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Not just recalibrating the debate. but recalibrating what we consider to be central information for the national debate about guns and gun violence. the boston globe is specifically important. massachusetts should be seen as americas gun violence success story. and central about approaching gun violence as a country. massachusetts has the lowest gun death rate in the country. 3 and a half gun deaths per 100,000 people. which is a lot. but less than the united states. if the rest of the country e...

Year. 27,000 people wouldnt die. if other states were able to do what massachusetts has done. with their gun violence rate. so its an interesting approach. the globe with this op ed section is trying to put at center of the debate what massachusetts has done right. the kinds of policy in place in massachusetts that have resulted in this best outcome. in the whole country. so other states and the federal government should think about copying it. as a best case scenario. best practice example. on ...

Low waiting. sundays with alec baldwin will talk about pop culture topics. trouble at the new york times, liberal writers embarrassed by lack of diversity of the op-ed section. and bringing in opinions they say dont match the time-lapse values. and back lash intensifying over pres. obamas leaked to speech we were never supposed to hear but in it president obama takes a swipe at donald trump. jesse waters. >> we have a scandal that embarrassed us. you didnt hear about a lot of problems. >> the bi...

One of the things she wrote. he is went on to say, our children deserve so much better than this. >> but despite the effort, despite the op-ed, the bill has passed out of the committee and will be debated by the full house later this summer. joining us to talk about this, jason, a politics editor at "source" magazine and on and on -- how rare is this move? >> this is incredibly rare and not so much just the first lady writing something "new york times" in the but criticizing congress. usually th...

1, but your child is vulnerable for a year to somebody who comes in with the measles. so thats a problem also. not all adults are fully immunized and might not necessarily even know it. this is a problem even for those of us who do the right thing and vaccinate our children. victor, christi? >> elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. and tell you, too, about a new drug diving some women hope of having a baby after cancer treatments. its called goserellen. putting ovaries on pause while a woman i...

Said will benefit from obama care. specifically there are all these rebates coming from insurance companies that according to the law, if you dont spend at least 80% of your premiums as an insurance company on health care, you have to give rebates. about $500 million is going back to consumers, back to companies. there are a lot of individuals, small business owners, concerned about the choice they have ahead of them. well be talking to one of them who says shes going to have to reduce the hours...

Of a few years ago and members of congress should be talking about the principles of -- of what we are doing. now, you have to draw a line at specific operational details which can give assistance to enemies and the threats. but i think you can talk about things like collecting the information that is available on the business records of companies. so that if you have a suspicious phone number, you can find out who else that number has been talking to. and i think we should talk publicly about t...

>> no, not in new york, in d.c. p. >> in a diner. it improves dramatically but no food. it begins this morning with a massacre in afghanistan apparently by an american soldier and this morning as well. the taliban is vowing revenge. the soldiers from the joint base in washington state heres how it went down. door to door he went yesterday morning in kandahar province opening fire, ill killing at least 16 people while they slept, many children. president karzai said the dead include 9 c...

Rhetoric now because theres a federal balance sheet that hell be judged against, and i think the problem, if hes too obviously and blatantly cynical about this and doesnt have enough details and doesnt genuinely seek a deal and people snip that about him its really going to erode his leadership quality. bill: doug, why does he trail so badly in that poll you pointed out? >> because until yesterday, there was no long term plan to balance the budget, to get the debt and decifit under control. bott...

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