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Orders trying to take away our second amendment right to keep and bear arms. well, president obama may have a phone and a pen, but if you live by the pen, you die by the pen and my pen has an eraser. >> paul ryan said the president is subverting the legislative branch and overturning its will. the gun rights were debated by the senate and rejected. ryan said no president should overturn congressional failure. lets talk about the gun prop e proposals and political news. lets bring in cnn politica...

That sparked protests in tehran where they breached the saudi embassy grounds and set the embassy on fire. that caused the strong reaction by saudis breaking off diplomatic ties and economic ties banning all flights with the nations and not allowing saudis to travel to iran. other nations followed suit. uae and sudan and bahrain and now kuwait. this seems there is no sign of letting up whatsoever. it is, of course, a situation with grave implications for the broader middle east. >> any ability f...

Political reporter eric bradner. good morning. >> good morning. >> will the presidents executive actions on guns this week, town hall on cnn on thursday, is that the eoxygen fr the campaign here for the next few weeks? >> it will. this is evidence that the party two parties live in different worlds. republicans are promising to undo everything the democrats do. democrats say they wont. this is the way for president obama to insert himself in the middle of the election and make it a referendum on...

Moments ago, kuwait is recalling the ambassador to iran. the uae has done the same. allies in bahrain and sudan have done the same. i want to bring in cnns frederik pleitgen monitoring the developments live from london. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, christine. the war of words with the saudis and iranians is escalating as the situation in general. the saudis late yesterday said they were not only breaking off diplomatic ties with the iranians, but economic ties and banning all f...

Commodity. he is really trying to consolidate the establishment support. especially attract people who might think jeb bush doesnt have it this year and marco rubio might be a bit too plastic or something like that. so youre seeing him and rubio going at each other at this point. yeah, the first term senator thing, especially, is an effective attack on rubio, cruz, rand paul. portraying them as the gop version of president obama. >> eric, thank you for joining us. a special programming note. and...

All, they will have to knock some of the others out of the race. christie has put all his hopes on new hampshire. that is where he is campaigning nonstop for months. you have to figure one of the candidates will probably get hot between now and the first votes being cast there in a little over a month. the question is who will it be. >> how hot. >> cold in iowa, but the politics are hot. thanks, eric. we love it when you come by. special programming note. thursday at 8:00 p.m., president obama w...

>> reporter: this is not happening in a vacuum. in the background, the united states department of justice is also investigating the patterns and practices of the chicago police department and one of the things theyre looking at, specifically, is training. alison, christine. >> rosa, thanks for that. turning to politics. jeb bush with a strategy shift ahead of the year. scrapping a tv ad buy and putting people on the ground in early voting states to try to boost his campaign. he is trying to o...

>> he is saying this is more war than politics. war can be politics. is this a downshift for the weekend? >> you know, most of the candidates are down today. they will take this holiday as a last opportunity to get a bit of family time in. you will see them ramp into high gear. it is a dead sprint through january to the iowa caucuses. >> get some rest, eric bradner. we have a lot going on in the next 300 days. thank you. nice to see you. thanks for getting up for us. happy new year. the last c...

She will be in town halls, where she will be asking the question directly. there will be no way to brush it off. i think its just a matter of sort of waiting to find the right opening for her. but there is no doubt. trump is trying to muddy the waters here, make it personal, it will be tough for hillary clinton to avoid. >> he says she made it personal first about talking about sex. i got to say, bill clinton is a masterful politician, love him or hate him. agree on policy or not. hes a national...

Means spending time away from your day job. thats just the way it goes. >> perhaps voters have understand that and not care about them being and doing their daily duties. we will talk later in the show. >> eric will the next year, well that the early hours of the morning. thanks for getting up early. the so-called affluenza teenager expected in the u.s. after weeks on the run, what we are learning now about the time ethan couch spent in mexico with his mother and the charges he and she could now...