certainly a lot at stake claire richardson thanks very much for bringing us up to date on that from washington clear. all day after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the around nuclear chord tensions are rising on the front line between israel and syria these images from syrian state t.v. allegedly show israeli rockets over damascus the israeli military says it carried out strikes in response to a barrage of rockets fired outposts in the go on heights which it blames on elite iranian forces the al quds forces in syria it s the second day of strikes between the two sides in some of the most serious military action of this car and in many years for the very latest let s go to jerusalem now our correspondent tony creamer standing by for us tom what prompted this escalation and what more can you tell us about the targets hit by the israeli military. well yes the s.
they are apologizing, tom what will happen here? a fascinating story. this double standard applied to the trump campaign versus what obama did in 2012. the question is, this is part of the growing back lash against big tech across the country. i think facebook is in trouble. where this will lead, we have incidents like this privacy violations and tell lead to regulation if not breaking up big tech in the end. bret: fascinating to watch from a government perspective. winners and loser. it s friday. winner first and then loser? winner loyala-chicago and sister gene. they hugged her. this is more than march madness. bret: she said god will help us and box out 23.
about the gun, and it s a very important conversation. as tom said it typically doesn t really go anywhere. there s a lobbying reason for that. i think we will learn a bit more about mental illness, i hope, out of this situation. the columbine situation, mental illness, i think played a big factor in that. i think we ll find out it did in this as well. it s didn t stigmatized, it needs to be talked about sooner. unfortunately, we re not an intervening nation. we stand aside and don t bother people. we don t intervene. there s a couple of thing, personal things, that i want to ask you about, and one was just your reaction. i can t even imagine. i mean, obviously, for me, when i heard where it was immediately i thought, wow, that s i was here recently on another story and i remember, you know, driving to the area nap is so close to columbine. how did this happen again? what went through your mind when you heard? shock. disbelief.
dealing with as journalists, obviously, is with this exception, we don t really know right now who the victims are and so we re waiting to hear, and it s it s got to be a methodical process on the part of the police, bill, because you don t want you don t want something out there, you don t want someone to learn on television or see in the newspaper that somebody they know or loved has been killed. and i think that s part of what we ve learned, what this law enforcement learned in the columbine situation. how to do that right. how to not release information that was going to hurt people prematurely or hurt a case prematurely. in this case they have a live suspect and they need to see this through to justice. bill, great report perp glad to see you again. sorry under such circumstances and you as well, tom. thank you so much and for the great work you ve been doing. we really appreciate it. that s going to do it from here in aurora, colorado, and we are remembering the victims
weaver just asked the question, what next? what happens here in aurora? let me bring in two guests. bill briggs, nbc news contributor. also covered columbine which is just 12, 13 miles down the road, and tom mouser, whose son daniel was killed at column comen cull booin who was just 159 years old. all of us were at columbine, and how does the community cope in the aftermath? such a shock. everybody we ve spoken to seems to be in the say the of shock. that s the first phase. we have to get through it again. it s horribly familiar. you work through it once again. this is a community with some practice, unfortunately, on thousand handle this, how to cope, how to help the victims, how to help the police officers and the paramedics and stuff. unfortunately, we re pretty good at it. and, tom what would you say?