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following breaking news out of houston, texas tonight, the 48th president of the united states, george h.w. bush, is in the hospital battling serious infection. just a few days ago, the world joined him in paying respect to barbara bush. what is the latest that you've heard? >> so we've heard that he is responding to medication. just to go back to what happened, saturday night after the funeral, i'm told he was doing well, went out to dinner with his family. then sunday morning there was a crisis and he had an infection and there was sepsis, which is
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very dangerous when you're his age, 93, suffering from parkinson's. obviously he's been in fragile health for quite some time, and they rushed him to houston methodist, a great hospital. he was put in the icu, put on antibiotics and other liquids. but i'm told that sunday was a very rough day, that twice his blood pressure dropped, and they really didn't know whether he was going to make it, that he was struggling. but today i'm told he's stabilized and they hope he's turning the corner. >> obviously, to go through an experience like the funeral and the wake where, you know, members of the public were coming and the former president really wanted to be there to shake everybody's hand. >> we saw those pictures on friday of him greeting the public. he didn't have to do that. no one expected him to do it. he had seen the video and he said, i want to go down there. and he stayed and stayed.
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he's someone who likes to do the right thing and gracious, and it was that. but no question, this has been the most emotional, heartbreaking weekend for him. they've been married for 73 years, and i'm sure that in addition to the infection, that took a toll. >> yeah. it's hard to imagine the former president without the former first lady. you told me something right before we went on the air, and i just want the folks at home to hear it because it's really so moving about -- you had talked the night that barbara bush died about her relationship with the secret service and the respect that the -- really, that it was a two-way street, the respect that both had for each other. you have a report of actually what the secret service did with barbara bush, that they were with her the night she died. >> right. one of the things that people may remember about the bushes is they didn't go out on christmas or on holidays.
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and they did that so that the secret service could be with their families. they were very respectful, and they had a great relationship with them. and, in fact, when she was lying there, those were two secret service agents standing on either side, and the night she passed, the u.s. secret service, they kept an agent with her all night, and when she passed at sunrise, they sent out over the airwaves, meaning the secret service airwaves, quote, tranquility, which was her secret service name, has arrived at her final destination. >> that's how they alerted the other secret service agents that she had passed. >> correct. >> extraordinary. is it clear how many immediate family members are still in houston? obviously the whole family gathered. >> some of them had gone home, i think, before this all happened. i'm told that dora bush, their daughter, is there, and neil
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bush lives in houston, so there is still family around. >> i want to bring in the rest of the panel, gloria borger, sanjay gupta. he is responding and appears to be recovering. what does that tell you? >> they have identified what caused this sepsis. often it's an infection that can start off as even a minor infection from the skin or a urinary tract infection and then spread to the rest of the body into the blood. when you're giving antibiotics, you're obviously trying to clear this infection. you also have to make sure some of these antibiotics are pretty powerful, that you don't cause problems to some of the other organs, the heart, the lungs, the kidneys. it's a fine balance right now that's probably going on. the fact that he's responding, obviously a very good sign, but, you know, he's 93 years old, he has these underlying medical conditions, he's had this tough week, his immune system may have been compromised a bit over this
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past week. that can happen after a big loss like this, so all of this has to be taken into account. anderson, these aren't things that change in minutes. the sort of progress he'll make will be measured more in days and weeks. >> gloria, we've been talking a lot this past week about the strength of these two, the strength of president bush sr. in particular. it's hard to imagine what it is like for somebody to lose the love of their life, somebody they met -- he met her when she was 16 years old. he was still in high school and spent their entire lives together. >> it's an amazing story, and i know, you know, from reading john meacham's great book about george h.w. bush, the one word he hated to use, i'm sure you know this, jamie, is the l word, the legacy word. but what i saw at that funeral was his legacy. his family, his close family, his grandsons, his
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granddaughters, his great-grandchildren, his own children. that's his legacy in addition to his presidency. so that's something that i kind of thought of while i was watching all of this, even though he didn't like to talk about it, and barbara bush didn't like to talk about it. this is who they were. they were the embodiment of kind of an american dynasty, which we maybe see once a generation. >> david, president bush has been battling these health challenges for years. there is no reason to believe he isn't still putting up a fight tonight. i think jamie said he talked in the last hour about going to kennebunkport, he has events he wants to go to coming up in the weeks ahead. >> one of the characteristics his family often talks about is his will to live, anderson. it goes all the way back to his early years when he was the youngest combat pilot shot out of the skies and very nearly died in the pacific. you saw that more recently, a
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few years ago, one of his sons told me -- i think it was george w. -- that his dad had been on his deathbed, doctors thought he would not make it, and he rallied himself. he just had this fierce impulse, desire to live, the will, and he willed himself back into life, according to the son. and they all, the family, were just stunned by how he did that. so he's putting up a fight. he will put up a fight. i know he's lonely without barbara, but he does have this inner strength. >> jamie, david was referencing his time during world war ii. just reading about his exploits during the war, you know, his plane badly hit, he still delivers the payload of bombs in this really difficult battle in the pacific. he parachutes out along with one other person. that person's parachute didn't open. he survives on a raft being circled by aircraft to protect him until a submarine actually picks him up.
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>> right. actually, two of his crewmen didn't survive, and he always felt tremendous guilt about that. and i think actually at the funeral they talked about how he would say, why did i survive? why did i survive? and they talked in the funeral that he was told he survived because of barbara bush. he survived to come back and do all of that. but i can't tell you the number of times -- even though he's been in and out of the hospital and struggling, that he said, i'm going to live to be 102. i'm going to live to be 105. but i do think that barbara bush's passing has to take a toll after 73 years together, meeting at 16. >> it's incomprehensible to think about that loss. >> really extraordinary. >> sanjay, you mentioned something last mauhour, broken
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heart syndrome. someone who had a loss like that can be in a weakened state because of that loss. >> there is a broken heart syndrome, and it affects the heart more, a release of chemicals in response to this loss that can almost seem like the heart's been affected, maybe even seem like a heart attack maybe not with the symptoms. it can be quite debilitating on the heart. it can also be an impact on the immune system. so, again, you could have an infection that may have otherwise not been that big a deal, something that his body would have cleared on its own, but if your immunity is down in part because of age, in part because of other illnesses, in part because of this significant loss, that could be a tangible effect of what he's experienced this past week, having this weakened immune system, and that can lead to the sepsis. it's quite possible, anderson. >> we certainly wish him peace
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with reporting over the weekend that the president's personal attorney michael cohen could flip, the president reached out on twitter and lashed out at a reporter. quote, the "new york times" and a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman, known as a crooked h flunkie who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. he was asked whether a pardon is off the table. >> it was noticed by some that you didn't close the door one way or the other on the president pardoning michael cohen. what is your read on that right now? >> it's hard to close the door on something that hasn't taken place. i don't like to discuss or comment on hypothetical situations that may or may not
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ever happen. i would refer you to personal attorneys to comment on anything specific regarding that case, but we don't have anything at this point. >> we do, however. joining us are kirsten powers, david urban and carrie sellers. just from a legal standpoint, the president's power to pardon is pretty absolute. >> it is. executive power for the president, a pardon is one of the fundamental exec ty powers th -- executive powers that he has. we don't even know what michael cohen might be charged with. >> if he's charged at all. we should point out he hasn't been charged -- >> nobody has charged him yet, so there is a little bit of anticipation of going towards the pardon power. >> the only limit, and correct me if i'm wrong here, on a president's pardoning power is if it's done in order to buy somebody's silence, correct, or
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if there is a deal? >> there is nowhere that is that specifically spelled out. what we would be talking about would be an abusive use of constitutional authority. it really gets to the president's executive, fundamental authorities, and would a use of a pardon in some way to buy someone's silence or to derail an investigation or to obstruct, would that be -- >> which he's been accused of in the past, but it's pretty difficult to prove. >> would that be an abusive use of his constitutional authority? that would be the fundamental question. >> it's interesting, the article that got the president so upset is clearly this article that maggie haberman wrote, which is a fascinating article between michael cohen and donald trump when he was a civilian, and it painted, based on numerous sources, a pretty devastating picture of how donald trump had treated michael cohen publicly and privately over the years. >> yeah. i'm not quite sure how accurate
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that is. roger stone is fairly close to the president, had some not so kind things to say about michael cohen. but everybody is jumping the gun here. what's in the black box? nobody knows what's in the black box yet. you can't pardon for impeachment. it's actually listed in the constitution, enumerated there. i find it curious that the fbi, the department of justice can squeeze somebody, threaten them with lifelong imprisonment in order to get them to testify against somebody. that's not seen as somehow problemsome. >> isn't this done -- have you just discovered this? >> no, i'm not talking about michael cohen's case, i'm just saying in general, this should give people pause to think they could take you in, lock you up for a weekend and then say, how would you like to spend 27 years in here?
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if not, why don't you tell something about gloria. they're inclined to say something. >> they did that to sammy bull. >> remember richard nixon was pardoned without any crimes. he was pardoned by gerald ford. >> he was indicted. >> correct. you can indict before any charges are rendered, so we need to keep that in mind. innocent people don't flip. let's throw that out there. we can talk about the problems michael cohen has. this is not a black box. this is wire fraud. this is mail fraud. this is federal election crimes. >> if the department said we're going to bankrupt you, the government always has more money. microsoft found that out. >> that's not what they say, though. >> we know from our reporting
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that the president is appeoplecc about that. the deputy attorney general apparently had a meeting with him last friday in which he said, you're not in any jeopardy. >> he said you're not a target. >> same thing, you're not in jeopardy. and so that calmed down the president, i'm told, to a certain degree. except that these things move, they change. >> you can become a target. >> you can become a target, and they got a lot of stuff from michael cohen over the years, and he doesn't know what's in there. and yes, they had an up again, down again relationship, they fought all the time, and he went to michael cohen to fix things. usually when you go to someone to fix things, they're not great things that need to be fixed. they're things that haven't gone so well for you, and i think that's what worries the president. >> they're not necessarily
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illegal. >> right. >> but we also don't know whether they even need him. they've already gotten all of this information from his office, so the question is even if he would like to flip, do they even need him to flip? is that even something that's on the table? >> and to that point, michael cohen still has not been charged with anything, he still has not been convicted of anything. >> absolutely. >> so i think we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves here. but even to the whole point of -- >> he's worried. >> of course, if you have someone show up at your place with a warrant, obviously it's probably not the best day. but the important thing here is the fact that since rosenstein sent this to the southern district of new york and did not have mueller's team go and follow up on this themselves, that means it was outside of the scope of anything to do with mueller's investigation. i think we're getting a little overhyped on the pardoning
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front. let's not forget that president obama pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2,000 people, including people like which he see m -- chelsea manning. but i'm saying that -- >> lots of presidents pardon. the question is timing. is it a coincidence -- >> whether you go through the doj process and also whether you personally benefit from it. these people weren't -- this in no way impacted whether someone was investigating him. these were people that he felt their sentences should be commuted and i think he was right. but you just can't put it in the same basket as this. >> you can make it an issue with susan mcdougal or mark rich. >> people did. you were just talking about barack obama, and none of the people he commuted, there was no benefit. >> one was convicted of espionage. that's pretty bad stuff. >> but he wasn't personally
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involved in that. this is a question of pardoning someone who you are personally involved with. >> drug offenders for the most part, in jail wrongfully for long periods of time for low-level drug offenses. i love making it cloudy and spinning things. that was a hell of a way to spin that. the fact of the matter is these people are in his orbit. how scott pruitt, despite all the people against him, is doing a great job. ♪ ♪ (baby crying) ♪ ♪ don't juggle your home life and work life without it. ♪ ♪ and don't forget who you're really working for without it.
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administration who is a familiar name in segments such as these, scott pruitt. i'm going to play a sound bite from a white house official over the weekend. >> there is much this administration has been doing to drain the swamp, such as a lobby door between workers and the administration. there is more work we can do, hallie, we'll accept that, but we think scott pruitt is doing a great job and we look forward to keeping him there as epa administrator. >> doing a great job at draining the swamp. keep in mind these words came just a day after jay hart met with pruitt. hart's wife, you'll remember, rented a room to pruitt at a bargain price, $50 a night. he maintained he never met with hart, that hart had not lobbied pruitt. the 43,000 secure phone booth he ordered up and more. today he got less than a ringing vote of confidence from the white house. >> there has been a number of
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documented cases in the past recently of epa administrator pruitt at least appearing to be dishonest, about requesting raises for aides, about his relationship with a lobbyist at the epa. is the white house concerned at all about this pattern and is there concern about him testifying before congress on thursday where these issues will probably come up? >> we're continuing to review a number of the reports that you mentioned, and we'll let you know if we have any changes on that front. >> and so will we. joining us now, democratic congressman keith ellison. there does seem to be new ethics raised about pruitt. do you think he should resign? >> yes, scott pruitt should resign. he's under investigation for as many as 10 different sort of ethical lapses, of a discounted place from the lobbyist who has business before your agency to me alone is enough. but he's also spent lavishly.
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$43,000 for a secure booth so he can have conversations that he apparently doesn't want anyone else to hear, excessive amounts of security expenditures and this thing where he gave aides extra money that was intended to go to scientists, another particularly troubling abuse. but the real abuse is those things plus the fact that he is an incredibly bad epa administrator. he is attacking the clean power plant. he's trying to diminish and decrease fuel standards on cars. he's basically -- >> those are things the president supports, so he is successfully executing the president's agenda, whether you can disagree with that agenda. >> i think you have to be -- i think you're right. the president does want to repeal the clean power plan, but in my view, those scandalous things really are sort of a sign of a larger problem. i mean, at the end of the day,
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you know, if you think that government is bad, government is no good and you want to shrink it, is one of the benefits of shrinking it mean that the people who you're supposed to regulate will not be regulated as intensely? in scott pruitt's case, i suspect that is the case. >> the white house today said they are, quote, continuing to review a number of the reports on pruitt but he's done a, quote, good job of implementing the president's policies. again, i mean, is their response a rational one to you? >> in my opinion, it's a ridiculous response, but i will tell you this. it wasn't the ringing endorsement i thought i heard before. it seems like there may be a peeling away. i didn't hear the spokesperson for the white house say great job. they said, well, we're looking at it. and who knows, things happen quick coming out of the white house, but i'm sure that
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democrats and even some republicans will be ready to ask mr. pruitt some questions to hold him accountable and discharge their job around oversight. he's got a lot of explaining to do. >> earlier today, white house legislative affairs director mark short was asked about the difference between this situation with pruitt and the firing of tom price. he said, quote, there were several reasons pruitt wasn't working but the price firing worked on several fronts. he's basically saying there is no reason to fire him. >> they're willing to ignore clear ethical lapses and corruption on behalf of pruitt. i don't know what short has in mind, but i can tell you this. when you have an administrator that appears to be getting the benefit from a lobbyist, that it has business in front of his agency of lower housing, that
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should be troublesome. i don't know if that's just sticking up for your friends or what, but i think the huckabee-sanders comment probably is accurate in that they're looking at it. the trump administration, as you well know, already has a whole lot of things they have to explain. do they really need to explain pruitt's business as well? so that's something they've got to take into consideration. but i will tell you again, anderson, for me the big scandal is, you know, the larger question of abandoning environmental protection, actively working with polluters to make life easier and more profitable for them. that is the big scandal, in my opinion. >> congressman ell ing son, thank you very much. conway's husband is critical of the president. kellyanne conway was asked about
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very quickly, some other breaking news tonight about some white house personnel. they're raising concerns about the allegations of ronny jackson, the president's picks for veteran affairs. kellyanne conway has been talking about his twitter feed. kellyanne tweeted about the president doing one thing and
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not another, and george conway wrote, so true, that's absurd. dana bash asked kellyanne conway about that. take a look at some of the exchange. >> he raised a lot of things that are also supportive and he raised a lot of things about corgis and sports, too. it is now fair game what people's -- how people's spouses and significant others may differ with them. >> kellyanne, here was my whole point in this, is that you are a professional working for the president of the united states. and your husband is a very well-respected lawyer, and my point is we don't often see, in fact, i don't remember the last time we saw somebody working for the president in a high-profile position when their spouse is saying critical things about them. that is all. that is all. >> that, a, is not true. there are other family members of people who work at the white house who certainly don't
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support the president privately and publicly. but i will tell you this, and there are people who have been in this administration who worked for democrats or gaive money to democrats. all of that aside, that is meant to divert attention from the big issues america cares about. >> i'm back now with the panel. kirsten, kellyanne conway said there has been a different standard for me than other people. do you think that's true? >> it's interesting, she said later it's not a gender issue, so i'm at a loss of why the world has to single out kellyanne conway. that doesn't make sense. the question was totally fair. it was clearly asked in a very lighthearted way. kellyanne knows dana, just as everybody here does, as a very nice, fair reporter. the idea that she of all people would be trying to embarrass her or humiliate her is just absurd. her husband is not just her husband. he's a very well-known person in
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politics. it's not just some lobbyist at home in the republican party tweeting and expressing that he doesn't care about donald trump. she could have just said, we have different feelings about it, and moved on. >> i would have thought if you were prepping her for that interview, perhaps she would have had an answer for that which would be just the answer you're talking about, which is, we're all adults here. i don't agree with my husband all the time. i know in my family i don't. i don't agree with my husband all the time. we have different opinions. he's entitled to his, i'm entitled to mine, and just because i work in the white house does not mean my husband loses his right to express himself, period. and maybe i wish he wouldn't do it that publicly but he's a grown man and that's that. >> i think if i can jump in from kellyanne's perspective, or i could see where this would be -- i went back and watched interstate view live and went
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back and watched it a second time. i'm sure dana would argue one question about michael cohen, i'm sure they would argue there was four or five about michael cohen, then it went to various tweets about former director comey and then to her husband's tweets. at which point if i'm kellyanne and i'm ostensibly coming on to talk about the president's agenda and we've gone through that series, other than kellyanne trying to horn in on things other than her work on opioids. dana is one of the fairest and most honest reporters out there. >> and she has known kellyanne for years, yes. >> people have different fault lines, and dana questioned -- the word "husband" was mentioned a number of times in that initial question. i could see kellyanne, it was at the culmination of the interview, that she didn't get a chance to talk about what she wanted to talk about --
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>> what about the fact she was ranting and raving, this temper tantrum she was having, she went on this insane rant. >> i wish she had been cut off, but it was announced as the final question and it went into her husband's tweet. i would be frustrated, too. no questions on north korea, no questions on macron's visit. >> i have a little bit of a different take on this and i find myself actually sympathizing with kellyanne a little bit on this one. the things her husband is doing, he's just tweeting. he's not a litigator litigating with one of the private law firms against the administration's travel ban. he's not -- he doesn't have any kind of conflict in a substantive way. >> right. >> so while you all may be right as far as sort of what her reaction was in the actual interview, and i leave that to others, from a substantive point of view, sort of being in the legal community, there is not really anything he's doing that is other than speaking about
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something. >> and why not say that? >> where i do worry about it and where i have been critical of the administration and of the president as a campaigner and president, is that he has brought spouses into things. on the campaign trail, he launched attacks at spouses, he launched attacks at people's family members, and so i do worry that at a trend towards lowering the bar, towards bringing in people's spouses or family members when there really isn't anything substantive that he's doing in a way that would be -- raise a conflict issue. >> he is a person of influence on the right, that's the point. he's not just some random person. i think when you talk about attacking people, certainly, who would disagree with that? but dana wasn't attacking. it was a very simple question. i think if david axelrod's wife, if she was working in politics, i could see someone say to him -- >> isn't he up fora positi a pon
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the white house? >> i don't mean to interrupt, but working in washington, there are many people who work in common circles. i just think there does need to be a caution. >> i agree with that. i've always said in politics growing up in south carolina, you don't talk about going to church and you don't talk about people's families. there are certain boundaries. however, this president has no boundaries. for the white house all of a sudden to come out and say, oh, my god, this is off limits and kind of take this snowflake mantra is ironic. this is the same man who said that ted cruz's father was part of the assassination attempt on jfk. this is the same man who called heidi cruz ugly. then they trotted out all bill clinton's accusers before the debate. >> look, i say they're both really fine women. i think it's a tempest in a teapot. kellyanne is doing a great job for the president. dana is a true professional.
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himself from investigators. they say he is a 25-year-old male from richmond hill, which is about half an hour from where i'm standing here in toronto. we do have his name. as you know, we are not reporting that name. and we're getting a bit more sense of how this attack took place. it lasted some 26 minutes. the alleged attacker at 1:26 in the afternoon. it was a beautiful sunny day, warm day here in toronto. people were walking up and down young street. anderson, this is one of the busiest streets in all of canada. people going to and from work, to and from lunches. that's when the attacker in the van, in this white rented ryder van, hopped up onto the curb and started driving southbound, so straight towards us here on the sidewalk, plowing into people. the witnesses said it was pandemonium. he was driving about 45 miles an hour. then there was a dramatic scene at 1:00 p.m. where police managed to corner the attacker. between the police and the attacker, the attacker was pointing something at the police
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claiming to have a gun. the police were there, guns drawn, ordered him to get on the floor. take a look. >> come on, get down! get down! get the toronto police, the whole arrest happened without incident, that 25-year-old male now in custody. >> it looked like that guy was trying to provoke them to be shot. he kept reaching his hand. what are you learning about a possible motive. >> we see a lot of incidents where people have gotten shot
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for far less. >> it does not look like this is a terror attack, it was no threat to national security. they haven't seen any other threats in the works, they have not raised the terror threat level tonight opinion. >> tragedy in tennessee don't, where four families are grieving. a remarkable story of lives saved. four people under the age of 30 shot and killed after a day long manhunt. the suspect's in custody. more from the man who risked his own life. >> have you been in a situation like this where someone was firing? >> no.
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i don't have any combat training eith either. how long do you think you were 2us tussling with him? >> i was tussling, that's kind of tough. everything was kind of like a blur, so i assume a minute, two minutes, but if you could imagine. i was using full strength. he was using his full strength -- >> was he saying anything? >> slight cuss words, nothing derogatory other than cuss words, he was upset that i was trying to take the gun. i was trying to live. and that's all i could say, all i was trying to do was live. >> you get the gun from him, then what happened. >> when i took the gun, i took the gun up above my head like this, i raised it up and took it up above my head. after i got the gun from him, i threw it as far as i could.
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>> there's some people who have asked if this could have been a racially motivated incident. you said, he was using cuss words, was he using racial inappropriate racial words or just swear words. >> as far as i know, it was just swear words, all of it was a blur. all of it was a blur. >> did he say anything, that gave you an idea why i was doing this? why it was in his mind. >> he didn't say anything. he was just the cuss words, that was the only thing i was hearing, and i wasn't even really -- i tuned that out, i wasn't worried about anything. the only thing i was thinking about is maybe if he had a handgun in his jacket or maybe if he had a knife or something. but i would have been at that point in time, how hopped up i was, and hyper, i would have been -- i think i could have took a stabbing probably, and kept going.
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i was -- >> your adrenaline was pumping? >> yeah, my adrenaline was pumping really fast, i was ready to get out of there. >> i heard you went to church after this happened, you have a lot to be thankful for. >> i wanted to -- that day was already full with destruction and grief and that night. i went to church and persevere. it worked, i have family there. a lot of support, i have my best friends at the waffle house with me came to my church, it definitely helped, i prayed for the victims that were there. the ones that passed, and the ones that were just there and i
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was happy that i went. >> i heard you went to the hospital to visit some people. >> i visited two of the young ladies in critical condition. they both remembered me. i remember her gun wound. maybe the most, because she was right beside where i was tuesday elling, and fighting with the guy. and she was -- she was very severely injured. graphically. to her lower leg. >> thank you so much for what you did, in talking to us tonight. >> coming up, a new royal baby arrives on the scene. a third child for william and kate details ahead.
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big brother is 4 years old, charlotte is 2. we don't know the new baby's name yet. the couple announced the name a couple days after their first two children were born. this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. the 41st president of the united states, george h.w. bush in intensive care tonight. he was admitted to the hospital just hours after the funeral of his wife of 73 years, barbara bush. in retrospect, these pictures are even more moving now. the frail 93-year-old greeting mourners and posing for this picture with three other past presidents and four first ladies. we're going to have much more on the president's condition. that is coming in. in the midst of the pomp and circumstance of emmanuel
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