potential 2016 presidential run during a long family retreat later this month in south carolina. this comes as his aides say the vice president has shown interest in filing deadlines and in fund raising. thanks, tucker. death penalty denied. the colorado theater shooter james holmes will spend life in prison for killing 12 people and injuring 70 more. just hours only after hours of deliberations just one juror couldn t agree on the death penalty sparing the shooter. we split with one juror solidly in favor of life sentence and two that were undecided, more or less, which would go to life. and the rest were in favor of the death penalty. but if he can t get death, who can? here to debate defense attorneys. nice to see you both this morning. e eric, are you shocked by this verdict? i was shocked. we were talking off the air, this is one of those cases where
you. thank you. developing right now are the closing arguments. they re expected to begin in less than an hour. this is the penalty phase for james holmes. he is the convicted theater shooter. and he passed up his final opportunity to actually testify to the jury yesterday. so the jury will soon decide whether he should live or die for killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. coming up next, we turn the page to a different note out of hollywood. and look at a diversity gap. startling new numbers are showing the challenges facing minorities and women in tinsel town. plus, under oath, comedian bill cosby ordered to give a deposition. before we go to break, japan marking the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of hiroshima
hotel rooms, the guy who shot up the movie theater. the holmes had an elaborate plan to get away. the thing here the police whether look at what exactly was inside those backpacks, was he planning to go inside with more explosives more guns or was this another plan for another theater shooter to have some kind of plan to get away once he did with a he apparently was planning to do inside. don in lafayette, it sounds like the guy was doing shooting before the police showed. here from the reporting we have so far he waited for the police to come, and the only confirmed reporting that he ever shot at were police. this one appears to be different because it appears to be some random guy from the sprint people telling you this guy was out in the parking lot several hours, random guy wandering around and wandering into the movie theater. the other two movie theater shootings seemed plan.
theater shooter james holmes. that is under way. and you are looking at images there from inside the courtroom in centennial colorado. this phase will likely include heart-wrenching testimony from those who lost loved ones in the 2012 shooting. jurors decided yesterday to keep the death penalty on the table for the convicted aurora movie theater shooter. that same jury found holmes guilty for killing 12 people and injuring 70 others. msnbc s scott cohn is covering the trial for us. tell us more about this phase three and how it could be considered some of the most gut wrempl wrenching and heartbreaking that we ve heard so far. it is definitely living up to that francis. the court is now in a 90-minute lunch break. but if there was ever any doubt that three years after the aurora shooting would dull any of the pain for victims, this morning s testimony is putting that to rest. we heard just before the break
make a lot of money. do you know who else likes this type of gun, the ar-15 ted cruz is using? the colorado theater shooter. he used it to kill people in that theater. obviously they want people like us to say it s in poor taste. it shows us that republicans are great at wasting money, food and ammunition. each magazine they wasted cost like $80. that s ted cruz. the timing of it as jenny points out the james holmes shooter, the final moment of that trial coming today and also amy schumer and chuck schumer taking to the stage to push for stronger gun safety measures, this is the ultimate sort of middle finger to all of that. yet nationally the polling around gun safety reform is very much in support of stricter control and a safer way to