reform and issues for military families are her priorities in congress. prior to coming to washington she served in both houses of the arizona state legislature and ran her family s tire and automotive business. she s married to nasa astronaut mark kelly. ever since the tragic shooting the pima county sheriff clarence dupnik has railed against vitriol. we do not have any clinical assessment of the gunman s mental state but the sheriff insists he as a sees that an unstable person could be provoked by hateful rhetoric on the internet. let s have a conversation about is our political rhetoric contributing perhaps. david, i want to go to you

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110110:01:28:00

washington, d.c., the number one terrorist target in the world is very, very secure. my personal residence, my two district offices, i have some question marks about. i think we need to explore the idea of allowing the sergeant of arms to coordinate, i think with the u.s. marshals who are already tasked with protecting federal judges, u.s. prosecutors, these people are protected and their threat assessment done by the u.s. marshals. perhaps that role and responsibility ought to be expanded out to include members of congress to make those assessments. we need to look at the internet. we get lots of threats via facebook, twitter, e-mails that are unacceptable. we have to take them more seriously than we have in the past. you take those threats seriously, there are some, as you know you are well aware in the last 24 hours who said that commentary, the threatening

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