the gunman opening fire on a crowd of some 80 to 90 people. our reporter is talking with the police right now. we ll go live to the scene in three minutes. and up next the obama campaign has run more than 37,000tv ads mostly in the battleground states, 90-plus percent of which attack governor mitt romney. what happened to the president s 2008 complaints about negative campaigning? that s why he s spending these last weeks calling me every name in the book. because that s how you play the game in washington. if you can t beat your opponent s ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up. jenna: michael reagan joins us right after this break to discuss what exactly happened to the president s 2008 pledge not to demonize his opponent, and whether his new strategy is going to work. and the uproar over the president s comments on business people, small businesses and their debt to the government.
the family telling police that the little boy fell down a staircase inside his father s home. police later ruled that max shacknai s death was a horrible accident. a little boy s father, joe not come as a million or pharmaceutical executive. two days after his son s death, the father s girlfriend, rebecca, was found hanging from the balcony of the historic mansion on coronado island. that is in san diego. today, max shacknai s mother is speaking out. saying there is much more to this story and vowing to get what she believes is the real truth behind her son s death. trace gallagher is live with more. reporter: even early on in this investigation, there were reports surfacing that doctors believe that max shacknai s injuries were not consistently falling down a staircase. police clearly did not buy into
occurred. it is still my job as a mother to find out what happened exactly to him and to continue that until i find an answer. megyn: joey jackson is a former prosecutor, now defense attorney, and mercedes cohen. all right, panel, so she doesn t believe the police came to the right conclusion. let s just show our viewers the diagram put out by, i think, the sheriff s office, about how they believe the accident their conclusion happened with little max. that he was coming on the second floor, that he went over the railing, sort of the, you know, the downstairs railing, fell over, hit the other staircase railing and fell to the ground. joey, um, they say it was an accident, and yet there s a question now because the mother says her son was not a daredevil; he wouldn t have fallen down the stairs, and she believes this woman who was watching him had a criminal background. sure. you know, it s a very tough case to talk about because we re
shacknai leaves her son s death was suspicious. here is her attorney. this morning, we formally requested that the coronado police department meet with us at their offices so we can share with them our findings and conclusions. reporter: we just spoke to the coronado police come and they say they are willing to meet with the family saying if it is a psychic telling us what they think will happen, we will just have to evaluate their evidence objectively and make a decision from there. they hope to meet very soon to lay out their evidence. megyn: trace gallagher, thank you so much. we will have much more on this mother s fight to get police to reopen the case of their son s death on the docket in today s kelly s court. for weeks the president s campaign team has been ramping up attacks on governor romney is time at bain capital. this despite calls from some of the president s top surrogates. his surrogates to stay away from this line of attack. remember newark mayor cory
obviously come the police are going to look into that as well. they continue to focus on that lake and area around the park, i think they will come across more evidence. megyn: i don t know if it were abducted, if the man or person had a weapon, if he was easily to get the girls under control. they did say that the sex offender interviews have not led to new information. we shall see. thank you so much. coming up, we have seen repeated attacks from the president against governor romney and bain capital. why is the president so invested in this? when democratic advisers publicly warned them not to go there. we will have a talk about it in the next hour. and a grieving mother speaking out after the death of her little boy a year later. and the alleged suicide of his father s girlfriend who was watching him when he died. why the mother is now questioning this entire investigation and demanding that the case be reopened. i got mine in iraq, 2003.