to south korea s national assembly this morning with north korea as the centerpiece of that address, and then he heads to what will probably be the most important stop on this five nation trip, beijing, china, for talks with xi jinping about how to enlist more chinese help in reining in north korea. james: thank you. now to the story dominating headlines in the u.s. he once escaped from a mental institution. the news is just one of the latest troubling things we are learning about the suspect behind sunday s deadly shooting at a small texas church that killed 26 people. matt finn has the story from sutherland springs. in el paso police report states that the church shooter escaped from a mental health facility in 2012. police responded to a stop or a witness said that shooter was a
they said we lost the majority of our church family. unfortunately these things happen too often and it may be easy to forget them in the weeks coming. withfamilies lost. for more on the investigation, the national security analyst in new york. with me here in washington and the crime and justice reporter and ln aft t& tom fuentes. tension in the family. domestic issues and angry texts to his mother-in-law who was not at the service yesterday and attends that church. what more do we know? exactly right about the text message. i m told new information from the law enforcement officials. the mother-in-law received a text that morning from him.
mother-in-law, he could have gone home. he went to a church and knew there would be a larger crowd of people. what does that tell you? the problem as you said was more than a complaint against her or the family or his mother-in-law. it was society in general and now had become his enemy. the congregation in the church where the in-laws worshipped became an enemy in his mind. it speaks to the terrible mental condition this guy was in and the helplessness of what the family felt. i m not sure you see something say something, okay, what if they call the police and say our son in law is derange and heavily armed and beat our daughter and granddaughter back when he was in the military. what would the police do with that? probably nothing. you say probably nothing. could they make a visit though and find the weapons? sure. he said oh, no, i m not going to
sure that never again do we have a case like this where someone can get their hands on a weapon? i think the military has to go flew and scrub similar cases and make sure if they didn t inform authorities about potential danger they do so now to make sure it doesn t happen again. all right. colonel, thank you so much. colonel don christianson, retired u.s. air force colonel. he was the chief prosecutor for the u.s. air force. thanks so much for joining us. thank you, wolf. coming up, we re continuing to follow the breaking news. we re also learning new details about the gunman who killed 26 people and wounded 20 others at that small texas church. and senator rand paul has five broken ribs and bruised lungs after an altercation with his longtime neighbor, a fellow doctor who has now been charged with assault. what was the dispute about? stay with us. you re in the situation room.
responsibility as law enforcement security people to talk about. we understand the motivation. they don t have the means to get it. whether they get it fraudulently, illegally or by mistake. a few moments ago in the briefing, there was video from inside the service. that has to be a horrible task. critical if anything was said or people were targeted. is that how that was put together? depending on the camera angle, if it was focused on the people at the front of the church and conducting the service for broadcast to other people in the community, it may not show if we don t see him. he may be in the back of the church off camera doing this or walking towards the front, but we may not see enough of that in the video. we will learn about that later. we don t know how much is in the video. i don t want to end this without talking about the remarkable scene that played