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Semiautomatic assault weapons. and it was in addition to the assault weapons ban. this was further action taken by the president alone in 1998. he took executive action to ban the importation of certain kinds of guns. today, president obama became yet another modern president to use his executive authority for reform of gun-related laws. president obama did not use his authority as his predecessors did. and i mean that in this sense. none of the executive actions that president obama did today h...

Has done better or at least as well as his two immediately predecessors. he has a 50/50 split of men and women in his staff and hes appointed two women to the supreme court. doesnt that in itself regardless of the current presentation of the cabinet, doesnt that indicate a commitment to diversity? >> it certainly does, but, martin, i am much more -- much less concerned about the look of the cabinet than i am the shape of this presidents policies. i think that its important to add that presidents...

Came out from think progress. so its the folks over at presidential inaugural committee who, you know, maybe should have used google to do a more thorough search of pastor giglios past. >> so theyve got eight or days or so that they can fire up their high speed. the human rights campaign, president john griffin sent this to us saying this was the right decision. participants of the inaugural festivities should unite, not divide. since the voice would be in keeping with the tone that the presiden...

But theres also sometimes you get, as chris matthews once said, you start getting the second and third string. so theres a balancing act here as the clock winds down. >> i think thats right. i dont think were looking at a second and third-string problem at this point. jack lew is by any measure a first-string civil servant. but i think your broader point is correct. you think about the bush administration. you saw hank paulson come in at treasury, bob gates at defense. i think both proved to be ...

Chosen by george w. bush to serve as transportation secretary. in george w. bushs second term, norm mineta stuck around. he did not leave until close to the end. so president bush never appointed another democrat, but he did have that one democrat, norman mineta during that term in his cabinet. barack obama at this point has doubled the record of cabinet bipartisanship of his predecessors, and more than that. youll recall that he picked bob gates to stay on as secretary of defense. so republican...

Chosen by george w. bush to serve as transportation secretary. in george w. bushs second term, norm mineta stuck around. he did not leave until close to the end. so president bush never appointed another democrat, but he did have that one democrat, norman mineta during that term in his cabinet. barack obama at this point has doubled the record of cabinet bipartisanship of his predecessors, and more that that. youll recall that he picked bob gates to stay on as secretary of defense. so republican...

Have repeat episodes. airplane travel can also be a risk factor. in her capacity as secretary of state, hillary clinton has logged hundreds of thousands of miles and visited more countries than any of her predecessors so flying in the future could be an issue. trace? >> trace: david lee miller live for us in new york. david lee, thank you. secretary clinton still scheduled to testify at some point about the consulate attack in benghazi, libya. that as a new report from senate lawmakers find the ...

External events and of course, scandal. and in his first post-election press conference, the president himself acknowledged his predecessors had their struggles. >> i dont presume that because i won an election that everybody suddenly agrees with me on everything. im more than familiar with all of the literature about the presidential overreach in second terms. >> but familiarity doesnt always do the trick. heres president clinton after his re-election in 1996. >> in modern times, second terms f...

First post election news conference the president himself acknowledged that his predecessors had their version of second-term struggles. >> i dont presume that because i won an election that everybody suddenly agrees with me on everything. im more than familiar with all of the literature about presidential overreach in second terms. >> but the familiarity doesnt always do the trick. heres president clinton after his re-election in 1996. >> in modern times, second terms for presidents have been d...

Ill before this given her grueling schedule. yes, its her responsibility, and yes, it was the responsibility of her predecessors going back years to do more then. and going forward, if we dont learn these lessons now, we put our diplomats in impossible situations. but bob, i disagree. we have to project diplomacy. diplomats are ones who step up to take these risks. and i applaud those who do it in order to project american values around the world. >> sure, you can do that, but you dont -- and yo...