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Reinstate a national assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. yesterday the president of the national rifle association said such a ban would not make it through congress. >> we put the brakes on is anything that simply takes away a person's second amendment right for no good reason. >> do you think you have enough support on capitol hill to keep an assault weapons ban from passing? >> i think right now we do. when a president takes all of the power of his office, if he's willing to spend political capit capital, you don't want to bet your house on the outcome. but i would say that the likeli...

Tenants of my faith. i obey them and try to understand and work through the realities of life. >> in '08 you support president obama. >> this time around the only one that's convincing me to vote for obama is mitt romney. >> all right. sir, thanks so much. that's going to wrap things up for me today. thank all of you for joining me. "now" with alex wagner comes your way next from the nation's capit capital. remember when you said men are superior drivers? yeah. yeah. then how'd i get this...

for monday night. and many of those house republicans reportedly are not happy with the deal, even if it goes through, we will likely be right here in february talking about it all over again. president barack obama encouraged by the action in the senate still wants to see more. >> i'm very pleased to see the work that the senate has done. while this agreement is for two months, it is my expectation, it would be inexcusable for congress not to further extend this middle class tax cut for the rest of the year. it should be a formality and hopefully it's done with as little drama as po...

how would a president romney or gingrich or cain handle a situation like this? that is the kind of topic the republican candidates will debate tonight. its focus will be foreign policy and national security. cnn, the heritage foundation and the american enterprise institute will bring it to you from washington tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. we're talking to our deputy political director paul steinhauser, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence and joe johns at constitution hall where the debate will take place. joe, let's start with you. is the 11th big gop presidential debate this year...

all this playing out on the streets as well. young palestinians who want statehood threw rocks and bottles at israeli border guards. that happened today. the israelis responded with rubber bullets and stun grenades. president abbas has called for protesters to keep things peaceful. israel has put additional forces along the border in case things get out of hand. and pakistan absolutely furious over accusations by the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen. for the first time publicly he is accusing pakistan's spy agency, the isi, of supporting the insurgents who at...