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Button issues that tend to go in his favor. >> congress is leaving day early tomorrow they have so little to do. >> a two and a half day week. how much legislatinge ining do have to do for this season. >> thank you. ill be right back. ♪ i like it, i love it, ♪ i want some more of it. ♪ i try so hard, ♪ i cant rise above it ♪ dont know what it is bout that little gals lovin. ♪

26 and 20 of them young children. michelles daughter was the oldest among them. >> my oldest daughter couldnt accept it. it couldnt be. she was sure it was a misunderstanding. >> reporter: a month affidavits a group of sandy hook parents unsuccessful pushed for sweeping gun control legislation. gay pushes schools to be safer but doesnt push gun control. >> if we go in and start mentioning hot button issues or political arguments, we suddenly divide the room in half. >> reporter: when the preside...

Background fits this. they think the cia director is potentially a good training job to get him to this point. democrats have a lot of concerns though about that partisanship element and about his previous comments about russia, things like torture. some of these hot button issues. the one area ive seen combined concern among both parties is the idea that as peter sort of touched on, this is part of a larger churn going on at the white house. and in the ranks of the executive branch surrounding ...

One part of life thats civilizes us, which is the arts. and when we cant have that then i fear that our civilization may not be long for this earth if that doesnt even civilize us a little more. >> martha: you know, i agree. i think that when single issues divide people, where it becomes a blockade to working together on any project, you know, i think that thats a sad state of affairs. i think that there are sort of hot button issues and if you dont line up with people on them or some people on ...

Seats, we cannot afford to lose either chamber. we have to build on our majority, that was what the president said. we have to take action, transfer or that it to the people who will be voting in november. and by the way, history has also taught us that if the economy is doing well, people are going to vote with their pocketbooks and give the benefit to the people who provided change. people are getting tax cuts, but they are also getting a benefit by returning bonuses by their employer. >> moll...

Against isis and iraq and syria. so we also expect him to announce today, a new set of sanctions, they are going to say the biggest ever against north korea. you know, there is some question. we have maybe sanctioned out. there are so many things that they have done over the year to and pose sanctions. at that the era of the strategic patients is over, and we are going to put pressure on after these feel-good winter olympics. >> sandra: of this, of course, the speech by the president, second yea...

Stock, lots of rounds are being fired but its one round big trigger pull. it needs a congressional or legislative fix, period. >> shepard: people against gun control are saying widely on social media and other places that the gun control left is using these students as sort of another weapon in their fight, that these students are being used as pawns. >> yes. this is a very emotional topic in the united states. even without what just happened in florida. the gun advocates and the gun control gro...

They visited several states. all in hopes of learning more about the political system, what sort are some of the hot button issues in the upcoming election in 2016. and they came here and basically blended with americans. they even used u.s. identities as they traveled through the country to different states. the stolen identities, the indictment says, were not only used to sort of perpetuate the fake personae that these two people traveled to the country with. they also used to build paypal acc...

Tonight were telling their stories. >> ive heard a young man crying for his mother, dying. >> survivors come to grips with what they witnessed, including moments of heroism. and as a nation, we look at what could have caused this. the hot button issues that weve addressed before. >> announcer: live where you live. this is abc 7 news. hes a broken human being. hes a broken child. >> disbelief and frustration. one day later, a florida community and a nation struggling to understand why a gunma...

Rights abuse trump has been very vocal. president trump has inserted us into that conflict ongoing. le so, i would expect going forward president trump should deal with the exact inverse of everything obama did in 2009. >> lindsey graham added you cant just tweet here. you have to lay out a plan. that will be interesting in the days ahead. if the president is form a wide ranging foreign policy on the region. but lets turn back to domestic issues, because the president gets back to d.c. and there...