hinckley.> he told me that his wrist hurt, because of the handcuffs that were placed on him and that his had throat hurt. someone hurt his throat when they arrested him. well, it certainly, in my mind, it was not typical that he was complaining about himself after he had just shot a number of people. >> as investigators begin to question hinckley, white house press secretary jim brady's wife sarah brady, is at home with their 2-year-old son. >> we were sitting in our rec room watching television when they announced that -- >> the president did not appear to be hurt, according to united press international. >> i thought to myself, oh, that's great. never dreaming that jim would even have been with him, for some reason. the phone rang immediately. it was a friend of mine, and she had heard that jim had been shot. >> the white house immediately sends a car to take sarah to the hospital. >> for some reason i just thought -- it never dawned on me he'd be badly hurt or killed. i just kept thinking, h

and breaking news about john hinckley jr. what a judge just ruled about the man who shot president reagan. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> good evening. tonight the president getting out of dodge. at this moment president obama along with his family is about to head to hawaii for the holidays leaving behind a tough year of all time tough approval ratings. before the president left town, a farewell meeting of the press. and here's the first question out of the gate. >> has this been the worst year of your presidency? >> i got to tell you, that's not how i think about it. i look at this past year there are areas where there have been frustrations where i wish congress had moved more aggressively. if you are measuring this by polls, my polls have gone up and town a lot through the course of my career. >> she was in the briefing room and asked the president a question. the president was asked about his biggest mistake of the year and he said, it was the health care rollout. >> the fact is it didn't happen in the first mo

. >> host: the same way with hinckley. hinckley had stalked carter. he was just -- >> guest: but there was a political dimension to of all that hinckley totally lacked because of what had only -- always been looking for something, looking for something that is what got into the soviet union and then to so many of these groups that he was in wants to get back to the united states which is a story in and of itself. was he really pro castro or was he really working with the fbi and new orleans with the anti-castro mr. bannister working for the fbi. >> host: didn't he also associate with anti-communist russian. >> guest: he did, the kind of adopted the house walls because they spoke russian. so it did a lot. very complicated. a lot of rudeness that went on and have very short time. >> host: great weirdness which gives fuel to the conspiracy fire, and you can understand why, ask a lot of legitimate questions. >> host: the warren commission , lots of doubts, lots of doubts about how the evidence was handled on november 22nd. a lot of doubts about many more

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hinckley replied, maybe in i had to wait a while to buy a gun, fill out forms or get a permit or sign in with police or anything complicated, i probably wouldn't have done it. >>> one was world renown, one the greate esest musicses. >> the other was a lonely kid from georgia, with no particular talents and no real direction in life. >> everyone said he was a nice person. he wanted to bring attention to him. >> they were as different as night and day. two men on intent personal journeys that converged in a single shocking act. >> i took five steps and fired. five shots. >> i literally held john lennon's heart in my hand. >> it was an unthinkable crime that left millions in mourning. the murder of john lennon next. >>> it's a chilly night at around 10:42 p.m. police respond to the report of a shooting at the dakota, an exclusive apartment building on manhattan's upper west side. >> when we drove up to the dakota, there's a man standing in the middle of the street, pointing to the archway saying that's the man doing the shooting. we got out of the car, we approached the archway on each s

park deets, renowned for testifying in the john hinckley case and also a consultant on the hit series." on several points, the experts agreed. >> we both agreed she had a severe mental disease when she drowned her children. we both agreed she believed she was doing what was in the best interest of the children, and we both agreed that she knew what she was doing was against the law. what we disagreed was in spite of the law, she believes doing what was right for her children. >> the prosecution contended there was more method than madness. >> she said satan was telling her this and if you're a religious person and satan is telling you to do something, you start out with the assumption that it's wrong, this it's bad conduct. so starting from that simple proposition, we knew that she knew that it was wrong and she'd expressed that she knew it was wrong. >> so dr. dietz testified that mrs. yates knew it was wrong, not just against the law, but against society and against god. that's pretty powerful testimony. >> dietz took it one step further and also presented a likely inspiration for a

kurt hinckley is happy the county acts quickly even when costly. >> just one person's opinion, it is expensive, but they do a great job. sure, we see the ice, but the salt trucks get it pretty good. they're out there right from the start. >> reporter: our review found even small expenses piling up, prince george's county $1.6 million in snow removal that includes $13,000 on food for the workers working the long hours behind the plows and outside the salt domes. scott macfarlane, news 4 i team. >> too bad forecasting the weather is an imperfect science. >> our area is such a hard yeah to predict because just a couple of degrees really throws things off. d.c. 34 degrees, almost nothing stuck on the ground. just about ten miles to the west they picked up three or four inches. take a look outside. you can see towards the airport where they officially picked up about a half inch across that area, temperatures just at the airport, a few degrees above freezing today. that's why that snow had a tough time staying at the airport. 37 degrees the current number. temperatures went up to about 38

within moments of that speech, that hotel gained a new nickname, the hinckley hilton. president was shot, taken to george washington university hospital, and this is where some of the legend of ronald reagan comes from. the story goes his doctors and nurses frantically attended to his wounds, he turns to a secret service agent and said, i hope they're all republicans. turned out reagan would be okay that day. but it was a closer call, much closer call we learned in the years since then than just about anybody who realized at the time. fate was a lot less kind to his press secretary, james brady. first bullet struck him in the head and brady was permanently disabled. left in persistent pain. he officially remained the white house press secretary for the rest of reagan's presidency, but that was ceremonial. never performed that role again. he worked full time on his recovery for the rest of the administration and as james brady tended to his health in the 1980s, his wife sarah, daughter of an fbi agent, grew more and more interested and impassioned about a simple questio

bullets that struck the president of the united states when they were fired by a deranged person, john hinckley. 12 years passed before the brady bill was passed. 12 years of struggle and work, resolve and courage by sarah and jim brady. and eventually an endorsement by ronald reagan. so the sadness and anger that i feel today prompted by the memory of that tragedy and this body's failure to respond is mitigated by the knowledge that history is on our side, that america is better than that vote that we took in april. the people of newtown have not failed. the people of america have not failed, and this body has not yet failed. we can and we will do better because newtown and that vote will be with us. newtown is more than a moment, it's a movement that eventually will prevail. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. burr burr: mr. president, ie to address the nomination of cornelia pillard for the d.c. district court. this nomination's a good example of government yoa government reh that's led by obamacar