robin thomas is the executive director of giffords. ow from the atf and msnbc terrorism analyst. jim, the police officer said this guy called 911. so did his employer after he fired him and then called the national tip line and didn't leave a threat. i get it, the fbi cannot assume everybody who calls their tip line is going to go out and shoot people. tell me about the mechanics of all of this and why this guy with a criminal record again had a atf-type weapon? >> the police, 911, fbi, didn't do anything wrong. he's dissociative. he lived in barely a metal shack and yet he has $700 to buy an ar-15 and lots of ammo. he probably needed to spend that money somewhere else. he's totally discombobulated. probably why he's fired from his truck driving job. and he has a dispute and it's telling both the employee and and employer called 911. when both sides call, you know it's heated. often you get a call from one side. so when both call, you know they're upset. this is an unusual move, he's upset so he called the tip line because he wanted to

robin thomas explains how one post brought to families together.r a kidney. the family of the boy who needed says for the search, they had to put a lot of faith in god, in the kindness of strangers and well, facebook. >> we hear a lot these days about the ill of social media. but every once in a while in the hands of susie leroy, it could be the opposite. a life saving. >> susie is much too modest. >> i am a piece of the puzzle. >> susie is a mother of three living in clovis outside of fresno. last fall she spot add facebook post from a local mom desperate to find a kidney for her two earlier son. >> i am shaking my head, okay. susie never really thought she would be a match but getting tested seems like a nice gesture. >> i never thought i am going to be the one. i am the mom on social media thinking man, that's you know, i want to be praying for them. i want to be following them and find out what happened. >> a lot of praying and testing later and susie was a match. but, still, could she really follow through with it? >> would i give a complete s

joining me now, robin thomas. i guess you can start with that. the majority of americans don't agree on what doing the right thing is on gun control. >> the majority of americans do agree on doing the right thing on gun control in terms of the measures they support. these poll results were not surprising at all. we know 90% of americans support universal background checks and red flag laws or risk protector border laws. what's interesting of the poll data that came out that we have seen more than 80% of republicans supporting both of those measures. it is not a small majority, it is a huge majority of americans that support these measures and yet the president and the senate who with being cowardly and hiding behind each other and the nra refused to take action something in a rare show of solidarity. the american people are asking for in demand. >> president trump changed his mind on background checks more than once. we saw mitch mcconnell last week basically say i am taking my cues from president trump. that being the case, what do you expect fr

i think the real robin for thomas cook, the problems have been going on for some while. they were operating frankly on a rather old—fashioned model. one commentator said they were operating on brochures when the world has moved on to barcodes. thank you for your time ata on to barcodes. thank you for your time at a very busy time for you as well. let's take you through the rest of the day's news now. the highest court in the uk will give an historic ruling this morning on whether borisjohnson misled the queen when he asked for parliament to be suspended. the prime minister, who's been accused of an unlawful "abuse of power," will be thousands of miles away when the judgement is delivered at the climate summit in new york. if it goes against him, parliament may be reconvened immediately forcing him to reconsider his strategy on delivering brexit. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, will address the party's annual conference in brighton todayjust days after a failed attempt to remove his post. he'll warn that the party is handing a "gift to the tories" by turning in on its

let's bring in republican strategist john thomas and democratic strategist robin byro.oing a little too far with these requirements or is this the way to move the path forward and get down to maybe, say, five top candidates? >> cheryl interest, the boots on the -- cheryl, from the boots on the ground perspective, from the democrats i affiliate myself with every day, they're glad to see the dnc is making this approach. the dnc has tried to be as fair as possible after what happened in 2016 and everything that came out with wikileaks. they're operating from an abundance of caution here. the new requirements make sense and i think we can get behind them. i think we're all eager to see who the five will be, five, six. cheryl: as we get to a narrower field, from the republican side, the president right now is dealing with this controversy over this phone call with the ukrainian president. joe biden has come out swinging against president trump, saying that he should release the contents of the phone call. we talked about it earlier. but this seems to kind of create, again, a

robin. thank you john off to the richmond center fell bridge has pre. >>thomase toll plaza, but it actually looking better and checking the drive time and you're only slow leading up to the pay 10 minutes that's quick to make it to the north bay, the bay bridge traffic still there it's been slow for powers backed up through the maze 5.80 from 24 and pretty crowded on the upper deck all the way over to the skyway so be prepared. we'll check that crash on one oh one coming up in the next report you chasing slot romney 32 in breaking news said there were shots fired at a home in mountain view at least one person was rushed to the hospital it was a chaotic scene this morning. a lot of emergency responders kron 4 sarah stinson out there now at the home where it's a much calmer now. >>but earlier it was pretty active scene sarah. >>yeah the scene is clear but that doesn't mean the investigation is over it continues and and we're still waiting to hear back from mountain view police with the shooting happened at this home behind me on san carlos avenue and there's a bul

chief justice correspondent pierre thomas has those details for us there in washington. good morning, pierre. >> reporter: robinod morning. the charges have left law enforcement deeply concerned. fbi claiming an active duty combat soldier wanted to join a ukrainian paramilitary group that identifies with neo-nazis but also was allegedly discussing targets here at home. this morning, cnn saying it is the network allegedly discussed as a potential target by a u.s. army infantry soldier trained in combat and tactical operations. >> cnn was the major news network. >> reporter: jarrett william smith stationed at fort riley, kansas, was arrested on saturday after he allegedly talked to a confidential fbi source about placing a vehicle full of various explosive materials at the headquarters of a major news network. and smith allegedly said 30 minutes later, boom. >> anybody that talks on social media or to an undercover source about harming people, it's an immediate red light for the fbi to aggressively investigate it. >> reporter: the fbi says it locked on to the 24-year-old smith last march after receiving a tip he

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had been leading efforts to rescue thomas cook from bankruptcy — and last month hammered out a deal worth a staggering £900 million. but — it wasn't enough. here's robinf the company that thomas cook hope would come to its rescue. fosun is a chinese conglomerate with tens of billions in assets, it's in the pharmaceuticals it's in banking and assurance, and it's also, of course, in holidays and leisure. it had an interest in thomas cook for several years now, and it's been leading efforts to try and buy rest of the company that it doesn't already own. effectively, a rescue operation. that hasn't come to fruition and at the moment, all we know is that fosun has told the french news agency afp it is disappointed about the collapse of thomas cook. now, fosun is a big private company here in china. it was interested in thomas cook because it wanted to try and bring the expertise of that company in terms of package tours to a burgeoning domestic travel industry here in china. it may now decide it wants to buy up or cherry pick parts of thomas cook that it doesn't already own and push ahead with the business here, at the moment we don't know. at the moment,