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Raises the question for chicago, is it helpless to stop the butchering of seven people. no shooting of seven today while horrific, not usually the lead story on the evening news. st. valentines day massacre is remembered as gangland prohibition history than political science lesson in gun control but maybe it was that too. it did shock the conscience of the nation and congress responded by regulating guns. gang violence led to several big policy changes. prohibition was deemed a failure and halt...

Gangland prohibition history than a political science lesson in, say, gun control. but maybe it was that too. because it did shock the conscience of the nation and congress ultimately responded to gun-related murder by regulating guns and led to policy changes and prohibition was halted in 1933. the very next year, president roosevelt signed the national firearms act, the first legislation in america anna used registration laws and taxes to regulate machine guns and sawed off shotguns. one promi...

Still a lot to fight for but this is an important victory for you we dont want to take up any more of your time im sure you have some celebrating to do tell me more thanks for speaking with us today on the tank via thank you so much german chancellor angela merkel is coming under increasing pressure she works to cobble together a new government her varian sister party the c.s.u. insist that policy changes have to happen now after the conservatives big election losses but the chancellor already h...

Now will trump take him seriously? will he be serious and will a conversation lead to policy changes? for example, if you want to do something about race, disband this bogus voter integrity commission. its morthan about words. its about action. its a good step and for tim scott, a lot to be seen about what happens as a result of that meeting. >> are you impressed or intrigueby the fact this was initiated by tim scott and not by donald trump? >> you know, i think that tim scott is a person who, i...

Well as athena jones, white house correspondent, who is already on the ground in houston. general honore, id love to get your perspective on whether you believe this kind of trip, which may be a little different from the trip earlier in the week by the president and first lady, because theyll be meeting with flood victims and seeing, you know, up close and personal the devastation, whether this will be a real reality check. you heard former mayor of philadelphia michael nutter talk about the rol...

Individually and address them total. so it is a regional solution. and i believe thats where he is going to go this time around. >> martha: robin, there was a lot of criticism of president obama for pulling out of afghanistan, doing increment mentalism, not listening to his generals on the ground. not even speaking with them all that much in terms of the communication. how do you see this president as different in his handling of this? >> >> for one thing, martha, is he very impulsive which is a...

Won, you know, it is almost like there is a collective faith and even in the senate and the house, it seems that people have forgotten that the republican won. if i were president trump watching all of this playing out right now, thank goodness on the outside, it is going to help to deliver what it delivers. >> if he comes out and says, i no longer stand on the things that i was elected on. people are going to be angry. it is not going to be a breitbart thing. there are people out there already ...

Searching in the military. the department of defense is wading for further guidance before making any policy changes. cnn legal and national security analyst, also an associate dean at yale law school is with us. yasha, thank you for being here. the fact that the dod has not made any attempts at this point to modify the policy does that tell you anything about where this is going? >> i dont think so. the president has before tweeted about things like wanting to build a wall or immigration, letti...

But thats not going to be his issue. his issues going to be the grand jury investigation thats ongoing, we are saying its may be expanding. in terms of democrats, doesnt help democrats in the sense that they dont really have a message. the same people who ruled out the new better deal for america, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, the same ones in charge as democrats lost both states across the country. if you look at the actual plan, there are still talking about big government intervention, they st...

>> the other question is, can he sell that to his base. what has he really delivered on immigration? hes had i.c.e. be nastier, which i think is an important deliverable. >> yes. >> there havent been significant broader policy changes in terms of legal immigration. weve had the -- theyve issued extra guest worker visas, that will be used at mar-a-lago. hes delivered on stepping up enforcement on illegal immigration, he hasnt delivered on broad changing immigration policies. >> betsy, its always ...