continue to help make a difference. they were everywhere. just looking at them there in the middle of pardon ming. they work really hard. they're used for transportation and farming. as i was told in poetic simplicity, i love the desert, i love my camel, i love my life. thanks for watching. anderson starts now. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news. in the colorado tragedy that raises some very troubling questions. was somebody in a position to sound a clear warning about the alleged shooter? somebody with both the expertise and duty to see trouble coming and did that somebody drop the ball? 12 people died in the shooting as you know that's at the century 16 theatre in aurora, colorado. dozens more were wounded. some with life-altering injuries could all of this have been prevented? some very big questions tonight. we're talking to an

investigative reporter from denver. you learned some information about the alleged shooter and concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. >> well, anderson, in the first 10 days of june, a number of things were going on. kind of set the scene. on june 7, the suspect in these shootings was to take an oral exam. he was in the ph.d. program, the neuro science program at the university of colorado. he didn't do well on the exam at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor to continue in this neuro science program. we're told it's unclear if he could find a mentor. on june 7, the same day he basically failed that test, he went out in the afternoon and bought an ar-15 assault rifle. it was that afternoon that we know around that period, he was certainly talking to his

psychiatrist who is dr. lynn fen ton. we don't know what the conversations were, but we know something that he said to his psychiatrist caused her to contact the university of colorado threat assessment team. now, that threat assessment team was formed in part with her help and she's on that team. so she's a member, she helped form the team, she contacted several of her colleagues on that team. we don't know what she told him. we don't know what trirged her to call them, but they decided after a day or so not to convene. and the reason was because three days after he failed that test and bought that ar-15, on the 10th of june, he dropped out of school. they then thought, the team thought, they had no jurisdiction, they had no control over him so there was nothing they could do vis-a-vis that concern that she had. again, we don't know what the concern was. what we doe know is that no one through our sources and through our reporting, we have been told, no one contacted the

aurora police department with any of these concerns. >> that's really interesting. that's all new information that we're really just learning now. so learnly, whatever he had said allegedly said to his psychiatrist raised enough red flags that she became concerned, contacted other members of this threat assessment team but because he dropped oit of the program, you're saying, they never formally intervened or got together to discuss it? >> that's correct. our reporting says essentially in the process of considering what, now e, dr. fen ton wton w telling them, during that time, he dropped oit of school. they then thought well, you know, we can't really -- he's not a student anymore. there's not much we can do. we don't have jurisdiction. as a matter of fact, two days later after the 10th, his access

card was cut off. he couldn't come back to the campus and get to any labs or area where is they wehe was wor. we don't know the level of threat or concern. and was that level to the level that would have been necessarily reportable to the police? as you know across the country, there are obviously different rules and different states. if you're here, this is where we need to be to report to police, we don't know if that call could have been here. we can't say whether she mishandled it or handled it properly. >> we may not know this information. if we don't, we can move on. do we know -- was she actually seeing him as a patient, or just in a classroom setting? if she was seeing him as a patient, do we know how long? >> she has been seeing him for several weeks as a patient, and

that's also born out by court documents, public documents we found. on her website, on her resume page, we see that she routinely handles 10 to 15 patients oof her own at cu. he may very well have been one of those patients. we don't know how long he may have been going to see her. we certainly know it was several weeks. and it was in this period that she finally got this inkling that something might be a problem. >> john, stick around, i want to bring in dr. drew pinski. also greg sokulo. he developed the threat assessment program for universities after the virginia tech shooting. give us your take on what we just now learned. the limited information that we have. >> sure, anderson. based on what i'm hearing so far and the reading i'm seeing on

the coverage, it seems like there was an appropriate flow of information going on within the university. the treating psychiatrist communicated that information to the behavioral intervention team on campus. now, we've already talked about how information flows both ways. maybe someone brought information to the team about holmes. maybe they consulted about it, or maybe the extension brought information to the team about holmes, which would then imply there was a special threatening behavior that was imminent and that she felt the need to alert the team to that. >> dr. drew, what do you make of this? what responsibility does a school or school officials or school psychiatrist have if a student has actually left the school. is there anything they can really do? >> the psychiatrist, i'm a

physician, addictionologist, but the psychiatrist ems thises would have obligation to follow through. they would have to see the patient until the care was terminated or transferred to someone else. but you can see here very clearly, this patient did not reach the threshold for a 72-hour hold, where people are an imminent threat to themselves or other. or for her to violate his hipa laws to contact police because of a belief there was imminent danger. she did do the very appropriate thing of calling the threat assessment team. the question then becomes, though, each and every threat assessment team has to make their own guidelines based often their own ethical, legal obligations of that particular community. >> obviously doctors walk a fine line here in terms of patient confidentiality. you're saying dr. drew, a doctor could put a 72-hour hold on a patient if they feel they're an immediate danger? >> yeah, she would have an

absolute obligation to do that. i can almost guarantee there was no the reason to do that. she did what was appropriate within that community, notify threat assessment. >> i was interested to read, i think i read just a short time ago that as many as 80% of colleges now in the united states in the wake of virginia deck have threat assessment teams. is it really that widespread? >> oh, it absolutely is. it became clear there was one mechanism that was the preventive, and that was to bring a team together which could help assess these risks. they engage with leakage, they get clues. so in any is college community,

we pick up on clues, pass them to the team, the team does accurate assessment and take appropriate action. >> dr. drew, is a psychiatrist -- if a patient is a college student, do they have any obligation or ability to tell that person's parents? or because the person is over 1, are they not allowed to? >> again, this dpepds on the level of threat and imminent harm. and it depends on the institution. some institutions, the hipa laws that the rest of us are protected by aren't adhered to. as my perspective from someone who doesn't look at that every day, from the outside in, it looks terribly domply kated to navigate through that system. and each system is different. >> we may not know this in terms of the reporting, is this the same psychiatrist that the suspect allegedly sent a notebookr a packet to with some disturbing details in it?

>> yeah, that's correct. that is the same package that police recovered. it was sent to dr. fenton. one thing i wanted to add here about something we don't know. we don't know if on one side the threat assessment team didn't meet or think it could, but we don't know about dr. fen ton and the suspect. did she meet with him after he left school on a private base sip. did she refer him to another psychiatrist. it's very difficult to make an assessment as to whether, you know, exactly -- to say she handled this correctly or not. she may have handled this very correctly. we simply don't have those answers. >> and the very fact that she raised red flags, certainly at least a good indication of taking the right steps.

and i think dr. drew agrees with that. i appreciate you joining us. appreciate your reporting. thank you so much. dr. drew is going to be doing more on this story on his shoe at the top of the hour on hln at 9:00 p.m. eastern. follow me on twitter @anders twittetwitter @anderso twitter @andersoncooper. breaking news about the role the u.s. may now be playing in the effort to topple assad. breaking news ahead. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great time to start. our beatches are even more relaxing... the fishing's great. so pick your favorite spot on the gulf... and come on down. brought to you by bp and all of us who call the gulf home.

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across the syrian populations have now taken an estimated 17 to 20,000 lives, mostly civilian. many of them sirn. some of the children tortured to death by the regime, their bodies returned to their families of as a warning. opposition fighters are said to be battling government courses across syria. but this is not entirely a war of liberation. it's also at places and at times becoming a war of vengeance. warning, it is not easy to watch. it shows a summary execution of an assad loyalist apparently conducted by a member of the pro opposition mob. if you prefer to turn away, we're going to show it to you for about 15 seconds.

>> an act of retribution, it seems and it may not be the last one. whatever impact outside support for the opposition may have. two people who have experience with presidential findings. how big a deal is this? again, we don't know when this was signed. how big a deal is this and what do you think it means? >> look, we should assume, where we have foreign policy challenges around the world, this is what we have an intelligence community to do, right? go in clandestinely and support american policy around the world. it shouldn't be surprising. here's my problem with it. you talk about 17,000 to 20,000 deaths in syria. the longer you wait to act, you pointed out we don't know when it was signed. the longer we wait to act, the more radical sized the syrian population becomes. they've been tortured and abused by their own leader and they feel abandoned.

so you lead the way to sorts of feelings of vengeance, al qaeda to come in. >> extremist groups. and we' already seen increasing reports of -- we had it the other day -- al qaeda and jihadist groups. i just talked to a reporter kidnapped by a jihadist group. >> that's right. good, if this is true it's. >> been signed and officials have told people here at cnn it is. that's great. but it's a little ad it's late. we need to do more. whatever we're doing, we need to do much more to bring this to an end, that conclusion, so there's a transition. >> bob, do you think this will make a noticeable difference in what the opposition is able to accomplish against the regime? or is lethal support needed. and is that the kind of thing this finding would have? >> well, for a start, more money is going to go to the opposition. the fighters, they're out of money. they've been complaining today. they're not getting enough medicine. they're not getting enough weapons, enough ammunition. they simply need more funding. they're not getting enough from the gulf or turkey or anywhere else.

utley, many this gets bad, the more likely we're going to ha al qaeda on the ground responding, gathering supporters. but what they need right now is surfa surface to -to-air-missiles and anti-tank weapons. they have to stop this army, they have to stop the bombardments. one day, if it gets really bad, and it could be very soon, thwee going to have to actually get the united states military to start supplying these people. >> it's interesting, bob, you've been a case officer on the ground in a lot of dangerous places. but there are those who say look, al qaeda is involved here or jihadist groups, people from chechnya or bang will desh or libya are going there on what they call a jihad. you see that as a result of not having it more international -- intervention earlier on?

>> the way i look at it now, islam is a default. when they get hungry and desperate, they turn to the koran. it's not their first choice. they'll go from a secular opposition to a religious opposition. we're going to sequel all over the place. it's just an idea. it's not an actual military force. the most extreme forms of islam. >> i think you have to understand whether it's the palestinian people, when a government or institution international institution fails a population and they are desperate and abused and tortured, they will turn to whoever can provide them weapons and food. if that's al qaeda, that's who they'll turn to on the ground. >> i was on the syrian border a

month or so ago, maybe longer. and the members of the free syrian aerp, the folks who were actually fighting, they keep saying, we keep hearing about communication equipment coming from the u.s., we keep hearing about money and arms coming from saudi arabia and qatar, but we're not seeing it on the ground. i talked to ivan watson who has seen evolved tactics, who has seen some better armaments, though still relatively small scale weaponry on the part of the opposition, but it's interesting to me that even now, they're still short of am mu yigs, and sort of medical equipment. >> well, i think everyone was hoping that there would be a coup d 'tat. yes, we're coming late to the game.

>> anderson, i think it's worth noting here. if we're only going to rely on covert action and clandestine activity of the intelligence community, we're not going to win this. we need to be willing to stand up and use all our powers. we use sanctions? that's good. we may now as we find out today using clandestine activity, that's good, too. but some of this means you have to be willing to stand up. you have to pull together the resources of the arab governments. you have to really be willing to stand up with a strategic plan and pull a community together. that's lacking. >> when you see that video of what appears to be a rebel group, opposition members lining up, regime supporters against a

wall and shooting them unarmed, hands tied behind their back, what do you make of it? how do you see that? >> anderson, this is a sectarian conflict. if bashar al assad falls, we're going to be in a position that we need to defend them because it will be a rwanda-like situation. where these groups are uncontrollable right now, will turn on this minority community. and we don't want to see that either. we re're not taking sides in a civil war. we're just trying to stop the violence. it doesn't surprise me at all and it could get a lot worse and i think it will. >> bob, appreciate your expertise. thank you very much. difficult times. we're following other news tonight as well. including the fundraising haul that michele bachmann is touting. has e made some of that money on the controversy over her comments about huma abedin and others an alleged infiltration by radical jihadists into the

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keeping them honest tonight, michele bachmann's re-election campaign is touting they earned $11 million during the first days of july. she tweeted i'm so thankful for my support es. we just raised $1 million in less than a month. it's an impressive month to be sure. the question is, does it say something about what politics have become? during those same 25 days, bachmann and four other members of congress were alleging that a radical jihadist group were infiltrating the united states government. they specifically named an aide to president hillary clinton, huma abedin.

we invited ms. bachmann to come on the program half a dozen to provide proof, real evidence to supposed ties to these jihadist groups but she refused. she did, however, finds time to talk to others about hum huma abedin. >> she is the chief aide to the secretary of state. this has been documented throughout arab media. her late father who is now deceased was part of the muslim brotherhood. her brother was part of muslim brotherhood and her mother was part of the muslim sister hood. what we did is ask, did the federal government look into her family associations before she got a high-level security. >> senator john mccain blasted bachmann and her federal lawmakers calling their claims unwarranted, unfounded. other republicans have condemned the allegations as well. but keeping them honest, you have to wonder if bachmann relishes all this heat, seeks it, in fact, so she can raise

money off of it. whether the claims are factual or not doesn't really matter. back in november of 2010 on this program, bachmann made this claim -- >> we know that just within a day or so, the president of the united states will be taking a trip over to india that's expected to cost the taxpayer $200 million after day. he's taking 2,000 people with him. he'll be renting out over 870 rooms in india. and these are five-star hotel rooms at the taj mahal palace hotel. this is the kind of over the top spending. it's a very small example, anderson. >> no one really knows the cost because for security reasons they don't disclose the cost. so this idea it's $200 million is simply made up. >> these are the numbers that have been coming out in the press. >> okay, i don't want to replay this, but she said those are the numbers coming out in the press. it turns out the press she's talking about, the source for the $2 million figure was an indian news report which cited

an anonymous source allegedly a local indian provencial official. how would a local indian provencial official anonymous know how much the trip was costing? impossible. during that same quarter, bachmann raised nearly $4 million, a near record for her. joining us now dana bash. dana, you've reported a number of times the reason congresswoman bachmann wasn't backing down on her muslim brotherhood claims was because she was sure to raise a lot of money from it. lo and behold her campaign announced she raised a staggering $1 million. >> $1 million in 25 day, that's what one of her campaign aides e-mailed me yesterday. a top house republican told me just this week that in a very candid way, anderson, if your network, meaning cnn, goes after someone in their party, meaning the republican party, it only

helps when it comes to fundraising and that was especially true, according to this top republican for michele bachmann. every time the media tags her, she does better. now, of course, we should make clear this show has now attacked her, but that is the way it's perceived. and that is telegraphed to some of the very important area where is she fundraises. now, we should probably ask the question whether or not all this money is really necessary. i talked to one democrat who shows a poll that says she's only five points ahead of her challenger. and he is independently wealthy. he could spend a lot of money there. but bay and large, it does not appear she's in very, very serious trouble. >> her fundraising prowess is legendary on capitol hill. you say it's also an important currency in congress.

explain that. >> it's sort of win-win for her. even if she loses on the policy, which it seems like she's going to, she can win on the politic, both in terms of fundraising for the re-election bid and in the house caucus. it's kind of a dirty secret how important fundraising is on capitol hill, but a lot of memories who retire will say this is the reason they left because it's so important they raise money in order to get plum committee assignments, to get good leadership positions to be well placed westbound the cau s caucus. so what bachmann can do is raise a lot of money and then turn around and give it to other republicans. she gave over $60,000 in the 2010 election cycles to other republican lawmakers, which curries favor. she can appear at their fundraisers. and all of this helps her insulate herself and, you know, moves her up in the ranks. this is maybe how she got the position on the intelligence committee in the first place, considering she doesn't have any foreign policy experience to speak of before. >> so she's actually using some of the money she raises to just give to other people, other

members of congress for whatever reason? >> that's right, yeah. it's very common. almost every member of congress has a leadership pac. and they use that to collect their own money and redistribute it to other members. this can build ties, build relationships. and it's rally interesting in 2011 after the republicans came in, bachmann asked to be put on the intelligence committee. she has no foreign policy experience and never served oen a foreign policy committee and speaker boehner granted that request. >> it seems like congresswoman bachmann did become this congressional juggernaut in a very short amount of time. how did that happen? >> what's the phrase? if you see a stampede coming, jump in front of it and pretend it's a parade? it was brilliant politically and strategically. a couple of years ago when the tea party movement was really, really gaining steam, she started what she called the tea party caucus here congss. i'm t rll re if they me evennce. maybe a couple of times. but she became the chairwoman of

the tea party caucus. she was the go-to person for this movement which was incredibly popular two years ago. that's how she became a superstar. she became a darling of the movement. there's no question about it. it has changed a little bit, particularly because of this controversy. i was just talking to top republican leadership a eership week who said loving her is no longer a litmus test for your conservative credentials. and that really i think does sum up the way things may have changed for her because of this controversy. one other thing i want to add, you're talking about her position on the intelligence committee. my understanding from my reporting is that she ran when the republicans took the majority, ran for a leadership spot. there was no way the leadership was going to give it to her, so they wanted to make sure she had a consolation prize because she has so much support out there, legitimate support among so-called tea party supporters. and that's why she got it. >> interesting. dana bash, appreciate it. alex, appreciate it as well.

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tonight, a mysterious death in the desert in arizona is raising questions about a group that calls thems a buddhist retreat. his wife was with him. they apparently had a falling out and he was banished. >> they wanted enlightenment. to get it, they would spend three years, three months and three days meditating in the arizona desert. >> this from their retreat video. >> it will be very, very hard to change the world. we will need a lot of love and support. >> it's the diamond mountain university in the southern arizona desert where buddhists paid thousands to pay for their own accommodations. >> we need financial support. >> support that would allow those to explore the mind

without worries about tfood. >> once we do this kind of yoga together. the next day when we do a series alone, it's really, really lonely. >> the bliss was not to last. a year and a half into the retreat, both would be expelled. then they seemingly disappeared. three months later, 38-year-old thorson would be dead. christie mcnally at his side. >> she was completely hysterical. according to her, she needed to stay with him for a three-day spirit to help his spirit to heaven. >> thorson died just a few miles from the retreat. he and mcnally made the fatal decision to continue it on their own, roughing it in the desert oen a nearby mountainside. >> i wouldn't call it a cave. it was big bolders that were

stacked. >> but the pair had help. someone was bringing them food and water from the base of the mountain. they had to come down and back up in order to get it. at some point, they became too weak and too sick to actually do that. the coroner's report says thorson died of dehydration and starvation. >> besides their bad decision to rough it, thorson's mother doesn't blame her son or his wife. she blames michael roach, seen here in the retreat video. >> what you're seeing here is the party to celebrate the retreat. >> co-founder of diamond mountain with mcnally, he goes by the title of a tibetan b buddhist monk. >> he changed radically, but over a period of time. it doesn't happen overnight. >> but there is more to the

story. before it was christy and ian, it was christy and michael. that's right, they had done a three-year retreat starting in 1999, living in the yurt in the same arizona desert. they even made a series of videos about their spiritual partnership. the problem began in february, a little more than a year into the retreat. mcnally gave a lecture indicating ian had been violent towards her and she accidentally stabbed him while practicing martial arts, reason enough to expel christie and her son. days later, mcnally received a letter from michael roach and the retreat's board of directors demanding to know details. she refused. in a rambling 31-page letter

titled a shift in the matrix, she said she was treated with disrespect, calling the board's letter disturbing and a gross breach of the retreat. the dispute appears to have led to the couple's expulsion from the retreat. in his own open letter, michael roach said ian had been cut three times. one which was deep enough to threaten vital organs, but the coroner's report only mentions a scar across thorson's right shoulder. >> he expelled the couple for whatever reasons. you can -- i don't think it's possible to justify something like that. >> expelled them and never informed the families, she says. both ian and christie emerging from a year of the retreat would have been in a delicate frame of mind. no charges were ever filed and arizona authorities consider the case closed. michael roach continues to run diamond mountain. he refused our every attempt to talk to him on camera.

last april, ian thorson was cremated in arizona. what starteds a journey towards enlightenment ended with his death and many unanswered questions. >> such a bizarre tale. miguel, if he and thorson's family were convinced it was a cult, did they try to do anything to get him out of it? >> they did indeed. they actually brought in experts, they brought him out to long island near where they lived. tried to mount an intervention to get him out of it. there was one scene where he became so upset and agitated in the car he jump eed out of a moving car and went running away from the family in flip flops and they had to go chasing him down. they tried everything that they could to try to get him away from michael roach, away from what they considered a cult and never could. anderson? >> russia tries to deal with a contagious disease.

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>> time now for the "ridiculist." we are go for launch for what is bound to be the best reality show ever. that's right, our between bride, twitterer and ambassador of love, courtney stodden is doing a reality show. she married a character actor when she was 16. he is 53. ever since she erupted into our consciousness, we have been waiting for this day. she tweeted, and i quote,

fyistfyist fyi stoddenistas. we'll be mia for about three weeks, packing up and shooting out to shoot a reality show. love you all, xxx. god bless, courtney. speaking of xxx. do you remember when she made that video about vegetarianism. it was so pornographic we had to blur the veggies. >> i grabbed these veggies, but then i turned around and these were calling to me for some reason. they're sexy, aren't they? >> see, we are super excited about courtney's reality show because we have a pretty good idea what it's going to look like. the details of the show are being kept secret. but for instance, we already know what her typical day is like. >> a typical day for me is crazy. i get up out of day and the sexiest outfit you' ever seen.

my hair is done, my makeup is done. >> and maybe the reality show will have singing and pink dogs and boats. >>. ♪ don't put it on me girl ♪ don't put it on me girl ♪ don't put it on me girl. don't ♪ >> we didn't show you the pink dog, but there was a little dog dyed pink in there she says she's taping the show for the next three weeks or go. but there's no holiday that falls in there because she pulls out all the stops for holidays. after multiple complaints, she got thrown out of the pumpkin patch. she had no other choice but to show off h her pumpkins on the

side of the road. we've done about 50 "ridiculist" on courtney stodden. this won't be the last one. but we know no matter what, it's going to be 100% real. >> my breasts are real. my hair is real, my teeth are real, my eyelashes are real. my breasts are totally real. >> she said that twice. i would have to say the main reason i'm personally looking forward to the reality show is maybe, just maybe, it will give us new insight into the enigma that is courtney stodden, her goals, aspirations and yes, maybe even an answer to the question that plagued us for more than a year now, what in the name of all that is holy is she doing with her face in this clip.