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Begin with breaking news. And what is now one of the deadliest day is for Launch Horseman in america. Cnn has learned that will fourth officer has died after a shooting and stand off. It shot with karolina were told to us marshals taskforce was trying to serve a warrant for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. But local police chief says that as officers approached the suspects home, someone began treating with the high highpowered Rifle Officers killed assess back, but as the police ap...

Him, the suspect, after that citizen tip, could that be an avenue for trying to figure out more details about who the gunman was going through that citizen potentially? >> i think so, alex. i think well see lots of reports probably coming in the next few hours of individuals that had seen this gentleman or he was known to them. early reports that ive read, you know, suggest he did have some sort of relationship with firearms issues in the past. so if thats the case, i think youll see a lot of re...

World trade center bombing in 1993 when the terrorists rent ared a van, blew it up under the trade center and killed people there, six or eight people were killed. and the atf and nypd and fbi was there. they went down into the whole of the world trade center, found the axel of the truck, tracked it back to the rental company. and thats how they caught the terrorist. >> it has been a habit. a modus operandi of terrorists to use a vehicle in an attack. years ago i went to ottawa and met with them...

Are too many children. so you can continually be reminded there is a new framework that people are seeing. to every day now, we hear stories of gun violence, and theyre covered in a new way. theyre on cable in a new way. people are seeing them in a new way. so that really creates a challenge for republicans. they can actually address this issue, take that vote, or if they work to block a vote, theyre really going to pay consequences, because especially for women voters, it makes no sense that yo...

Framework that people are seeing. to every day now, we hear stories of gun violence, and theyre covered in a new way. theyre on cable in a new way. people are seeing them in a new way. so that really creates a challenge for republicans. they can actually address this issue, take that vote, or if they work to block a vote, theyre really going to pay consequences, because especially for women voters, it makes no sense that you would block even a vet on these issues. so i think this is going to cre...

Now, you cant equate on a one-to-one basis the theatrics on the state of the union night. but the fact that it got the speaker up out of his chair is significant. >> is the sentiment on this issue too much for the republicans to ignore at this point? >> i think that you laid it out. the challenge for them is that this is really just the beginning. you know, the president is going to talk about these issues, i believe on friday. these are issues in which there are too many victims, and there are ...

Of oklahoma is leading the charge to block hagel. harry reid scheduled the vote to end the filibuster for friday. >> this is the first time in the history of our country that a presidential nominee for secretary of defense has been filibustered. what a shame. >> howard, is hagel, is the nomination in trouble? >> a little bit. i think in the end it will get through. but i think this a way, chuck hagel has kind of become the pinata for republicans, because he is within reach. president obama is no...

>> a little bit. i think in the end it will get through. but i think this a way, chuck hagel has kind of become the pinata for republicans, because he is within reach. president obama is not. president obama is on the right side politically on most of these political issues. the republicans cant touch him, and they know it. the only person they can whack right now is chuck hagel. i mean, chuck hagel is a perfectly acceptable defense secretary. and privately, most republicans would say the same t...

>> well, i spoke to mitch mcconnell yesterday. i think thats what he was expecting and he got -- he heard what he was expecting to hear in his own mind. but i think even in kentucky, believe it or not, where mitch mcconnell is going to be up for reelection next year, he is going to have to be careful on a couple of these issues. i mean, kentucky is a gun state if there ever was one. but cities like louisville and lexington, some kinds of further measures of gun safety may be more popular than he...

And when the president got up to speak in the chamber, i was there in the chamber too, ed, and it was very emotional. the thing took on the atmosphere of a revival meeting there at the end, the kind of call and response thing that even got speaker boehner up out of his seat and got most of the reluctant -- not all, but most of the reluctant republicans up out of their seats. now, you cant equate on a one-to-one basis the theatrics on the state of the union night. but the fact that it got the spe...