possibility that that in fact immediately preceded the shooting. we do not have that definitively at this point. but we do have strong indications of that. >> friends from his hometown in puerto rico are shocked at what happened. >> very good person. laughing all the time and i never saw something like this could happen. >> targeting the media. two women journalists from the associated press are shot point blank today while covering the run-up to the election. veteran war correspondent cathy gannonwas seriously wounded. richard engel will share his memories of this fallen colleague, a fearless photographer. >> i do my job simply to report with my camera and with my

heart. >> late show legend, after more than three decades as a fixture on late night tv, david letterman plans to call it quits next year, leaving a career full of countless highlights, too many to fit into one of his famed top ten list. >> what this means now is that paul and i can be married. [ applause ] good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. attorney general eric holder says the army is taking the lead investigating the shooting at ft. hood. we're learning more about the three soldiers killed in shooting rampage. wtsb is reporting sergeant first class danny ferguson is among

the dead. he died trying to hold a door closed to keep lopez from shooting anyone else. the mayor of puerto rico says carlos lazaney was also fwun gunned down and timothy owens. a ten-year army veteran who served in iraq and kuwait. there is some good news to report about some of the 16 people who were wounded on wednesday. three have been upgraded to fair condition. another is listed in good condition. five others have been discharged so far. investigators say that army specialist ivan lopez seemed to shoot at his victims randomly. an army spokesman says lopez had an unstable psychiatric condition. so far police have questioned lopez's wife seen in the gray shirt and searched their home. it turns out he brought his gun at the same store, the gun shop

where ft. hood gunman bought his gun in 2009. flags are flying at half staff as they try to recover from the second mass shooting in five years. we'll get more on the suspect from the pentagon in a moment. first charles hadlock joins us live from ft. hood with the last on the investigation and then to jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: the fbi and military officials here are going over the military service record of ivan lopez trying to find out if there were any red flags that would indicate there was trouble ahead. they just can't find anywhere in his 15-year military service record. in the four years he served as a u.s. soldier, he received three good conduct medals while in service. but the military says he did have some psychological issues. he was experiencing anxiety and depression and sleep disorder --

and he was about to receive some evaluation of post-traumatic stress syndrome, but there's no indication that that played any role in wednesday's shooting. they say there was a verbal altercation just prior to the shooting between the soldier and several other soldiers. that may have sparked what happened. some of the friends and neighbors of lopez say he had been upset he had been denied a chance to visit his family members after the death of his mother back in november. he may have been seeking more time off. that could have been denied or delayed but the military has not confirmed that report, andrea. >> jim miklaszewski -- sorry, jim. >> that's all right. >> your earlier reporting from moments after the shooting were that -- was that he had been in iraq but for four months early and as a truck driver so not as

at least as far as they know in any combat role. >> u.s. military officials say lopez saw no combat action and not in iraq. he was there during the withdrawal, the last final -- he was one of those who turned the lights out in iraq for the u.s. military. he saw no combat. we were talking to ptsd specialists who say you don't necessarily have to seek combat to suffer ptsd. it was clear he sought psychiatric help for depression, anxiety and sleeplessness. so he was having problems. but the psychiatrist who talked to him just last month saw no signs that he was of any threat to either himself or others. there are bigger questions here and the fact that yes, he was upset he didn't get to spend more time at his mother's funeral and he had some other issues. but some military officials are

looking at those things as possible triggers that set him off. they do believe sincerely he much am deeper psychological problems. >> jim miklaszewski and charles hadlock from ft. hood. two associated press journalists were shot in eastern afghanistan by a local police officer, we believe, one of them prize winner and german photographer, anya knitten house and her colleague cathy gannon. they were traveling with a convoy carrying election materials to the eastern district. joining me from kabul, nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel your reporting on this and your colleagues because i know you knew them well? >> reporter: most people have been covering afghanistan for long time or covering middle east, knew both of these reporters and there's been an

outpouring of emotion online where people exchanging photographs and sympathy. what's so tragic about this is that they were doing their jobs and here covering the elections. they went down in a convoy and protected by the afghan security forces and these two women were sitting in the back of their vehicle when suddenly a member of the afghan security forces, an afghan police officer, a secretary lieutenant walked up to their vehicle, raised his rifle and shouted and fired. cathy gannonfirst treated and then transferred to bagram air base, not far from kabul and her condition is described as stable. >> we've seen in the past an outbreak of shootings against american service members from afghan officers, but this is an afghan lieutenant or police officer.

what is the explanation from the officials there? >> there isn't really an explanation from the officials. the karzai's office put out a statement condemning this attack. but there have been a spat of attacks recently against journalists. there was a swedish reporter killed execution style. there was a prominent afghan journalist who was having dinner and he was killed also execution style along with almost all of his family. then these two journalists today, cathy surviving, anya not surviving. but this is not -- they are not the only targets. election officials have been attacked and candidates have been attacked. the taliban and allies want to destabilize the country and that afghanistan is a failed state while the government here is trying to have a -- the first ever transition of peaceful power and so far there hasn't

been peaceful and there hasn't been a transition of power yet. >> i want to ask about your conversation with steven townsend, the commanding regional commander. tell me about what, what you learned on battlefield. >> reporter: amazingly i was in the air with this major general townsend yesterday in post province, not far from where the two from the associated press took place today. he was showing me there's been significant progress in the area and expressing confidence in the afghan security forces. he didn't know -- this was before the attack took place this morning, about 24 hours before the attack. and generally nationwide the afghan security forces are doing better and the major general thinks that over time with some continued american support that the afghan army and police will be able to hold this country together. he did think that there will be

pockets where the taliban and other groups will continue to exert influence, but what happened today does raise question about those very security forces that american troops are in this country to train. that is the u.s. mission now and if those security forces are killing journalists unarmed, two women traveling in the convoy or turn their guns on their american trainers, that does raise questions about how sustainable and how successful this mission has been and will be. >> indeed. of course, the next critical test is the elections this weekend and we'll be of course following all of your coverage of that. thank you, richard in kabul. >> thank you. >> stay with us right here on "andrea mitchell reports." daniel murphy speaks out about taking paternity leave and missing opening day. and later a look at the national urban league's annual report about the state of black america.  when it comes to good nutrition, my daughter's an expert.

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. new york mets second baseman and new father daniel murphy was back in the lineup after missing the first two games of the season to be with his wife and newborn son. he defended his decision to take paternity leave. >> the awesome thing is you get that choice. my wife and i discussed it and we felt that the best thing for our family was for me to try to stay for an extra day. i can only speak from experience, but fathers seeing their wives, she was completely finished. she was done. she had had surgery and she was wiped. so having me there, i think helped a lot and vice-versa to

take the load off. >> and radio host boomer apologized after he said this about murphy's decision to skip the mets opening day to be with his wife. >> i would have said c-section before the season starts, i need to be at opening day. i'm sorry, this is what makes our money and how we live our life and give my child every opportunity to be a success if life. i'll be able to afford any college i want to send my kid to because i'm a baseball player. >> assuming everything goes right, mom -- >> no complications. >> no complications. >> get your [ bleep ] back to work. >> and joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, always takes his paternity leave. >> ridiculous and political correspondent for the "washington post," welcome both of you. chris, first, your take on this because this did create a fire,

but this was more than just being -- i don't know sort of clueless about it. it went over the edge. >> this is beyond ridiculous. as a father of two, look, let's start with this. the paternity leave that major league baseball players are allowed is collectively bargained. this is not murphy going off on his own. this is what they get in the contract. this is the deal. the second of all, he can't -- it's two games, andrea, out of 162 game-season. i did math, that's 181th of the season. this isn't football where he's missing an eighth of the season, boomer esiasson. the point he makes about its opening day, this is how you make money and how your family -- is his contract

somehow voided by missing 1/81th of the season. this is so ridiculous. daniel murphy handled himself so well to say i wanted to be by my wife side. i wanted to take two months off to help her get better, i was able to take ten days off. it's ridiculous. >> i don't get the controversy. the mets are such a bad team that the entire team could take paternity leave and it wouldn't make any difference in their performance. >> hillary clinton weighed in at the world summit last night. let's see what former secretary of state clinton had to say. >> the answer was well i can't tell from your initials whether you're male or female because if you're male, i recommend if you have a family, put the pictures in your office because then everyone will know you're a responsible reliable family man. if you are a female, don't have any pictures of your family because then they think you

won't be able to concentrate on your work. i remember reading that and this was so long ago. and yet some of those attitudes we know persist. >> let me just create -- set up the context here. hillary clinton was recalling with christine lagarde there some of the advice where the writer was asking a columnist how to decorate his office. the answer was, if you're a man put family pictures up but if you're a woman hide them so people won't know you have a family and might be distracted. chris cillizza, we're still debating the gender issues, maybe not on sports radio as well as to handle workplace and family problems. >> no question. go back to the 2008 campaign of hillary clinton and how she -- i think struggled to appropriately define her role. i always thought she put the

fact she would have been the first female presidential nominee ever, much more forward. remember back to the scene in a diner in new hampshire where there was a massive debate over had she cried or teared up or not? was that appropriate in a candidate? you know, we still are sadly in a place where that is a debate. >> that was the day before the new hampshire primary and there was even talk that she had done it deliberately and whether that was the turning point for her. >> family issues come up for women in a way they just don't for men. not just women democrats but republicans, sarah palin, when she ran, people were questioning whether she should be running for vice president when she had a disabled child at home. and people just don't ask those questions of men. >> goes back to pat schroeder. >> you hear it. one time i went to candidate training session at rutgers for women. you hear it from even women running for the school board.

trying to take a bigger role in their children's education get asked, who's going to take care of your children. >> karen and chris cillizza, thank you both very much. >> on this day in april, 1968, martin luther king jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his room in memphis, tennessee. as news of his death spread, violence broke out in more than 100 american cities. bobby kennedy was campaigning that night for president in indianapolis when he got word that king had died. the local police chief warned him speaking to the crowd could be too dangerous but bobby kennedy pushed ahead and asking them to pray for the king family and to continue his legacy of nonviolence. john lewis describes what happened next. >> you were with bobby kennedy in indiana that terrible night when dr. king was killed. tell me about that night.

>> on april 4th, 1968, i was working for the kennedy campaign, trying to help organize a rally in support of bobby kennedy. and we heard earlier during the evening that dr. king had been shot. but we didn't know his condition. we continued to organize and there was some debate whether robert kennedy should come in and speak. and some of us said he got to come and speak to the crowd. robert kennedy came in and he spoke. spoke from his heart, his guts, made this unbelievable statement. and announced that martin luther king jr. had been assassinated. it was a sad and dark hour for me and for us, for america. i just cried and cried. >> you can see more of my

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as the country recovers from the great recession and we have new jobs numbers seeing that we're sort of on track. the annual league of black america says blacks and latinos are falling further behind. it shows african-americans are twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. joining me now is mark muriel who came out with a report this week. >> thank you, andrea. >> thanks for being here. let's talk about the state of black america and the underemployment of african-americans and other minorities compared to white america. >> you know, for all americans -- and let me say this, the number of people unemployed for six months or more is at a record high. it's higher than it's been since

world war ii. and i think this picture in the state of black america of unemployment rates being stuck really high in the black and latino communities is something that our nation has got to confront. this report gives you those numbers. it talks about this crisis and it also gives you the numbers this year for the first time on 80 american cities. >> and the fact is as you point out, if you're unemployed for six months or longer, it is so much more difficult to eventually get rehired. as each month progresses you lose any kind of leverage. >> no question. your skills may erode a little bit. and the workforce changes. even these numbers, when we talk about underemployment, we've got to talk about those folks -- many of them women, working in part-time jobs that would like to work full-time. so when you combine that, the truth is that while we're seeing job growth, it isn't big enough

to bring everyone in the community, everyone in the nation back. that's why we're strong supporters of an increase in the minimum wage. we want congress to stop its pattern of inaction. and invest in our infrastructure and want to highlight partnerships that the urban league does with the private sector and the government. >> are you troubled by signals from the white house that they may be ready to give up on the $10.10 minimum wage increase and come up with a compromise for a smaller increase? >> i don't think they should give in, andrea. $10.10 is barely enough to keep pace with inflation. and the great productive american worker, if the minimum wage would keep pace with that, that minimum wage would be $20 an hour. so $10 i think is even a modest increase given the conditions that we face today. >> and talk about the equality index that is part of your report and how you measure this? >> we measure the status of

african-americans and whites and l latinos in a wide variety of areas and make it simple. that index shows african-americans are about 70% of where whites are when you look at employment and educational outcomes and that latinos are at about 75%. we've got work to do. these are just the facts. i hope people who are listening will focus that solutions are needed and action is needed and this is not something that we need to accept as a nation. >> what about solutions. the white house has been stopped at almost every turn on their domestic agenda, congress is deadlocked. can mayors do it alone? >> mayors can do a lot. we've show cased three mayors, jacksonvil jacksonville, baltimore and memphis, states are raising the minimum wage and mayors are working on anti-poverty efforts at the local level.

this is not a problem only is local in its kmengs. it's national and i hope congress would find the courage and the common sense to act. >> a call to action. thank you so much. >> thanks. >> former mayor yourself. >> here's your report, copy for you. >> appreciate that. >> and after more than three decades, it's easy to come up with a top ten reasons that david letterman is a late night legend but now he is calling it quits or at least in the next year. the late show host made the surprise retirement announcement to his audience last night. >> sometime in the not too distant future, 2015 for the love of god, in fact, paul and i will be wrapping things up and taking a hike. >> there's so many memorable moments, the top ten list and stupid human tricks and that quirky humor and started in the first late show with david letterman here on nbc back in

1982. >> you got out of indianapolis and didn't look back, did you? i'm just waiting for the other shoe to fall on you, man. i want to be there when it hits the floor. you know what i'm saying? i'm going to do nothing about you, even though i could. it's interesting, i had a chance to strangle richard nixon and i didn't and i regret it. here i am inches -- i don't know what's keeping me from doing it. >> now that you're well known, is it harder to be funny? i must begin my journey,

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leadership of martin luther king jr. but it was much more a bipartisan effort than history recognized. a story behind the story of the political players on both sides of the aisle who successfully pushed the civil rights act forward. tell me about the fact that there was first of all bipartisanship. >> a novel idea in today's america. >> the southerners were aposed to change and the final bill passioned the senate 73-27 with 27 out of 23 republican votes. unheard of. there's unsung heroes especially. one member of the house from western ohio, district now represented by john boehner, he was the ranking member of the judiciary committee. he made a deal with the kennedy administration that if they would give the republicans equal credit and no water down the bill in the senate, he would

back him and he did. >> in your book you note a letter from jacqueline kennedy onassis, she wrote, i want you to know how much your example means to me. i know you more than anyone were responsible for the civil rights legislation and made a commitment to president kennedy in october of 1963 against all of the interest of your district. there were so many opportunities to sabotage the bill but you never took them on, to the contrary you brought everyone else along with you. >> and she's not the only -- it's a remarkable level that the family found in a safe deposit box. nick cat zen back said the same thing, that mckul loch was single handedly the most responsible member of congress. >> in the interview with john lewis, we saw him with a picture with martin luther king jr. and

dirk sen. >> he was a huge figure and gargled with ponds cold cream to keep vocal chords lubricated. >> i never heard that story. >> malox and sanka and bourbon. he also agreed to first the kennedy administration then the johnson administration pass the bill. he's main concern coming from illinois where they had strong anti-discrimination laws he didn't want the federal bureaucracy to duplicate that effort. >> he was also known as howard baker's father-in-law. >> father-in-law. he had a room in the back of his office called the twilight lodge, a clock was on the hour and every hour was 5:00, appropriate for a drink. >> what was the motivated spirit behind lbj's strong interest? because it because he was a great legislator as the former majority leader he was able to push this through and create the coalition? >> he knew the ins and outs of

senate. the myth is overblown, he knew if he got too involved and micromanaging, it would back fire because his colleagues would resent the fact he was no longer one of them. he was the president. one of the greatest contributions was restraining himself. >> do you think that without lbj this could have happened? >> it was so far along the track when president kennedy died and hung up in the rules committee of the house. there was such a feeling as the title, it was an idea who's time had come. it was 100 years after the civil war. it was maybe an idea whose time had passed but the public was by that point pretty much behind the bill and would have passed maybe after the 1964 election. >> and also occurred to me when we think about bloody sunday and some of the other -- the advent of television showing footage of people like john lewis, whose had was bashed in and people -- children and teenagers and young people being hosed down by and

attacked by dogs in the streets. >> it clearly galvanized public opinion and the demonstrations in birmingham in '63 with police dogs and fire hoses that outraged president kennedy, it was giving the country a huge black eye around the world. how could we preach democracy and not live up to our own ideals at home. >> we saw a picture of martin luther king jr. and whitney young, and james farmer. it was a different era. they were what was known as big six, the civil rights leaders, including a young john lewis. >> we were so lucky in the era of founders to have remarkable people, we were lucky to have a collection of people in and outside of government who was so extraordinary and willing to do the right thing. >> we're also lucky to have historians. todd, thank you, congratulations on the book. >> and it is a grim day for secretary of state kerry's eight

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i would say those 13 days were among the most dramatic of my life. the most dramatic was when i asked rosa to mary me in february of 1946 and she said no. >> fortunately she did say yes eventually. jimmy carter last night, this as secretary john kerry's peace talks appear to be collapse s around him. a new play opened in washington about the camp david treaty negotiated 35 years ago. the play is called camp david and goes inside those 13 days of tense talks in 1978. jimmy carter tried to broker peace between sadat. >> you didn't answer my question, are you willing to withdraw from occupied territory -- >> they are not occupied territories. they are liberated territories.

this is the jewish homeland. my right eye will fall out and right hand will fall off before i agree to the dismantling of a single jewish settlement. >> do i hear him? he speaks the truth at last. he will never -- >> please sit down. >> never leave -- >> how's the peace making coming along? >> president jimmy carter attended the opening night last night and came on stage at the end to greet the cast during an emotional curtain call for all. joining me now is actor richard thomas who plays president carter in the play and camp david playwright, lawrence wright. thank you and congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> richard, the president came up stage, i was sitting right across the aisle from him and he was laughing a lot and nudging rose lynn when they got into

arguments in the script, a lot of which was taken from diary. then he was weeping at the end and walked on stage. tell me what happened? >> it was very -- you can imagine what it's like to be playing anybody who is actually in the house the night of the performance. when it's the president and this particular subject it's very strong. we met prior back stage and he said, i'm very happy to meet you and meet you. i'm so pleased to meet -- i'm not so sure about how i feel about meeting you. he gave me a hug and said you did a wonderful job. it was a very special night for all of us. >> lawrence, it was tense for you as well because the president had wanted to read the script but hadn't, hadn't read the play, didn't know how he was being portrayed. you must have been nervous as well. >> at the dinner before hand, he said he had trepidations about the play. and i had -- there's some lines in there that i was worried

about how they would go over with him. and for instance, there's a line about his brother billy and i -- apparently he laughed according -- >> he did laugh. >> we're very relieved because -- it's a good joke and you don't want to give it up. >> the fact is, there is a lot that's funny. and rosalind carter comes to life as well. >> did the most astonishing job of making real people, dramatic characteristics of these real people, her contribution not only to the play but also to the 13 -- >> it was the reality -- >> to have that shown. >> one of things that comes through in your -- in the screenplay -- or the play, is the religious faith and how that drove. let's play another clip. >> to make peace between us, i am an arab and he's jew, and

that's it. >> you leave me no choice. if egypt wages another war against israel, the united states will crush you. and egypt will be alone, destroyed, friendless for generations because of you. you want to become our enemy, you decide right now. >> that was one of the tenser moments but in fact, what eventually brings them all together is their religion divided them but they were three men of faith. >> carter, when i talked to him in plains, he stressed -- these are were all three men of faith. on the other hand this is a problem that religion largely caused and it was perhaps only men who represented those faiths who could actually come to some kind of accord at the end. and i think that their faith brought them there and caused them to have to be there. it's a para dox. >> i remember as a young

reporter one of my assignments was to be the reporter that represented the networks in sunday school on sundays. i would listen to his teachings. we would just go in to take notes. and tell everybody what he said because he still teaches sunday school. >> yes, he does. he teaches it every sunday. i think people come from all over the world. >> and hear him teach. >> it was his -- he was -- he felt inspired by his faith to take this on. >> of course. >> because he feels that the middle east -- that peace in the middle east is really a religious vocation. >> yes, and i think he's a peace maker. i think he's a peace maker anyway. he believes in the peace is an important part of his life, peace making. and the play is -- i think what for me the play is about the fact that peace is always possible, no matter how impossible it may seem at the time. there's no right time or wrong

time. it's always time to make peace. it sometimes looks like it's impossible. for people who have a will to do it, it can be done. >> you had spent time in plains before you wrote this with the carters and you had some of rosalind carter's diary. the fact is for him to take on something that no one had been able to achieve is pretty extraordinary and there was tension between them over that. >> yeah, that's true. when i was introduced to the carters, i was still at that time thinking it was going to be sadat and carter on the stage but jerry introduced me -- >> a white house communications aide and producer of the play -- >> right. mr. president, larry works for "the new yorker and just wrote an article about scientology. >> carter said, i read that, found it most intriguing. >> since when you did start

reading the new yorker. wow, this is a relationship. and i started thinking, she was born in the house next door to jimmy carter. they've been in a relationship for nearly a century. and it's still vital and she's the only person who can talk to him that way. and at that point i realized she plays a function in camp david in reality and also in the play. she makes peace among the peace makers. >> it's a wonderful character. and also it gives you the glimpses into the domestic relationship give you a beautiful res pitfrom the negotiation. >> and the relationship that she is forged with sadat and the widow of sadat who gave his life because of this. he was assassinated as a result of making peace. thank you so much. and thank you, lawrence wright, congratulations to both. >> thank you. >> the play is on at arena

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we were talking about the ft. hood investigation because we now have a statement from the family in part, one of the family members said, the father, ivan lopez senior, the situation has caused gratd pain. i ask for pain for affected families and even more so when there's still an ongoing investigation. my son must not have been in his right mind, he wasn't like that. this is heartbreaking for all concerned, of course. and the family statement continues to say as an active soldier he defended the nation and received medals and also worked honorably as a policeman on the island. according to his father, he was under medical treatment and passing of his mother and grandfather and recent changes when transferring to the base surely affected his existing condition because of his experience as a soldier. no more comments will be made as

the investigation continues. first we're hearing from the family of ivan lopez, the accused shooter and three fellow service members were killed. others were seriously injured and there are tales of heroism, this is unfortunately another mass shooting in america and at the same base where of course 2009 we had the major hasan shootings. >> sort of a remarkable fact that two shootings same base, like you said, andrea, i think this story will go on for a while as we find out just what went wrong. >> well, it also raises questions about guns and guns post 2009, the hasan shooting, they could not be concealed and carried on base. they could be purchased. it is the same gun shop where major hasan bought his weapon. chris, thanks for being with us.

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