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November of 2001 when an american airlines plane bus crashed in queens and killed everybody on board as well as on the ground. since then, yes, weve had regional plane crashes which are tragic but we have not had a major plane crash in this country involving loss of life since november 2001 and we are hopeful this will also be a crash without any loss of life. >> tom, thank you, sir. do stand by. we are starting to hear from folks who were on board that plane, were told. there was a tweet from t...

Now, we have seen events in the past, craig, ice ricin is made tr castor beans and someone will just take dried beans and grind them up and put them in a letter. now, that will test positive for ricin even though theres no ricin there. i guess it would be like the difference between poppies and opium. theyre related, but its not the same thing. so you wont know whether its ricin until later today im told is the earliest the test results would come in. thats thing one. thing two is that federal i...

Congresswoman carolyn mccarthy, whose husband was killed and son severely injured during the 1993 long island rail road mass shooting, had this to say. >> i came here to congress to reduce gun violence. and i said, i want to make sure that we go full forward. we have to do something about it. >> joining me now, the brain trust. msnbc contributor for "the nation," ari melber, political editor of thegrio.com, perry bacon jr. and michelle franzen is also in newtown, standing by for us as well. well...

>> clint, do stand by for us. i want to come back to you and recap for the viewers just joining us. a short time ago we learned the gunmans name. ryan lanza, 24 years old, were told. law enforcement confirming a short time ago the gunmans mother is a teacher at sandy hook elementary school. that is the school where it went down. thats the school you are looking at right now. were also told that the gunmans mother was found dead at the school. justice correspondent pete williams standing by for u...

Adviser john brennan. he is updated throughout day. he also made phone calls to fbi director mueller as well as the governor of connecticut malloy to offer his sympathy, to offer his come docondolences. jay carney was asked about reigniting the efforts of stiffer gun controls law. he said today is not the day to talk about policy. it is a day to focus on the victims and those obviously suffering so much in connecticut. so again, we expect president obama to arrive here in the brady press briefin...

Emotional. we saw them coming to pick up the students, hugging them tight and starting to cry because of all of this happening here. we also know that the first responders were breaking down. we saw firefighters who were tearing up and now we actually might understand why. when we see, you know, the large complexity of this and how many people were affected here. >> amanda, do stand by for me. we have got some sound from folks who are at the scene at sandy hook elementary school around 9:30 this...

The whole point is psychological to get people in the frame of mind to vote. my guess is whether its -- go ahead, im sorry. >> i was about to say. its something i have seen up close and personal in north carolina and ohio and now florida, as well. i want to get back to that later. the ground game is what youre talking about, jeff greenfield. you and a.b. stoddard are going to come back and join me. do stand by. up next, if you think there is only one path to victory, youre wrong. we are going to...

We are told from police forces he surrendered easily when they found him by a car at the back of the theater. put no resistance at all and talked about idea that his apartment was booby trapped. there were explosives inside as the teams got there and began to investigate they found very sophisticated -- their words -- explosives inside the suspects apartment. they evacuated five buildings there. they could be on that scene as well for hour or so days. it is an intricate set-up there with explosi...

Problem with respect to budget deficit and financing that with foreign money, chinese, japanese and other money, if we keep going down this road. i think thats one of the things that the president hasnt fully taken into consideration. >> ron insana, always enjoy your perspective, sir. jake, stand by for a minute if we can. we want to get to some more breaking news on capitol hill. the house has just passed the spend plan to keep the government running until september. msnbcs garrett haake joins ...

Can. jeff, really quickly before i do let you go, on this day of remembrance, how is the president spending this king day, or do we know? >> reporter: well, you know, the president had no public events on his schedule. hes been at his private golf course all morning and this afternoon. he did re-tweet a white house tweet that paid tribute to dr. king. it had a caption there saying we share in martin luther kings dream. contrast that, the fact the president has really done nothing beyond signing ...