he was very quiet. he didn t talk that much, and when he did talk, he seemed very gentle. he didn t seem like aggressive or anything at all. it was very shocking that somebody i know. very heart breaking. i never thought it could happen in any town, or especially someone that i know at all. reporter: despite the social media posts, an uncle who lived with the suspect told cnn his nephew was not violent. the warning signs, i saw him yesterday evening, and i went home, and i said, i went down stairs and said bye. that was it. that was it. i see no, nothing that could trigger him doing that. the weapon, do you have any idea where i m not sharing that, no. reporter: despite what this uncle say, we now know the warning signs, the suicide attempt, threatening his family, the confiscation of the knife collection. and disturbing social media posts online. despite that, he was able to purchase handguns and rifles legally. including the rifle he used to slaughter seven pe
ran inside the paper at the new york times. mine, the media devote far more coverage and mustered far more outrage over the johnny depp/amber heard trial. this guy told police he traveled from california to kill kavanaugh because he was mad about the leaked roe v. wade draft opinion. even if he did call cops and say he was suicidal, effectively turning himself in. would the tone of the coverage have been slightly different if an armed conservative had been arrested near home of, say, sonia sotomayor? even liberal bill maher said the times buried it because they just wear their bias on their sleeve. i m not going to blame this on rhetoric by democrats. that s sort of finger pointing both sides have long indulged in, but with i do blame a leader of the protests at kavanaugh s home for posting his address online are. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. the. howard: ahead, former congressman devin nuñes join withs our discussion of in the story as well as this: hous
law enforcement personnel. interesting way to describe it. what stands out to you legally? i think what stabs out here is you had a case where the policing was not ideal. i don t think that you could defend this as ideal police work because of the way they converged on the car. because of the perception caught on multiple vehicles, both police video and citizen video that there was an escalation. not ideal or negative police work doesn t mean it s criminal. that is what the d.a. is investigating. so what you saw in that presentation, viewerses would have been forgiven for thinking that mr. scott was on trial. although he is the deceased in this situation. we ve seen this pattern play out before. where there s a tremendous amount of incriminating information offered by the d.a.s to justify why the shooting took place. k the bottom line, though, is the legal justification offered in the d.a. s view was there was a gun on the scene. the gun they believe was either
candidates that don t agree with newt. what is your plan? how will you deport 11 million illegals. is there any system under which that will work. alisyn: we asked michele bachmann that yesterday. clayton: there is no answer to that. alisyn: she worked around she would prioritize. criminal records and some of the questions we asked, she didn t really answer a lot of viewerses e-mails and tweets that she was dodging that. and karl rove says you re not going to get rid of 11 million americans, not going to happen. 11 million illegal immigrants, it s impossible to happen. that will continue. and two things about to happen not getting press because of the holiday right now. this payroll tax extension which that battle is coming up in the next few weeks and so it unemployment benefits and 99 weeks, whether or not that will run out.
investigation of rupert murdoch s media empire as the company pays a new price for its phone hacking scandal. could a massive probe now under way in britain happen here in the united states? and the obama money-maybing machine. who s behind the cash and can the republicans compete? president obama and the congressional leadership are under enormous pressure right now, about 40 minutes into their latest round of debt crisis talks. they haveless than three weeks until the deadline to raise the legal limit on the federal debt. and by all accounts, they re still very far apart. what if anything emerges from this meeting? consider the very dire warnings from the chairman of the federal reserve. ben bernanke using very strong words today, telling congress that the global financial system would be thrown into enormous disarray. that s a direct quote, if the u.s. treasury is deadbeat on its debt. ff we went so far as to default on the debt, it would be a major crisis. the treasur