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That right, steve? >> reporter: in a sense yes, it was part of the discussion at a public revent held in washington that mayor emanuel took part in. local press was made aware of it well in advance. it touches on the citys most dramatic problem which is gun violence in this city. you mentioned over 500 homicides. just this past weekend, three more homicides, two of them teachers, all gun related. emanuel suggested in the d.c. forum the best course of action for greater gun control measures is to...

Air and share with all the viewers around the country. >> and we fully expect president obama will submit himself to questions from the d.c. press corps but it is important that local press have a chance to ask the president of the united states questions, not just idle casual questions about local food preferences, but the questions that are important regionally and specifically locally, and so the d.c. press corps gets plenty of opportunities to grill president obama and also to grill jay carn...

Listening? are we too entranced by whats happening in the republican party or perhaps too over it all to listen to these -- to give obama a fair shot? this plan has very little likelihood of getting passed. does $3,000 actually make a difference? >> i think people are disillusioned, i think people are concerneder the economy, they look back and they dont see as much progress as they would have liked in the last three years or so or four years. on the other hand, president of the united states, p...

Would be the first thing youd tell them to do at this point in the race. now were really moving quickly towards the nomination. >> let me take santorum for example, he has a very short but open window to make a very strong case for why he would be a great leader for the country, why he would beat president obama and why he would be a better candidate than the others. i would hire some great speech writers, work together, i would not do any tv for about a day then id give a really major good spee...

Towards the nomination. >> let me take santorum for example, he has a very short but open window to make a very strong case for why he would be a great leader for the country, why he would beat president obama and why he would be a better candidate than the others. i would hire some great speech writers, work together, i would not do any tv for about a day then id give a really major good speech on sunday so that -- even on saturday so its in the sunday papers, or on monday that sets him up well...

Officer, who would i call. that was the nub of the issue in this particular case. we played some of that dramatic remarks in the press conference last hour. he listened to more of it that didnt make air. one of the other points pressed by the victims and advocates was look, initially people didnt take them seriously. everyone in the country has been spellbound by this case as we learned all the details. they were saying initially local leaders, local press and i want to be clear, they called out...

He was handsome aaron schock. he was it. and yeah, sure, maybe he decided he would read a magazine called "washington life" on the floor of the house while kathleen sibilias it talking about medicare. there was always another thing about him from the very beginning of his career. when aaron schock was first running for congress, local press in illinois ran stories about when he was barely out of his teens. false dates on documents raise