lying from day one and now with benghazi, with general clapper lying about the nsa a, you'll have mike rodgers on in a few minutes, we'll have to ask about that, they are really, really in the dog house when it comes to credibility they lost with the american public. >> the dog whistles. judge, good to see you. >> pleasure. >>> a new spotlight on harry reid and claims that his leadership has grown business in the senate to a halt. here is our own fox news senior political analyst. >> those of us who know harry reid by the damage he does to reputations with his out landish claims about them may miss the damage he did to the u.s. senate, the greatest body in the legislative graveyard. he claims it's because republicans are obstructionest or as he did the other day they are like quote, greased pigs. what dignity, what grace, what a guy. >> joining me now, chris our fox news digital politics editor. what is happening with harry reid? >> well, in a way, the same thing that he's always been famous for, which is being willing to be the guy who would do anything to get ahead and to win. harry reid is

so there's a lot of controversy over what mike rodgers had suggested which is what the intelligence bossesheckered career. there's no question he was very bright. as you'll see tonight in tonight's interview on prime time with brian, he was very highly motivated. and it might surprise you what his motivation was. >> and as snowden said he leaked these documents in terms of what the american government could have known what he was doing. but some critics say he perhaps shared information with china and russia although there's no evidences of that there evidence that he shared state secrets with other countries? >> there's absolutely no evidence of that. what you'll hear is his answers about russia and putin. surprising answers. also about what he says whether or not he even took anything. as glenn greenwald and others speak for him said he did not physically carry some of that stuff out. so the journalists, glenn greenwald and others, advocates, "the guardian," "washington post," and as you know, "washington post" won a pulitzer for this. this is all stuff that they now have. and they are g

rodger? why did he do what he did? nbc bay area's mike taibbi has the latest from santa barbara. >> reporter: at this point, law enforcement are trying to figure out whether there are any hints or specifically any legal reasons that they might have been able to head off the rampage conducted by elliot rodger last friday night. police have three prior contacts. one last april 30th less than a month before the rampage itself when at the request of his parents and a mental health professional they visited romger at his apartment. but as he later wrote in a long manifesto, 140 pages, he basically fooled them. he said i was tactful, i told them it was all a misunderstanding. i was fine. the police did not search his apartment, they were not required to and had no warrant to do so. he was thankful about that because they would have found the three handguns that he legally purchased at that point. the police never came back. he talked about once i pull off this day of retribution, people will see me as the powerful god that i am. this manifesto

his 140-page manifesto, elliot rodger talked about what he wanted to do and said he had been thinking about it and planning it since he was 17, five years ago. lester? >> mike, we also learned more today about the victims of the shooting, those who lost their lives and those injured in the attack. we get more on them tonight from nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: there is no textbook that teaches students how to mourn a tragedy on this scale. >> you always think, oh, that doesn't happen to me. that doesn't happen in my town. >> reporter: so as the sun began to set on uc santa barbara's darkest day, thousands found strength by marching in silence. with candles lit, they made their way to a park in the heart of isla vista, where they honored the victims including sorority sisters veronika weiss and katie cooper and 20-year-old christopher martinez. >> chris, wherever you are now, we love you, man. >> reporter: chris was a sophomore english major with dreams of attending law school. >> i talked to him about 45 minutes before he died. >> reporter: his father richard says chris was killed outside the popular iv deli mart, where a memorial grows. >> he was the most w

mike taibbi has the latest. >> reporter: there were a number of red flags over the past year that elliot rodger was headed to trouble and might take others with him but none of the clues were clear enough to legally stop him. now an entire community is in mourning. a mother and father embraced in their doorway today in anguish and tears. >> i ask god why he don't take me instead of my son. >> reporter: their son was among the first victims of the rampage leaving the wang's to prepare for the saddest trip any parents could make and leaving a community in mourning. it was a long-planned outburst alleged killer, elliott roger. in a matter of minutes, he took the lives of six uc santa barbara students, his roommates, two young women, katy cooper and veronica weiss and finally christopher martinez. martinez' father hopes to meet with another grieving parent, elliot rodger's father, peter. >> what i would hope is we can come together. he made -- he said i want to work to prevent this from happening again. that's our common ground. >> reporter: in the continuing investigation, a warrant was served today on at least one of

mike brooks sticking around throughout the show. police say a family member reached out to officials to check on rodger's welcome april 30th, weeks ago was timid, he was okay, he was just fine. mike, i'm coming to you first. is this something that should have been left up, we now know to deputies with santa barbara county sheriff's office? >> they'll do the welfare check, it came from apaurntly a relative of his through the mental health people to the sheriff's office and when the deputies go out, in california there's what they call a 5150 hold, involuntary psychiatric hold but at the time that you go out and interview the person, you had to decide whether or not they seemed like they are a danger to themselves or others. now, he said he told the deputies he was having some problems in his social life, he probably wouldn't be coming back to school next year and the sheriff said he was timid, polite, courteous, so again he was able to fool the sheriff's deputies who went out to check on him because he at that time was not exhibiting any behavior that they would have deemed that he was a danger to himself or others. >> okay, i want to

mike reporting. sheriff also explained tonight howe how he got the guns. all were registered to rodger. hae had more than 40 magazine clips with ten rounds in each. nothing prevented him from legally buying the guns or magazines. >>> we're learning about the 22-year-old college student who left behind all the reasons he had for doing what he did, while the parent of one of his victims is crying out for explanation. we have more in the news room with that part of the story. >> reporter: police are looking at several videos and also blogs posted by the alleged shooter telling the story of a 22-year-old angered by rejection. in youtube videos, including one posted just ten hours before the shootings, elliot rodger made threats regarding suicide and killing people. according to family, rodgers, a student at santa barbara city college, had a mild form of autism. it's described as a developmental disorder that affects a person's ability to socialize and communicate effectively with others. aggressive behavior is not typically a characteristic of the syndrome. rodger's father is one of the ass

rodger is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive. >>> good morning, i am kristen sze. >>> i am eric thomas. meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> the clouds came back. here is the fog creating on live doppler 7 hd. quarter-mile at santa rosa and three at half moon bay with light drizzle possible. around the bay, it will be gray and 54 at 7:00, and mostly sunny by noon and 60 and close to normal and upper 60's by 4:00 and grab a coat it will be gray and upper 50's for friday evening. we have clouds in the east bay valley and fog in the north bay valley and sunny at noon and 70's and hang out in the mid-to-upper 70's cooler than yesterday and mid-60's and limited sunshine look the coast and in the low 50's and lucky if we make it into the mid-to-upper 50's. >> the commute is starting great at 6:00 with no accidents to report as we take you to san jose we are seeing a little bit of a. up of traffic northbound along 101 at 37 miles per hour away from the 280 and 680 split and it eases as you head up to the nimitz. if you catch a flight at san jose airport 56 miles per hour on 101 pulling out you can see t

rodger is speaking out for the first time in an exclusive. >>> good morning, i am kristen sze. >>> i am eric thomas. meteorologist mikeas the forecast. >> the clouds came back. here is the fog creating on live doppler 7 hd. quarter-mile at santa rosa and three at half moon bay with light drizzle possible. around the bay, it will be gray and 54 at 7:00, and mostly sunny by noon and 60 and close to normal and upper 60's by 4:00 and grab a coat it will be gray and upper 50's for friday evening. we have clouds in the east bay valley and fog in the north bay valley and sunny at noon and 70's and hang out in the mid-to-upper 70's cooler than yesterday and mid-60's and limited sunshine look the coast and in the low 50's and lucky if we make it into the mid-to-upper 50's

mike, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. police now have a clear idea of the chronology of that rampage, but given current mental health laws, they don't know how to hold off the next elliot rodger>> you denied me a happy life, and in turn, i will deny all of you life. >> reporter: alleged gunman elliot rodger's own words are painting a clearer picture of the possible motives behind the murderous rampage through a seaside southern california town. along with a final 11th hour video that he posted to youtube, he reportedly circulated a 140-page manifesto titled "my twisted world" just before the massacre. in it, the writer says he'd been thinking about his killing spree and planning it since he was 17, five years ago. frustrated by feeling repeatedly rejected by women, he called his plan "the day of retribution" and wrote, "i cannot kill every single female on earth, but i can deliver a devastating blow that will shake all of them to the core of their wicked hearts." according to reports, rodger's divorced parents, his mother chin and his father, the film director, peter rodger were among the recipients of that chilling diatribe. after receiving the e-mail friday night, they aler