at this moment of maximum peril. we start in the northwest corner of the country with yet another school shooting. the community surrounding small seattle university, a private seattle pacific university, a private christian school, the latest gunman to walk on a campus did so in their community, where they live, work and their kids go to school. at the same time, investigators are trying to piece together a motive that left one person dead and three others injured, one of them critically. sources familiar with the investigation tell nbc news, 26-year-old aaron ibara bought a shoot gun two years ago. sources describe him as angry and anti-social. as far as they can tell, the 26-year-old chose psu at random. he is set to appear in court for

a bail hearing at the jail. as we await the details of the shooting, there is one thing we already know. the number of people injured and killed would have been higher if not for one brave student. nbc's miguel almaguer is at seattle pacific university to explain. >> it's the building behind me where police say the suspect, 26-year-old aaron ibata walked inside and opened fire on college students who were studying for college exams. >> four people were injured, at least two of them shot critically. the other remains in critical condition as the gunman was reloading. a student tackled the gunman, sprayed pepper spray at him and held him down while other students assisted until police could arrive on scene. police say the actions of those students certainly saved lives. we know that one person has been released from the hospital today. we have no motive.

police are still continuing in the early stages of their investigation. we expect some vigils to be held here on campus later on this afternoon remembering a student killed here yesterday. back to you. >> thanks. nbc's miguel almaguer in seattle. it is hard to hear the words school shooting and not think of columbine, virginia tech, sandy hook. the list goes on and on. it is hard not to think of the words of nra executive vice president and ceo wayne lapierre in the days after the shocking massacre at sandy hook in new town, connecticut. >> the only way, the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and vested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> okay. so here is the thing.

despite what wayne lapierre might tell you, that actually isn't true. because in the case of seattle pacific university, the good guy who stopped a mass shooter from killing more people, was a good guy armed only with bravery and a can of pepper spray. he prevented the gunman from reloading. former secret service agent evi pompouras is here. when he says, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, when he doesn't put that good dui is in law enforcement, he is empowering ordinary people to empower and do what you used to do in law enforcement. is it true that any civilian armed with a gun can take down people who are armed with a gun? >> you are the only person that has asked me that. that is a tremendous question. this is why. i am trained as other law en

enforcement individuals are trained, to use a gun. there is so much more involved. you can learn physically how to shoot, how to line up your sights, how to take the targets out. you do not include the stress factor, the pressure, the moving target and all these things that come together. it is not about just learning to shoot but how to have the mental and emotional ability to shoot. in law enforcement, they put pressure, stress you out when you are at the range and when you are shooting. why do though do that? to see how you will react and if you are a trigger-happy person. law enforcement does not want any cowboys. what happens with a lot of one-on-one shootings, one person has the guns, somebody busts into them, shoves them. they say, hey, i'm going to trump this, you disrespected me and they pull out their gun. >> the targets that people shoot at the gun range and they think they are turning themselves into

rambo. they don't shoot back. shooting under fire, the huge "x" factor is that the shooter is shooting back. >> when something happens, your fine motor skills go out the window. it is going to be muscle, memory and training and your emotional stability. >> when we go back and look at the gabby giffords situation, i find analogous to when this young man pepper sprayed the man. in the situation where gabby gif giffords was shot, here is what happened, a guy named joe zamudio, in a nearby drugstore, he was armed. he ran to the scene. he saw a man holding the scene and he said, and that's who i first thought was the shooter. i told him to drop it, drop it.

but the man with the gun wasn't the shooter. he had wret ld it away from the shooter. if that man had a little less moment of foresight, he might have shot the hero and took the gun away, without a gun themselves who wrestled the gun away. >> that's another great point. in law enforcement, we are trained to understand, who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. >> there are certain colors, things we have to do to make sure you are not shooting a good cop, an undercover cop. what happenings is when you go on a scene and you don't have the right mind-set, you could shoot the good guy. the other thing this case calls to mind, the reason it is so alarming, to see people walking around in public armed, is because these kinds of mass shooting incidents have put everyone on edge.

this was a small little christian college. i'm sure this is the last thing they expected to happen. you could be alarmed by just seeing a person walking around in public with a gun and someone else who is armed could put that person in danger. is that a risk we are taking with more people sort of making firearms sort of a display. >> duncan black wrote, open carry shouldn't be a way to show off. people are going to suspect you are a bad guy with a gun. could that happen? >> it could happen. a lot of it depends on what part of the country you are from. certain states are very open with weapons and have the ability where you can walk around with the weapon basically being shown. >> you have other states like new york where your weapon should be concealed. it does play a role on what part of the country you are at. mental and emotionally, when you carry a gun, it gives you a sense of bravado, like, i got this, whatever is coming my way. do you want mentally and

emotionally stable people to carry weapons. that's what happens with a lot of these young men which we are seeing getting access to weapons. it is this trigger happy emotional, i'm going to show you, almost a power thing. in law enforcement, one of the criteria, when you go through the assessment process, is, they check your psychological temperament. are you the jid who is hot-headed? >> let's take a moment for this young man in seattle. did he do the right thing? >> when i was growing up, they always told you, if somebody seems threatening, your supposed to hide, back off? did he do the right thing by actually confronting this person with this can of pepper spray that turns out fob the most effective thing that i have seen a civilian do against a shooter? >> yes, he absolutely did the right thing. first and foremost, had he not done that, we would have been looking at a much larger body

count on department homeland security website. they actually put a list that you can visit. it tells you what to do. move away from the sounds of the shot. lock down, hide. turn off your cell phones. the other thing they say is, if you are able to evacuate, do so. however, if you are in a situation like they were where you are confronted by the shooter and it is imminent death, meaning he is about to take you out, then you make that just call and you front that shooter. if it is between dying and just standing there and being a deer in head lights and a victim, you you should fight. that's what he did. he did the right thing. >> it is a courageous thing and we are sad we are at this place where it is going to be happening more and more. it is good that he reacted that way. i think it is also sad he with have so many active shooter scenarios it is becoming common place. every week, there is a new story. >> it is really scary. you have to have situational awareness and good common sense.

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in my opinion, obamacare is the biggest job killer we have in america today. it is a weight over every employer we have, thereby requiring them to hold back their willingness to hire people. >> remember that? >> that was john boehner talking to brian williams shortly after taking the speaker's gavel from nancy pelosi in 2011 and absolutely convinced that obamacare was going to kill jobs. it turns out, not so much. today, we learned that 217,000 jobs were created in may, a few,000 above the average for the entire year. symbolically, this report puts us over the high watermark for jobs setback in january, 2008. speaking of obamacare, the latest survey says the number of uninsured has fallen 22%. since the affordable care act

took effect. i am sure that is a consistent, on going coincidence. christian dorsey is the economic affairs instructor at the political institutes. is it a coincident that jobs, rather than receding are increasing? >> absolutely. we could have predicted that the patient protection and affordable care act would, indeed, reduce the number of uninsured people in america. that's what it was designed to do. we haven't seen it has had an adverse effect on employment. anybody that looked at the models we all knew that this was going to reduce the number of uninsured and slow the cost, the growth and cost of health care, which it has done quite well. >> just to clarify now, you are saying it is predictable that the affordable care act would be good for the job market or bad for the job market.

>> it was predicted it would have an adverse effect. all of the claims we were going to see result in a number of employers shedding jobs was never a reality by people that looked at these numbers objectively. those were republican talking points. we are seeing an economy that is progressing nicely. there is still a long way to go to get back to an economy that has anything resembling market health. >> one of the specific ways we can pinpoint the impact is the specific health care sector. if you look at the demand. dan diamond writes in forbes, if you look at obamacare's effect, while the law may be creating new pressures on providers, it is creating new employers. as people need to understand and implement the law, you are seeing it create jobs specifically in health care.

>> that's right. that is one of the strong areas of growth in this month's employment report. a little higher than in past months. we can't expect it will continue. the whole whole idea the affordable care act was somehow going to be detrimental to economic growth and employment prospects was never real. that was just something part of the political bantering. as we have seen with implementation of the affordable care act and data that has come out month to month, we see it is completely dispari completely disparite from employment prospects. >> we are seeing that unemployment has continued to decline. for white americans, it is quite low. this looks like a multi-year low at 5.4%. for latinos, 7.7%. for asians, 5.3%. the number for african-americans is horrible, first of all but

the lowest since september of 2008. is this where we sought to be this far from a recession like we had in 2008? >> well, no. if we look at where we were, it took two years to lose the number of jobs we did as a result of the recession. it has taken four years to get back to the peak of 2008. that's not something we should celebrate. when we are on a road trip and we get halfway there, you may breath a sigh of relief but you are not going to pop the cork on the champagne. african-american unemployment, the ratio compared to white is almost twice as high. if we are going to look at a labor market that is going to serve all americans, we need to see that ratio be reduced and the rate of african unemployment drop farther than it has. >> what could we have done

differently had the congress been willing to work with the administration? what could we have done to make this unemployment number even better? >> that's the sad part, joy. there is easy stuff we could have done, no-brainer stuff. investing in all manner of infrastructure needs, expanding broadband, investing in transit cars, improving our roads and bridges, making our buildings more energy efficient. if we had done any of those things, which many folks had been calling for for quite a long time, we would see not only improvement in the employment prospects for people that build things but lawyers and accountants throughout the economy. this would have the added benefit of not just lowering the unemployment rate and providing job opportunities but seeing wages grow throughout the entire economy and creating things that have lasting value. things that lead to economic

growth and productivity. that congress hasn't done it has been a political malpractice. it is quite the disappointment. >> what could have been, what could have been. even still with all of the obstruction, we are in a pretty decent place? thanks so much, christian dorsey. if you are a fan of the "game of thrones," not only can you watch the action but you can become part of the action. that's ahead. jessica johnson felt in over her head when she took over her dad's security business five years ago. with a little confidence and a lot of hard work, she grew the company from 16 to more than 150 employees and beat out much bigger names for some big contacts. for more watch "your business" sunday mornings at 7:30 on msnbc. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line community,

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the texas republican party is boldly promoting gay conversion therapy. who cares that the american psychological association warns efforts to change sexual orientation are unlikely to be successful and involve some risk of harm. it also supports the support of the federal defensive marriage act. the same one the supreme court ruled unconstitutional last year. it is not just texas and not just homo phobia. us the jed, oklahoma's republican government signed hb-399, officially ditching the common core state standards. in her words, president obama and washington bureau kratz have usurped common core in an attempt to influence state education standards. they are rolling back the standards attempting to even the playing fields for the students.

do republicans in texas and oklahoma recognize how far they have strayed from sounding rational? victoria is a professor and jimmy williams is an executive editor. he is also an msnbc contributor. jimmy, i go to you as a man of the south. can you explain why the texas republican party might remove one thing but add something that is also unscientific? >> maybe they just decided to appease one right wing group and hurt another right wing group in texas. i have alls lumped them together but maybe they aren't together. the interesting thing texas has, a clause they are going to get rid of the texas dream act and a clause that says they are

opposed to equal pay. this is the most beautiful part of the most unknown but most beautiful part of the entire texas party platform. they are opposed to every kind of federal and database unless it is hiv or tu ber cue low sis. they don't want a gun registration but they do want people with hiv. >> vicky, i have to go to you. you are much more familiar with texas than i. what is going on there? you have this bifurcated thing that's happening. you have a state that's more latino, more diverse, on track within the next 15, 20 years, to be a lot more purple based on the demographics. you have a party that seems to be hardening and going further to the right. the things jimmy just mentioned being a few examples. >> that's exactly right. what we see here in texas is the

republican party is digging in its cowboy boot heels. over the past couple of months, what we have seen is the gop has started to inch away from the tea party, uber conservative movement and moving more toward the moderate, traditional, establishment republican party with the exception of here in texas. the issue you of gay marriage, they have latched on it. texas is very conservative when it comes to gay marriage. we can't help but think there are some political ambitions. we have perry, ted cruz. it serves these politicians here in texas to have this uber conservative base. this is their cred. we come from the tea party state. watch us roar. >> jimmy, let's look at those national candidates and who might benefit in theory. all politics is about self-interest. people don't just do them to do them.

there is obviously a calculation this is going to be of benefit. who might it benefit? is it rick perry, ted cruz? who would it be. >> ted cruz is down there in texas. he spoke at an anti-doma rally. he believes what the party platform is. i think he is to the right of the party platform to be honest with you. i scant imagine that it is going to make a jeb bush very comfortable or a chris christie very comfortable. i can't imagine it would make scott very comfortable but santorum or a mike huckabee or someone like that, i can see that. that's just for a primary perspective. that has zero to do with the general, national election. i don't know what they would get out of that. it doesn't make any sense other

than to secure another right wing election and lose in the general election. >> jimmy did mention the "j" word, jeb, who looks like he is going to run. vicky, let's talk about the issue that is core for jeb bush, education and common core. freedom works is celebrating the defeat of common core in oklahoma. they had sent 5,700 messages, put in 1,000 calls urging her to take action and stop common core. what do you suppose is behind this zellous opposition to common core as a tool of educational advancement? >> it is not just a zellous opposition. what i find so interesting is the flip-flopping. you had a number of republicans, even governor fallon being on board with common core. as of late, wanting to switch. i think part of this is that the drumbeat that this is coming out of washington, this is evil obama stuff. this has prompted them to take

that political action. you have jeb over here supporting common core, supporting such things as common core. you have governor fallon saying, nope, we are going to do away with it today. going forward, this shows the weaknesses, the fissures in the gop. >> victoria defrancesco soto, and jimmy, thank you both. on the 70th anniversary of d-day, i will talk to the grandson of general patton and his grandfather's incredible role in the operation. >> we do not know what it looks like from the top. that's what germany looks like.

that's what the third army looks like. the blisters and the pain in my scalp area and down the back of my neck was intense. it would have been virtually impossible in that confined space with the rash to move to change radio frequencies. i would just stop and literally freeze up. i mean it hurt. i couldn't even get up and drive let alone teach somebody and be responsible in an airplane. when my doctor told me that shingles came from the chickenpox virus i was very surprised. for two weeks i sat up in bed because i couldn't lay down. i had the scabs all throughout the side of my head and into the upper neck region. i didn't want to do anything except go to sleep and have the pain be over. as a pilot that meant i was grounded.

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the annual d-day commemoration, today, june 6th, is a time to remember the moment when the war turned against nazi germany. it is a day to take the temperature of our european and russian alliances. today, on the 70th anniversary, the month-long tension between the united states and russia broke a little bit as president obama and vladmir putin finally spoke to one another, away from most cameras of course. in front of the cameras, they were as distant as, let's let "the new york times" peter baker explain it. he did so best by saying, during the few minutes they were before international journalists, mr. obama and mr. putin did not speak to each other, did not shake hands and in fact seemed eager not to encounter each

other, much like divorced parents at a child's graduation. still, considering the last few months and the crises in places like ukraine that seemed to be the only things that bring the two men together. the fact that putin spoke with president obama as well as the new ukrainian president is a quiet off-camera victory all its own, a testament of the power that d-day still has 70 years later to bring countries together. a theme president obama touched on in his speech today. >> normandy, this was democracy's beachhead. our victory in that war decided not just a century but shaped the security and well-being of all posterity. we worked to turn old adversaries into new allies. we built new prosperity. we stood with the people of this continent to a long, twilight struggle until finally, a wall tumbled down and an iron curtain too. from western europe to east from

south america to southeast asia, 70 years of democratic movement spread. nations that once knew only the blinders of fear began to taste the blessings of freedom. robert patton is a historian and grandson of general george s. patton. he is also the author of "hell before breakfast," a history of the early years of war correspondence. thank you for being here. it is great to meet you. your grandfather and our generals have become the main protagonists in american's imaginations when it comes to war. why do you suppose that is? >> part of it had to do with world war ii. the american generals were rock stars of their era. it wasn't the chief of the

allies but ike. they were figures in people's imaginations. a person like patton became a character that people related to. people related to them personally and rooted for them with the kind of personal, almost sporting interest. >> general patton was sort of the image of american bravado. similarly, eisenhower, you mentioned ike, who his celebrity as a general, as a leading commander in world war ii helped make him president. >> the point you make about eisenhower, he was the perfect man for the job. he had never been under fire in world war i. to some extent, he felt guilt about that. for the job required, that juggling of the interest of the allies so often at angry points with one another, he was ideal. >> someone like patton would have been the worst choice. he would have had every furious at one another and throwing

chairs. fortunately, ike was the man for the job. >> he changed so much over time. i am fascinated with him. i want to read you something that a fellow historian wrote how eisenhower celebrated the tenth anniversary of d-day. he spent it quietly at camp david and released a written statement that spoke of modesty and brevity. if you depended on that awe steer statement, you would scarcely know that dwight eisenhower had very much to do with it. that aspect of this ma show figure of war, eisenhower's real reticence and soberness about war, is that something that only military men can stand.

in the war and in the military, results are what matters. man like eisenhower can get a result that in another field, a yeller and a screamer could get. it is the matter of the right tactic. that's why eisenhower was so perfect. you mentioned the activities that he did or didn't do on the 10th by staying modest and reverend. it shows the grace of the man of why he did perform so well. >> let's go back to your grandfather. what's your favorite story of your grandfather from world war ii? >> he liked a crowd. he liked to fill a room. he liked to say things that were slightly off color or slightly profane, because it was good press. it got him in trouble many times. he was very much a believer in leadership. he talked about being frustrated as a young officer that he wanted to read about leadership and go to the library. he could find volumes on tactics or armaments but only pages and

paragraphs on leadership. that fascinated him. just what we were talking about, comparing him with someone like eisenhower. patton's style was visible personality. he was leading with brashness and dressing up and bravado and the ivory-handled pistols. that was his style. it worked for him in the moment he was given by fate and history. >> eisenhower, a different kind of man, had the wisdom and foresight to keep patton around. he said, i think we have a use for this old calvaryman yet and he did. >> we were talking during the break, the big difference between the world war ii experience, where americans weren't in favor of going to war against germany, once we got in, it being a national project. the most recent war, the iraq war, being an experience that happened to 2 million soldiers and their families. what do you think this changed in the national consciousness? >> what are the differences.

we can say world war ii, there was reluctance, as any nation would be, to go to war, particularly for a war far from our shores. part of it was the ethic of the time. we are all in this together. we have been called forward. we are going to go. the brotherhood of the uniform sets in and patriotism, yes. brotherhood is always first and foremost. co come radship drives this. the origins of the last ten years of war are shadowy and the jauss comes are unvresolved and only a very small sliver of our population have participated. i am glad more of us haven't had to be under fire but is is somewhat lamentable. we have lost a unity of effort that whether we chose to stick with the war or whether to leave it at some point in the past number of years would have been collectively, a decision made by all of us being a part of it. we somehow don't have as a

country that sense of a unified purpose. it is very fortunate. >> i think that is such a profound thing that you said. robert patton, i could talk to you all day. thank you so much for being here. >> it has been a total pleasure. thank you. coming up next, how some on the right got it wrong on the bergdahl outrage. [ dennis ] it's always the same dilemma -- who gets the allstate safe driving bonus check. rock beats scissors! [ chuckles ] wife beats rock. and with two checks a year, everyone wins. [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for driving safely. only from allstate. call 866-906-8500 now. [ dennis ] zach really loves his new camera. problem is...this isn't zach. it's a friend of a friend who was at zach's party and stole his camera. but zach's got it covered... with allstate renters insurance. [ female announcer ] protect your valuables for as low as $4 a month when you add renters insurance to your allstate auto policy. call 866-906-8500 now.

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throughout much of our history, we did go after deserterers. when we got them, we shot them or hanged them. if we were in a good mood, we would brand them with a "d" on their cheeks or foreheads. we became enlightened in the 20th century. we still shot some but always sent them to prison and hard labor. >> what you just heard from that fox news analyst is one example of the tenor of discussion we have heard this week over the

prisoner swap that freed bowe bergdahl. colonel peters was criticized for saying in 2009 that the taliban should save us a lot of legal hassles and legal bills by executing sergeant bergdahl. i guess we can call his new position progress. while peters and some on the right wing blogs have been slagging bergdahl as a deserter since 2009, apparently the white house didn't get the memo that bergdahl was radioactive despite the reporting by the late michael hastings in rolling stone in 2012 that marc grossman who replaced richard holbrooke was given a direct warning about trading bo for five taliban prisoners during an election year. they kept telling me, it's going to be obama's willie horton moment. grossman warned the white house. still, president obama's advisers, to whom i highly

recommend the google were apparently unprepared for the mine field they were sending the president in by arranging that rose garden ceremony with sergeant bergdahl's parents. for the first time in american history, it is a political mine field to conduct a standard end of war prisoner trade to get back an american pow. once we pull out of afghanistan and are no longer at war there, with he would have to return those taliban members anyway. meanwhile, republicans that once demanded the president do more to free bowe bergdahl are quickly deleting tweets. his hometown has canceled his welcome home celebration over concerns about not being able to handle potential protests. it is not to be considered not out of bounds to suggest we should have left an american soldier behind in afghanistan or we should just shoot him. desertion is just one of the many unpleasant realities of

war. it happened some 42000 times during vietnam and 30,000-40,000 during world war two. during that conflict, the u.s. military executed just one man, private eddy slovak. his death by firing squad on january 31st, 1945, 18 days shy of his 25th birthday was dram advertised in this 1974 movie starring martin sheen. he appealed for clemency but then dwight d. eisenhower wanted to make an example of him. the military doesn't do that anymore. they haven't used the death penalty since 1961. the vast majority of desertion cases result in punishments and reduction in rank or dishonorable discharge. experts say the reasons for desertion vauchb to desertion often have to do with combat or relation problems.

we don't shoot people for that. that wraps things up for "the reid report." visit us online and now the cycle is up next. hey cyclists. >> how are you? powerful essay there. we are going to talk about d-day, what's going on in normandy today. we are going to talk about california chrome, jobs numbers and a new film about -- they are calling it an abortion romantic comedy. it is more than that. i am going to dig into the history of abortion in hollywood movies and some of the realities and some of the unrealistic aspects there. >> to say the least. that sounds like a keeper. we will definitely be tuning in. the cycle comes up next. this is interesting.

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accomplish there. the unemployment rate stays steady and the market soars. what gives there. first, a break, however brief, from the bickering from d.c. and beyond to remember america's greatest generation. ♪ ♪ by daybreak, blood soaked the water. bombs broke the sky. >> i could still hear the first infantry guys moaning, oh, my god. i can still remember the first night. i prayed, i hoped i would see dawn. >> entire companies worth of men fell in