seven dead, including the perpetrator. in the days since 22-year-old elliot rodger went on a rampage, a picture emerged of a struggles of a man struggling with mental illness who plotted violence. in his local apartment, he stabbed to death his roommates. before he left his apartment, he stabbed to death george chen, a family friend and initials c.h. before he left his apartment, he uploaded a video to youtube detailing his motives. he also e-mailed a manifesto to his parents and others. seeing the e-mail and video, his parents alerted authorities and rushed to santa barbara to try to stop him. they were on their way when they heard the news of a shooting spree. according to authorities, elliot rodger drove to a sorority house. no one answered the door, but he allegedly shot three women on the line, killing two of them, katie weicooper and veronika cooper. then went to a deli, killed another student, christopher michael martinez. then he fired on bystanders, struck two cyclis
before he left his apartment, he uploaded a youtube and sent a manifesto to his parents and others. saying in t seeing the video, his parents rushed to stop him and on the way heard of the shooting spree. he drove to a sorority house. no one answered the door, but he shot three on the lawn, killing two of them. veronica wise and katie cooper. then went to a deli, killed another student, christopher michael martinez. then he fired on bystanders, struck two cyclists with his car before crashing. at the time deputies reached him, he was dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound. the latest mass killing has precipated yet another wrenching national conversation about gun violence and mental illness, spurred on in part by public conversation started by richard martinez, the father of christopher michaels martinez who was killed friday night. why did chris die? chris died because of crave en, irresponsible politicians and the nra. they talk about gun rights. what about chris right
we didn t actually i don t know that you could see it. but there s, either actually removing the flag from the floor as stenny hoyer is trying to bring up the senate bill. joining us now is luke russert who covers capitol hill for nbc news. give us a little bit of background on this is a fluid situation as we know. what is going on? well it s now a game of optics alex. whichever side feels they re going to win the pr war is going to end up winning this fight. but the house gop is in a very precarious situation this morning. for a few reasons. number one, the article in the wall street journal, it was almost the authority of kind of sophisticated republican politics, really slamming them for this fight. that will resonate with a lot of rank-and-file members who don t want to be on the wrong side of the wall street journal. on top of that, they re not get anything support if their colleagues in the senate. mitch mcconnell has been silent about this, has not spoken out
tax cut. i love that clip. we didn t actually i don t know that you could see it. but there s, either actually removing the flag from the floor as stenny hoyer is trying to bring up the senate bill. joining us now is luke russert who covers capitol hill for nbc news. give us a little bit of background on this is a fluid situation as we know. what is going on? well it s now a game of optics alex. whichever side feels they re going to win the pr war is going to end up winning this fight. but the house gop is in a very precarious situation this morning. for a few reasons. number one, the article in the wall street journal, it was almost the authority of kind of sophisticated republican politics, really slamming them for this fight. that will resonate with a lot of rank-and-file members who don t want to be on the wrong side of the wall street journal. on top of that, they re not get anything support if their colleagues in the senate. mitch mcconnell has been silent a
good thursday morning. it will be interesting to talk to you about presidential politics in light of all of the negotiations on capitol hill. let me show you what the front pages of another tabloid spoke like. here is new york post. inside, the head mine looks like this firebrand might give d.c. hell and signals possible presidential run. the highlights that day that day point out. a sense of what his speech was light yesterday. a columnist in the daily news writes about it. in it, he writes we want to talk to you what you think about that, what a third party, if that s the route he goes, will do in terms of president obama and the republicans. jonathan allen is on the phone with us with politico lead story. democrats fall behind obama in compromise with gop. a day of a lot of debate and discussion and dealmaking on capitol hill. to give people a scorecard of what to watch today. such a big score card. obviously the tax bill, the movement, the degree to which yo