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Up antimissile defenses on guam saying they are taking the threats very seriously. here in seoul, south korean students we have been talking to said they are more concerned about final exams than a war hearing these threats all their lives. kim is too weak and too broke to launch a war. they are worried and accident or miscalculation could trigger something. back to you. >> we will watch very closely. jim, thank you. also, this morning new leads in the shooting death of the colorado prison chi...

Listen to this. >> you know, the grieving process, were learning, is not -- its not 24 hours a day of sobbing. its cyclical. >> right. >> cycles of sadness, and overwhelming despair, and rage. when im really having a hard time. i find comfort in immersing myself in james and natalie. i go to them and physically embrace them, or engage in conversation with them, it helps me. i just feel strength from that. and they sense it, too. they see us coming apart. >> the father of daniel. those are so pow...

Background checks but you also look at sandy hook and i was delighted that mark matioli joined me, a parent who lost james at that tragic shooting at sandy hook elementary school. he was with us today saying i applaud you for doing something about school safety. sandy hook parents want to make sure when this was over with that they did have an armed presence in the schools so that the parents would know that children are being protected. >> just want to be precise. while you are open to some cha...

Jesus. his name was james, and he seemed to have the ultimate trump card in the new faith. >> because he was jesus earthly brother he was raised in prominence among christians of jerusalem and eventually then it wasnt long before he became the leader of the jerusalem church. >> and james agreed with peter jesus was for the jews. within two decades of the crucifixion of jesus christianity faced a life or death moment. >> this was the major dispute in early christianity whether followers of jesus ...

Skins and set wild dogs upon them in a public setting. and so this is the first persecution of christians by roman emperor. the reason christians were persecuted early on was not because it was illegal to be a christian. they were persecuted because they were known to be troublemakers. >> among neros victims were the two most important leaders of the early christian church. peter had been living and preaching in rome. paul had been living under house arrest. now they were both condemned to death...

48 to 49, the first apostolic council is called in order to resolve the issue of gentile christians. do they convert or dont they convert? >> paul argues that the holy spirit had descended upon the gentiles apart from the law of moses. therefore, there was no reason to insist that those gentiles be converted first to judaism in order to be a member of the church. and james, the brother of jesus, presiding over this jerusalem council, agrees with paul. >> it was a huge triumph for the new faith, ...

Seemed to have the ultimate trump card in the new faith. >> because he was jesus earthly brother, he was naturally raised in prominence among the christians of jerusalem, and eventually then, it wasnt long before he became the leader of the jerusalem church. >> when james agreed with peter, jesus was for the jews. within two decades of the crucifixion of jesus, scholars say, christianity faced a life or death moment. >> this was the major dispute in early christianity, whether followers of jesus...

>> among neros victims were the two most important leaders of the early christian church. peter had been living and preaching in rome. paul had been living under house arrest. now they were both condemned to death for their faith. >> peter is not a citizen of the roman empire, and so he is able to be crucified. then hes crucified upside down because he did not feel that he was worthy to die in the same manner that jesus did. >> paul, who spread christianity throughout the empire, was beheaded. t...

Jesus. his name was james, and he seemed to have the ultimate trump card in the new faith. >> because he was jesus earthly brother, he was naturally raised in prominence among the christians of jerusalem, and eventually then, it wasnt long before he became the leader of the jerusalem church. >> when james agreed with peter, jesus was for the jews. within two decades of the crucifixion of jesus, scholars say, christianity faced a life or death moment. >> this was the major dispute in early christ...

Then hes crucified upside down because he did not feel that he was worthy to die in the same manner that jesus did. >> paul, who spread christianity throughout the empire, was beheaded. two years earlier, james, the brother of jesus, had been stoned to death in jerusalem. now peter was gone, and paul, too. the heart and the head of the faith. if jesus hadnt saved these three, what then for christianity? >> once these people died, there were already leaders in place who can take over the mantel o...