night. his attorney says he ll not seek an insanity defense. rather, something like diminished capacity because of an emotional breakdown. when asked if bales was remorseful, browne said he s in shock. he s fixated with the troops left on the ground and what they are accusing him of and he s concerned there will be retaliation against those troops against his unit. browne says bales is anxious to speak with his wife and his family. here s abc s neal karlinsky. in her first public statement, sergeant robert bales wife carolyn writes, what has been reported is completely out of character of the man i know and admire. she released the statement as movers emptied the house she s been forced to flee for protection on base. the pain inflicted in war, she says, should never be an excuse to inflict more pain. the cycle must be broken. we must find peace. still so many questions. before sergeant bales was locked up in solitary confinement at ft. leavenworth, before he was a decorated sol
doesn t cause you to go out and doing something like this. not much could explain what could have driven bobby bales to put on his night vision goggles, sneak off base and murder 16 people, including nine children in cold blood. carolyn bales says she, too, wants to know what happened. how this could be. carolyn bales says she is not concerned for her own family s safety but does appreciate the effort the military has put forth. as for sergeant bales, charges haven t been filed yet but it s expected to be a death penalty case. the first time since 1961. neal karlinsky, abc news, tacoma, washington. there were some initial reports he was drinking and that could maybe have led to the tragedy here. his lawyer says he had a few sips but was not drunk. alcohol was not a factor in why he did this. and he has an early memory of the evening but just has really no recollection at all about what happened. and if you keep hearing interviews of folks that knew
injury. i think what this ultimately brings out for us, and i wrote about this today on the hill, there is a lot we can learn about what happened here that can teach us about what we need to know in terms of what is the ongoing impact of these multiple deployments? can you imagine, just think about what it would be like to be in the middle of a war zone fighting for your life on a daily basis, but worrying about your mortgage back home, trying to maintain a relationship with your wife and children. at a point, that becomes untenable, and i think we are so unaware of the ongoing cost and by that i mean the human cost of what we re asking one percent of our population to endure when we send them to these wars. the wife of sergeant bales put out a statement that i want to read and get your reaction to. she said the pain inevitably inflicted in war should never be an excuse to inflict yet more pain. the cycle must be broken. we must find peace. obviously, she s saying whatever
correspondent jim miklaszewski. allen talked about an investigation into the chain of command. those who were around sergeant bales leading up to his alleged crime. that s right. everybody suspected this would eventually happen. but it s the first time today that in his testimony, general john allen revealed there is in fact an investigation underway into the command climate. just what was the level of discipline at that forward operating base where those special operations forces were could not village stability operations. they want to know why since he was that a special operator was he assigned to that unit. and what was the combat relationship between him and the others on the base. and although allen didn t explain it or reveal it today, it is also expected that part of that investigation will look into why was there alcohol on
toss the head set fell. zimmerman says he was acting in self-defense and has never been arrested or charged, but martin s family and their many supporters claim that racial bias in the shooting and the investigation. so now the fbi has stepped in and the justice department has opened a civil rights investigation. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin joining me now with more on all of this. why don t we go ahead and start with trayvon s cell phone friend. i understand you actually have a copy of her sworn affidavit. give us the details, sunny. we ll kind of unfold the conversation from there. good morning, kyra. i do not have a copy though of the sworn affidavit but i did speak to one of the martin family attorneys this morning for at least half an hour, and she and i discussed this phone call. apparently trayvon martin on that night had been trading phone calls with a 16-year-old friend, a girl, and as they traded phone calls, one of the last phone calls, w was at abou 7:04. tr