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Our superficial entertainment. Good evening. On a day when accused aurora shooter james holmes listened to testimony about his brutal massacre while family members in the courtroom sobbed, on a day when still traumatized students in newtown, connecticut, were sent to school on the first monday of the year, this country is grappling with gun violence like never before. Here is my position loud and clear. I am in favor of a nationwide ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and high quantity magazine...

5 p. M. On the east coast, 2 p. M. On the west coast f you are just tuning in, thank you for joining us. The gun control debate, it Takes Center Stage on tuesday. Thats when Vice President bidens expected to present his recommendations to president obama on how to reduce gun violence in this country. A ban on assault weapons likely to be among those proposal. New york senator Charles Schumer today asked walmart and other retailers to stop selling those guns voluntarily. Hard to believe that walm...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions earlier today a number of our citizens, beautiful children, had their life taken way from them. Woodruff a horrific shooting at a grade school in connecticut today left at least 27 people dead, most of them young children. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Warner and im margaret warner. On the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the massacre, one of the worst mass killings in world history. Woodruff today brings back memories of past shootings...

Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown a new congress with old problems. 94 freshmen house and Senate Members were sworn in today as the most diverse legislature in American History opened for business. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. On the newshour tonight, we profile this new congress with its Record Number of women and minorities and look at the hurdles ahead. Brown then, the cliffhanger and the cliffs to come. Maya macguineas, robert reich, a...

Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and...

On wall street. As a result we have suffered 4 years of recession, with almost 300,000 people in washington looking for work. Too many of our families are on the brink of losing their home. Parents lie awake at night wondering how they can provide for their childrens future. But we remain an optimistic state, a visionary state and an innovative state. Time has not dimmed and the recession has not diminished our thirst for innovation and our talent for technological growth. We are the most creati...

From a french company. They get 30 they dont even pay tax on. We have to run a country. I think simpsonbowles is the right direction, but i dont think simpsonbowles goes far enough. At one time i thought steve forbes idea was great, but he wants to keep a certain piece of money that is an entitlement. Guest and makes a very good point that we have got to have the kind of progrowth tax reform that simplifies the system, broadens the base, lower rates, but that stimulates Economic Growth and econo...

Present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth of virginia, governor Robert Francis mcdonnell. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for that warm welcome, and welcome back. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , the justices of the Supreme Court of virginia, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly and my gather in mr. Capital for the annual state of the commonwealth address. The virginia Gener...

Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in ea...

Reelection of the president. Well have live coverage here on cspan. [video clip] Vice President biden will preside over it. The question were asking this morning, will this congress be any different . You can join the conversation giving us a call at 2027370001 and 2027370002 for republicans and for independents is 2026280205. Join the conversation social media and facebook. Or send us an email. Well continue to show you the numbers. Lets look at some of the headlines on this friday morning begi...