dave cullen, author of the remarkable book, "columbine" and jill nelson. i want to start with the shooting in aurora, colorado that killed a dozen people and injured 58 others. police went door to door last night informing victim's families. the aurora police say 24-year-old james holmes wore a bullet proof vest and attacked movie goers at a sold out midnight screening. police say all four guns were purchased legally around with 6,000 rounds of ammunition. the assault rifle he used would have been illegal under the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. at least three members of the u.s. armed forces were wounded in the shooting. among the few things we know about james holmes are these. police say he is not cooperating with investigators besides telling them his apartment was booby trapped. he was in the process of a phd. we know nothing of his mendel state. the book you wrote about columbine it is a masterpiece. to start off the conversation, we find ourselves sometimes in the business of cable news having air time to fill with not that many facts to

we have rich benjamin and tim carney and jill nelson, author and book store owner at some point? mayor of salt lake city on the line. one of the points i think is that in the midst of this conversation about you didn't build that and the idea that rugged individual success is what makes america great and detached from the government is just the brute fact that everybody is embedded on the system that relies on the state for all kinds of things. mitt romney's whole mission as head of the olympics was to go and get federal money to make sure this thing succeeded. and in fact it provoked this outrage from john mccain who is a scourge of earmarks. this is john mccain talking about olympic port back in 2000. >> for the upcoming 2002 winterlics in salt lake city that bill sl estimated to $1.3 billion. the olympic games supposedly hosted and funded by salt lake city has turned into an incredible port barrel project for the salt lake city. >> is there any indication that anything is going to change fundamentally? when we talk about crony capitalism and something to your great credit you

dave cullen, author of the remarkable book, "columbine" and jill nelson. with the shooting in aurora, colorado that killed a dozen people and injured 58 others. police went door to door last night informing victim's families. the aurora police say 24-year-old james holmes wore a bullet proof vest and attacked movie goers at a sold out midnight screening. police say all four guns were purchased legally around with 6,000 rounds of ammunition. the assault rifle he used would have been illegal under the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. at least three members of the u.s. armed forces were wounded in the shooting. among the few things we know

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