good evening, everyone, i ve erin burnett. outfront tonight, out of balance. mitt romney took to the air waves today to lament the tone of the election and slam his rival. i m seeing some of the ads out there. i don t know what happened to the campaign of hope and change. his campaign and the people working for him have focused almost exclusively on person attacks and not at all on the issues of the day. personal attacks and not at all on the issues of the day. that charge actually goes both ways. both mitt romney and barack obama are guilty as sin. as those of you who watch the show know, we tried from day one to try to sand box politiciaiti find middle ground. quote, the campaign has already set records for nastiness and negativi negativity. he says, this campaign has the sensibilities and i.q. of a typical middle school student council election. i ran for school president in eighth grade. and i lost. i ran against a kid named danny luppins. i am certain that our camp
of six lives but to honor the lives of six people. we re here because that healing effort and those six lives, they deserve attention. we ll be doing that throughout the hour ahead. but we also want to tell you tonight about what we ve learned about their killer, wade page. a man motivated by hate. who officials say took inspiration from the swastika. where precisely that hate came from, where it all came together and when, we don t yet know. we do know that one of his stops on the road to sunday s massacre was the time he spent at the army s fort bragg in north carolina, which of course has a long tradition of producing heroes. drew griffin has been investigating how and when wade page was at fort bragg, what his service entailed. he joins us now. drew, what have you found about page s time in the military? well, it was not stellar, we ll tell you that in a little bit. but we wanted to focus on fort bragg because fort bragg, as you said, produced a lot of heroes, thousands
is america doing enough to keep guns from getting into the wrong hands? a no hold s barred debate. plus, governor romney on welfare. he d ask the middle class. it s like robin hood in reverse. it s romney hood. tonight, the campaigns square off. and a day at the beach turns terrifying. my prime-time exclusive of the survivor of the cape cod shark attack. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight, inside the mind of a shooter. jared lee loughner, the alleged gunman of the tucson shooting that killed six people and nearly killed gabby giffords entered a not guilty plea in a court today. a judge ruled him competent to stand trial. this comes after news the psychiatrist who treated the alleged aurora shooter james holmes was so concerned about his behavior. an abc news reporter yesterday even contacted university police. in oak creek wisconsin, police saying tonight there are links between a white supremacist movement and this man. he was mentioned i
of the biggest lost and found collections in the world. it has been around for 200 years, and we don t know who lost them or where. the next hour of the cnn newsroom, don lemon starts newsroom, don lemon starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com hello, everyone. don lemon here, and suzanne is off today. this hour in the cnn newsroom, we are going to focus on exciting new pictures coming back from mars and new details into the investigation of the wisconsin shooter. police say now that he killed himself. right to the news right now. a couple of grainy pictures have the space guys all fired up at nasa, and they should be fired up. these are the first color images beamed back to earth from the mars rover called curiosity, and the latest earth visitor to mars. nasa says it is in great shape and working perfectly. so far. john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched wh
services when authorities say an army veteran named wade michael page appeared, took out a 9 millimeter pistol and opened fire. this is a facebook picture of him. a swastika in the background. it s neither the only photo of him striking a racist pose. nor the only hint of his apparently long-held white supremacist beliefs. the latest to pin down any and all hate group connections he may have had. president obama reacted to that possibility. i think the american people immediately recoil against those kinds of attitudes and i think it will be very important for us to reaffirm once again that in this country regardless of what we look like, where we come from, who we worship, we re all one people. and we look after one another and respect one another. mitt romney called the shooting a tragedy that should never befall any house of worship. there s been increased security at many sikh temples. tonight, we ll talk to local leaders here who are worried this exact thing might ha