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then, and now. breaking tonight new details on the shooter behind the second mass murder at fort hood. this is a kelly file, everybody. so this gunman killed three people, and wounded 16 more about fatally shooting himself. just hours ago, the secretary of the army telling congress the military cannot rule out terrorism completely. >> we want to keep an open mind and an open investigation and possibly extremists is being looked at carefully. >> rick leventhal is live with

details. >> u.s. army confirmed identity of the sooter a husband and father born in puerto rico and joined the national guard. he's done two overseas tours, driving a truck during u.s. troop withdrawal to that country receiving 11 commendation medal buzz this is a deeply troubled man according to the lieutenant general. he says the shooter had an unstable psychiatric condition with a trigger event. >> there may have been a verbal altercation. and there is a strong

possibility that that proceeded the shooting >> the shooter claimed he suffered a traumatic brain injury but the army says he was never wounded the shooter claimed ptsd. he only had opinion here at fort hood a few weeks after a routine transfer from fort bliss friends in puerto rico say he was devastated by the loss of his mother and his grandfather but losing a family member doesn't typically trigger a mass shooting. now they're trying to determine what made this soldier turn on his fellow soldiers.

>> he asked why he has a handgun on the base. and why would that be? texas republican congressman stockman is behind a bill i hopes will change that. good evening. good to have you here. >> you go so far as to say the extent happened because soldiers on this base are not awill youed to be armed. >> that is right. in fact this is a 20-year experiment that failed this, is only place 20 years. we're not talking 50 or #00 years, only 20 years, since in place, you see a rapid increase in this violence on bases and john lott is right. as he walks off base, he can carry a gun. it's extraordinary. when you think about it. and when you think about after the original fort hood massacre

restricks were tightened on the base? correct? >> this is a bizarre response there are some generals saying we shouldn't still allow them to protect themselves these are young men and women that we want them to protect us. it only makes sense we should trust them to protect themselves this is a notion we need to give them right to protect themselves. it's a craze kwee notion we train them, then don't allow them to say -- you skrnt a gun doesn't make sense. >> when you look at these mass shootings there is one thing that ends the violence. and it is when that person is confronted with a gun. that is what happened here a brave military police officer on that base, a woman stepped in and stopped it. right? >> yes you look at all of the gun violence, almost all in what is called gun-free zones people that are out there committing crimes are not stupid. this is a soft target and will

continue to be until we give our soldiers rights to carry weapon they've been trained to use >> a lot of controversy. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you. thank you >> new developments in the struggle to stop an iranian hostage taken from coming to america. he was one of the students who grabbed members of our embassy in 1979 holding 52 americans for 444 days we've been trying to get answers whether administration will block this guy from coming. watch this exchange. >> does state department have an update on visa april politics to be iran's next ambassador to the united nations? >> we don't talk about visa cases individually. we raised a possible concern with the government of iran.

>> numerous hostages held for 444 days you can understand their outrage. do you have a message to them? >> well, i said it's troubling to us. >> does the state tept view this as a quote, slap to the fates some >> i'm not going to describe it that way. it's troubling we'll talk about that with the iranians we are to take a look at what his involvement may, or may not have been the u.s. government is going to look into this case iran ever apologize for the role in the 1979 hostage crisis? >> i don't know. >> would you like to see an apology if he will go forward? would you like to see an apology from the nation of iraq? >> i'm not going to make a comment. >> texas senator cruz introduced a bill that would prevent terrorists from entering the united states and joins me now. good evening. good to have you here. >> great to join you. >> what to you make of that exchange? >> you know, it's dismaying. and more dismaying is that this

is yet another indication of how radical, extreme and anti-american iran s this is not an accident they name an admitted terrorist, someone participated in holding americans hostage 444 days and propose to send him as their ambassador to live in new york city in, manhattan. that is wrong and designed to be a slap in the face. >> that is the nature of the slap in the face with our ongoing nuclear negotiate yeahing was iran. if they were serious about negotiating things they'd send over this former terrorist to be representing them at united nations? the one that's held 52 americans? >> of course not. i would note if calling him a former terrorist the group that took americans hostage still had his name and

picture on their web site. and you're right. this is going to the broader question. about the naivete of the obama administration if they think negotia negotiate to people who refer to rail as a little satan and america as the great satan. this is not a good faith negotiating partner. >> what would you do? that is the question. she's saying we're the host nation for the united nations we're not the united nations, we're the host nation for the entity. there have been people who floated in and out of the doors other country woz rather not have there. >> you know there is something fundamentally different about an acknowledged terrorist right now the current statute requires in order to exclude someone on a visa they have to be a national security threat

and have to have committed espionage. the legislation i introduced this week changes and to an or. it doesn't require espionage, it says if they're a national security threat, we can deny their series yachl i would note under existing statute is the taliban sent osama bin laden as their ambassador to un, the argument be we'd have to accept him into new york city. now that is crazy. and i will tell you, martha, i do have some hope we're going to see bipartisan agreement on this. ways encouraged democrats have been supportive of the effort. i'm hopeful we'll get all 100 senators to consent to pass this legislation to keep a acknowledged terrorist out of the united states. >> all right. we're also keeping tonight a close eye on severe weather threats out there getting

several reports of possible twisters we're watching that, plus... wait until you see what happened when a u.s. marine spotted protestors dissing the american flag. and why did former cia director decide to cut mention of is slam in describing a deadly terrorist attack? the answers, next. >> i took out the word islamic in front of extremists. i took it out for two reasons. [ music and whistling ]

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all right. now to a revelation that is raising some new questions about how the white house handled the benghazi terror attack that killed four americans. former deputy cia director mike morel yesterday admitted that when he edited the white house talking points he specifically removed the word "islamic" from the term "islamic extremists" in his talking points. >> i took it out because we were dealing with protests and demonstrations across much of the muslim world as a result of the video. and the last thing i wanted to do was to do anything to further inflame those passions. >> well, if you think back to this time, it was not just

morell who was trying to placate the muslim world during this time. do you remember this effort by the president and the secretary of state in they put this message out on the following day, squarely blaming the murders on the video and rorgd a message of apology that was to be run on television in pakistan. >> the united states government had absolutely nothing to do with this video. we absolutely reject its content and message. >> remember that? and despite the fact that the president said that he knew that this was a terrorist attack on day one, he was still blaming the video and pointing to it again and again weeks later. >> here's what happened. you had a video. extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassies including the one, the consulate in libya. what we do know is that the

natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video -- >> the crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the muslim world. now, i have made it clear that the united states government had nothing to do with this video. >> so interesting to look back at all of that effort, right? hindsight now. south carolina congressman trey gowdy. he's a member of the house oversight and government reform committee, and he joins me now tonight. good evening to you, congressman gowdy. what do you think when you look back at that concerted effort? >> well, what we know now, martha, is the video had absolutely nothing to do with the attack on benghazi. the question is how soon did the administration know it? they knew it on september the 12th. and what i find interesting about mike morell's testimony is in the state department e-mail where they call it islamic extremism. that is the cause that they cited of the attack. nothing about a video. no one on the ground in benghazi

mentioned a video. so for the president to perpetuate this mythology on the eve of an election and frankly susan rice continues to refuse to apologize for misleading our fellow citizens. mike morell made eight different changes to the talk points. and martha, every single one of the changes he made, going from an attack to demonstration, from terrorism to extremist, every one of those changes was calculated to cast this administration in a more favorable light. >> it's interesting because he said he took the word "islamic" out because he didn't want to further fan the flames that he felt were simmering across that entire area. and we did see the outrage and protests that happened in cairo. and there was that belief that maybe this was what occurred here. but as you pointed out clearly in the first 24 hours they knew this was a very orchestrated and militarily sophisticated attack. so why would he feel he needed to remove that word from that

testimony given the fact that they knew at that point that that's exactly what it was? >> well, mike morell gave two explanations, both of which are patently absurd. number one, he said that he didn't want to spawn more violence. if we just apologize enough, particularly to countries that don't let women drive or don't let women vote or still have these oxymoronic things called honor killings, if we just apologize enough under some version of the stockholm syndrome they'll forgive us. the other absurd explanation was he said what other kind of extremists are there in libya? there aren't mormon extremists. there aren't episcopalian extremists. the problem with that, martha is in their own documents they call it islamic extremists. so they're willing to say it to each other but they won't tell the american people, which leads to the third explanation. remember the narrative. osama bin laden is dead, and al qaeda's on the run. but we certainly can admit, six

weeks before an election, that al qaeda's not on the run. they're at the front door of our facility in benghazi, murdering our ambassador, and setting it on fire. heavens knows we can't make that admission. >> all right. congressman, thank you very much for being with us tonight. trey gowdy. >> yes, ma'am. so there is the view from capitol hill you just heard from trey gowdy, and then there is another view. mark teesen is a "washington post" columnist, also a presidential speechwriter in the bush white house. he joins us now. good evening. >> good to be with you, martha. >> what are your thoughts on whether or not -- part of, this we have focused so much on whether or not it was called terrorism in that first 24 hours, but you say there was in fact an effort to placate, to downplay discussion of islamic terrorism in order to appease this part of the world. >> oh, definitely there is. and unfortunately it's a bipartisan phenomenon, trying to downplay the word "islamic." i remember in the bush administration, in about 2005 the pentagon wanted to rename the war on terror the global

struggle against violent extremism, the gsav. and it was absurd. we weren't at war with all violent extremists. we weren't at war with the i.r.a. and the tamil tigers. we were at war with islamic extremists. so even in the bush administration we had our struggles over whether to call it islamic or not. but we never struggled with whether to call it terrorism. and that's the problem that we're facing here today with benghazi. president obama didn't want to admit this was a terrorist attack. so i wish you could -- i wish we could blame this on sort of high-minded misguided foreign policy motive, but it was a crass political motive. he wanted to get re-elected and he didn't want the american people to realize that al qaeda was not in fact on the run. >> mark, thank you very much. always good to see you. >> thanks, martha. so democrats are calling it the, quote, road to ruin. and mitch mcconnell is here on the fallout from a court ruling that many say will change politics forever. we're going to talk about that. and up next, the video you need to see involving a protest, an

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tonight. as promised, now to a confrontation that is getting a lot of attention. it came during a recent demonstration in albuquerque, new mexico. they've been having a lot of problems in albuquerque lately. it involved two protesters, an american flag, and two u.s. service members. trace gallagher with more from our west coast bureau. hey, trace. >> hey, martha, these protests were sparked by albuquerque police fatally shooting a mentally ill homeless man. the protests themselves then turned violent after the demonstrators began throwing rocks at police and in turn police fired tear gas at them. two people were riding a scooter carrying an upside down american flag. that is supposed to be a sign of distress, meaning your life is in danger. well, an unidentified marine and another military man didn't see it as a sign of distress but as a sign of disrespect. they ran after the scooter and when the flag dropped as you can see, they picked it up and they rolled it up. but listen now to the choice words these military men had for the protesters.

play this. >> pick that flag back up! >> [ bleep ]. >> this started a debate about whether the military men violated the proerltss' right to free speech. some saying the protesters have the right to carry the flag any way they want. but this apparently became a theme of the protest because the same men who took the video you're watching here also took this picture of protesters hang the flag upside down with their middle fingers right side up and some believe that the military men finally said enough is enough and went after that flag on the scooter. >> a lot of free speech flying around there. trace, thank you very much. coming up, this story for you this evening. dr. kathy flatoni was working at fort hood when major nidal hasan opened fire. in fact, she was at the top of

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we have multiple gunshots. >> unbelievable hearing those sounds there. again, back to our breaking news tonight. investigators are still trying to figure out why a soldier opened fire, killing three soldiers and injuring 16 others before turning that gun on

himself. this tragedy comes less than five years after 2009, the shooting on the same base when major nidal hasan yelled "god is great" in arabic and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others. dr. kathy platoni was there that day. she had arrived one day before the attack to get ready for her deployment. she was not shot, but she worked tirelessly to save the lives of friends who were caught in that crossfire, one of whom died in her arms as she attempted to help him. >> joining me now is dr. kathy platoni, retired u.s. army colonel and psychologist for 30 years in the u.s. army. doctor, welcome. thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us a little about you and what happened in your experience that day at fort hood. >> i think the most important thing to remember from that fateful day was the unequalled heroism that i witnessed among all of our soldiers.

one thing that you can always say about people in uniform is they run towards the danger rather than away from the danger. and as all of us rushed towards the door to go to the building where the shooting occurred, we were unable to exit because the nine wounded were being brought in. several of my soldiers, my fellow soldiers, rushed the shooter and lost their lives in the process. and this just highlights the sacrifices that those of us who wear the uniform or have worn the uniform are so ready to make. >> you were told you were going to be his supervisor. you were told that you were at the top of his list, right? >> i was later told in the years following the massacre that indeed i was to be nidal hasan's direct supervisor and that he was looking for me specifically. >> thank you for your service and for all you did that day and for all you've done in the 30 years of your service to help so many people who've been through these traumatic situations in

different forms in the military. but that shooting that you witnessed that day is still classified as a workplace shooting. do you agree with that decision? >> absolutely not. this has continued to be considered the act of a disgruntled employee and workplace violence is another of the ultimate betrayals that many of us have faced in the years following the massacre. when someone stands up behind a cubicle with two pointed lasers and two weapons and yells "allahu akbar," that is a terrorist incident admitted from nidal hasan. in the years following the massacre the families, the wounded and the survivors have yet to receive the full benefits deserved at the hands of an enemy of the united states. and again, nidal hasan has admitted being just that. >> absolutely. absolutely right. kathy, what was it like for you when you heard this news, you know, these 911 calls?

you must have been in absolute shock this could possibly happen in the same place again. >> yes. abject terror. it's as if the world beneath you begins to crumble away. i think for those of us who've been exposed to trauma, you're always just an inch away from the feeling that disaster is right around the corner. and to have that repeated has struck a devastating blow for so many of us who were there that day. and for anybody who's been exposed to trauma and terrorism. it definitely rocks your foundation in a very powerful way. >> your work is so extraordinary because you have been right in the middle of these situations. and even before that you dedicated your life to helping people deal with this kind of trauma. and that it happened to you in your own situation. what do you think if you look at this one and this story and you start to hear there was some argument beforehand, that he was being treated, that he was on several different medications? what's your assessment? >> you know, without having all the facts, it's very

assess the specifics of this situation. i think that we're very much in the dark ages in terms of looking at signs and symptoms and taking them seriously. i realize this person was undergoing treatment. i don't know the quality of the treatment, whether he was receiving psychotherapy in addition to medications. but i think we are so quick to dismiss what is so obvious that may not be safe for people. i think we look the other way too easily and shirk our own personal responsibility for reporting things that just don't pass the smell test and that your gut tells you are indicative of danger. >> really important words. dr. platoni, thank you very much for your service and your dedication to these situations and for all you've done -- >> thank you. a tremendous honor. >> good to have you here tonight. many thanks. >> thank you. all right.

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developing tonight, new anger and anguish from liberals and democrats reeling from a historic u.s. supreme court ruling that they believe will ruin american democracy. some gathered on the steps of the supreme court yesterday, making some dire predictions about the ruling that lifted some limits on donations to political candidates. >> the direction that the court is headed in is just dramatic and just dark. >> it is the sign of a court that has an agenda. >> the money rules and everybody else can go hang. >> today deals a real blow to those of us who believe in integrity and government. >> inequality is sweeping over our political system. >> this is not about democracy for the many. this is about democracy for the money over here. >> very unhappy on the hill yesterday. in a moment we're going to speak with the businessmen and

conservative activists whose case was at the heart of that ruling. but first, megyn spoke yesterday to a public senate minority leader mitch mcconnell about this ruling. he had filed a friend of the court brief in this case. watch this. >> good to see you again, sir. and so this is a victory for your side. i want to let the viewers know basically what this did was there was a limit of $123,000 per election cycle. basically, every two years that you could donate to candidates and their parties. and once you hit $123,000 you had to stop, you couldn't donate any more. folks like you said that's a violation of free speech. what the other side is saying tonight is that the bottom line here is much more money is going to be flowing into politics, mostly flowing from rich people. is that a good thing? >> well, it was a great decision for our democracy. what the court did was to rule down -- to overrule congress's efforts to kind of micromanage how people participate in political campaigns.

there's still a limit on what an individual can give to a party, committee, or to an individual. but no cumulative limit on how many party committees or how many individuals they can contribute to. >> so let me just stop you there so the viewers understand. so before if somebody wanted to donate to mitch mcconnell they could donate i think it's 2,600 bucks. >> and they still can. that's all they can give. >> they can't give $5,000 more, $10,000 more. but if that person had already donated $123,000 in the past two years and then they wanted to give mitch mcconnell 2,600 bucks they could not before this decision. now as a result after this decision they can. they can go above 123,000 cumulative. >> in other words, they can contribute to more candidates. not more money to each candidate but to more candidates. it's none of the congress's business how many candidates americans want to contribute to. so this encourages more participation, more speech, more involvement. and look, megyn, with a government that spends about $4 trillion a year and is big enough to take away everything

we have, we don't need the government micromanaging americans' participation in the political process. >> but this is -- the other side says what this decision does is it helps rich people because regular folks don't donate more than $123,000 every two years to politics, you know, to politicians. so this just opens the door for rich people to start controlling elections and greasing the wheels in a way that regular folks cannot. >> well, rich people have always had the opportunity to do that. they can go out and spend all their money on a political cause if they want to. there's nothing new about that. you know, what -- let me tell you what the liberals really wanted, megyn. and this supreme court of course would never let them do it. they want the government to control how much is said in campaigns. in other words, a spending limit. how much a campaign can spend advocating its point of view. and they want that to be paid for by the taxpayers. they want the government to take over the process of getting to office so that the people who get in office are more beholden to the government. that's what they really want.

and this supreme court has basically said under the first amendment political speech is the most important speech referred to in the first amendment and it's none of the congress's business micromanaging how many candidates people can support. that's the core of this decision. it was an excellent decision. it's good for our democracy. >> it was a 5-4 decision so the viewers know and it was a plurality. but in any event, do you think -- because in this case it was basically republicans and conservatives on one side and liberals and democrats on the other side. the liberals and the democrats lost. do you think this is going to help republicans in the coming election? >> i think it will help the country because it will be more money available for more candidates to get their message out. whether they're on the left or the right. to try to convince the american people that what they want to do in congress is the right thing to do. look, america doesn't suffer from too little political speech. we need more of it, not less of it. and that's why this was such an important decision for our country. >> senate minority leader mitch

mcconnell. good to see you, sir. >> thank you. >> interesting, right? so now that i cable news exclusive, the man who won that lawsuit that led to this historic supreme court decision. shawn mccutchen is a member of jefferson county, alabama's republican party executive and steering committees, and he's the founder and ceo of coalmont electrical development corp. shawn, good evening. good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> did you ever expect you that would be at the center of a case like this that got so much attention? how did you get into this? >> well, i just became an activist several years ago. i didn't expect this much attention in all this, but i'm very glad and happy that it happened. >> what do you think it's accomplished? >> well, i think we've accomplished more money from private individual people exercising their free speech, especially in the political process. i think it's a very good thing that private people and individual people outside the government are going to be able to support more candidates, parties, and committees. >> well, you saw chuck schumer

on the steps of the capitol. he said this is leading to the ruination of this system as we know it. i'm paraphrasing him. but that was the idea. basically, it seems like democrats are very upset about this. they think conservatives and republicans are the ones with the deep pockets, even though we do know, actually, that democrats tend to have more money in the coffers at the end of most elections anyway. but that's the take on this. that it's a rich people, elitist way to get your dollars to some candidates who might not be able to get noticed without them. >> well, again, chuck schumer is an elected official. he's in the government. this is about people outside the government being able to have their voice in the media and spread our ideas in the political marketplace. which is very important. it's not about the government regulating itself. it's about our free speech outside the government and our political process outside the government to choose who's going to be in the government. i can't for the life of me

understand why chuck schumer is against free speech or free americans in a free country. >> how do you think this will allow you to sort of expand your freedom of expression, your freedom of spending your money around -- you know, how will you do things differently now under this law? because you can't -- as we put it up before, you can't give a lot of money to one candidate. you max out at the 2,300 level and then, you know, you can spread the money around to a lot more candidates. right? >> that's correct. you can support more candidates. you can support more parties. and more committees or pacs, which are essentially state parties. so it allows you to support more numbers. it involves the number of candidates and committees that you can support. it's not the base limit. >> shaun, thank you very much. shaun mccutcheon, at the center of this very controversial decision that some believe will lead to the ruination of the campaign finance system. you are on the other side of that, sir, obviously.

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conservatives. that's the one group they don't seem to like. >> i don't know if they like us. as long as we do them at the box office or on the tv screen they like us a lot. >> what do you make of it? you're this powerful producer. days of thunder, crimson tide. so many actionors talk about how they cannot get jobs in hollywood. you own half the industry. >> i don't believe that. i have to tell you the truth. i believe if you're really talented and you're good at what you do, politics has nothing to do with it. we don't sit and argue about politics on the set. they let you be. they don't like that i don't donate to their favorite politician. >> how did you go from being a guy who donated to barbara boxer to a guy who donated to george w. bush? >> well, it changes. >> you've come out with this

book. you need more money? >> exactly right. you've got it. it is an inside look at the movies i love producing. and it tells them how it got made. you're living the american dream. you did not come from privilege will you work your way up and started at the bottom. >> my dad was a salesman. >> got the television, made some award winning commercials and made some more winning commercials. >> so many huge stars in hollywood. let me do some quick hits. nicest person you've worked with.

nicest star. >> johnny has to be up there. he is the most amazing, caring, kind man. he takes his kids to school whenever he is in town. he is a musician. he loves to play guitar. hangs out with some of the great guitar players. >> biggest diva. >> i can't tell you that. >> are you considering banning ben affleck who came out who said, when i watch a guy i know is a big republican, part of me thinks, i probably wouldn't like this person. do you think he should be banned? >> no. i like him a lot. he is a very talented actor and director. as he good guy. >> toi work we ever government. i can't just pick republican government. >> we need the gov for our movies. i did black hawk down. i work the bill clinton

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