. >> reporter: when holmes appears in the courtroom here at the arapahoe county courthouse, one thing influence the jury is quite literally, how hera looks. >> he had orange hair, he looked like a clown, literally. >> reporter: he went from that orange hair to bearded and a far more normal look. jury experts like jessica brylo says looks can matter a lot. >> the more crazy he looks, the less that he can bond with the jury, the more that they will see him as an outsider and different from them.th that can help in the sense that people might see him as being insane. m but it may not help in the sense that then they don't feel like he could be rehabilitated and put back on the street. >> reporter: so that doesn't actually help the insanity defense that you look a little strange? >> it is a gamble. it could go either way. >> reporter: the one thing even the defense does not dispute is that holmes did it. the only real question for the jury is, how will he pay for it. barry petersen, cbs news denver. >> glor: up next, on a much lighter note, the comedian-in- chief. >> in the years of my pr

. >> it's at one of these meetings where he rescues a young arapaho indian from an attack.e was singing grass and the two were eventually married. >> this was the happiest time of his life. he learned their ways, he learned their language. he had found where he wanted to be. >> christopher "kit" carson is born into a world of western migration. on christmas eve 1809, the same year as abraham lincoln. >> in the early 1800s, occupied by native people and european powers whose presence blocks american expansion. populating this territory and overwhelming these groups becomes a national priority. >> the carsons land in boone, missouri, home of the daniel boone clan. >> his family was good friends with the boone family. these were back woodsmen, rough and ready folks in search of opportunity. >> for his first few years, kit is confined to life inside cooper's fort, an armed camp. [ gunfire ] >> four years later, his father dies in a land clearing fire. kit leaves school. >> he totally disliked making saddles. there were a lot of stories about the frontier that would fascinate an

when somebody would conduct the arapahoe's conducted a raid against the comanches, they would conduct a counter raid and this is the way it went. it went both ways. there were raids to get horses and there were raids -- and someone killed your two sons, that would call for a revenge rate. it was the way it worked out there. it was part of the deal. the same revenge was exacted on the white later. the whole adobe wall -- the last rate of comanche power that quanah parker led was in effect a giant revenge raid. it was in part because of the death of his bother. -- his father. they were very brutal. so were all plains indians. so were the native americans in the terms of treatment of captives and torture and revenge raids. if you are a historian in the field, you have to come to terms with that. it happened. i think there was -- perhaps i was a little my youth when i started writing, but i remember someone was interviewing me on the radio and a set -- set, did you not to stop and take a deep breath before you sat down and wrote a complete revision of history to native americans? i am thi

when somebody would conduct, the arapahos would conduct a raid, the comanches would go back, it went both ways. there were raids meant to get horses and there were leads that were -- raids that were revenge raids. it was how it worked, it was part of the deal. the same revenge was exacted on whites later. adobe walls, the last spasm of power that one of parker led -- quanah parker led was in part because of the death of his father. the comanches were very brutal, so were all plains indians so were all native americans in terms of treatment of captives. if you are a historian in the field you have to come to terms with that because it happened. perhaps i was a little naive when i started writing the book but i remember somebody was interviewing me on the radio after my book first came out and said did you have to stop and take a deep breath before you sat down and wrote a complete revisionist history of native americans? and i am sitting there, thinking fast, complete revisionist history? what you meant was, and i have gotten the court -- what he meant was, and i have gotten the quest

. >> reporter: here at the arapaho county courthouse for the first time prosecutors and defense teamswill outline their cases which, until now, have remained secret because of a gag order. james holmes faces more than 160 counts including first degree murder attempted murder and charges of rigging his apartment with explosives as a diversion from his attack at the theater. but the question is not whether holmes, a former neuroscience studented committed the crimes it's whether he was sane enough to be punished for them. prosecutors have said the only justice is death. >> this case comes down to insanity and the death penalty. nothing else. was the shooter legally insane at the time he committed the heinous crime? >> reporter: results of two state mental evaluations will be among evidence heard by the 12-member jury and 12 alternates. the defense will argue holmes was in the middle of a psychotic episode at the time of the attack, unable to know right from wrong. if the jury agrees his life would be spared and holmes without committed to a state psychiatric hospital. leanne greg nbc ne

bishop: h.r. 1324 would adjust the boundaries of the arapaho national forest in the state of colorado to incorporate 93 acres. this land may be acquired only with the written permission of the landowners. this bill provides motorized access to the landowners within the new boundary. an identical bill passed this congress by a voice vote last year. and it is appropriate that it's with us again, and i am here to make sure that everyone mentions the fact that this is found in colorado, not colorado. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? ms. tsongas: mr. speaker, i yield as much time as he wishes to consume to the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis, the sponsor of this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to consume. mr. polis: the name colorado is a spanish word. it means the color red. rados is the better known red. colorado was part of mexico prior to the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo

. >> the folks of arapahoe county are the population poll of which selection was so delicate. the family fear the rest of the world with forget what this is about. people like-year-old veronica sullivan. the youngest victim shot four times. an officer choked back tears trying to hold him as he tried to move out of a moving car to find his daughter. his wife was left pair lied. five different trial dates have been set. two different judges have served. more than 17,000 motion,s, orders and documents have been filed with the courts. martha: what do we expect today? >> reporter: the prosecution goes first. the district attorney is expected to remind jurors of the horrors of july 2012. he's charged with murdering 12 people at the you aurora 16 center. they say he purchased assault rifles and bomb-making materials. he booby trapped his apartment. the d.a. says in this case justice is done. bill: a tough trial there. the u.s. drone program in the crosshairs after the death of a u.s. hostage. there is a report that president obama secretly relaxed the rules on drone strikes. >> he fl

the unsuspecting indian committee his men killed scores of women and children of the cheyenne and arapahod attacked innocent white people he will suggested they killed but few women and children one militia captain offered gruesome details'' mecca was present as a massacre lowe's the women and children it was a horrible scene and would not let my company fire. the other soldiers did. the capt. recalled it looked too hard for me to see little children on their knees begging for their lives. this was 1864 not long after the union army order to establish criteria for violence against civilians president lincoln commissioned a new code of conduct just as the union was about to initiate it against the confederacy. it included noncombatants' to affirm advances require the distinction between private individuals and a hostile country itself with men in arms. while establishing it also included a clause of military necessity. sometime security and of for you only had to target other persons that is unavoidable. while it would shape the new engagement in the south the state is impacted in indian c