mr. gonzales and his history? >> they had a very thorough interview with mr. nzales, and initiated interviews with his family members, and obtained his mental health history. he acknowledged he had a mental health history as a veteran suffering from ptsd. >> and do you obtain his records or is that not something you can do? >> if an individual consents we do that. and in this case mr. gonzales consented to release. >> you had all of his medical records. i assume your agents did review them. >> we did obtain them, and they have been reviewed. >> and despite all of that, what happened? you didn't take any action? you didn't have him arrested? or continue to be under investigation did you? >> representative it's a very difficult thing with people dealing with mental illness when they don't exhibit any interest in our protectees. mr. gonzales denied any interest to harm anyone. he indicated that his information relative to the map in his car was given to him by another individual who had recommended places in washington, d.c. to site see and that he intended to go

mr. gonzales? >> they had a very thorough initial interview with mr. gonzales. they initiated contact with his family members, his mental health history, and the police reports. >> they determined he had a mental health history? >> key technology had a mental health history as a veteran suffering from ptsd. >> do protocols allow you to obtain his records? >> if the individual consents to the release of their medical records, we do pursue that. in this case, mr. gonzales consented the release of his military medical records. >> you had all of his medical records to review. i assume you did review them? >> they were obtained over a. of time, and they have been reviewed. >> despite all that, what happened? you didn't take any action, he didn't have him arrested. >> representative, it is a very difficult thing for people dealing with disabilities on and people dealing with mental illness, when they don't exhibit any unusual direction of interest. mr. gonzales, at the time, denied any interest or any intent to harm anyone. he indicated that his information relative t

mr. gonzales came through it; is that correct? >> the door was unlocked at the time of mr. ales's entry; that's correct. >> okay. and earlier there was a report and in the indictment of mr. gonzales that he was apprehended at the end transhall. isn't it true today that we understand that is not true. he was actually apprehended at the green room, is that correct? >> if i may clarify my first answer. the front door consists of two doors. there is an outer door, which is a glass, almost described as a storm door. and an inner door. the outer door, the glass storm door was not locked. the internal wood door was in the process of being hand locked. >> bottom line is automated locking is a capability of the white house but not at that end transat that time. >> not at that time, but it has been installed today. >> your agency previously reported in an indictment against mr. gonzales asserted that he was arrested in that end try area, isn't it true he penetrated that area. >> referring to your map on the wall -- >> yes. >> as i have been briefed, the -- mr. gonzales entered the fro

mr. gonzales. how to thorough would it have been? they had a thorough initial interview with mr. gonzales and initiated contacts with his family members, mental health history. >> they determined he had a mental health history. >> he acknowledged he had a mental health history as a veteran with ptsd. >> can you obtain his records? >> if the individual consents to the release of their medical records, we do pursue that. in this case, he consented the release of the records. >> you had the medical records to review. i assume your agents did review them? >> they were obtained over a period of time and we have received them and have been reviewed. despite all of that, what happened. didn't take any action, didn't have him arrested or continue to be under observation, did you? representative, it's a difficult thing dealing with disabilities and people dealing with mental illness when they don't exhibit any unusual direction of interest in our protectees. at the time he denied any interest or any intent to harm anyone. he indicate ed his information real toift map was given to him who r

mr. gonzales. they crossed the east entrance hall together, made the left turn down the cross hall, they stepped momentarily into the east room. >> gonzales was captured with a knife in his pocket after he breached five rings of white house security september 19. there's been focus on why agents didn't stop gonzales sooner. >> would-be intruder cannot be stopped by dog or intercepted persons, i want the secret service agents and officers to know at least this member of congress has their back. don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody get close to his family. >> this is the latest in a series of embarrassing moments and a democrat on the panel said it's time for major change. >> the time is right for a 21st century makeover of the secret service. i do not regard this matter as a mere question of personnel. i believe it goes far deeper than that. >> pierson, secret service director said what happened isn't acceptable and the security plan was not properly executed. she needs

mr. gonzales was placed into custody, he was found to have a folded knife in his right front pants pocket. >> do you consider that a weapon? >> that is a weapon. >> why would the secret service put out a statement to the associated press -- did you ever correct the associated press? did you call them back and say you got that wrong? >> i have no knowledge of that. >> so you just let it linger out there that there was no weapon, and that was inaccurate, correct? >> i do know that there has been a lot of information in this case, and that's why we are doing a robust review. i can't speak for conversations that i was not a part of, or the press's interest in this -- >> did you read the press release before it went out? >> i had read the press release before it went out. >> do you agree that officers showed tremendous restraint and discipline? you agreed with that comment? >> i do think based on the totally of the circumstances, and from mr. gonzales's arrest, that these officers did use restraint in making a very difficult decision as to whether deploy lethal force or subdue and arrest him.

mr. gonzales. >> and violence at an embassy. shots fired, no one charged, next. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> we begin with breaking news from montgomery county, worry woman is fighting for her life after she was stabbed several times during a robbery on piney branch road in silver spring. >> what is more disturbing about the case is the police say the crime was random. stephen tschida is live in silver spring with more. abouthappened here at 7:45. a woman walking by herself, up the hill, approached by a man who pulls a knife. he is intent on robbing her, but it's something begins to stabbed her repeatedly. someone else was walking up the hill behind a hill, sees this go down, calls 911. the suspect takes off. this attack has residents of the apartment complex at the top of the hill reeling. >> i hear. not expecting to hear that. that's very bad. >> alarming. victim was able to talk. she was conscious, so she provided investigators with very little information. the suspect is described as a lee tino mail, media high ash of m

mr. gonzales quickly enough to give an early warning.and often stir station in the garden booth as well as a swat team on the north want to not react in time. a dog trained to intercept intruders reportedly was not released. no officer reportedly was stationed outside the front entrance of the white house, and the door was left unlocked. just yesterday press accounts reported that mr. gonzales made it all the way to the east room and that the alarms had been silenced. to me, all of those adjectives apply. this was a stunning, outrageous, disgraceful breach, and i know you cannot discuss the specific details, and we are going to go into executive session so you can be more forthcoming about the tactics and procedures, but i want to start here with broader questions. the secretsumed that service has a specific protocol or multiple protocols for handling these types of breaches. that?orrect in >> yes, sir >> and without getting to the protocols and provide any buddy at large a roadmap, and you tell us whether they were followed in this that

mr. gonzales who allegedly jumped the fence, by the secret service into the response by the secret service to the breach of the perimeter fence. there is a whole confluence of conducting a thorough review of this matter, so it is not surprising that given those different viewpoints and the chaotic nature of what allegedly occurred that there andt be some conflict pieces of information out there. and it is in the interest of this white house and my office to work closely with agencies and with secret service in this case to disseminate, as soon as possible, accurate information about what exactly occurred. and that explains my own hesitant to comment on facts that are still under investigation. >> two more things. when the president was briefed right after this happened during farweekend, did he know how into the white house the person got? >> he has had a couple of conversations about this. there have been conversations between white house officials and the secret service. sitpresident had his own down last week. there have been conversations .hat have taken place >> did he know how seriou

mr. gonzales was placed into custody, he was found to have a folded knife in his right front pocket. >> is that a weapon. >> that is a weapon. >> now india's prime minister has been meeting president obama at the white house. on a pave day visit to the u.s. they were talking about trade, climate change, and the fight against ice sell. they have vowed to expand and deep. strategic partnership. on monday, libya's elected parliament held it's first talks with nebraskas from the city. who are linked to a rifle assembly. there's been unrest since the overthrow of muammar gaddafi. now we are talk to the u.n. envoy to libya, who joins us live from -- thank you very much for talking to us here at al jazeera. so lit salt lake known about the talks that took place, tell us first of all, about how difficult it was to get them on the agenda. and the meeting was the first step and all in a specific goals and -- frankly, let me say that the difference is between both sides are not so deep. i don't think libya can be compared to all the countries in the region. they have of course on the institutional si

mr. gonzales how are you feeling today. >> reporter: greg snyder is checking on patients at jefferson university hospital. he is finishing his fourth year of medical school. but it has been a difficult journey. >> greg's medical career could have ended in june of 2013, when he was paralyzed in a hiking accident. we talked to him last fall. >> i remember kind of approaching some large rocks, tying my dog up around a tree putting his leash around a tree and that is kind of where i lost consciousness. i don't remember what happened. >> reporter: after a year of therapy greg is back to his studies. >> i will help you sit forward to listen tour lungs a bit. >> reporter: greg says using a wheelchair comes with some limitations, but. >> it is an advantage for me because makes the patient feel like i'm on their level. i come up to them and we are looking at each other eye to eye. >> reporter: family and friend raised hundred you this dollars for greg's medical expenses true an organization called help hope live, a radnor none in profit that has helped more than 3,000 people with similar needs. executive

mr. gonzales were guests on washington journal. this is 90 minutes.we are 58 days before the midterm elections. joining us this morning, jessica taylor from "the hill." nathan gonzales, deputy editor of "the rock bird political report." -- thesident said tony president sat down yesterday and was asked about immigration and the delay on immigration. here's a portion of that interview. [video clip] news is we have bipartisan support for that. house republicans refuse to do it and i said to them that if on something so common sense that you have got labor, business, evangelicals, folks across the board all ofing it, i will use the legal authority i have to act. laying the groundwork for that, jeh johnson from homeland security has presented me with inliminary, you know, ideas terms of how we can take executive action. i have determined that i want to make sure we get it right. >> it looks like election-year politics. >> i want to make sure that not only are the t's crossed and i's dotted, but i am being honest now, about the politics of it. this trouble

mr. gonzales, he may suffer from that to some degree. that goes through the mind of a secret service officer at the time? that he may have mental illness. and if so, that still will present a threat to the president. >> no. when an agent or officer encounters a threat, they're not really concerned about is this person disturbed or not distu disturbed. they should only be concentrating on the threat of the moment. if that person presents a threat, then that threat needs to be dealt with. once it's dealt with, then you can look into the psychological issues of the person that some other time. but in this particular case, this individual was trying to get into the white house. he did succeed, and he should not have succeeded in doing so. >> do you think in response to this, some things that should happen may be to close down that whole area, have it blocked off to tourists, close that area of pennsylvania avenue to traffic? >> well, of course, traffic is already shut down. >> well, sure. car traffic, but pedestrian traffic. >> but as far as

mr. gonzales did. it was not a pretty picture. the rancor and --tiness and artisan bite , i am struck with we thought this president and this man was put into the justice department, maybe we had gone the problems the country has had historically. as we have seen with all the nastiness, truth doesn't seem to matter. partisanship. against the stroller, i wish he had gone after people like mr. cheney who condoned torture. after thehad gone people on wall street who stole equity out of my house. they were able to take away from people what they worked so hard for. i want to thank him. there are some things i wish he had done. i wish people would get past their ignorance and their partisanship. check it out before what you are saying is correct. thank you. nebraska ons is in the republican line up. i wish the same thing that lady just wished. started and first was under the obama administration. runnings a gun operation under the bush administration. force them into the united states to sell them. those gunment forced dealers to sell

mr. sotloff and his friends and family. >> we learn that officials believe that isis is holding at least two other americans. reporting live, marcy gonzales, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you for that report. world news tonight with david muir will have the latest on the reported assassination of american journalist by isis. now to a developing story out of west philadelphia. the thief or thieves gave up to this lexus and smashed the window and made off with $140,000 worth of gold. lets go to the video, shortly after wards they were dusting the suv for fingerprints, the driver or owner was on the scene talking to police, this was reported as a theft, so it would seem he was not in the vehicle when it was smashed and all the gold taken, again $140,000 worth of gold, it's unclear if that was jewelry or what form it was in. this is a busy commercial area, we are waiting for detectives to respond to the scene, and hoping there is surveillance video on this busy commercial stretch. the driver of the suv is over at southwest detectives now. again $140,000 worth of gold stolen from this suv this noon. we are following this investigation. bot

mr. obama and his daughters had left the white house only minutes before. then gonzales made it down the hallway and all the way to the east room before finally being tackled by a secret service agency. the east room where countless white house receptions and public ceremonies are held that included parties for heads of state, even frank sinatra. lawmakers are demanding answers over the frightening breach of security. >> where's your question of leadership? >> to have such an epic failure from top to bottom really begs the question, why did they decrease the number of trainings going on at the same time the house was appropriating more money? why did the trainings come down? what is the protocol? why is it that the secret service issued a statement saying that the intruder had no weapon? ends up he did have a weapon. they did they say he was stopped at the door, but whistleblowers are saying he went further into the white house. why u is it they taut the idea there's tremendous restraint by these officers? i want to see overwhelming force repel anyone trying to get into