schizophrenia has a defect in the prefrontal cortex. people with schizophrenia don't organize their lives and we can now develop animal models that have alterations in the genes thought to be involved in schizophrenia and see how they affect prefrontal corporate cal function working memory tasks. one can do this with depression. so the combination of approaches knowing which parts of the brain are involved often identified by imaging or physiological methods putting this together with genetics allows us to make progress. i think one has to realize these are immense questions you're asking the most profound questions western thought has ever challenged. at least we're beginning the mask the truths method logically. >> rose: thank you for joining us. we're hope you'll join us as we launch year two of our brain series coming up this spring. until then, see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

it's the most comprehensive program treating the early onset of schizophrenia. >> among children?and young adults. 12 to 30 and begins between 16 and 24. >> how does that work? >> the start of the program, my wife and i have six kids between us, three of hers and three of mine. there is a lot of mental illness in our family. teenagers always act like they are crazy. [ laughter ] >> but one of my children may be exhibiting of early psychosis. even though we are in social services key could not find anyone that could give us expert advice on what we should be looking for and what we should do about it. when i came to here about five years ago, i determined that we would prevent other families experiencing the kind of heartache that we experienced. and the other individuals, ucsf is in the forefront of research in early psychosis and we created the program. i it's designed to accurately diagnosis whether is a child is risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and provide treatment to remit the zoo disease, rehabilitate the child and put the children on a lifestyle that can sustain th

he spent 21 years in prison for murder and has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. >> interviewer: do you have voices going on right now? >> interviewer: and what are they saying to you right now? >> inerviwer: and then when we leave, will they start to talk to you again, or what will they say? >> narrator: grissett is one of 50 offenders lucky enough to get into a reentry program in cleveland. it's one of the few programs in ohio that helps the seriously mentally ill transition back to the community. >> ain't no joke. i don't think nothing of nothing. no, no, no nice to play with. >> mr. grissett? >> the program is designed for people who have a severe mental illness or a psychotic level illness, which means they're going to be having auditory hallucinatio or fixed-false liefs, delusions, and require antipsychotic medication in order to stabilize and function in a regular way. >> come on in. have a seat. >> right. >> narrator: while in the program, grissett has access to mental health treatment and sees a psychiatrist once every two weeks. >> give me an update for today. right no

psychotic disorders including schizophrenia are known to have a genetic ideology and biologic basis. it involves at the most immediate level a chemical dysfunction where there's an overactivety of a neurotransmitter that mediates these mental processes. and that's why one of the things that's so effective in trying to mitigate the symptoms and control the illness and prevent tragic complications of the illness like suicide, like violence, like murder, is medication. >> rose: are there lots of people walking around? >> more than you would ever know. and i don't want to sound alarmist. but the occurrence of these tragic, sseless, violent episodes going back in recent time to the virginia tech massacre to the unabomber ted kaczynski to john hinckley, to david berkowitz, son of sam, colin ferguson who prompted carolyn mccarthy to run for congress. >> rose: on the long island railroad. >> that's right. so all of these were mentally ill people who committed these tragic events. now, it happens with such regularity-- albeit not everyday but maybe every month, every year-- that one can almos

i'm a person with chronic schizophrenia. the best way to describe having a psychotic episode is like a waking nightmare where things are crazy, bizarre, frightening, confusing. with schizophrenia you have delusions and hallucinations and disordered thinking. like i was on the roof and i said someone has infiltrated. i don't believe in joints but they do hold your body together. loosely associated words and phrases but experienceally the feeling is utter terror. >> james is feeling very alone. >> he needs support. everybody needs support. there are resources available. community mental health centers. so it might be useful for him to contact a social worker at a community mental health center and get some kind of support in his life. >> james is feeling very alone as you said and he's scared and he's staying in his apartment. he now can't go to work. he's paralyzed. he loses his job. but in a moment of clarity, he does know he needs help. >> right. >> and where he knows to go is again the emergency room. >> right. >> but they

you have schizophrenia. i thought he looked cute. >> reporter: he shows me his bedroom. and his many trophies, stuffed animals and toys. >> i had a dream last night that he came home. sometimes i picture him outside in the backyard and like me running out there and grabbing him and -- >> reporter: a candle burns in the window. her grandma serves coffee in the kitchen as they wait for news and outside for another ride. >> all you people that work at the gas stations, call if you see him. call 911. i need my son back. >> barry: rob fladeboe, kron 4 news. >> kron 4 learned the suspect jose esteban rodriguez has an extensive criminal record. we have also discovered he is being investigated for a recent domestic violence case. as kron 4's terisa estacio reports, it's unclear why he is a free man. >> reporter: in 2008 following a trip to the aquarium he and his date stopped in at a restaurant and got into a fight. witnesses saw the argument and told police about it, he was charged with domestic violence but never showed up in court and a warrant was issued. again that was in 2

he has a history of possible schizophrenia that has not been treated. the suspect has not called the boy's mother. each passing day, the chance of this ending happily gets lower. from the depths of the delta men dote that canal, no news is good news. the ford vehicle dragged out this week was not the get away car. >> it's encouraging that we have not found the car. that leaves the hope and possibility that our suspect could be out there, our victim could be out there live. >> reporter: on tuesday, investigators say jose rodriguez kidnapped four-year- old -- this is a video of the get away car captured moments before the alleged kidnapping. the canal has been the focus of the search ever since farm workers saw a car matching the description going into the water. tabitha is still hopeful. >> i know that jose is out there, running around somewhere or he's at somebody's house. but he's running route of money and places to go. >> the odds of an ab ducked child being found alive and well decrease dramatically, 48- 72 hours after the child was taken. >> report

major mental illness of psychotic proportions and i think it's probably likely he suffers from schizophrenia. >> they say he showed interest in far right groups but his motive is unknown. what it is the fbi director says loughner apparently acted alone. >> there is no information at this time to suggest any specific threat remains. >> loughner will appear in court tomorrow to face charges of murdering federal judge john roll and a member of the congresswoman's staff gabriel zimmerman. those counts carry the federal death penalty. he's also charged with the attempted murder of three others, congresswoman giffords and two other staff members. pamela simon and rob barber. lester. >> those killed yesterday range in age from 9 to 79 years old. nbc's kristen welker is at tucon's university medical center tonight with more on the as ten people continue to recover here at this tucson hospital, residents are just beginning to accept all that has happened in their quiet community. a steady memorial grows outside the hospital where the wounded are recovering. >> i'm just here to try to make some sense

. >> in a crowded room with budget cuts a sister spoke up for her brother, wayne monroe has schizophrenia and a new lease on life thanks to a public guardian advocate. >> we would have lost our brother without their intervention is my plea. regain funding. >> the push to save front line social workers came with theatrics. the message? some departments are top heavy and that is where cuts should be made. >> the body speaks to the stop. the knees ache and back aches and starts telling the top that there needs to be reductions. you need a reduction. >> in an effort to close a budget gap, the county's social services agency is taking a hit. there is as many as 107 positions that will be impacted and shuffling redictions there are 31 possible layoffs. the board president is says there is no question services will suffer. >> if you lose a counselor there is a courtroom full of people who need to be in recovery that get no step. >> in a last minute move today, the board did spare two front line social services positions including the public guardian advocate. >> this agency has been concerned to

also, he has a history of possible schizophrenia that has never been treated and he has not yet called the boy's mother to demand any kind of ransome. you take all of these things into consideration and our expert tells us the chance of this ending happily diminish with each passing day. from the depths of the canal, no news is good news. the fourth vehicle dragged out this week was not the get away car. >> it is encouraging that we have not found the car. that leaves the hope and possibility that our suspect could still be out there somewhere. our victim could still be out there alive somewhere. >> reporter: on tuesday investigators say jose rodriguez kidnapped the 4-year- old boy ripping him from his grandmother's arms. this surveillance video of the get away car, silver '03 toyota corolla captured moments before the alleged kidnapping. the canal has been the focus of the search ever since the farm workers saw a car matching the description with the man and boy inside disappearing into the water. the boy is not the suspect's biological father and the boy's mother is eight months preg

but if i say you have schizophrenia, you'll say "what do you mean? i'm perfectly fine." >> personal rights are very important. we protect people's civil liberties in this country but we protect them so well, for many of these people who are severely mentally ill and don't know they're mentally ill, we're simply protecting their right to be homeless or on the streets or in jail. we're protecting the right to continue to be sick. >> some states actually protect mental health records even more aggressively than records involving someone's physical health and the reason for that is we want to encourage people to seek treatment without being afraid that's going to be used against them or disclosed to authorities at some point. >> couric: mental health funding has been declining for decades. since 2009, states have cut more than $2 billion for mental health from their budgets. >> each single part of the way where we fail somebody, we're all responsible. i think we fail people with mental illness. we give up on them because it's just too hard. >> here we go

of psychosis and they mean that a person suffering from psychotic illness most likely paranoid schizophrenia>>reporter: president obama led the nation in a moment of silence today honoring giffords and remembering the 6 people killed saturday. wednesday the president will travel to tucson for a memorial service. >> spending a lot of time just thinking about the families and reaching out to them. >>reporter: at university medical center in few so that doctors continue to be hopeful about gifford recoveryment they say the swelling in her brain remains under control. >> every day that goes by and we don't see an increase we are slightly more optimistic. >>reporter: this was a very difficult day at this school where the youngest victim 9-year-old christina taylor green was in third grade. >> i found her picture on the news and i started crying my my eyes out. >>reporter: we learn more about the 5 others who lost their lives. zimmerman a 2002 uc santa cruz graduate. he was an aide to the congresswoman who recently became engaged. stoddard died protecting his wife and high school sweet heart. morr

must steadily stay focused on the fact that if i have the other paranoia, if i have the other schizophreniae of the things that can remain with us after recovery, that i must take a look at those and deal with those on a daily basis. we don't want to go back. i've been over 20 some years now in recovery, which i'm proud of, but i realize that there's some things today in my life which still go on, which resembles me back to... but what did james do? in other words, you got out, and how did you you obviously right now, you have a wonderful model program that i want you to share with us at some point, but tell us how you came out and you said, "i'm going to remake my life?" and what steps did you take in order to-to basically pull yourself out of the whole addiction process and into your recovery? well, let's say this to you, when i came out and i went to my first meeting and i went to my second and third meeting that i was still afraid to come out, outside. i live in new jersey; i was still afraid to cross that bridge back into philadelphia. so i spent most of my first year at home doing oil

i said jose you need to go see a doctor you of schizophrenia. he said and i know, i know of go i don't think he ever went to carry and i think you could get tired of running. that's what i'm thinking. i'm hoping. sometimes i feel he might not ever bring back. >> as trees to mention the boy's mother is eight months pregnant and shall soon give birth to a girl. it she said jose is the father and she's hoping he will ignore those voices he may be hearing and bring her son home. >> we have more for you this morning and real regress criminal history. he was charging 2000 a for domestic violence. he was arrested twice for dui and resisting arrest in august and other domestic violence case this time in modesto. no action taken by authorities there. we did call the district attorney's office rather to ask why they didn't send rodriguez back to santa clara county for the outstanding warrant on our calls were not returned. we will have continuing coverage of the search for juliana were going to get another live report where crews are using sonar to help w

i feel a certain schizophrenia because from the outside there is a. pressure mounts for portugal to. recur to the i.m.f. and the stability fund and on the other hand domestic news tell us that the government today presented its deficit numbers and that they were quite good that they have raised been able to do to lower our deficits to less than seven percent so while i think that there are mixed messages there are everywhere on the back on the background of great instability of the eurozone and of the great institutional weaknesses of the euro zone that are all to meet with the causes of all of this saw. a certain stage either portugal goes to the i.m.f. or know either portugal manages to lower its deficits right away or make it in the medium or long term what happens that is that still the euro has institutional weaknesses that haven't been solved. even if not america misses a horsy have told us in december that they will do everything to save the euro fact is that the european union has not done its homework from december to january and now the pres

the most relevant problem was the lack of an ability to deal with what was apparently paranoid schizophrenia that should have been treated. then, i would reestablish a situation of civility, which we seem to be doing, so we can talk to each other about gun laws without yelling at each other. we do those first two things i think we could take a look at gun laws and see what can be done that doesn't affect the constitutional rights that people have to have guns, the right they have to protect themselves. there are people that would argue that if more people had guns, this may not have happened, because somebody might have been able to take action immediately and stop him before he inflicted either damage or as much damage as he did. we've got a very strong debate on guns. we're going to need a level of civility to discuss it that leads to rationality. i think we should also discuss immigration. if we could get our selves to the point of not demonizing each other over it. but i think the critical thing is let's see if we can act rationally and on point. most important thing that would have prev

psychosis and they mean that a person is suffering from a psychotic illness, most likely paranoid schizophrenia. >> reporter: so why didn't anyone intervene? diane, where does a young man who does not have a job get $500 to buy the alleged murder weapon? >> pierre, thank you for reporting in tonight. and, as we said, it all happened on an ordinary day, in an ordinary place. a supermarket parking lot in a strip mall. at one of those small events that reaffirm democracy. people of all ages just stopping to meet their congresswoman. well, today, the man who has been sheriff of pima county for 30 years, as you saw, clarence dupnik, took me to the scene of the crime. >> he comes out, around, he goes immediately up to her, fires the first shot point blank. >> reporter: what is point blank? are we talking an inch on his left side? >> well, we're talking about probably this far. it was left -- over the left eye. >> you think it was an inch, two inch from -- >> i couldn't tell you that -- probably that far or so. he shoots judge roll in the back. and then he starts firing at the people, the little girl,

dependent in terms of finance and banking they're heavily heavily integrated but there's also it's schizophrenia relationship in a sense because they're also each other's greatest competitors and this is mostly seen in the competition for global resources and this has been outlined in strategy papers in america since the early ninety's where the aim is to prevent the rise of the power by controlling world resources by the u.s. death toll comes under scrutiny in the kaiser report that they all ought to be as max and stacey were of a of a destructive streak running through the upper echelons of wall street. this psychological profile of jamie dimon lloyd blankfein. morgan this guy daley is that of the arsonist the arsonist likes to burn things down there pyromaniacs here on wall street have got debt maniacs they like to destroy things with debt and they like the price of debt debate as cheap as a pack of matches. if the price of dead is a cheap as a pack of matches as it is now they can continue to burn things down to destroy the economy like they're doing at this very moment and what is the obama

. >>> best or worst political schizophrenia depending on how you look at it, the independent voters whorack obama into office and this year pushed away from him just as hard. >> i think we saw a lot of independents frankly switch from 2008 to 2010. >> independent voters are saying we will vote for those who produce. show us the money. show us the goods. show us the jobs. >> absolutely. i think that more people now identify themselves as independents than either republican or democrat. >> when you would say -- let's say even ten years ago, i'm an independent, people sort of looked at you with some contempt. now if you say at a party, a cocktail party, i'm independent, you're interesting. >> it's the new cool. >> and the new cool left the president in the cold. >>> in a moment, the worst case of getting overheated about politics. good plays and bad sports and the bed intruder guy. >> you're so dumb! >> stay smart. stay tuned. all the best, all the worst will be right back. so, during sign then drive i can get a cc for just my signature? that's right, right now you can take home a volkswag

that's often a schizophrenia or serious psychosis, basically.shing and the government that can't be trusted, that sounds like a paranoid delusion, which also could be consistent with schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, it is consistent with reality and it is what often makes people with this kind of illness, violent, potentially or aggressive. although i have to say that most people with schizophrenia will never commit a violent act like this. >> and do you believe the climate of the times has anything to do with it? very quickly. >> well basically, yes and no. in the sense that anybody with a psychotic disorder can have internal thoughts that make them do something violent, that having to do with what's going on the outside. but, outside stimulus, can affect anybody, including a patient who has a mental illness. >> thank you both so much for being here. >>> up next, politics getting personal. did the ugly mood in arizona and nationwide have roots in this attack? we'll explore that right after this. just to get out of bed. then, well, i have

of schizophrenia. >> they showed me his bedroom with this bunch of scorepads cloth and it, if it takes courage and spirit stuffed animals and other toy is just as he had left them. >> i had a dream about it last night that he came home. sometimes when i am in the kitchen i picture him out side in the backyard and then be running out there and grabbing him >>. of lone candle burns in the window. the grandmother serves coffee in the kitchen. she wanders the halls of waiting for news and bedside the roller- coastered takes just eight months pregnant with jose's daughter for yet another ride. >> all you people at work at the gas stations, call if you see him. call 911. i need my son back. >> kron4 news has learned that jose rodriguez has an extensive criminal record. we also discovered that he is currently being investigated for recent domestic violence cases. the airport now is unclear why he is been allowed to be a free man. >> they larded 2008 following at trip to the aquarium's rodriguez and his date stopped in at a restaurant and got into a fight. a number of witnesses saw that the ar

from a medical point of view, there is a lot to suggest paranoid schizophrenia, that this man was a really sick individual. and absolutely we need to condemn the violence. and absolutely we need to have our prayers and our thoughts with those who suffered from this violence. >> bret: senator coons? >> well, annie and i have been praying for gabby and the families and all the victims of yesterday's attack in tucson. this kind of senseless violence is never appropriate in our country. least of all when it's directed at somebody like congresswoman giffords who is a caring and energetic and engaged committed public servant who was working hard to improve the lives of her constituents. we spent much of yesterday afternoon in horror watching as this all unfolded. i think as senator paul says, all of us need to be mindful of the fact this was the act of a deranged individual. we need to be more cautious and concerned about our security, but we also need to be rededicated to the work of trying to serve our constituents, of remaining active and engaged in the institution of the congress. and moving

i said you need to go see a doctor, you have schizophrenia. he said i know, i know i will go but i don't think he went. at the key to get tired running. that's what i'm hoping. because sometimes i feel like he might not bring him back. >> the boy's mother says she is eight months pregnant and will soon give birth to a girl she says jose esteban rodriguez is the father of that girl and she's hoping he will ignore the voices and bring her son home. breaking news, word of a car fire in san francisco, police are on the scene. this is set to two western street. you can see this as a residential area at last word police said there was a body inside the car, this is turned into a deadly car fire we don't have many details on that officers are at the scene crews on the way. more on that story coming up. the book is in on the weather, a live look at the golden gate bridge, clear conditions although it is chilly. >> complain about the chilliness, we really haven't been looking at the forecast once again pretty nice, temperatures could be slightly cooler

. >> and there is a bit of schizophrenia out there. and with wall street going and. and yet, consumer confidence index is the people to not feel that type of confidence. >> they're not going to fill that confidence until they get that secure. >> and how about that shopping! >> oh my gosh!, we have the best holiday season. and i thing that retailers are cleat caught this increase by offering the steep discounts. huge discounts! and i do not think that you or i? i did not spend more this season. and i actually ended getting more for my money. and i have this kashmir's water indicator. [laughter] >> and for the past-cashmere sweater. and we buy it every year from a macy's and this year we got a cashmere sweater at $50 typically, $ 100-$1050. for a cashmere sweater. >> and typically, you expect to see more people on leisure activities. >> yes, that makes sense but they're still spending money on vacations. and i'm tired of that word " staycation' and now that they can discover a cruise. cruz is a great way to know exactly what your spending. like royal caribbean, everyth

lamb, who suffers from schizophrenia, with his family, mrs. betty, when had to go to the e.r. room in texas because no insurance, mr. smith who was on dialysis, or mr. fields whose mother couldn't get dental care, i know they would question why we're taking away their rights. today we stand before this body, we beg of them to ask themselves whether this is all about politics or about the american people. i'm prepared to stand, extend a hand of friendship. standing on the constitution to enable us to provide for all of the citizens of this country. this bill has been vetted, this bill is constitutional and it protects the constitutional rights of those who ask the question, must i die, must my china child die because i am now -- child die because i am now disallowed from getting insurance? this is about your primary care doctor. this is about closing the doughnut hole that will allow you to be able to get discounts on your prescription drugs that some of you have avoided because you have to pay your rent and you have to buy your food. texas, a big state, has already said throug

lamb, who suffers from schizophrenia, with his family, mrs. betty, when had to go to the e.r. room in texas because no insurance, mr. smith who was on dialysis, or mr. fields whose mother couldn't get dental care, i know they would question why we're taking away their rights. today we stand before this body, we beg of them to ask themselves whether this is all about politics or about the american people. i'm prepared to stand, extend a hand of friendship. standing on the constitution to enable us to provide for all of the citizens of this country. this bill has been vetted, this bill is constitutional and it protects the constitutional rights of those who ask the question, must i die, must my china child die because i am now -- child die because i am now disallowed from getting insurance? this is about your primary care doctor. this is about closing the doughnut hole that will allow you to be able to get discounts on your prescription drugs that some of you have avoided because you have to pay your rent and you have to buy your food. texas, a big state, has already said throug

and they mean that a person is suffering from a psychotic illness, most likely paranoid schizophrenia't anyone intervene? and where does a young man who doesn't have a job get $500 to buy the alleged murder weapon? pierre thomas, abc news, tucson, arizona. >>> meanwhile, doctors say they are seeing encouraging signs for the recovery of congresswoman giffords. her injured brain remains swollen, but the pressure has not increased. and giffords is still responding to their commands, even giving a thumbs up sign. and they say that is very good news. >> i am optimistic. i was optimistic yesterday when i saw the case and i saw the brain and the amount of injury that had gone through. but overall, this is about as good as it's going to get. >> just the fact that she survived and on top of that is able to respond to our commands is miraculous. >> the first funeral for the shooting victims is set for thursday for 9-year-old christina-taylor green. she was the youngest person to be killed. >>> the attempted assassination of congresswoman giffords may turn out to be one of those watershed moment

robert dupont and another doctor issued a statement clearly linking drug use and violence to schizophrenia and this young man. probably if he had been drug tested in about a sixth or seventh grade, which is when it starts, that might have been prevented. we want this president to speak out loud and clear -- a, marijuana is not medicine. it has been proven over and over again by two supreme court cases. and we need to hear from him. host: warren, michigan. mike, and independent. caller: i think the state of the in in matters and it matters a lot but the lady who called about medical marijuana. we had it approved in michigan so we can stop the criminal organizations from getting rich off of illegal drugs. that lady who just called is an idiot. let me just say something about the state of the union and the republicans. we are supposed to believe that somehow these people after eight years of abuse -- you just listened to bush tell these lies about iraq -- that somehow we are supposed to believe we reelected these people? something happened during this election that was not right. we did it tu

the only thing i would add is that we seem to be going through a national schizophrenia where we want tax cuts and yet, we do not want to cut spending. we have $14 trillion in debt. basically, when you have a credit card, you do not say, i'm not afford to pay my bills. -- not going to pay my bills. we have to pay our bills. repeal the tax cuts. cut the military. some of the parts that you have enumerated, ok, we can put those things on the table, of course. but come on, people, we cannot do this with cuts alone. host: peter in cleveland, republican, good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i think it definitely have to do some cutting to get the budget within order. first, they are to cut the wars in iraq and afghanistan. all of the money that is going to cost, all of the hundreds of billions of dollars from all of the soldiers coming back crippled and wounded. it is time to declare victory and get out of those wars. we ought to cut foreign aid, too. how can we give all of these other countries billions of dollars when we are so far in dead? and it is time to reduce cuts at ho

when someone in your family has paranoid schizophrenia, they do not recover. they have good days and bad days. the system is not there to keep them in treatment and housing. they cannot stay with you all the time. but when they need it -- when they are ill they need housing. finally, the nursing homes is where these people and up. and these nursing homes, the best they can do is become a lockup unit. they are not qualified to take care of these people. host: we talked earlier about the old state hospital system. would you be in favor of that? caller: i would be in favor -- my mother was part of the old state hospital system. she had a partial lobotomy. she went through the shock treatments. as bad as those things are, they are better than having her out on the streets when you cannot take care of her, you cannot live with her. your a part of her nightmare. and until you get the medication and help for her, you are living in a nightmare that they have. you love them, but you become part of a dysfunctional family. host: in your view, what has been the experience

when someone in your family has paranoid schizophrenia, they do not recover. they have good days and bad days. the system is not there to keep them in treatment and housing. they cannot stay with you all the time. but when they need it -- when they are ill they need housing. finally, the nursing homes is where these people and up. and these nursing homes, the best they can do is become a lockup unit. they are not qualified to take care of these people. host: we talked earlier about the old state hospital system. would you be in favor of that? caller: i would be in favor -- my mother was part of the old state hospital system. she had a partial lobotomy. she went through the shock treatments. as bad as those things are, they are better than having her out on the streets when you cannot take care of her, you cannot live with her. your a part of her nightmare. and until you get the medication and help for her, you are living in a nightmare that they have. you love them, but you become part of a dysfunctional family. host: in your view, what has been the experience

in indiana -- when you look at his biography, there are some suggestions of a classic case of schizophrenia -- but i also believe in evil. i believe people can be consumed by evil. not to explain how oats and violent acts on the basis of mental instability. in terms of civility, i really believe is important, in the wake of tragic events like this, that we resist the temptation to blame someone or something other than the individual who is to blame. george will wrote a powerful column yesterday, which i would recommend to everyone. it is important that we focus on personal responsibility here. it is also important we understand that a vigorous and open public debate in america is, number one, essential to our form of government. and number two, had nothing to do with the acts of last saturday. host: bill is on the phone. democrat line. marietta, georgia. caller: the last person talked about folly, you talk about public debate, but where were you in the summer where god for walking around with semi- automatic weapons at debates? you had no problem with that. was that because it was directed

lamb, who suffers from schizophrenia, with his family, mrs. betty, when had to go to the e.r. room in texas because no insurance, mr. smith who was on dialysis, or mr. fields whose mother couldn't get dental care, i know they would question why we're taking away their rights. today we stand before this body, we beg of them to ask themselves whether this is all about politics or about the american people. i'm prepared to stand, extend a hand of friendship. standing on the constitution to enable us to provide for all of the citizens of this country. this bill has been vetted, this bill is constitutional and it protects the constitutional rights of those who ask the question, must i die, must my china child die because i am now -- child die because i am now disallowed from getting insurance? this is about your primary care doctor. this is about closing the doughnut hole that will allow you to be able to get discounts on your prescription drugs that some of you have avoided because you have to pay your rent and you have to buy your food. texas, a big state, has already said throug

he saw the schizophrenia inherent in treating some children because they're wanted as being acceptable and we welcome them after unwanted or throw-aways. the feminists had it right when they said no woman should ever be treated as an object. we all know that the unborn child of he had or she is unwanted is treated like an object and a throwaway and no human life is a throwaway. let me say abby johnson who just recently, a little over a year ago left a planned parenthood directorship in texas. what caused her to change? she saw an ultrasound abortion in real time and said, i just saw the baby crumple right in front of my very eyes. and you know, if that isn't a human rights abuse, i don't know what is either. she became a pro-lifer and now speaks out very, very boldly. finally, dr. alvita king as i mentioned earlier is dr. martin luther king's niece. dr. king had two abortions. she was a, quote, pro-choicer. she now is one of the most eloquent pro-life leaders in the united states and even in the world. she has said, how can the dream survive? talking about her uncle's dream of inclusio

by the way, safrmg, -- sarge, she started by studying schizophrenia in irish bachelo bachelors, and had you not finally said, yes, well, history might have been different. anyway, she is leading an enti entire -- a global -- she's the leading authority on poor people who have been campaigning to -- to be lured to sell their organs to richer people, human organ trafficking. she's the lead in that. i have another friend who makes some of the most beautiful carpets in the world. she employs 10,000 people in nepal and she started a rug market against child labor in the rug trade. it is having a huge effect in this country. i think these are the people that i know who their peace corps experience has completely transformed their lives and we owe that to you and all the ople who made it work. and just one more anecdote, my own personal experience, i was in columbia for two years in med ayeen, right in the heart of where all the drug lords began. we built a school and i was very thrilled that the school was named for me. and it had two classrooms and 35 students when we began, andi guess one o

maybe he has a family of schizophrenics and people who have children that have schizophrenia, maybe he would not be guaranteed equal protection under the law. i say the constitution needs to be protect. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. mr. conyers: i yield the gentlelady 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. jackson lee: thank you so much. maybe they would not be able to withstand this onslaught on their rights because the constitution guarantees them equal protection and some who have insurance and some do not are not treated equally. finally, let me say that texas, the department of insurance has said that this bill helps texas. i hope my colleagues from texas will vote not to repeal this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the chair will remind all members not to traffic the well when members are speaking from the well. the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from iowa, mr. king a senior member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman