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On the face of a toddler across the world on the screen. its irresponsible. >> the uncle already did it. >> but why are we defending -- weve already agreed that the uncle was irresponsible and abuse sniff why would we expect the police to commit the same behavior? >> the great thing is maybe somebody will help with the kid. >> exactly. >> i think we should focus in this in a different way. thats what we do as journalists. i think thats what the police are trying to do if the video is out there i...

Three latin america presidents have all spoken publicly about the need to legalize marijuana. lets listen to what president have i sent fox told us last year about this issue. >> im absolutely convinced public opinion is totally in favor of legalizing separating the violence problem from the health problem and doing that you will take out from criminals all the money that they have today. and i will weaken them so that they will come back to normal. >> now right now the situation is that the fed...

Battle that theyre fighting and that they are really trying to get -- as they try to get their hands on the violence problem. richard? >> nbcs john yang in chicago. thank you so much, john. i also want to take you back to the house floor. again reporting for you this hour as we look at the post-vote discussion as well as what they are going through at the moment, we saw just around 11:17 a.m. local time that the vote began. it passed right about four minutes after that. 230 votes at least in t...

Black kids beat up a white kid i am guessing race had something to do with it on the sharpton matter, he could have gained some credibility. >> bill: he doesnt care. he is talking to his people. he doesnt want credibility. he wants to be a demagogue. thats what he wants to be. >> he is he like the palestinians. he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. and he missed it on that one. >> bill: bernie, he doesnt care. his rhetoric over the last month attacking me dishonestly and everyth...

Desk fromut strangling him. i had to leave the room when he justified welfare payments to terror bombers and their families. stan hamilton, bozeman, montana. colmes is right. your rudeness is out of line. he filibustered, so he had to be reminded. antonio, doral, florida. if you think theres something wrong with giving benefits to aliens, wait till immigration reform passes. that bill says no welfare payments to illegals, antonio. we expect that to hold. merrill, roseburg, oregon. oreilly, youre...

It was to talk about immigration reform but he took a few questions on this gun control legislation. im going to play what senator rubio said and what joe scarborough said this morning on his program in reaction. let me play both back to back. >> the reason why we are doing this, we are spending all of our time talking about background checks as if somehow criminals will no longer get guns because they have to underago background check. were lying to people. that isnt true. we have a violence pr...

Meaningful reform. the final bill is also likely to include more funding for school security and heightened gun trafficking restrictions. on sunday senator rubio said the bill will not make it any harder for criminals to get guns. actually, he tried to shift the debate altogether. they are highly ineffective in terms of accomplishing the following goal, and that is to protect the right of law abiding citizens to possess weapons which the second amendment guarantees and theyre ineffective in ke...

In order to shore up certain loopholes. how is it that those additional checks would undermine the second amendment? >> well, first of all, we have, for example, concealed weapons permits across the country. i have one. these are people that are preapproved in terms of getting concealed weapons permit. perhaps theres a way to accommodate that across all 50 states where concealed weapons permit is treated as a de facto background check. ultimately the reason we are doing this, in essence we are s...

Was underlined by the governor of maine aggressively inviting gun makers to come to his state. on sunday, senator marco rubio went on seven or eight shows and said that actually a background check would not make it harder for criminals to get guns. >> they are highly accomplish in protecting the right of law abiding citizens to possess weapons which the second amendment guarantees and constitutional right and if the reason why we are doing this in essence spending our time talking about backgrou...

They dont do those things. they either infringe on the right of law-abiding people and do nothing to keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. im troubled this debate is about guns. it should be violence. violence is the problem, guns are what theyre using. we had a kid build a bomb in a dorm room here recently. the point is, the fact of the matter is that we have a violence problem in the united states and we are missing a golden opportunity to have an open, honest, and serious conver...