that's evening, fbi agents search john hinckley's washington, d.c. tel room. >> hinckley had laid out, this was the bizarre thing, really bizarre, he had laid out there from the morning's newspaper and the president's schedule. he had beside that a statement, really, in the form of a letter to the actress jodie foster. >> in his letter hinckley writes, i am doing all this for your sake, jodie. i'm asking you to, please, look into your heart and at least give me the chance with this historical deed to gain your respect and love. i love you forever. john hinckley. >> it was when we read the letter from the hotel room that we finally put the pieces together. >> it looked to all of us, gut feeling, this is a lone gunman and there was the motive. to impress this actress. >> we can understand political motives, but here we have a motive of love. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male anno

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

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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

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