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Miracurls . The u. S. Wins a gold in a winter game few understand. Ninan good evening, im reena ninan. T begin with the release today of a memo from democrats on the duse intelligence committee. Its a rebuttal document to a thpublican memo released earlier this month that alleged antitrump bias at the f. B. I. And justice department. Paula reid is at the white house. Reporter reena, as you just noted, republicans earlier this month released a memo suggesting that the f. B. I. Abused its surveill...

Historic crowd out there. Today showed the movement that began on that fateful day last month has spread across the country. We saw young people mobilize and take to the streets and in every state sending a clear signal to lawmakers that enough is enough. Most important, we heard from the survivors of the gun violence from around the country and including many students from parkland who made impassioned speeches demanding action. Among them was Emma Gonzalez who stared down the cameras and in a ...

Shooters lobbied the president directly. I want to listen and then after i listen were going to get things done. Were going to be strong on background checks. There will be very strong background checks, very strong emphasis on the Mental Health of somebody. Were going to work up to age of 21 instead of 18. Were going to get rid of the bump stocks, and i want to have people in the building and in many cases you have exmarines and exarmy and navy and air force and coast guard. You have them in th...

August of 2016 donald trump jr. Met with a small group of people about an offer to help trump win the election including an this according to self people with knowledge of their encountiers. It was george nader. Also ain that meeting. Erik prince and joel zamel. Nader reportedly told trump jr. That the crown princes were eager to help trump win and they had drawn up a multi Million Dollar proposal. Times notes that the Details Behind who commissioned the proposal or whether it was executed z rem...

To help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd. thats why i fight. because its my vision. preservision. try areds 2 + multivitamin. >> reporter: welcome back. im chris jansing at the scene of fridays mass shooting. numbers overall are absolutely staggering. since columbine in 1999, 216 schools, just talking about grade schools and high schools, have been affected by a tragedy. in all, 214,000 students. greg pitman is a teacher and survivor of the mass shooting that took place...

Weve got three more years of kids before they graduate and the teachers obviously will still there be. so. >> congressman, i want to thank you. greg, i want to tell you one thing, im so proud of the fact your students have spoeng out. i hope they keep speaking out. the one thing the gun lobby has going for it, theyre be obsesses. the people who want gun safety have to be relentless. that seems to be true with your students. thank you, joaquin castro, thank you for coming on this grim -- you were...

Of this president. heres whats included in this proposal. you can see specifically arming some teachers, the president in this white house will be pushing an idea to fix the background check system. but that would expect background checks. its not a comprehensive background check system hes pushing, just fixing the current system is it exists at the time and expanding mental health programs to identity those people who could be violent and may be able to access guns, a problem is any idea about ...

$25 million to replace the building here. guess where theyre taking the money from? guess whos not getting a raises this year? theyre taking money from teacher pay. its all about the money. everyone gets paid and they want to pay us a couple thousand dollars to be armed. >> greg, thank you so much for coming on and talking about this. we appreciate your time. we should note that the nra is suing the state of florida to overturn that raising of the age limits and that mandatory waiting period. he...

Theres a bipartisan number of lawmakers who support this. when the president says not much political support in his twitter feed, does that mean hems the nra doesnt support it? >> i think it does. although i will say getting something done in the senate is going to be difficult no matter what, even raising the age limit for rifles. i think that this is a body that has had difficulty passing even the most inconsequential type of gun laws. this is a body that could not agree on even banning people...

Know -- getting assistance also. but trying to eat better. the sleeping so far, thats not working too well right now. >> greg pitman, take care of yourself. the kids need you. >> thank you very much. >> you need to take care of yourself, too. thanks for talking to us on a difficult day. >> thank you. connecticut democratic senator chris murphy is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to enforce the national instant criminal background check system. hes attending a white house meeting with president ...